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pathway
1. Education courses taken by a student to gain entry to a higher course or towards a final qualification
2. Biochem a chain of reactions associated with a particular metabolic process


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The researchers say that studying the chirps of zebra finches helped them determine that as these tiny songbirds fine-tune their songs, their brains initially store improvements in one brain pathway, before transferring this learned information to the motor pathway for long-term storage.
In reality there is usually considerable overlap of all these conditions but a person who has pure dysarthria without dysphasia would be able to read and write as normal and to make meaningful gesture provided that the necessary motor pathways are intact.
Given the success of fMRI feedback in self-modulating specific areas of the brain in initial studies in the area of pain management, the possibility of using fMRI feedback in conjunction with CI therapy, so as to facilitate central nervous system motor pathways, is yet another area worthy of further exploration.
 
 
 
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