Sentences with phrase «brain maps of»

The brain maps of each acupuncture point differ considerably from each other.

Brain maps of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show different levels of connectivity between parts of the brain compared with typical individuals.

Saarimäki and her colleagues discovered that the brain maps of basic emotions such as anger, happiness, sadness, fear, surprise and disgust were to some extent similar across people.

The brain activities during negative social emotions such as shame, guilt and contempt, in turn, resemble each other most but differ from the brain maps of basic negative emotions.

Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have reported the first - ever quantitative whole - brain map of inhibitory neurons in the mouse brain.

Not exact matches

Neuroscientists have discovered through fMRI brain mapping and imaging that when a person is in fear, doubt or even worry (which is just baby fear), that half of the brain shuts down.

Dutton's book rambles through the annals of neuroscience as he interviews lawyers, con men and expert interrogators, and brings his own expertise to bear in mapping the brain's pressure points and the locations of people's psychological blind spots.

A few years ago, Ragini Verma, an associate professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and her colleagues identified differences in brain maps, or how regions connect.

«These maps show us a stark difference — and complementarity — in the architecture of the human brain that helps provide a potential neural basis as to why men excel at certain tasks, and women at others,» said Verma.

The logo of Cambridge Analytica — a brain composed of network nodes, like a map, appears behind Alexander Nix.

Patterns in beasts» acts are the sole witness to a design by irony inspired: when scientists mapped how the neurons fired in the cortex of the brain when learning, on - screen a melody was coldly burning.

By this he meant that the human brain, along with its senses, and with is learned cultural bias, and even with the extension our scientific instruments gives us, has only made a rough map in our minds of the REAL world (the territory).

The brain maps the world and makes the connections out of which adaptations emerge and take form.

I do not mean to suggest that one group of brain cells mapped out by researchers and excited by electrodes will produce visions of God.

2) As to Neanderthal they did not have the brain capacity (Steve Olson, Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002), to wonder, thus not the first Adam 3) Nicodemus went to Jesus in the dark of night and Jesus said «I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe so how can you believe when I speak of heavenly things».

But the map is imprinted in my brain; the names of the cities and towns shine like beacons through the fog, checkpoints that put the war in order: Basrah.

Scientists at the NRC will focus on cognition, including mapping the wiring diagram of the human brain.

Like people, rats store maps of the world in the hippocampus regions of their brain.

Injuries were once the key to learning how the brain worked, but advanced imaging techniques are now giving us detailed maps of where our skills arise

Inserting electrodes into the brains of two macaques, Tsao worked out which aspects of a face were mapped onto each neuron.

Surprise, surprise: There's a new map of the brain, just like every other year.

The scanner, quiet enough for a baby to sleep inside, relies on a new brain - imaging technique called diffusion MRI, which maps long - distance white matter connections in the brain by tracking the movement of water.

The researchers collected the brain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory abrain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory aBrain - Machine Interface System Laboratory at UH.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have created a map that shows how specific schizophrenia symptoms are linked to distinct brain circuits.

To see whether this was also true in people, Ed Bullmore of the University of Cambridge and his colleagues mapped electrical brain activity in 19 volunteers.

In April, researchers led by Hongkui Zeng of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle assembled the first road map of neural pathways — called a connectome — inside the mouse brain (lBrain Science in Seattle assembled the first road map of neural pathways — called a connectome — inside the mouse brain (lbrain (left).

Implanted electrodes that sit next to neurons have in the past detected these signals, which are thought to help the brain build maps of the environment.

Besides carefully mapping the participants» specific symptoms, the scientists also tested their cognitive abilities and measured levels of different proteins in their blood and CSF, a fluid that surrounds the brain and that thus gives a good indication of its chemistry.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

Neuroscientist Henry Markram of the Brain Mind Institute at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, has spent the last 15 years painstakingly mapping cells from the living brains of rats so that he can create a neuron - by - neuron simulation of the bBrain Mind Institute at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, has spent the last 15 years painstakingly mapping cells from the living brains of rats so that he can create a neuron - by - neuron simulation of the brainbrain.

Mapping the path of the tentacle nerves showed that they feed into an area of the brain that processes sensory signals, close to where it responds strongly to visual signals.

A VIRTUAL reality system created especially for mice could help to explain how the brain creates maps of its surroundings.

Working independently, Dulac and Anderson mapped patterns of brain activity in different brain regions while mice sniffed, ignored, fought, or mated with other mice.

For the first study, which was published in February in Human Brain Mapping, 20 people were shown a video of a hand being poked with a pin and then asked to imitate photographs of faces displaying a range of emotions — happy, sad, angry and excited.

New efforts to trace the neural «connectome» — all the nodes and pathways in the brain — produce vivid images of the maps in our minds.

Scientists who study the brain have traditionally spent far more time exploring the neural pathways of negative emotional responses: On our current map of the mind, the regions of fear are clearly delineated.

Gaab and her colleagues have found that preschoolers with a family history of dyslexia tend to have less gray matter in brain areas involved in mapping the sounds of language onto their written counterparts — areas known to differentiate older children with and without dyslexia.

«We showed that the approach doctors have been using for 130 years of mapping brain lesions to symptoms only gets you so far,» Siegel said.

A crescent of electrical activity spotted in rats may allow researchers to map the depressed brain

Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have mobilized advanced imaging and computational methods to comprehensively map — «count» — the total populations of specific types of cells throughout the mouse brain.

Rather than mapping every neuron, it traces connections between tiny cubes of brain tissue containing between 100 and 500 neurons.

«If we get better at mapping the brain areas responsible, it will lead to more precision in the use of technologies that may repair these damaged connections, like deep brain stimulation.»

At the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a psychiatric team is mapping the brain's intricate web of neural connections, using images from MRI scans, to try to identify regions responsible for depression.

The Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas is the first detailed map of any mammal's neural network.

«The project's goal is to accelerate the development of technologies for mapping the brain's circuitry in animal models, specifically in the marmoset monkey, whose neural circuits are much closer to human compared with rodent models, and to connect the results to the diagnosis and treatment of human neurological disorders and mental illness.»

These images of mouse brains compare laser scanning photostimulation maps of all the neurons connected to one central neuron in control mice (left) vs. mice dosed with valproic acid (VPA) to induce autism - like symptoms (right).

The owl's auditory map room is a brain area called the external nucleus of the inferior colliculus (ICX), as a group led by Stanford's Eric Knudsen discovered in the early 1980s.

Based on the strength of fluorescence in the cubes, they generated a 3D map of how each of the 469 different signals spread through the brain's thoroughfares and quieter byroads.

The Human Connectome Project aims to map the large - scale connections of 1200 human brains and will start reporting data in late 2012

The twitches of baby rats or the squirms of human babies could be the brain's way of learning its map of the body.