Sentences with phrase «brain regions do»

«Brain regions don't exist in a vacuum,» he said.

Buckholtz and colleagues found no correlation between neural activation and punishment magnitude in rDLPFC, however, suggesting that this brain region does not directly underlie the decision on the amount of punishment.

In the rested condition, the brain region didn't show any difference between high - and low - reward conditions.

Organoids grown from the cells of a patient carrying the gene for severe microcephaly, however, didn't grow as large because those brain regions didn't develop properly.

Not exact matches

In fact, we almost can't help sharing our thoughts and feelings: Research also shows that talking about ourselves, whether in person or on social media, triggers the same pleasure sensation in the brain as does money or food — self disclosure causes increased activity in brain regions associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even sex.

The brain regions that process reward, motivation, and taste didn't react as strongly, whereas the areas that promote overall self - control had a boost in activity.

In contrast, when a person feels the attributes of something that piques their interest but doesn't take it all the way to connection, the brain region known as the putamen lights up.

Seriously u guys should listen less to d media and use ur common sense.Al - quada is an essential tool for d u.s. To extract as much oil as it can in d middle east and osama bin laden should get a memorial for himself right at d heart of DC just for being a good and patriotic american.what does d U.S want more than chaos in d mid east to stay in control of dat region, and who's serving better than bin laden in fulfilling it????!!! You guys r really sleeping or perhaps just too lazy to crack ur brains and think!

And the behaviors that parents are inclined to do naturally — like eye contact and face - to - face interaction, speaking in «motherese» (higher - pitched and slower than normal speech), and holding — are just the ones shown to grow the right - brain regions in the baby that influence emotional life and especially emotion regulation.

And then we also were going to do neuroimaging where, in particular, we're using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, which looks at blood flow in the brain and therefore tells us what regions of the brain are involved in a task.

The changes in density probably mean that these brain regions are not functioning normally, but Mackey doesn't know why these regions in particular were affected.

Recognizing rhythms doesn't involve just parts of the brain that process sound — it also relies on a brain region involved with movement, researchers report online January 18 in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

«The regions in these networks are not talking to each other as much as healthy adults of the same age, even in networks where brain damage didn't occur.

While they don't have definite answers, besides having good genes, Kawas said, the answer is probably a combination of being resilient to Alzheimer's Disease and also that they did not develop other dementia - causing conditions, such as microscopic infarctions that occur when blood flow is blocked from certain regions of the brain and hippocampal sclerosis, which causes neuron loss.

Men showed less activity in a key face - processing region of the brain than the unstressed men did, suggesting that their ability to evaluate facial expressions declined.

It's possible the women had already activated this region because of psychological stress, so that when they did the physical test in the study, the brain region could not activate any more.

Your level of self - control, researchers have found, may have to do with a region of the brain that lets us take the perspective of others — including that of our future self.

When a small subset dies, the pattern of activity that the olfactory processing regions in the brain receives for a specific smell doesn't change very much.

Also surprising was that while male and female brains did not differ in cell counts in cortical regions, the study identified 11 subcortical areas with gender - specific differences.

Currently, fcMRI is not used clinically, and the kinds of MRI and CT scans used to assess stroke damage don't measure how well different brain regions work together.

By doing so, members of Gould's laboratory pinpointed brain cells and regions important to anxiety regulation that may help scientists better understand and treat human anxiety disorders, she said.

But the precuneus, a region in the cerebral cortex along the brain's midline, isn't usually damaged by strokes or head injuries, so scientists weren't sure what the region did.

Participants who understood BRONCANTO's rules exhibited very different reactions to sentences containing an error in sentence structure or grammar than did members of the control group: initially, upon hearing a blunder, the electrical impulses to one region of the brain decreased.

He and Cox are conducting tests of brain bank tissue to see if the ALS patients in these regions do in fact have elevated levels of BMAA.

Research done by Dr. Christopher Pack, from McGill University, who looked at such waves occurring in a region of the visual cortex of the brain, suggests these oscillations could have a role in resetting the sensitivity of neurons after eye movements.

The reason for this switch, reported online April 6 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, is unclear — perhaps the prior dominance of the right hand made the corresponding brain regions less flexible to reconnections or the surgeries were done slightly differently.

The exoskeletons are placed on missing or dysfunctional limbs, where they sense patients» will to move and assist them in doing so to help patients train their muscles (and related brain regions) during rehabilitation.

«The self - expansion activities yielded significantly greater activation in a major reward region of the brain, which is associated with addictive behaviors, than did non-expanding conditions.

Less than a quarter of drug - resistant patients, however, meet the medical criteria for the procedures, the main one being a distinct site of origin in the brain for their seizures (confirmed with brain scans and electroencephalography) that does not overlap with regions involved in essential functions, such as language.

Several critical factors led the team to hope he might benefit from DBS, including the fact that sometimes he did respond and an imaging study showed that language - processing regions of his brain activated in response to spoken words.

Surprisingly, despite Broca's area being one of the most studied human brain regions, neuroscientists are still not exactly sure what the same region does, on the other side of the brain.

Exactly which regions in the brain are most active does not appear to play a major role in determining a person's state of consciousness.

This shows that it does make a difference which brain region's neurons you're working with.»

Research done by Dr. Mel Goodale, from the University of Western Ontario, in Canada, and colleagues around the world, is showing that echolocation in blind individuals is a full form of sensory substitution, and that blind echolocation experts recruit regions of the brain normally associated with visual perception when making echo - based assessments of objects.

«We show that the brain has regions that specialize in doing each of the components of reading.

«They could be distressed by the election, but did not show psychological symptoms of depression if they have either strong family support or robust activity in these brain regions,» Tashjian said.

It's unclear whether people can do something to boost activity of these key brain regions, especially as they age and their ability to heighten activity in these reward regions weakens, Galván said.

«The loss of fMRI signal means there is less blood flow to the region, but we believe the underlying basis for this loss has to do with the fact that the structural integrity of that part of the brain is changing,» Yassa said.

«We have begun doing X-ray tomography on large brain tissues, then we've gone deeper into specific tiny regions of interest in the same tissue with an electron microscope to see the full connectome there,» Dyer said.

MX's brain responded in much the same way as the architects» brains did, activating a network of regions that process vision and recognize individuals.

Similar to how the two regions normally connect in the developing brain, the little pieces knew what to do.

They found that certain brain regions had more connections between each other and within themselves than did other regions.

Do this lying in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine and you will have an idea of what researchers instructed 12 female and nine male subjects, all right - handed, to do so they could attempt to determine the regions of the brain exclusively used when humans envision specific future eventDo this lying in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine and you will have an idea of what researchers instructed 12 female and nine male subjects, all right - handed, to do so they could attempt to determine the regions of the brain exclusively used when humans envision specific future eventdo so they could attempt to determine the regions of the brain exclusively used when humans envision specific future events.

It turns out that brain regions that do the same job in monkeys and humans aren't always found in the same part of the skull.

A study of older adults at risk of late - onset Alzheimer's disease found that those who consumed more omega - 3 fatty acids did better than their peers on tests of cognitive flexibility — the ability to efficiently switch between tasks — and had a bigger anterior cingulate cortex, a brain region known to contribute to cognitive flexibility.

Meyer - Lindenberg tells ScienceNOW that the team does have unpublished data correlating activation of some brain regions with impulsivity, as revealed by personality tests that some of the subjects have taken.

Forty years ago today, a young American paleoanthropologist named Donald Johanson made the discovery of a lifetime in the arid badlands of Ethiopia's remote Afar region: a 3.2 - million - year - old skeleton of a small - brained creature that walked upright like we do.

Although the enhanced growth doesn't prove anything about how the infants will do later on, «we know from other studies that bigger is better» when it comes to brain development in this region, Lahav says.

While the monkey was doing this, readings were taken from a few hundred neurons in the frontal and parietal regions of the brain.

She did so by activating neurons in a specific region of the hypothalamus, deep in the center of the brain.