Sentences with phrase «activity on the side of the brain»

«By reducing brain activity on the side of the brain that was not injured, the injured side may actually have a better chance of recovery,» Dr. Vox explained.

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Schalk points with his pen at a large rectangular field on the side of the screen depicting a region of her brain abuzz with electrical activity.
The stroke patients showed activity in the exact same areas — just on the opposite side of the brain.
By attaching electrodes to the heads of infants and toddlers and measuring brain activity, Nathan Fox of the University of Maryland has discovered that the brains of timid children are more active on the right side — specifically, in a region called the right frontal cortex.
Young children usually show language activity in the same areas on both sides of their brain, Newport noted, and the left side becomes more dominant over time.
On the other side, researchers who study behavior will be able to link those activities with regions of the brain, which then can be further studied.»
One even showed greater dopamine activity in the injured side of the brain than on the normal side, indicating, says Jaenisch, that «these IPS cells could be used also for generating function of dopaminergic neurons that could have therapeutic value.»
On the negative side, the researchers found that many of the genes whose activity is unique to modern humans are linked to diseases like Alzheimer's disease, autism and schizophrenia, suggesting that these recent changes in our brain may underlie some of the psychiatric disorders that are so common in humans today.
LA JOLLA — Every night while you sleep, electrical waves of brain activity circle around each side of your brain, tracing a pattern that, were it on the surface of your head, might look like the twin hair buns of Star Wars» Princess Leia.
A side benefit of warming up is that your brain will become focused on your body and your physical activity as you go through the process.
In these brain scans, activity in the right hemisphere is displayed on the left side of the image,...
Although parts of the brain are particularly active during certain memory or learning activities, all brain activities requiring cognition activate neural networks on both sides of the brain.
Activity in one correlates with awareness of the external: a network of lateral frontoparietal brain areas — the regions on the outer side of the frontal and parietal lobes.
This is a type of generalized seizure where the excessive electrical activity occurs on both sides of the brain, so both sides of the body are affected.
Instead of wasting hours / years /... of debate, a crisp technical term sometimes sinks in better: Making folks flap their ears (if not scream) at least induces some brain activity on the other side, which raises the chance having afterthoughts later.
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