Sentences with phrase «affect brain activation»

Next we compared how the level of plasma glucose influenced the ability of visual food stimuli (high - calorie and low - calorie foods) to affect brain activation and wanting and liking of food (Figure 4).

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«While previous studies at McLean and elsewhere have focused on the behavioral symptoms produced by such immune activation, this study goes deeper, going to the cellular level to show how the brain's neural circuits are affected.»

Microglial activation is an early event in PD that spreads to all disease - affected regions of the brain.

The hippocampus, an important memory center in the brain, is particularly affected by this loss of inhibitory neurons, resulting in an increase in network activation that is thought to contribute to the learning and memory deficits characteristic of Alzheimer's disease.

Both assessments test spatial learning and require proper activation of the hippocampus, a brain structure that is one of the regions affected earliest in Alzheimer's disease.

«We predict that following the treatment, neuroimaging will show increased activation in regions of the brain critical for facial affect recognition, correlating with the effects of the intervention.

Verbal working memory load affects regional brain activation as measured by PET.

When you lessen the activation of the emotional centers of our brains, it lets the decision - making centers become activated; then the divorcing persons are freed to make the very important decisions that will affect their lives and their children's lives for years to come.

Children who are relatively less affected by conflict receive higher parental ratings of EC and higher scores on laboratory measures of inhibitory control.12 Moreover, using experimental tasks is particularly effective when it comes to understanding the brain basis underlying children's control skills, because the child can perform those tasks while neural activation is registered with brain imaging techniques.