Sentences with phrase «anterior lobe»

One of the main functions of dopamine produced by the hypothalamus is to slow down the secretion of prolactin from the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, states the Massachusetts General Hospital Neuroendocrine Clinical Center.

The anterior lobe of the pituitary gland releases several hormones — follicle stimulating hormone, or FSH, luteinizing hormone, or LH, and prolactin.

Topography and nociceptive receptive fields of climbing fibres projecting to the cerebellar anterior lobe in the cat.

Distribution of Cutaneous Nociceptive and Tactile Climbing Fibre Input to Sagittal Zones in Cat Cerebellar Anterior Lobe.

Climbing Fibres Projecting to Cat Cerebellar Anterior Lobe Activated by cutaneous A and C fibers.

Not exact matches

Some of the specific brain regions that sprang into action when Kurzweil was thinking outside the box: the dorsal anterior cingulate, which lies in the frontal lobes deep inside the brain, just above the band of fibers that connect the two hemispheres; the back part of the parietal lobes; and the right cerebellum, a cauliflower - shaped structure that lies at the base of the brain.

In one paper from last year, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers identified the area of the brain that processes this information about personal identities, which is called the anterior temporal lobe.

The «aha» spot: At moments of insight, the brain experiences 40Hz oscillations (gamma waves) over the right anterior temporal lobe and just above the right ear.

Fear, an emotion we have inherited from our ancestors, is not an abstract or intangible sense of imminent danger: it is expressed in neurochemical terms in our amygdala, the almond - shaped structure on the medial temporal lobe, anterior to the hippocampus.

The researchers found several areas of the brain are involved, including the right and left occipital lobes, the posterior parietal lobe, the sensorimotor cortex and the anterior cingulate.

The researchers found evidence for a «voice area» in the auditory cortex of these macaques: a discrete region of the anterior temporal lobe in which activity was greater for macaque vocalizations than for other sound categories.

Functional brain - imaging experiments done at the end of the past century using positron - emission tomography (PET) found marked activation in the frontal lobe of volunteers who had taken hallucinogens, in particular in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the insula cortex.

«There's a loss of higher - order processing that goes on in the anterior temporal lobe.»

One interesting finding was the association between phonological deficits and lesions in the anterior temporal lobe and mid-fusiform gyrus.

Mindfulness meditation increased thickness in the prefrontal cortex and parietal lobes, both linked to attention control, while compassion - based meditation showed increases in the limbic system, which processes emotions, and the anterior insula, which helps bring emotions into conscious awareness.

The decreased blood flow in the following six regions of the brain were the most important in determining who had football related health trauma: anterior superior temporal lobes, rolandic operculum, insula, superior temporal poles, precuneus and, cerebellar vermis.

Both sets of photographs sparked activity in two regions in the anterior temporal lobe.

Specifically, males on average had larger volumes and higher tissue densities in the left amygdala, hippocampus, insular cortex, putamen; higher densities in the right VI lobe of the cerebellum and in the left claustrum; and larger volumes in the bilateral anterior parahippocampal gyri, posterior cingulate gyri, precuneus, temporal poles, and cerebellum, areas in the left posterior and anterior cingulate gyri, and in the right amygdala, hippocampus, and putamen.

For the measurement of hemolymph flow speeds in the ventral abdomen, mosquitoes were restrained ventral - side up by placing pins: (1) against (not through) the anterior pronotal lobe, and (2) through non-vascular areas (e.g. cell R3) of each wing without creating horizontal or vertical tension (Figure 1C).

It seems to be in the anterior cingulate, a tiny structure that sits near the junction between the frontal lobe, which processes thoughts and behavior, and the limbic system, which governs feelings and emotions.

Ins, insula; SS, somatosensory operculum; dTP, dorsal temporal pole; cACC, caudal anterior cingulate cortex; rACC, rostral anterior cingulate cortex; sgACC, subgenual anterior cingulate cortex; MTL, medial temporal lobe; FG, fusiform gyrus; vTP, ventral temporal pole; vlSt, ventrolateral striatum; vmSt, ventromedial striatum.

For example, the uncinate fasciculus is a white - matter tract connecting the amygdala and neighbouring anterior temporal lobe with the orbitofrontal cortex and it thus may be involved in facilitating empathy, emotion regulation and socio - cognitive processes [150].

A human neuroimaging study using diffusion tensor imaging revealed that the anterior insula is interconnected to regions in the temporal and occipital lobe, opercular and orbitofrontal cortex, triangular and opercular parts of the inferior frontal gyrus.

Functional connectivity of the anterior cingulate cortex within the human frontal lobe: A brain - mapping meta - analysis

We also found reduced RD and MD in CD / CU + individuals in the left uncinate fasciculus, (connecting the orbitofrontal cortex and anterior temporal lobe, including the amygdala (Catani et al. 2013).

The UF is a key white - matter tract that connects the anterior temporal lobe (including the amygdala) with the orbitofrontal cortex (Catani et al. 2013).