Sentences with phrase «area of the brain functions»

Food is directly linked to three areas of brain function that create your «happiness ability.»

It's a short neurocognitive computer test to evaluate multiple areas of brain function, including memory, problem solving, reaction times and brain processing speeds.

It's a short neuro - cognitive computer test to evaluate multiple areas of brain function, including memory, problem solving, reaction times and brain processing speeds.

Gluteomorphins and casomorphins inhibit the same areas of brain function as opiate drugs.

Research by the Telethon Kids Institute in Western Australia has found that a shocking nine out of ten young people in WA youth detention are severely impaired in at least one area of brain function.

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After six months of training, the subjects showed not only improved cognitive function, but even growth in key areas of their brains.

The primary function of this brain area is to alert us to threats to our survival.

Neurobiologists are just beginning to explore relationships between sensory perception's ability and areas of function in the brain.

Benefits of Training: • Discipline: Builds character that applies to every area of life, • Focus: Scientific studies show that karate training is good for the brain and helps with brain function, problem solving and quantitative reasoning skills.

In 2007, researchers published the first randomized, controlled study of the effect of being raised in an orphanage; that study, and subsequent research on the same sample of Romanian orphans, found that compared with babies placed with a foster family, those who were sent to institutions had lower IQs, slower physical growth, problems with human attachment and differences in functioning in brain areas related to emotional development.

The extra myelin growth was greatest in areas of the brain «associated with language, emotional function and cognition.»

Although the role of the visual cortex and other areas of the brain are being identified, and their functions clarified, it is not likely that there is a «truth» center in the brain or a «lying» center.

The super-agers also had developed increased thickness in an area of the brain associated with decision - making, impulse control and emotions and other functions that was not found in the brains of their peers or of healthy younger people.

«In the near future, we will continue this research and extend analyses of tDCS to other brain areas and functions.»

Both electrode grids identified normal functioning areas of the brain versus where the seizures were happening.

V: An addiction has been classically understood as a disease of the primitive limbic brain, not of the cortical areas that are involved in what we call executive function.

So when the number of receptors you have is decreased, which we discovered happens in people who are addicted to drugs, what results is inappropriate function of the prefrontal areas of the brain that are regulated by dopamine.

Kandel: It's a pedantic point and that is the biology of the mind suggests that there is a limited set of functions that's localized at a particular point in the brain; while mind refers to the whole family of mental processes, every thought that you have, every feeling that you express, every dream that you aspire to, and it works on the assumption that these are going to be localized in a variety of each one of these functions, it's going to be localized in a variety of different areas in the brain.

This implies that different cortical areas, for instance those involving cognition vs. those involving perception of sensory stimuli, have evolved to tailor their local circuits to specific brain functions.

«I was very curious at that point what glial cells would be doing in the hypothalamus, since glial cells have been shown in other brain areas to have an influence on regulation of neuronal function,» she says.

However, we use optogenetics to systematically stimulate certain unaffected areas of the brain so that they sprout connections into the damaged hemisphere in order to assume its functions.»

These similar kinds or synchronized signals were found in brain areas that are connected with the early - stage processing of visual stimuli, detection of movement and persons, motor coordination and cognitive functions.

Seeking additional insight into similar mechanisms at work in other centers of the brain, Donato and his team discovered that the signal to develop one area known to be involved in more abstract functions, including memory and navigation, originated from deep within the brain, in a specific population of neurons that kicks off the maturation of an entire neural network.

Along with behavioural studies, imaging has helped to build the view that pain involves many brain areas and that chronic pain may cause long - term changes to the morphology or function of some of these regions.

The preserved areas of cognitive function in an MCS patient's brain will be stimulated when he is shown a family portrait or touched or spoken to, indicating at least some mental process.

GABA is believed to have an inhibitory function in the areas of the brain associated with higher motor function and that a decrease in this inhibiting factor leads to the tics experienced by people with TS.

The areas in the brain linked to this type of decision making were the dorsal portion of the medial prefrontal cortex, which is known to support higher cognitive functions such as planning, and the premotor cortex, which is more involved in the execution of real or imaginary movements.

In addition to revealing the functions of different areas within the prefrontal cortex, studies have also demonstrated the flexibility of the region, which has helped experts optimize cognitive therapy techniques to enable patients with brain damage to learn new skills and compensate for their impairments.

«We discovered that rhythmic oscillations of groups of neurons in the prefrontal cortex — an area of the brain involved in decision - making and executive functions — controlled the strength of oscillations in neurons of the neighbouring nucleus accumbens, an area involved in pleasure, reward and addiction,» says Liu.

«Our results, as well as similar results from other labs, point to a need for carefully designed tasks and paradigms that can reveal different functions in key areas of the brain and different vulnerabilities to the aging process,» Reagh added.

The abnormality thus detected consists in a less deep fold in Broca's area, a region of the brain specialized in language and communication, functions that are impaired in autistic patients.

«Long - range connections that allow this region to talk to other areas of the brain seem to drive function,» says Zeynep Saygin, a postdoc at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Resebrain seem to drive function,» says Zeynep Saygin, a postdoc at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain ReseBrain Research.

«We know that the brain does not function as a set of independent areas, but as a network of specialized areas that collaborate.»

A team of UCLA scientists has found that brain areas linked to social behaviors are both underdeveloped and insufficiently networked in youths with high functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared to study participants without ASD.

«Drinking at such high levels can suppress areas of the brain that control basic life - support functions such as breathing and heart rate, thereby increasing one's risk of death,» said senior author, Aaron White, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Advisor to the NIAAA Director.

In a similar vein, linguistic psychologist Steven Pinker recently teamed up with neurosurgeons and neurologists at Harvard University and U.C. San Diego to investigate the language functions of a small brain region known as Broca's area.

Previous studies comparing brains across species tended to assume that human brains were just blown - up versions of monkey brains and that functions are carried out by anatomically similar areas.

When Joshua Greene presented this and similar dilemmas while people underwent brain scans, he found that executive function areas of the prefrontal cortex were active, suggesting that people were consciously reflecting over this decision.

Last year, he discovered that four areas of the brain that are largely linked to inner ear function each showed a broad change in activity when pigeons were exposed to magnetic stimulation.

Unknown damage Although researchers are still parsing out how different areas of the brain contribute to normal function, neuroscience has evolved a long way from the days of lobotomies to stave off seizures.

However, standard fMRI can only detect the blood flow coming to replenish an area of the brain several seconds after it has performed a function.

Perusing the literature, he found earlier experiments that demonstrated a crucial part of the amygdala known as the central nucleus contained links to the key brain stem areas that control the autonomic functions involved in the fear response, like acceleration of breathing and heart rate.

During the study of a number of aardvarks by researchers of the Brain Function Research Group at the University of the Witwatersrand, all but one of the study animals — as well as other aardvarks in the area — died because of a severe drought, with air temperatures much higher than normal and very dry soil in the area.

«TAAR1 seems to be working as a «brake» in the areas of the brain involved in decision making and executive function.

This approach reduces risks of damage to speech, memory, muscle strength, balance, vision, coordination and other function areas of the brain.

Poon believes this discovery will spawn a new generation of programmable microimplants — sensors to monitor vital functions deep inside the body; electrostimulators to change neural signals in the brain; and drug delivery systems to apply medicines directly to affected areas.

The German physician Franz Joseph Gall thought up the theory, suggesting that the brain was composed of many modules that had specialized functions — one area was concerned with the appreciation of beauty, for example, while another dealt with acquisitiveness.

Several studies show that creative types tend to have low levels of a certain kind of dopamine receptor in the thalamus, a brain area that helps regulate motor function and sensory perception.

Researchers are keen to localize this brain activity to determine the areas of the brain that are responsible for a certain function or feeling.

To conduct the study, Salas and her colleagues from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which painlessly and noninvasively delivers electromagnetic currents to precise locations in the brain and can temporarily and safely disrupt the function of the targeted area.