Sentences with phrase «areas in the brain where»

The dentate gyrus is one of just two areas in the brain where new neurons are continuously formed in adults.

Not exact matches

Writing in the journal Neuron, the scientists found that reading increased the quality of white matter, the brain tissue that carries signals between areas of gray matter, where information is processed.

The memorandum of understanding identified four areas in the life sciences where AAAS and the Cuban Academy of Sciences will seek opportunities for sustained cooperation: emerging infectious diseases, brain disorders, cancer, and antimicrobial drug resistance.

«We wanted to find out how and where visual information about grasped objects, for example their shape or size, and motor characteristics of the hand, like the strength and type of a grip, are processed in the different grasp - related areas of the brain,» says Schaffelhofer.

These signals are sent to the back of the brain to an area called V1 where they are transformed to correspond to edges in the visual scenes.

Peter Schiller of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues stimulated these brain areas in monkeys to work out what phosphenes look like to them and where they appear.

«After stroke, there is an imbalance in cortical excitability, with areas of the brain where the lesion is being less active,» Madhavan said.

Given that there are a number of different types of neurons in the cerebral cortex and that there are many areas where the neurons do things other than help with memory, you can see how one billion is a conservative estimate I hoped would be useful for understanding the storage capacity of the human brain.

Li Li said: «For the first time, we have shown that visual learning can increase the density of nerve connections in this area of the brain and that an enriched environment, where bees are exposed to many colours without learning anything from them, can also affect the synaptic organisation in the brain.»

Theta wave activity starts in the back of the brain, in it's fear center — the amygdala — and then interacts with brain's memory center — the hippocampus — before traveling to the frontal lobe where thought processing areas are engaged.

Ghrelin and leptin both have receptors in the area of the brain where dopamine cell bodies are located.

After analyzing brain tissue samples, the researchers identified an area of the gene where a single change reduced BDNF levels in the hypothalamus, a key area that controls eating and body weight.

Some glial cells congregate near lesions, for instance, and in areas of the brain where learning is going on.

Those who woke during REM sleep and successfully recalled their dreams were more likely to demonstrate a pattern of EEG oscillations called theta waves in frontal and prefrontal cortex areas — the parts of the brain where our most advanced thinking occurs.

When brain activity in this area is naturally reduced — for example, when we drop off to sleep or fall into a deep meditative state — our sense of where the body ends is appropriately minimized.

Red indicates a point of high variability, blue reflects places where brains tend to look alike, and green indicates areas in between.

I was searching in the neurons, and I went to the border of the area of the brain where the visual system is.

This work is a step towards the possibility of better treatment, but we need more research in this area, especially with younger subjects where we might expect more brain plasticity.»

The study focuses on the activity of the neurons located in the dorsal horn, where painful stimuli from any injured area of the body and analgesic information coming from the brain begin to be processed.

Analysis focused on 22 regions of interest where brain activation increased during the task, with particular attention to those regions» interactions with an area previously shown to play a role in identifying speech sounds.

Using an optical fiber implanted in that region, the researchers were able to stimulate the primary motor cortex near where the stroke had occurred, and then monitor biochemical changes and blood flow there as well as in other brain areas with which this region was in communication.

«We can see how much the brain tissue is stretched in the collisions, and that the tissue is stretched most in those areas where the impact occurred,» she says.

And this applies to other areas of the brain as well as the hippocampus, where we are beginning to ask questions about how these areas become dysfunctional in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.

Building on this work, the team has now determined that there are seven areas in our DNA where differences in the genetic code are associated with intracranial volume, which is the size of the skull cavity in which the brain resides.

The areas where the most Alzheimer's plaques typically form are highlighted in red and yellow on these brain scans.

For this study, they destroyed cells in the hippocampus, an area of the brain vital to memory formation and where neurons often die.

While these decisions were being made, activity in 3 brain areas was measured: the area where the pros and cons are weighed in decision - making processes called the orbitofrontal cortex; the area where generosity and prosocial behavior are processed called the temporoparietal junction; and the happiness associated area called the ventral striatum.

Plus, women often have stronger stress reactions than men, says David Rakel, MD, director of integrative medicine at the University of Wisconsin, maybe because the area where emotions are processed in our brains is larger.

Taking 3 to 4g of EFAs (Omega 3, 6, 9) has been clinically proven to treat depression as, like deep breathing, it restores normative function to your brain, particularly in the areas where irrational thoughts / feelings can overwhelm you.

Marna Thall: Once a year, I do what's called Rewire Your Brain To Think Thin Training series where I gather together people in the area of — the different areas that personally I'm interested and I know my clients are interested in, and we do — we do training sessions for 2 weeks and it's so cool because we focus on these different areas.

They merely switch off our pain receptors in the area where we feel pain so that the pain is not transmitted to our brain and we feel nothing.

VIOLENCE / GORE 6 - A seated man's legs stick out beyond a dividing wall in a bathroom that hides the toilet and the rest of the man (we see pools of blood around the man's shoes and blood splatter across most of the wall and extending into the area where the toilet would be, on the sink in front of the man, on the floor beneath the vanity, and on the floor beyond the pools of blood); sirens sound off - screen, another man in the house tells a sheriff's deputy that he brought two pizzas for the dead homeowner, the owner did not like anchovies, and so the owner brought out a gun and blew his own brains (we hear that the dead man had just been evicted from his house).

For example, IDEA supported local communities that were developing and implementing early childhood programs; schools serving students with low - incidence disabilities, such as children who are blind or deaf or children with autism or traumatic brain injury; and schools in rural or large urban areas, where financial and other resources are often scarce.

These cases and others — from the commonly known (Alzheimer's disease) to the highly unusual (Ecstatic epilepsy, in which seizures convey a feeling of transcendent joy) to the almost supernatural (the Doppelganger effect, where people see and interact with a duplicate of their own body)-- are linked, Ananthaswamy suggests, by the simple fact that each condition involves disruptions in an area of the brain where the «self» is thought to reside.

Brain drain is of particular concern in many Rust Belt cities and communities where manufacturing plants have cut back production or shut down entirely, causing the areas» ambitious youth to flee for greener pastures.

The problem is further compounded by the games love of tunnelling you into tight areas where those brain - munching baddies can surround you with even greater ease and the fact that dying while playing solo forces you to restart the entire zone with any progress in it wiped.

There were areas in that game where I died far more times than I'm comfortable admitting, but I almost always reached a point where something just clicked in my brain and that particular segment would all of a sudden become a simple matter of timing.

Special MRI's (magnetic resonance imaging) known as diffusion tensor imaging are also being used to measure the amount of fluid in the brain and detect areas where flow is disrupted.

My own view is that the use of such «cosmetic neurology» is handy for pointing out those areas in our culture where social arrangements, and not brains, need serious rearranging.

These left - brain processes are some of the areas where I see many play therapists struggle because many therapists love to stay in the creative, right - brain experience.