Sentences with phrase «areas of the brain associated»

The researchers used something called Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to stimulate an area of the brain associated with creativity while they asked study subjects to complete tests of verbal creativity, such as coming up with as many associations between a set of words as possible.

Research has linked the positive feeling we often experience while talking about ourselves to higher levels of activation in areas of the brain associated with reward.

More praise for the yummy stuff resulted from brain researcher Todd Parrish of Northwestern University in 2009, when he examined functional magnetic resonance images of gum chewers and found increased activity in areas of the brain associated with memory and emotional responses.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

The test, Raven's Progressive Matrices, usually entails both visual and symbolic reasoning, although brain imaging of study subjects with autism showed they were able to score well using only the areas of their brains associated with visual processes.

The differences were seen in areas of the brain associated not only with disgust, but also with memory retrieval, attention, pain, and innate «gut responses.»

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.

Rolls used monkeys to investigate the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), an area of the brain associated with decision - making.

She also found tau in areas of the brain associated with depression as well as memory formation and retention.

They detected little or no MHCI expression in some areas of the brain, but they found it in several other places, including the visual cortex while the ocular dominance columns were forming, and in the hippocampus — an area of the brain associated with learning and memory — at all ages.

The causes of blindness in children are varied, but cerebral visual impairment (damage to areas of the brain associated with vision) is among the most common.

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.

Other brain researchers had identified certain cell types and areas of the brain associated with fear, reward, addiction, and depression.

Spatially oriented brains have an above - average grey matter volume in the right precuneus, a small area of the brain associated with processing visual - spatial information.

The chronic dieters showed activations in areas of the brain associated with desire and expectation of reward, however.

It is known from recent studies that compassion is mediated through different areas of the brain associated with those both components of l empathy.

Eating behaviors are also linked to areas of the brain associated with self - control (such as the left superior frontal region) and visual attention (such as the right middle temporal region).

For the first time ever, a team of medical researchers led by Richard Davidson, director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, showed that meditation activates an area of the brain associated with positive emotions.

The researchers traced these changes to a decrease in brain cells that release the hormone oxytocin in the hypothalamus, an area of the brain associated with food intake.

«Stuttering linked to reduced blood flow in area of brain associated with language.»

Surgery to remove areas of the brain associated with epileptic activity can help prevent seizures in these patients.

This lever - pressing routine was associated with increased activity in the dorsolateral striatum, an area of the brain associated with habitual behaviors.

Last month, Ursula Voss of Bonn University in Germany and colleagues reported that even during lucid dreaming — a state in which some people claim to be able to control their dreams — some areas of the brain associated with intent stayed offline, while other areas associated with consciousness were active.

The double - hit, however, doubled or tripled the activation of microglia in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, two areas of the brain associated with schizophrenia.

Using an animal model of this syndrome, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered that mutations in PTEN affect the assembly of connections between two brain areas important for the processing of social cues: the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with complex cognitive processes such as moderating social behavior, and the amygdala, which plays a role in emotional processing.

Compared to the people with no elevated levels, people with elevated levels on three or more biomarkers had on average 5 percent lower volume in the hippocampus and other areas of the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease.

NYSCF - Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Michael A. Long, NYU, cooled areas of the brain associated with speech to see the effects on patients.

In October 2017, a study published in Scientific Reports suggested psychedelics eased depressive symptoms by physically changing the area of the brain associated with controlling emotions.

The people who exercised hours later had better recall and stronger and more clear activation in the areas of their brain associated with memory retrieval.

The results showed heightened connectivity in the left temporal cortex, an area of the brain associated with language comprehension, as well as in the brain's central sulcus, which is associated with sensations and movement.

Interestingly enough, the researchers found that the obsessive lever - pressing was associated with an area of the brain called the dorsolateral striatum — an area of the brain associated with habitual behaviors.

The area of the brain associated with depression is also a site of vitamin D receptors, posing one possible explanation for the link between the two.

The primary question when you have symptoms of depression is, «What is causing neurons not to fire in areas of the brain associated with mood?»

«Comprehension of words relies on areas of the brain associated with motor control as well as «classic» language centers, researchers report.»

In a separate study exploring the areas of the brain associated with long term romantic love, Acevedo and colleagues found similar areas of the brain are activated in early stage romantic love as well as long term romantic love.

Areas of the brain associated with visual stimulation really lit up.

Teenagers who play violent video games may display increased activity in areas of the brain associated with emotional arousal, according to research from the Indiana University School of Medicine, located in Indianapolis.

Conversely, under - communication with other brain regions (especially the amygdala, an area of the brain associated with basic emotions) likely serves to allow automatic behaviours to go unchecked which may contribute to highly emotional and disproportionate response patterns.

So when we use our fingers, we also activate the areas of our brain associated with counting.

Toxic stress disrupts the development of the areas of the brain associated with learning and can have lifelong consequences.

Of the fifteen dogs in the study thirteen exhibited a greater or equal response in the area of the brain associated with reward and decision - making when the reinforcement was praise from their owner vs. food / treats.

A North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine researcher has created a roadmap to areas of the brain associated with affective aggression in mice.

Those who were in love had significantly increased activity in the areas of the brain associated with reward, motivation, emotion, and social functioning than those who were not.

Areas of the brain associated with visual stimulation really lit up.

This means that the areas of the brain associated with higher - level functioning were more active, while the area of the brain that handles stress and strong emotions was less involved.

According to Oxford Journals - Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN), Dr. Bianca Acevedo and Dr. Arthur Aron of Stony Brook University noted the areas of the brain associated with love and attachment looked the same in couples who had just fallen in love and couples who had been married over 20 years.

In addition, researchers have found that areas of the brain associated with drug cravings (e.g., cocaine) were also activated in participants after they viewed photographs of their lost loves.

Sexual frequency has also been associated with the activation of areas of the brain associated with hunger and cravings.4 Because you describe your past relationship as primarily sexual, this might further explain some of these withdrawal symptoms that you are experiencing.

The main area of the brain associated with MDD is the hippocampus.

Research shows that when people talk about themselves, they experience increased activity in the area of the brain associated with motivation and reward.