Sentences with phrase «areas of the brain related»

Although the fusiform gyrus has been previously established as an area of the brain related to facial recognition, this is the first time scientists have made a connection between dopamine and facial recognition.

The researchers scanned the entire brain and discovered that memories of alcohol consumption — often prompted by external stimuli — caused activation of this protein in specific regions of the frontal cortex, the area of the brain related to memory processing, as well as in the nucleus of the amygdala, which is responsible for emotional memories and involved in the emotional symptoms related to withdrawal.

Another study of brain activity related to mindfulness found evidence that mindfulness is associated with areas of the brain related to memory retrieval, decision making, and outward attention, all functions which can help link the bridge between mindfulness and improved mental health and job performance, among other outcomes (Gartenschläger, Schreckenberger, Buccholz, Reiner, Beutel, Adler, & Michal, 2017).

While reduced empathic brain activation relative to the controls was observed in the control condition, the empathic reaction of the psychopathic offenders initiated the same way it did for controls when they were instructed to empathize with the harmed individual, and the area of the brain relating to pain was activated when the psychopathic offenders were asked to imagine how the harmed individual felt.

We are also examining whether changes in young children's behavioral regulation are connected to changes in areas of the brain related to stress response.

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The EEG promptly reads these electrical waves and relates them to memory, emotions and attention according to the activity in specific areas of the brain.

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.

There are recent studies that say people who read a substantial amount are more able to empathize with others, and also that the brain is engaged in several different areas by particular words, such as areas related to the senses of taste, touch, or smell especially.

«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.

Brain activation and severity of symptoms in schizophrenia patients: Red areas represent regions related to the severity of speech fluency in schizophrenia.

«The effect of sleep deprivation on pain sensitivity in operated and intact rats was virtually eliminated by pharmacologically blocking the action of adenosine in a brain region in the anterior hypothalamus known to regulate sleep, which is connected to major pain - related areas,» Vanini says.

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

They charted the small changes in voltage generated by the areas of the brain responding to these stimuli, a process known as event - related potentials (ERPs).

By contrast, Wager's work, published in Science in 2004, suggested that the placebo effect starts in the evolutionarily newer parts of the brain related to expectations and works its way backward toward more primitive areas that release opioids.

In contrast, the researchers did not find age - related differences in another area of the brain connected to memory, the posteromedial entorhinal cortex.

The odors activated reward - related areas of the brain, the same regions that trigger a pleasurable rush of dopamine when we get our hands on a desirable bit of food.

The reward - related, or «hedonic,» component is centralized in the mesolimbic dopamine system, areas of the brain usually referenced when we talk about the effects of sex, drugs and rock»n' roll.

Steve Chang and his colleagues from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, used electrodes to directly record neuronal activity in three areas of the brain prefrontal cortex that are known to be involved in social decision - making, while monkeys performed reward - related tasks.

Magnetic resonance imaging scans pinpointed the right insular area as the culprit, a region deep inside the brain linked with the part of the nervous system that sets off stress - related responses.

The experts emphasize the importance of the brain areas related with attention control in the control of movements, which «may also suggest some therapeutic routes,» such as complementing «mobility therapies based on physiotherapy with another type of cognitive training that increases the attention of patients.»

By scanning the brains of 87 healthy infants more than 200 times, researchers found that the infants» brains grew 64 % in the first 90 days, with the fastest growth in motor skill — related areas such as the cerebellum.

The researchers were able to zero in on the Broca's area as well as related brain circuitry specifically linked to speech, using regional cerebral blood flow as a measure of brain activity, since blood flow is typically coupled with neural activity.

Despite being objective losses, near - misses activate a particular reward - related area in the middle of our brain: the striatum.

The differences in the arcuate bundle, which connects areas of the brain involved in understanding words and regions related to speech production, were particularly severe in those who had a significant history of «delayed echolalia».

For example, in 2012, Berman and colleagues reported on how genetic variation shapes the structure and function of a brain area called the Insula in the autism - related disorder Williams Syndrome.

Another brain region, the junction area between temporal and parietal cortex that has been related to the shielding of thoughts against irrelevant information, is less strongly connected to the rest of the brain network.

It's also known that the hippocampus sends signals to other areas of the brain — the amygdala and the hypothalamus — that have also been shown to control anxiety - related behavior.

Moreover, the researchers also found that the activity in different areas of the brain was unexpectedly related to how the information was remembered.

Brain scans of the women before and after treatment gave credence to the theory that abnormal conditions in pain - related areas of the brain may be responsible for the syndBrain scans of the women before and after treatment gave credence to the theory that abnormal conditions in pain - related areas of the brain may be responsible for the syndbrain may be responsible for the syndrome.

Research on one - handed individuals suggests that areas of the brain thought to correspond to specific body parts might actually relate to the function those body parts fulfill.

The gift will allow the Carney Institute to accelerate hiring of leading faculty and postdoctoral scholars in fields related to brain science, supply seed funding for high - impact new research, and also fund essential new equipment and infrastructure in technology - intensive areas of exploration.

Furthermore, androstadienone has been shown to maintain increased levels of salivary cortisol in women [7], activate hypothalamus in a sex [8] and sexual orientation dependent manner [9], [10], and activate brain areas related to social cognition and attention [11].

With promise in broad areas ranging from relief of cancer - related chronic pain to management of deadly brain metastasis, RNAi has potential applications for every type of cancer.

He directs the Motion Analysis Laboratory, and his research falls under general areas related to biomechanics and motor control of human movement, with focuses on the investigation of mobility impairments associated with ageing, musculoskeletal diseases or injuries, and traumatic brain injury.

The fMRI results (event - related design) show that chemosensory anxiety signals activate brain areas involved in the processing of social emotional stimuli (fusiform gyrus), and in the regulation of empathic feelings (insula, precuneus, cingulate cortex).

According to multiple studies, growth hormone can slow the progression of age - related degenerative diseases, maintain healthy brain function, improve the mood and increase sex drive, while a lack of growth hormone in the body leads to impairment in all of these areas.

These areas of the brain are all related to maternal sensitivity.

The visual cortex activity, the area of the brain which receives data from the eyes, may be changed by targeting vision - related acupoints.

Recent studies that used the conventional blood oxygenation level — dependent fMRI have shown selective overactivity in the nucleus accumbens and related brain areas in obese compared with lean individuals when shown imagines of highly palatable food (6 — 11) and in subjects who scored high on a measure of food addiction (39).

Only the aerobic exercisers had significant increases in brain volume in what are known as the white and gray matter regions of the brain, areas related to age - related decline in brain structure and cognition.

If too much caffeine is being chronically absorbed, there is a high likelihood that similar to MSG, it could cause glutamate toxicity and related damage in certain areas of your brain.»

This opens doors to entirely new areas of brain research related to understanding lactate's specific neurological effects that could lead to new treatments for common brain ailments, the researchers said in a statement today.

Meditation has been shown to alter areas of the brain that relate pain to body stress.

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The finding suggests that music and spatial reasoning are related psychologically (i.e., they may rely on some of the same underlying skills) and perhaps neurologically as well (i.e., they may rely on some of the same, or proximal, brain areas).

The other correlates with awareness of the internal and is potentially related to aspects of the self: a network of areas along the brain's midline — the inner parts of the frontal and parietal lobes, near the cleft that separates the two hemispheres of the brain.

The resulting symptoms of a brain tumor relate directly to the area of the brain affected by the tumor and are not specific to the tumor itself: any disease affecting that area of the brain could produce similar signs.

Fluconazole is related to ketoconazole, but it is more successful in treating infections of the central nervous system (CNS) because it more effectively crosses the blood - brain barrier, allowing the medication to find its way to the infected areas of the body.

In humans, decisions relating to the present involve regions of the brain (viz. limbic and paralimbic cortical structures) that are also consistently implicated in impulsive behavior and cravings such as heroin addiction, whereas decisions that pertain to the future involve brain regions (viz. lateral prefrontal and parietal areas) known to support deliberative processing and numerical computation.

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