Sentences with phrase «between different brain»

White matter appears white because of the density of axons, the signal - carrying cables allowing communication between different brain regions responsible for complicated tasks such as language and memory.

Researchers at the University of Zurich have now shown how peoples» motives can be identified as they are characterized by a specific interplay between different brain regions.

The first connections between different brain compartments develop at the embryonic stage.

Mapping the human brain's network of interconnections, known as the connectome is typically done with help from computational tools because recreating interconnections between different brain regions has been challenging in the lab.

Reviewing neuroscience literature from more than 200 journals, the authors give an account of how the flow of thoughts is grounded in the interaction between different brain networks — a framework that promises to guide future research in neuroscience.

Mathematicians from the University of Twente, together with researchers from the University Medical Center Utrecht, have shown that it is sensible to examine the interconnections between different brain regions closely, instead of searching for abnormal regions only.

When a nerve snaps, communication between different brain regions is disrupted, just like a damaged circuit in a computer.

In 2011, Martijn van den Heuvel of the University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and his colleagues unveiled a map of the connections between different brain regions.

The imaging can help us distinguish between the different brain networks that contribute to distinct sub-symptoms.

Researchers used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), an enhancement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to evaluate and compare the structural and functional properties of the main connections between different brain regions.

Not exact matches

Neural networks simulate brain activity by trying to make connections between different data points and using those connections to create original «ideas» (but think of those ideas as crowd - sourced from a bunch of external sources).

That is to say my tribesmen know the difference between instinct, intelligence and intuition though they do not know it comes from different parts of the brain like Medula oblongata, cerebrum and cerebellum.

Setting the knuckles of one fist into the grooves between the knuckles of the other fist, he would explain: «See, the different parts of the brain set in little cups like this.

They help communicate between different neocortical layers and across cortical areas from one side of the brain to the other.

Focusing on the neural pathway from the brain's prefrontal cortex to the amygdala, they combined optogenetics — a technique that uses light to control the activity of neurons in living tissue — with behavioral testing, a methodology that allows researchers to study functional connections between different regions of the brain.

Bierut: The brain is a very complex organ and what's clear is these different types of brain wave patterns are related to numerous complex in our actions between neurotransmitters and some of the brain receptors, and it's some of the balance between how much of these proteins are produced — how are they regulated — are likely to be involved in some of these biologic predispositions.

Playing tennis and moving around your house were chosen as they activate different areas of the brain, making it easy to distinguish between the two in a functional MRI scanner.

None perceived a difference between the two types of sweat, but the pre-exam sweat had a different effect on brain activity, lighting up areas that process social and emotional signals, as well as several areas thought to be involved in empathy (PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0005987).

Kable and his colleagues» use of different types of scans provides a far more detailed picture of the interplay between brain anatomy and risk than does earlier research, Levy says.

Although Dulac's and Anderson's teams examined different brain regions, both researchers observed a similar relationship between sex - specific neural activity and social behavior.

None perceived a difference between the two types of sweat, but the pre-exam sweat had a different effect on brain activity, lighting up areas that process...

We are not torn between the heart and the brain but rather between different parts of the brain, parts that specialize in the cornerstones of rational thought, such as long - term planning, and parts that give our lives emotional color.

Levy's research found a connection between risk preferences and the quantity of neurons in a different part of the brain (called the posterior parietal cortex), but not the amygdala or medial prefrontal cortex.

So some of them tend to have well - developed connections between different regions of the brain; that's where the white matter — the cables connecting different processors in the brain.

For instance, knowing if there is a simple increase or decrease in connectivity between brain regions compared to healthy individuals, or whether those with autism use entirely different brain regions to implement cognitive flexibility will enable researchers to better design interventions to improve cognitive flexibility skills.

The brain uses the chemical to communicate between cells, and dopamine signals different events depending on its location.

The in vitro model was used to extensively characterize the differences between neurons from different regions of the brain and to mimic the system's connectivity.

By examining the brains of bees trained to different tasks, the researchers found that the number of connections between nerve cells may hold the answer to questions about individual cognitive differences.

The connectivity was measured in 15 patients with visual hallucinations, 40 patients without visual hallucinations, and 15 healthy controls by calculating the level of synchronization between activation patterns of different brain areas.

However, despite these similarities, the researchers noted that the relationship between these sleep waves and cognitive performance differs between neurotypical and autistic children, as different brain regions are involved for each group.

This unexpected result fits with previous work showing that E and Z males have different connections between the neurons harboring pheromone receptors and the brain.

Through a «mapping» performed with magnetic resonance, they identified the affected part and the type and size of the lesion, and analyzed the connectivity between the different areas of the brain.

And those kinds of random changes during development explain, for example, why the pattern of gyruses in the brain are very different even between identical twins.

«The fact that we found the same brain processing between believers and nonbelievers, despite the two groups» completely different answers to the questions [about religion], is pretty surprising,» says Jonas Kaplan, a research psychologist at U.C.L.A. and co-author of the study.

Small shining molecules developed by scientists at Linköping University in Sweden can be designed to distinguish between plaque of different proteins in the brain.

The remaining children had their brains scanned at rest and during a task that asked them to distinguish between different people's faces.

«Handedness and language are controlled by different genetic systems, but there is a weak relationship between the two because both functions originate on the left side of the brain,» he said.

According to Dr. Raül Andero Galí, lead researcher in this study, «Once we discovered the relationship between the Ppm1f gene and different psychological disorders after exposure to traumatic stress, we wanted to find an effective drug to prevent these changes and its negative consequences on the brain.»

He and Duke graduate student Lomax Boyd scanned the genomic databases and combed the scientific literature for enhancers that were different between humans and chimps and that were near genes that play a role in the brain.

Thereby, different procedures may have established in their brains while playing the piano which makes switching between the styles more difficult,» says Daniela Sammler, neuroscientist at MPI CBS and leader of the current study about the different brain activities in jazz and classical pianists.

Brain maps of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show different levels of connectivity between parts of the brain compared with typical individBrain maps of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show different levels of connectivity between parts of the brain compared with typical individbrain compared with typical individuals.

For the new study, researchers looked at the brain's structural connectome, a map of white matter tracts that carry signals between different areas of the brain.

The Montreal Neurological Institute plans to free up its findings, including data that point to connections between brain regions communicating at different neural rhythms.

Another provocative observation from the new study was that transient gene expression events during brain development set up broad distinctions in neural fate between cells in different areas in the cerebral cortex.

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have developed a method to recreate connections between neurons from two different brain areas in a dish.

For example, the researchers were able to identify previously unknown gene expression differences between the neural stem cells that give rise to the brain's deep structures versus its neocortical surface, and to show that molecular signatures of different neural cell types arise much earlier in brain development than previously realized.

Neuroscientist Jason Cooperrider and colleagues scanned Grandin's brain using three different methods: high - resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which captures the structure of the brain; diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a method to trace the connections between brain regions; and functional MRI, which indicates brain activity.

Unfortunately, he says, the fMRIs failed to reveal the inhibitory circuitry involved; to try to get to the bottom of that, he plans to repeat the study using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves placing many electrodes on a skintight rubber cap placed over a subject's head that allows researchers to observe communication between different parts of the brain.

The results of the current study provide a partial answer to this mystery: it is precisely because of their small brain that is densely packed with nerve cells that birds are able to reduce the processing time in tasks that require rapid interaction between different groups of neurons.

White matter consists of large bundles of nerve cells that connect different regions of the brain and enable communication between them.