Sentences with phrase «brain activation did»

The ASD participants» brain activation did not decrease later in learning.

Not exact matches

Functional brain - imaging experiments done at the end of the past century using positron - emission tomography (PET) found marked activation in the frontal lobe of volunteers who had taken hallucinogens, in particular in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the insula cortex.

Buckholtz and colleagues found no correlation between neural activation and punishment magnitude in rDLPFC, however, suggesting that this brain region does not directly underlie the decision on the amount of punishment.

«The self - expansion activities yielded significantly greater activation in a major reward region of the brain, which is associated with addictive behaviors, than did non-expanding conditions.

«The direction of tail wagging does in fact matter, and it matters in a way that matches hemispheric activation,» says Giorgio Vallortigara of the Center for Mind / Brain Sciences of the University of Trento.

Meyer - Lindenberg tells ScienceNOW that the team does have unpublished data correlating activation of some brain regions with impulsivity, as revealed by personality tests that some of the subjects have taken.

«Some of the brain's connectivity maps is hardwired, possibly dependent on genetically - driven processes that do not need any external sensory information for their activation, while other process might indeed need visual input to specialize,» Amedi said.

«We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning,» Westen is quoted as saying in an Emory University press release.

Using functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) imaging, Schipul and Just found that the brain activation of ASD individuals was slower to become familiar with the pattern they repeatedly saw, — meaning their brains failed to register the «oldness» of the patterns to the same degree that the control participants did.

While imaging captures brain activation during specific tasks and therefore may identify general brain regions that are abnormal in diseases, it does not have that critical cell - level resolution.

Author Alice Ely, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego, had already studied how women's brains respond to images of fatty foods on an empty and full stomach and found that both their hunger status and dieting history did influence brain activation patterns.

«The brain doesn't immediately know how to solve a mental task initially,» Dr. Small says, «so you don't see a lot of activation.

Bad posture increases the wear and tear of all joints because they are not moving in the way they are designed to and because the muscles stabilizing the joints do not receive the correct activation from the brain.

We did not assess hedonic responses to the meals or food cravings directly, and therefore, we could not explore the relation between these subjective values and brain activation.

If the exercise you are doing does not require activation of core stabilizing muscles, the brain will not activate them.

If your brain is aging too fast or under functions, the vagus nerve which runs between the brain and the gut, does not receive sufficient activation.

A spirit of inquiry is about cognitive activation - getting students to do maths with the brain switched on, if you like.

Those who saw themselves failing actually experienced activation in a region of the brain associated with the loss of motivation and did not train as hard.

For example functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), children with a history of preschool - onset depression demonstrated distinct patterns of brain activation, which were similar to those of adults with depression.34 Other research documents that DSM - IV criteria for depression do not adequately capture the disorder's course in preschool - aged children.35 Similar to the heightened awareness regarding preschool depression, evidence suggests that young children can also suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder when age - adjusted diagnostic criteria are employed.36

Four couples dropped out of therapy and therefore did not complete the post EFT scan, two couples were dropped for missing data, and one other was dropped whose overall threat - related brain activation in a variety of regions was an extreme a statistical outlier (e.g., greater than three standard deviations below the average of the rest of the sample).

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.