Sleeping lizards appear to share distinctive
brain activity patterns with sleeping birds and mammals, researchers report in the April 29 Science.
Despite the complexity of the stimulus, the elicited
brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people — even at the time scale of fractions of seconds.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers recorded
brain activity patterns as subjects listened to the stories.
Neuro - scientists now agree that fMRI studies have demonstrated that this is a pathological condition that is one of the differentiating factors in
brain activity patterns involved in semantic task decisions.
«Rapid eye movements in sleep reset dream «snapshots»: Researchers find eye movements during REM sleep
reflect brain activity patterns associated with new images.»
But in June, Carnegie Mellon University researchers reported they had identified, for the first time,
unique brain activity patterns for nine specific emotions and could correctly guess which one a person was feeling — essentially reading the mind.
Seymour says that even when the study subjects were simply resting, the researchers could see short moments
of brain activity patterns with features of the specific fear memory.
Neuroscience professors at the University of Minnesota used MEG to
evaluate brain activity patterns in over 70 vets with post traumatic stress disorder and 250 individuals that do not have the disorder.
In the elderly,
brain activity patterns involving language processing becomes a matter of how much white matter (leukoaraiosis - «UBO (Unidentified Bright Objects) lesions») have damaged the brain's language network.
A team of researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway reports in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can predict whether a person will err up to 30 seconds before they slip up based on a shift
in brain activity patterns.
A team led by Stanislas Dehaene of the Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot in Orsay, France, wanted to take this a step further and analyze
the brain activity patterns triggered by this priming.
«They made a very direct connection,» between
the brain activity patterns they saw and their conclusion that the «hate circuit» is uncoupled.
One of the most controversial types of therapy is what is known as neurofeedback, in which patients learn to control
their brain activity patterns selectively, and in this way achieve an alleviation of their symptoms.
Also keep an ear on the soundtrack, which was composed by assigning
each brain activity pattern to an instrument.
One of the experiments combined functional brain imaging (fMRI) and virtual reality: The participants had to navigate through a computer - generated scenery while
their brain activity patterns were monitored.
In the past two decades, there was a shift due to evidence that the brain affected by PD may be capable of plasticity, and
brain activity patterns may be altered with appropriate intensive training.