Sentences with phrase «brain areas associated»

Brain areas associated with emotion, reward, relationships and social interaction showed increased activity when the women saw the pictures of their children and their pets.

We think that we know what our cats are saying, but scientists have actually looked into the brain areas associated with different vocalizations in the cat to try to better define the positive and negative meanings.

Those who drank the supplement showed improved activation in brain areas associated with cognitive function.

De Araujo's interest in more natural behaviors pointed him to a study that had mapped brain areas associated with hunting and feeding.

That's why the MRIs of the memory contestants showed activation in the brain areas associated with visual imagery and spatial navigation.

Scientists in Brazil have imaged elderly female yoga practitioners» brains and found they have greater cortical thickness in the left prefrontal cortex, in brain areas associated with cognitive functions like attention and memory.

An August 15 functional MRI study in NeuroImage shows that in CG patients reminders of the deceased activate a brain area associated with reward processing, pleasure and addiction.

Now, experiments with rats and mice have shown that insulin increases dopamine levels by 20 % to 55 % in the striatal region, a brain area associated with pleasure and decision - making, according to a study published on 27 October in Nature Communications.

Andersen was studying the activity of neurons in the hippocampus — a brain area associated with memory — and the two students wanted to try to link this precise activity of cells with the behaviour of animals.

More good news is that though it may take a while, the researchers say they found that the greater the number of days since rejection, the less activity showed up in the brain area associated with attachment.

But all three labels also elicited some activity in the brain area associated with reward, the ventral striatum, as well as other regions related to desire and feeling connected.»

Meditation may also cause positive changes in the brain itself: in a Harvard - affiliated study in 2011, MRI scans of participants in a mindfulness meditation program showed greater gray - matter density in the hippocampus, a brain area associated with stress, empathy, memory and sense of self.

A widely circulated research study from 2014, «Change in Brainstorm Gray Matter Concentration Following a Mindfulness - Based Intervention is Correlated with Improvement in Psychological Well - Being» showed that after the 8 week mindfulness - based stress reduction intervention, there was a significant increase in grey matter of participant's hippocampus; brain area associated with introspection and compassion.

Not exact matches

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.

Her research deals with an area of the brain called the hippocampus, which is associated with memory.

We wanted to expand the area associates» functions so they could use their brains, in addition to their clerical skills.»

These newly implicated areas of the brain are generally associated with reward, and have been linked to the pleasurable feelings and motivational states associated with stimuli such as sex, cocaine, and good food.

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.

Other research shows that ADHD children with a particular gene variation have thinner tissue in the area of the brain that's associated with attention.

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 extra myelin growth was greatest in areas of the brain «associated with language, emotional function and cognition.»

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

When those areas of the brain — particularly the prefrontal - cortex (pfc)-- are underdeveloped or damaged, the emotions associated with sociality are either severely truncated or absent altogether.

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.»

To Miller, however, this didn't explain how the executive areas of the brain could «turn up the volume» on memories associated with free juice.

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.

The brains of the super-agers showed less cortical thinning, or neuron loss in certain areas, said lead researcher Emily Rogalski, research associate professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Using resting - state MRI analysis on thousands of people's brains around the world, the research has found that the areas of the brain which are associated with learning and development show high levels of variability, meaning that they change their neural connections with other parts of the brain more frequently, over a matter of minutes or seconds.

On the other hand, regions of the brain which aren't associated with intelligence — the visual, auditory, and sensory - motor areas — show small variability and adaptability.

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

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

The two men were eager to push their research further and expand into areas of the brain thought to be associated with language, so when Schmeisser offered them a $ 450,000 grant to prove the feasibility of a thought helmet, they seized the opportunity.

The experiments highlighted an area of the brain known as the «nucleus accumbens», which has been long - associated with motivation, reward and depression — in humans too.

Whereas amyloid may show up in various brain areas, tau appears more restricted to regions associated with the cognitive deficits.

The Disney ad stoked big responses in the orbito - frontal cortex and ventral striatum, two areas associated with feelings of reward, the parts of the brain that say, «I like that!»

She also talked to a scientist who has used brain scans to determine that echolocators use areas of the brain normally associated with seeing when they maneuver.

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

«High treatment effectivity is associated with strong connections between the DBS electrode and specific frontal areas of the brain, such as the «supplementary motor area»,» says Dr. Horn.

18 The stressed rats» brains showed shrunken neurons in the dorsomedial striatum (an area associated with goal - directed behavior) and growth in the dorsolateral striatum (related to habitual behavior).

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.

«Increased activity in brain areas such as the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex is associated with an increased experience of social pain.

In the hippocampus and the amygdala, areas of the brain thought to be associated with episodic memory, researchers had shown that the chemical signaling agent called glutamate acts like a key in the lock of some of these protein «flood gates.»

This area of the fly brain is termed the mushroom body, and is associated with motivation and learning.

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.

«We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure different brain areas of our research subjects while they watched short segments of the Star Wars, Indiana Jones and James Bond movies,» explains Aalto University Associate Professor Iiro Jääskeläinen.

This coil permits the targeted stimulation of areas of the brain which, according to the latest research, play a major role in MS - associated fatigue.