Sentences with phrase «brain areas whose»

Red squares correspond to brain areas whose in situ hybridization results are presented below.

This is a photograph of brain areas whose pattern of activation matched significantly while watching a video and remembering that same video.

Not exact matches

Studying preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children's Hospital, the researchers found that preemies whose daily diets were at least 50 percent breast milk had more brain tissue and cortical - surface area by their due dates than premature babies who consumed significantly less breast milk.

Paul Broca was a famous French physician and anatomist whose work with aphasic patients in the 1800s led to the discovery of Broca's area; a small patch of the cerebral cortex just above the temple, specifically on the left side of the brain.

And in transgenic pups whose optic nerves were surgically severed 4 days after birth, retinal axons grew around the gap, finding their way to the proper target areas in the brain.

In the case of Parkinson's disease, the brain areas targeted are those whose hyperactivity cause the condition's distressing symptoms.

A person whose left hand and arm are paralyzed has sustained damage to the motor areas on the right side of the brain.

Unlike the visual cortex, say, whose coding will be influenced by light falling onto the retina, the entorhinal cortex creates the hexagonal pattern entirely internally, by integrating whatever information about the environment is received by other areas of the brain.

Over the following year, those whose brains showed less activation in areas known to respond to natural rewards like foods ended up gaining more weight — though only if they had a particular genetic makeup.

Those whose mothers smoked throughout pregnancy had smaller total brain volumes and reduced amounts of grey and white matter in the superior frontal cortex, an area involved in regulating mood.

The study showed that the brain region known as the posterior cingulate — an area whose damage is often seen in those with Alzheimer's — plays a crucial role in creating permanent memories.

(A — L) In situ hybridization of Acks in each brain area shown as Figure 4B in the brains of workers exposed to 46 °C heat (A, D, G, and J), workers whose antennae are deprived before heat - exposure (B, E, H, and K), and workers exposed to IAA (C, F, I, and L).

For this study, monkeys, whose sensory systems closely resemble those of humans, had electrodes implanted into the area of the brain that processes touch information from the hand.

In patients whose DBS system was turned on, sugar metabolism in key brain areas increased over the first six months.