Complications such as pneumonia, gastrointestinal issues, as well as urinary tract issues due to the destruction of
brain centers controlling these organs.
Not exact matches
Last year The Ohio State University Wexner Medical
Center began clinical trials on the efficacy of SuperBetter to treat traumatic
brain injuries, and the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology
Center greenlighted a randomized
controlled user study of the game to treat depression.
Studies have revealed that when a person feels appreciated and recognized, the
brain releases dopamine, the hormone that is responsible for
controlling the reward and pleasure
center of the
brain.
The first is dopamine, which helps
control the
brain's reward and pleasure
centers and could help drive up a person's interest in sex.
It is not until the 20th century that science uncovered that this part of the
brain is the part that is the
center of decision to
control man's actions of truthfulness, lying, right, wrong, balance or perversion.
It is well - known for its ability to assist in increasing levels of dopamine and serotonin — neurotransmitters that
control the
brain's reward and pleasure
centers, reduce stress and stabilize mood.
Schore points out that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, a
brain region in the right hemisphere, both has the most complex emotion and stress - regulating systems of any part in the
brain and is also the
center of Bowlby's attachment
control system.
«Having executive function in the
brain is like having an air traffic
control system at a busy airport to manage the arrivals and departures of dozens of planes on multiple runways,» is how the
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University describes it.
Rosemarie Scolaro Moser, Ph.D., Director of the Sports Concussion
Center of New Jersey, author of Ahead of the Game: The Parents» Guide to Youth Sports Concussion and a member of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention's Mild Traumatic
Brain Injury panel;
Standard neural prosthetics ferry signals from the
brain's motion
control center, the motor cortex, to a cable connected to a computer
controlling the limb.
The neuroscientists Stefan Schaffelhofer and Hansjörg Scherberger of the German Primate
Center (DPZ) have studied how the
brain controls the different grasping movements.
«Every day, most of us take for granted that when we will to move, we can move any part of our body with precision and
control in multiple directions and those with traumatic spinal cord injury or any other form of paralysis can not,» said Benjamin Walter, associate professor of Neurology at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Clinical PI of the Cleveland BrainGate2 trial and medical director of the Deep
Brain Stimulation Program at UH Cleveland Medical
Center.
In fact, though, study participants with disrupted activity in the
brain's impulse
control center were 50 percent more generous than members of the
control group.
Called the anterior cingulate cortex, it serves as one of the
brain's
control centers for that «why me?»
Nicotine receptors in the striatum, the comma - shaped structure near the
center of the
brain where movements are planned and
controlled, are located near the terminals that regulate and emit dopamine.
After the researchers kept adult volunteers awake for about 35 hours, they found with MRI scans that sleep deprivation impairs the «rational» prefrontal cortex's
control over the amygdala, the
brain's emotion
center.
In addition to having defined
centers in the
brain that
control vocal learning called «cores,» parrots have what the scientists call «shells,» or outer rings, which are also involved in vocal learning.
«We have identified a code of «molecular switches» that
control a very aggressive subpopulation of
brain cancer cells, so - called glioblastoma stem cells,» says Mario Suvà, MD, PhD, of the MGH Department of Pathology and
Center for Cancer Research, co-lead author of the Cell article.
Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the
Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the
brain's natural systems that
control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.
Neural prosthetic devices implanted in the
brain's movement
center, the motor cortex, can allow patients with paralysis to
control the movement of a robotic limb.
When he and a
control subject, another sensation - seeking rock climber, viewed gruesome, high - arousal photographs during functional magnetic resonance imaging
brain scans, Honnold's amygdala ─ the
brain's fear
center ─ showed zero activation while the other climber's lit up like a neon sign.
Lipocalin 2, which bones unleash to stem bacterial infections, also works in the
brain to
control appetite, physiologist Stavroula Kousteni of Columbia University Medical
Center and colleagues reported in the March 16 Nature.
The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is our
brain's «executive
control»
center, helping us focus our attention and plan complex actions.
Increasing acidity in the
brain's emotional
control center reduces anxiety, according to an animal study published February 26 in The Journal of Neuroscience.
In the five years since, the Deisseroth lab, dubbed the D - lab, has expanded into an entire
brain -
control research
center, with more than 40 scientists on the job.
«Precise
control of
brain circuit alters mood: Pacemaker circuit keeps emotional
centers working together.»
However, it has a bug, which is, if you gain
control of it, you'll keep doing it: If you can
control your pleasure
center, then you can turn off your
brain.
«We wanted to know why and how fear behavior,
controlled breathing, and smell
centers of the
brain were connected,» Ma said.
«We were able to show that structural changes occur in
brain areas linked to self
control and emotion regulation,» says Annette Brühl, head physician at the
Center for Depression, Anxiety Disorders and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich (PUK).
Charles DeCarli, director of the Alzheimer's Disease
Center and an author of the study, said it is a wake - up call that, just as people can influence their late - life
brain health by limiting vascular
brain injury through
controlling their blood pressure, the same is true of getting a handle on their serum cholesterol levels.
In both cases, the prefrontal cortex — the
control center for most cognitive functions — appears to take charge of the
brain's attention and
control relevant parts of the visual cortex, which receives sensory input.
The cerebellum is one of the
brain's motor
control centers.
Freeman and colleagues including lead author Justin Centi and co-senior author Alice Cronin - Golomb, PhD, director of the Vision and Cognition Laboratory and
Center for Clinical Biopsychology and a professor of psychological and
brain sciences at Boston University, divided 55 volunteers into three study groups: 18 patients with both PD and OH, 19 patients with PD but without OH, and 18
control participants with neither PD nor OH.
Combining several new techniques, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Ph.D., senior author of the study, and his colleagues at Harvard's Athinoula A. Martinos
Center for Biomedical Imaging, applied fast fMRI in an effort to track neuronal networks that
control human thought processes, and found that they could now measure rapidly oscillating
brain activity.
Similar studies could reveal how other foods and compounds, such as naturally - occurring hormones, impact the appetite -
control centers in the
brain.
The
brain's language
center is located in the left side of the
brain, which
controls the right side of the body.
The human
brain is the
center of the central nervous system in humans as well as the primary
control center for the peripheral nervous system.
Working with mouse, fly and human cells and tissue, Johns Hopkins researchers report new evidence that disruptions in the movement of cellular materials in and out of a cell's
control center — the nucleus — appear to be a direct cause of
brain cell death in Huntington's disease, an inherited adult neurodegenerative disorder.
Here, the research team led by Associate Professor Yukio Nishimura, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Natural Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), and Masahiro Sawada, a former graduate student of Kyoto University, and Dr. Hirotaka Onoe, a team leader at RIKEN
Center for Life Science Technologies found that the nucleus accumbens, that
control motivation in the
brain, activates the activity of the motor cortex of the
brain, and then promotes recovery of motor function during the early stage of recovery after spinal cord injury.
Scientists at the State University of New York Downstate Medical
Center in Brooklyn sparked a media frenzy two years ago when they demonstrated that rats with electrodes implanted in their
brains could be steered like remote -
controlled toy cars through an obstacle course.
Neural prosthetic devices implanted in the
brain's movement
center, the motor cortex, can allow patients with amputations or paralysis to
control the movement of a robotic limb — one that can be either connected to or separate from the patient's own limb.
In the men under the influence of oxytocin, the amygdala, as the fear
center in the
brain, was overall far less active than in the
control group, whereas fear - inhibiting regions were more stimulated.
The study was conducted using postmortem
brains from the Harvard
Brain Tissue Resource
Center, in which 15
brains were used from healthy
controls, 15 with bipolar disorder, and 12 with schizophrenia.
Preliminary research has suggested that, «if the target is to improve older adults» cognitive
control, reasoning, and higher - order cognitive skills, and stave off dementia and Alzheimer's as long as possible, then maybe strategy games are the way to go,» said Chandramallika Basak, assistant professor at the
Center for Vital Longevity and School of Behavioral and
Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Normally, the left side of the
brain controls the right side of the body and vice versa, but in people with a faulty DCC gene, a subset of the fibers from the
brain's motor command
center may stay on the same side instead of crossing over.
Neuroscientists have begun to learn that even acute, everyday stress can turn off the
brain's command - and -
control center, the prefrontal cortex.
Writing in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, a research team, led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the
Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the
brains of older men, even when
controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging risk.
Although the blood -
brain barrier prevents harmful chemicals and bacteria from reaching our
control center, it also blocks roughly 95 percent of medicine delivered orally or intravenously.
These hormones, in turn, activate a host of neurons in the
brain's hypothalamus — the body's energy
control center.
The emotion
control center of the brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images, according to a Center for Behavioral Neuroscience study led by Emory University psychologists Stephan Hamann and Kim W
center of the
brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images, according to a
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience study led by Emory University psychologists Stephan Hamann and Kim W
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience study led by Emory University psychologists Stephan Hamann and Kim Wallen.