Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on the underlying
brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication.
Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on
the brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication.
Not exact matches
Genetics offers one view into the body, but it's just as
important to understand how the
circuitry of the
brain works.
An
important key to cure or alleviate the symptoms of these diseases therefore lies in understanding these global changes in the
brain circuitry.
Nucleus accumbens (NAc) The NAc is a small
brain region that plays an
important role in our reward and reinforcement
circuitry.
In these primitive survival states, our
brain's frontal cortex — home of
important relational
circuitry that enables us to be attuned, empathetic, understanding, and collaborative — is taken offline.
This is particularly true during the period of adolescence when the
brain undergoes a substantial remodeling of its neural
circuitry to increase the linkages between the prefrontal cortex (
important in self - control) and the
brain's limbic system (
important in processing of emotional information).