Sentences with phrase «brain connections involved»

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That's because the brain is involved, and — as an astoundingly complex network of 100 billion cells and their 100 trillion connections — the organ does not easily loose its secrets.

An important aspect of early toddler development involves increasing the connections to neurons in the front part of the brain, particularly the area called the prefrontal cortex.

Researchers genetically engineered mice to produce cadherin, a protein involved in learning that helps strengthen the brain's neural connections.

When adults learn hierarchical rules, Frank and Collins have combined experimental data with computer models of brain function to suggest, that the key circuit involved is a connection between the PFC and another region called the striatum.

Some, for example, pointed to genes that expressed themselves in brain cells, or that involved immune function, a previously established connection.

But brain imaging showed that the children who benefited most had a larger hippocampus, a key memory area, and stronger neural connections between the hippocampus and brain regions involved in long - term memory and habit - building.

Produced naturally in the brain, dopamine has become a neuroscience rock star: It's involved in how the mind registers rewards, and media have reported on the chemical's connection to addiction, gambling and pleasure.

The regeneration process following brain injury involves complex processes, such as building new blood vessels and rebuilding connections between neurons, and requires much energy.

«A critical part of this surgery involves identifying the neural fibers in the brain, the connections that allow the brain to perform its essential functions.

«The next step is to figure out if this is telling us something about what those [altered] connections mean in terms of early brain development,» says Emily Jones, lecturer in the Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, University of London, who was not involved in the sbrain development,» says Emily Jones, lecturer in the Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, University of London, who was not involved in the sBrain & Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, University of London, who was not involved in the study.

When there were squabbles, they usually involved no more than two scientists armed with microscopes, arguing over the precise pattern of connections that they had traced in a corner of the brain.

Neurologists had previously discussed a connection between the two disorders, because both involve an inadequate production of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, one of the brains messenger molecules.

The finding, though preliminary, is significant in part because «the brain stem is really involved in autonomic activities — breathing, heart rate, staying awake — so this is evidence that there's something core and basic, this connection between aggression and autism,» said coauthor and BYU clinical psychology Ph.D. student Kevin Stephenson.

Most other changes to the brain that take place throughout our lives, such as during adolescence and pregnancy, involve pruning the connections between neurons.

The discovery is surprising, because most changes to the brain as it matures involve the altering of existing connections between neurons.

After comparing the brains of males with offspring with brains of childless males in mating pairs, Kozorovitskiy and Gould found that fathers not only had more connections between neurons in their prefrontal cortex, a region involved in anticipating consequences and attaining goals, but they also had more receptors for vasopressin, a neurohormone linked to social interaction and bonding.

The researchers also found that these copy number variants occurred more frequently in genes involved in the function of synapses, the connections between brain cells that transmit chemical messages.

Anatomically, these neurons have widespread connections to the brain stem, a primitive region that controls waking and sleep; to nearby basal ganglia involved in movement; and to the medial frontal lobes, which are involved in motivation.

Parkinson's disease, obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and many other movement disorders involve connections of this brain region, said Dong, senior author of the study.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) assessed the strength of hippocampal connections to an extensive network of brain regions involved in emotion.

Significant connections are found between brain networks known to be implicated in the behavioral tasks involved.

Women with the same variation also showed stronger connections in activation between the amygdala and the cingulate cortex, two regions of the brain involved in fear learning.

Research is beginning to show the connection In a 2005 study, researchers at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures activity in different areas of the brain, to see whether subjects could learn to control a brain region involved in pain and whether that could be a tool for altering their pain perception.

It was found that men had a stronger connection between the amygdala and the area of the brain that is involved in cognitive processes (including perception, emotions, and social interactions) creating a more analytical than emotional approach when processing negative emotions.

Blue light is able to strengthen the connection between areas of the brain involved with emotion and language.

The better our hippocampus works, the better it is able to store new memories and associations in the PFC.. This process involves creating multiple nerve connections (or axonal connections) from the hippocampus, looping up and over the central portions of the brain to the PFC.

We used the original version of Read Naturally, currently known as Encore, and I could see how children not only enjoyed and enhanced their reading experience, but their handwritten work, involving the information received by following the words with their fingertips, tracing their comprehension answers, drawing the bar graph to evaluate themselves, made an unequally valuable connection, back and forth from hand through brain, that can hardly be replaced by the use of type - on computers.

Recent research looked at DTI and fMRI to elucidate the brain regions involved and found that connections from the supramarginal gyrus to the anterior cingulate and from the inferior frontal gryus to the frontal gyrus may be involved and are affected in word - specific spelling impairment in children with dysgraphia.

It involves the excessive «cross-inhibition» of two brain areas, so if one area is active (the area containing positive representations, for example) then this active area of the brain triggers inhibitory connections that entirely suppress the activity of another area of the brain (the area containing negative representations), so that only one or the other area of the brain can be active at any one time.

Because these approaches involve right hemisphere dominance, they are beneficial to attachment work where «right - brain - to - right - brain» connections between therapist and client are essential.