Sentences with phrase «brain controls behaviour»

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We can also understand the brain science of why our children can't control their behaviour, but that we can do something to help them out of it.

He also saw smaller orbitofrontal cortices in obese individuals, important for impulse control and also involved in feeding behaviour (Brain Research, in press).

What is more, they transfer day - night information from the circadian clock to such brain areas that control complex behaviours such as orientation to the sun, temporal memory and organizing the work throughout the day.

The brain's connections, the synapses, can potentially link each neuron to thousands of others, forming complex electrical pathways that control the body and behaviour.

All patients underwent deep brain stimulation, which involves implanting electrodes and stimulating areas of the brain that control dysfunctional behaviours.

Researchers from Aarhus University conducted a case - control study on the condition of the dopamine - producing nerve cells in the brain and cells that participate in the brain's immune system in people suffering from rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (RBD).

Basic research is essential to identify new treatments by analysing the cellular activity and chemical processes within regions of the brain that control those complex behaviours impaired in psychiatric disorders.

We use non-human primates — marmosets and macaques — to study how advanced behaviour is controlled by the brain.

There is a biological explanation for such behaviour: it is the Amygdala, a part of our brain that controls our «automatic» emotional responses.

Executive functions refer to systems in the brain that increasingly come to control information processing and behaviour in the course of development.1, 4 Commonly, three basic executive functions are distinguished: working memory (also called updating), inhibitory control and flexibility (also called shifting), but there is a debate whether these functions are already distinguishable in young children.5 Working memory refers to the ability to hold a limited amount of information temporarily active for processing and updating.

Studies were included in our meta - analyses if the following criteria were given: (I) included at least one clinical group with described aggressive behaviour, (II) in combination with a healthy control sample, (III) conducted during adolescence, (IV) reported whole brain gray matter volume alterations or whole brain functional neuroimaging data, (V) results are described using a standard reference space (Talairach or MNI) and (VI) the same threshold was used throughout the whole brain analysis.

Dr. Michael Bowen from the University of Sydney explained that the oxytocin prevents alcohol from influencing the regions of the brain that provide fine motor control «to the point where we can not tell from their behaviour that the rats are actually drunk.»