Sentences with phrase «brain networks become»

The fact that both of these important brain networks become active together suggests that mind wandering is not useless mental static.

If this treatment becomes a standard practice, he says, it will reveal a lot about how different brain networks become reactivated after severe head trauma.

In comparison, activity in the different areas of a more primitive brain network became more synchronised under the drug, indicating they were working in a more co-ordinated, «louder» fashion.

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Deep in the dense part of the brain called the limbic system, the normally lithe network of rubbery - smooth tissue had become puffy and inflamed.

Understanding this intricate network and how the human brain interacts with it is becoming our door to happiness and health.

What happens is that unused synapses are «pruned back» and synapses and networks that are used more frequently become stronger and remain as part of the brain.

But when the predator was closing in, those brain regions shut down and a network of previously quiet regions farther back in the midbrain became active.

Brain networks associated with social pain became activated in all women, but in the CG patients reminders of the deceased also excited the nucleus accumbens, a forebrain area most commonly associated with reward.

If a monkey sees a picture of another monkey making a face — an open - mouthed threat, for example, or a submissive lip smack — a network of neurons becomes active in its brain.

The cells were reprogrammed to become neural progenitor cells able to form functional neuronal networks resembling the developing cortex of the human brain in a dish.

«There may be so much internal communication that the brain becomes preoccupied with itself, less able to process information coming in from the outside world,» he says, noting that studies have found that people with depression have heightened connectivity among brain networks involved in paying attention, monitoring internal and external cues, remembering the past, and controlling emotions.

The study found that under psilocybin, activity in the more primitive brain network linked to emotional thinking became more pronounced, with several different areas in this network — such as the hippocampus and anterior cingulate cortex — active at the same time.

Such a network, akin to the type of big, expensive facilities historically built for physicists and astronomers by governments, was first mooted 3 years ago, when Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at Columbia University in New York, and five colleagues drafted the proposal for what would ultimately become President Obama's Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) InitiaBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) InitiaBRAIN) Initiative.

The effort, as yet confined to animal studies, is only about a decade old but has become one of the hottest areas of neuroscience research because it promises a more precise understanding of the hugely complex network of cells in the brain.

The regions of the brain that become active during mind wandering belong to two important networks.

This revealed that activity in important brain networks linked to high - level thinking in humans becomes unsynchronised and disorganised under psilocybin.

In 2005, Hinton discovered that if he sectioned his neural networks into layers and ran the algorithms on them one layer at a time, which approximates the brain's structure and development, the process became more efficient.

During sleep, a newly discovered network of water channels in the brain, called the glymphatic system, becomes active and functions as a waste disposal system, carrying toxins away which would otherwise accumulate and damage brain cells.

A prominent feature of this activity became known as the brain's default mode network, a central component to the brain's organization, or default network of the brain.

As we grow up, our brain's specialized networks become more structurally segregated, contributing to improved executive functioning.

Repeated thoughts and actions can rewire your brain, and the more you do something, the stronger those new neural networks become.

Borrowing its title from the network of regions in the brain that become active when «an individual is not focused on the outside world but rather in a wakeful - resting state such as daydreaming, speculating, or contemplating the past», Default State Network playfully explores creative production through a variety of media, methods and snetwork of regions in the brain that become active when «an individual is not focused on the outside world but rather in a wakeful - resting state such as daydreaming, speculating, or contemplating the past», Default State Network playfully explores creative production through a variety of media, methods and sNetwork playfully explores creative production through a variety of media, methods and systems.

In the elderly, brain activity patterns involving language processing becomes a matter of how much white matter (leukoaraiosis - «UBO (Unidentified Bright Objects) lesions») have damaged the brain's language network.

With a $ 100M investment fund and the opening up of cloud service APIs and an SDK, Alexa and the Echo could become the brains of your home automation and IoT network.

Children in the same friendship networks influence each other in matters of dress, behavior, and language, leading to identifiable characteristics of group members that become the basis for group labels (e.g., jocks or brains).

Every time we use a brain cell or a particular brain network the connections within that network become stronger, more sensitive, and more efficient through «use - dependent» neural processes.