Sentences with phrase «brain patterns associated»

In the new report, published Thursday in the journal Current Biology, researchers found that exercising four hours after a memory task increased brain patterns associated with memory, and helped people retain information better than people who exercised immediately after or people who did not work out.

Feelings of empathy may seem subtle and personal, but this study, which used stories of human hardship to inspire feelings of empathic care and distress, found that the brain patterns associated with these feelings are consistent and predictable across individuals.

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Furthermore, it would be externally detectable if its occasions are identical with the internal synthetic unity of the whole pattern of those externally identifiable patterns of brain wave activity that are known to be associated with consciousness.

Berne's second major concept is that of ego - states; he says that our behavior patterns, with their associated feelings, are «a limited repertoire... which are psychological realities... [the products of] the human brain... are organized and stored in the form of ego - states.»

Running the game while recording people's brain activity with a functional MRI machine revealed that people who made similar giving choices (either to give half or what they had, or half of what their partner thought they had) showed similar brain patterns in the medial prefrontal cortex, a region associated with decision - making.

And so we found a variant in one of the GABA receptors [that] is associated with alcoholism, and this fits in with some of the brain wave pattern activity that it looks like alcoholism [and] is linked to disinhibition, so [it's] a problem with the inhibition of brain waves that people should generally have.

Yeshurun concludes that the brain reserves a special pattern of activity for memories that represent the first time we have associated a smell with a particular thing — and that such pairings are most likely to be laid down in childhood.

«When we learn, at first the brain tends to not produce new activity patterns, but to repurpose the activity patterns it already knows how to generate,» says Aaron Batista, an associate professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh.

Whenever he sees something that stands out, his brain exhibits a distinct firing pattern associated with «aha» moments.

In this work, researchers have identified a functional brain pattern in the prefrontal cortex, associated with cognitive processes, and have used it to activate a screen on a touch device (an iPad touchscreen).

His team is now looking at patterns of gene activity in the four brains to work out whether it is possible to detect early signs associated with conditions like autism.

Through the multiple trials, they confirmed that the spintronic devices have a learning ability with which the developed artificial neural network can successfully associate memorized patterns from their input noisy versions just like the human brain can.

«It is designed to record patient's specific brain activity and recognize patterns that are associated with seizures,» said Kristen Riley, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery.

«There is a huge gulf separating our understanding of what kind of brain injuries develop because of mild blast and how they relate to the neuroimaging changes many research groups have detected,» said Dr. David Cook, VA scientist and UW research associate professor of medicine and pharmacology «The similarities we see in the pattern of neuron injury in the cerebellum of mice, the neuron loss previously seen in boxers, and our neuroimaging findings in veterans is a step toward reducing this knowledge gap.»

Another study, published in September 2016 in PLOS Biology by Kevin LaBar of Duke University and his colleagues, attempted to match brain scans of people lying idle in a scanner to seven predefined patterns associated with specific emotions provoked in an earlier study.

Michael Greicius at Stanford University in California and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify patterns of brain activity associated with different mental states.

Analysing the scans, the team found that specific patterns of brain activity associated with the satellites were replayed during rest.

The ghostly voices and disordered thought associated with schizophrenia may result from faulty brain - wave patterns — essentially a mind gone out of tune — according to a new study.

The supplement examines the issues surrounding distracted driving by teens, exploring developmental states and changes that are associated with adolescents» distractibility and their relation to driving, examining patterns of distraction among newly licensed adolescents as well as brain function, considering the potential role played by parental modeling of distracted behavior while driving, accounting for the role of technology and the influence of peer passengers and society norms, and investigating policy, legislation, and intervention.

«Rapid eye movements in sleep reset dream «snapshots»: Researchers find eye movements during REM sleep reflect brain activity patterns associated with new images.»

The results in his thesis show that improved motor timing of both female elite level soccer players and experienced male golfers leads to improved outcome accuracy, with associated changes in motor performance, as well as in the brain's activity patterns related to these performances.

The ecRNAs, they say, are fundamental regulators of DNA methylation patterns in the adult brain through interaction with DNA methyltransferase enzymes, and the ecRNAs may offer a promising future therapeutic avenue to treat neuropsychiatric disease states associated with changes in DNA methylation, as they report in the July 7 issue of Nature Communications.

A new study published in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry suggests that schizophrenia is associated with reductions in the complexity of the cortical folding pattern that may reflect deficits in the structural connections between brain regions.

We know certain patterns of brain activity are associated with certain psychiatric disorders.»

However, neural activity patterns associated with working memory are distributed across many brain regions.

Researchers increasingly believe that many such conditions are closely associated with disruptions in brain activity patterns.

Moreover, when analyzed with gene expression patterns of normal brain cells, the four GBM subtypes associate with different cell lineages.

Interestingly, these neural - activity patterns appeared somewhat distinct from those that usually appear when brain - scan subjects complete tasks associated with emotions like empathy or thinking about other peopleâ $ ™ s points of view, which is consistent with the idea that gratitude is a unique emotion.

This step - by - step method shows you how to rewire chronic illness disease patterns in the brain that are associated with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Depression, Chronic Pain, Electric Hypersensitivity Syndrome, Anxiety, Food Sensitivities, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Lyme Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Mold Toxicity and more.

The delicate balance between the human microbiome and the development of psychopathologies is particularly interesting given the ease with which the microbiome can be altered by external factors, such as diet, 23 exposure to antimicrobials24, 25 or disrupted sleep patterns.26 For example, a link between antibiotic exposure and altered brain function is well evidenced by the psychiatric side - effects of antibiotics, which range from anxiety and panic to major depression, psychosis and delirium.1 A recent large population study reported that treatment with a single antibiotic course was associated with an increased risk for depression and anxiety, rising with multiple exposures.27 Bercik et al. 28 showed that oral administration of non-absorbable antimicrobials transiently altered the composition of the gut microbiota in adult mice and increased exploratory behaviour and hippocampal expression of brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), while intraperitoneal administration had no effect on behaviour.

Whole - brain functioning is associated with increased creativity... insight... learning ability... problem solving ability... pattern recognition... memory... and what some people call...

These studies indicate a pattern of brain organization in poor readers that differs from that seen in nonimpaired readers, with less activity in regions of the left hemisphere that are associated with proficient reading.

Conversely, under - communication with other brain regions (especially the amygdala, an area of the brain associated with basic emotions) likely serves to allow automatic behaviours to go unchecked which may contribute to highly emotional and disproportionate response patterns.

Neuroendocrine and behavioral responses and brain pattern of c - fos induction associated with audiogenic stress