Sentences with phrase «brain regions involved»

But researchers writing in the journal Neuroscience found that human behavior that is exceptionally flexible, responsive and capable of navigating complexity requires something beyond a strong and active prefrontal cortex: strong and agile runners must link that seat to brain regions involved in perception, memory, language and mobility.

«Participation in Mindfulness - Based Stress Reduction is associated with changes in gray matter concentration in brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self - referential processing and perspective taking.»

Taken together, these findings suggest that people who are more sensitive to rejection or who have lower levels of (perceived) social support display higher levels of activity in brain regions involved in processing the distress caused by social exclusion.

The results showed that fathers who were given oxytocin — but not vasopressin — had increased activity in brain regions involved in reward, empathy and attention, but only when shown a photo of their own child and not in any of the other scenarios of the experiment.

Relative to healthy controls, MDD youth displayed a potentiated response to peer rejection in a ventral network of brain regions involved in the identification of emotional and social stimuli and the generation of affective states (Phillips et al., 2003), including the sgACC, anterior insula, amygdala and NAcc.

A further study on the semi-precocious rodent Octodon degus [132] showed that short, repeated separations in the first three weeks of life resulted in significant alterations of density of neurons releasing corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) in brain regions involved in emotion regulation.

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.

Abnormal proteins, called «amyloid» build up and inhibit brain cell function, particularly in brain regions involved with complex thought and memory.

This is supported by previous studies in both humans and animals, but this is the first study to show that propionate affects brain regions involved with food reward - driven behavior in humans.

Bottom Line: Supplementing with IPE suppressed brain activity in brain regions involved with food reward processing.

Brain regions involved in learning and memory, emotion regulation, sense of self, and perspective taking!

In the 2007 - 2008 academic year, for instance, awards supported research on topics such as the imaging of brain regions involved in the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autism.

Hereby, brain regions involved in the coding of stimulus significance (amygdala, cingulate cortex) and in attentional control of stimulus processing (thalamus, parietal cortex) are activated.

May 3, 2011 Nicotine and cocaine leave similar mark on brain after first contact The effects of nicotine upon brain regions involved in addiction mirror those of cocaine, according to new neuroscience research.

They found that patient versus impulsive individuals had very different activity in two specific brain regions involved in drug addiction.

Congratulating Professor Graybiel, MIT President Susan Hockfield said, «Professor Graybiel's research has contributed profoundly to our understanding of the functional anatomy and physiology of the brain, particularly the brain regions involved in the control of movement.

They also plan to examine the potential role of other brain regions involved learning and memory.

Are specific brain regions involved for specific behaviors?

In mice, the anti-angiogenic mTOR inhibitor everolimus did not alter cognitive functions but led to weight loss and modification of cell metabolism in brain regions involved in sleep / wake cycle or food intake, likely connected to fatigue.

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

Abnormalities in brain regions involved in forming insight may help explain why some people with anorexia nervosa have trouble recognizing their dangerous, dysfunctional eating habits.

Earlier this year, the research team reported that in more intelligent persons two brain regions involved in the cognitive processing of task - relevant information (i.e., the anterior insula and the anterior cingulate cortex) are connected more efficiently to the rest of the brain (2017, Intelligence).

Additionally, young - adult dyslexic readers maintained high connectivity to brain regions involved in phonology, suggesting that they continue to rely on effortful «sounding out» strategies into adulthood rather than transitioning to more automatic, visual - based strategies for word recognition.

«Identification of a network of brain regions involved in mathematics.»

Children who experience neglect, abuse and / or poverty can have smaller amygdalas and hippocampuses, brain regions involved in emotion and memory, compared with kids raised in nurturing environments.

Advances in brain imaging techniques mean we are now able to pinpoint the precise brain regions involved in the near - miss effect and identify how they interact with people's vulnerability to problem gambling.»

Bipolar patients tend to have gray matter reductions in frontal brain regions involved in self - control (orange colors), while sensory and visual regions are normal (gray colors).

«Our study reveals a network of brain regions involved in the sharing of self - related information on social media,» says Meshi.

In both humans and flies, dopamine - releasing cells may help coordinate distant brain regions involved in the phenomenon of attention.

A network of brain regions involved in self - disclosure on Facebook has been determined, according to a new study published in the open - access journal Scientific Reports.

Functional MRI studies indicate that those with auditory hallucinations exhibit hyperconnectivity among brain regions involved in speech production, speech perception, hearing and threats.

To identify the brain regions involved in canceling a decision, the new study recruited 21 subjects for a modified «stop signal task,» a commonly used neuroscientific behavioral test that involves canceling a planned movement.

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.

«What is truly exciting about our findings is the opportunity that such a method offers to identify the specific brain regions involved in the generation of seizures, which in turn can provide guidance on how to optimize surgical interventions to stop seizures,» Lopes says.

Based on anatomical sites with muted slow - wave activity, the researchers suspect the first - night effect involves the default - mode network, a system of interacting brain regions involved in daydreaming and spontaneous thoughts.

This loss, however, is not necessarily a bad thing (according to Hoekzema, «the localization was quite remarkable»); it occurred in brain regions involved in social cognition, particularly in the network dedicated to theory of mind, which helps us think about what is going on in someone else's mind — regions that had the strongest response when mothers looked at photos of their infants.

More specifically, his work has shown that dopamine signalling in two connected brain regions involved in opiate - related memory processing, called the Basolateral Amygdala (BLA), a region deep within the brain, and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), located near the surface of the brain, is switched by opiate exposure.

Neuroscience studies indicate that racial prejudices involve altered signaling in brain regions involved in empathy, which can be restored by cultural interventions such as increased racial contact or virtual reality training.

The circuit incorporates brain regions involved in reward and pleasure, leading the authors to consider that social dysfunction may stem from reduced enjoyment in social interaction.

This pattern of reduced serotonergic neurotransmission matters, because some of the alcohol - induced abnormalities were found in brain regions involved in judgment, self - control and emotional regulation.

Remarkably, mice raised in the germ - free cages displayed fewer motor deficits and reducedaccumulation of misfolded protein aggregates in brain regions involved in controlling movement.

Interestingly, the researchers found that the degree of functional connectivity, between brain regions involved in detecting grammatical violations and those related to working memory, predicted the performance accuracy of the participants in determining whether a sequence was grammatical or not.

The subjects who'd had little exposure to the Internet before the study showed activity in brain regions involved in vision, language and reading.

When the scientists shined light on a rat's eye, or stimulated brain regions involved in vision, neurons in the implanted organoid fired.

The researchers discovered that in brain regions involved in regulating anxiety — the amygdala and prefrontal cortex — microbe - free mice had an overabundance of some types of microRNA and a shortage of others compared with normal mice.

Now research in rodents suggests that gut microbes may alter the inventory of microRNAs — molecules that help keep cells in working order by managing protein production — in brain regions involved in controlling anxiety.

However, according to Alexander Soutschek, an economist at the University of Zurich and lead author on the study, previous research on self - control and delayed gratification has focused instead on the prefrontal brain regions involved in impulse control.

At this point the Scientific Americanarticle combines interesting conclusions with possible presumption concerning our Creator's playing along with the experiment: «The quantity and diversity of brain regions involved in the nuns» religious experience point to the complexity of the phenomenon of spirituality.

A new study suggests that age - associated improvements in the ability to consider the preferences of others are linked with maturation of a brain region involved in self control.

Recognizing rhythms doesn't involve just parts of the brain that process sound — it also relies on a brain region involved with movement, researchers report online January 18 in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.