Sentences with phrase «brain regions responsible»

The main study results were that the 2 substances combined improve cognitive performance in terms of working memory and sustained attention by increasing brain activity efficiency in the brain regions responsible for these 2 functions.

Research suggests that some of the brain regions responsible for forming and storing memory of past events, such as the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex, are the same ones responsible for spatial navigation, implying a deep connection between the two processes.

White matter appears white because of the density of axons, the signal - carrying cables allowing communication between different brain regions responsible for complicated tasks such as language and memory.

The researchers did find that the older people had more activity in brain regions responsible for attentiveness, such as the posterior cingulate cortex.

What's more, the same mechanisms are likely at play in one of the most common forms of epilepsy, called temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), which targets brain regions responsible for learning and memory.

Both self - described psychics and people with schizophrenia also showed abnormal neuronal activity in several brain regions responsible for monitoring our internal representations of reality.

This was measured by EEG (Electroencephalography) sensors on the back of the head, which detected the brain signals in the related brain regions responsible for action planning.

Neuroimaging studies by Peter Brugger of University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland have shown that the network of brain regions responsible for creating a sense of bodily self is different in people with the condition (Brain, vol 136, p 318).

In one study the researchers found that high fat feeding reorganizes the gut - to - brain neural pathway and triggers inflammation in brain regions responsible for feeding behavior.

If «Will» is correct then people who choose to act honestly should exhibit heightened activity in brain regions responsible for cognitive control (presumably resulting from the struggle to ignore immediate desires).

This corresponded with enhanced activity in their hippocampi — the brain regions responsible for learning and memory.

The brain regions responsible for basic sensory perception are deactivated.

The findings support the idea that reduced activation in brain regions responsible for inhibitory control could explain impulsivity traits present in bipolar disorder.

A study finds that when elderly Internet users surf the Web, they exercise brain regions responsible for reasoning and decision making.

As people reach information overload, Dimoka explained, «They start making stupid mistakes and bad choices because the brain region responsible for smart decision making has essentially left the premises.»

A study of older adults at increased risk for Alzheimer's disease shows that moderate physical activity may protect brain health and stave off shrinkage of the hippocampus - the brain region responsible for memory and spatial orientation that is attacked first in Alzheimer's disease.

In order to identify the brain region responsible for spatial memory, the researchers had a special trick.

Now the hippocampus has been pinpointed as the brain region responsible for forming concepts such as «dog».

«If you've ever looked at a newborn primate's brain or a baby's brain, it's surprising that they work at all,» says Jon Kaas, a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, who previously investigated the brain region responsible for hand - to - mouth motions in non-human primates.

In May researchers at McGill University reported that the gene responsible for creating cells» protein - building machinery is more frequently methylated in the hippocampus — the brain region responsible for short - term memory and spatial navigation — of depressed suicide victims who suffered child abuse than in the brains of nonsuicide victims who were not abused.

The results reveal that pterosaurs had a giant flocculus, a brain region responsible for keeping track of the body's location and for coordinating the movement of the eyes.

24 to 25 weeks: Peripheral nervous system connects with the cortex, the brain region responsible for higher thought processes.

The scientists focused on the production of new neurons in adult mice, in particular those neurons that integrate into the olfactory bulb, the brain region responsible for analyzing odors.

Some of these cells lost their star shape and began to form new nerve cells in a brain region responsible for smell.

«My lab works on the neural bases of learning and memory,» says Pozzo - Miller, «so we decided to test if LM22A - 4 was able to improve spatial discrimination deficits by enhancing synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for spatial learning and memory.»

They became faster learners, showed better recall, and displayed enhanced activity in the hippocampus — the brain region responsible for learning and memory.

A study published in Neuron in February revealed that the variety of fat molecules found in the human neocortex, the brain region responsible for advanced cognitive functions such as language, evolved at an exceptionally fast rate after the human - ape split.

Black arrows show the brain region responsible for producing seizures in a patient involved in a new study showing that loss of the protein CLOCK may be a key factor in severe forms of focal epilepsy.

«It was known that ageing interferes with oscillations in the electrical activity of neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus — the brain region responsible for regulating the circadian clock — making these oscillations lose amplitude, and it was assumed that other tissues would also lose their rhythms,» explains Guiomar.

Nonhuman primates (NHPs)-- like humans, but unlike mice — have a well - developed prefrontal cortex, a brain region responsible for higher mental functions that shows significant defects in many human neurocognitive conditions.

TMS is a non-invasive treatment which three - dimensionally locates and stimulates the brain region responsible for depression and brings significant improvement to patients.

Not exact matches

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure changes in blood flow, she found that as people received more information, their brain activity increased in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region behind the forehead that is responsible for making decisions and controlling emotions.

They found that high multitaskers had less brain density in the anterior cingulate cortex, a region responsible for empathy as well as cognitive and emotional control.

Neurologists subdivide the brain into regions that are responsible for a variety of neurological functions.

These changes included ramped - up activation of a brain region thought to be responsible for generating positive emotions, called the left - sided anterior region.

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But the new study saw the opposite: brain activity in regions responsible for movement, senses, memory and emotions all gradually increased during the lead - up to orgasm, when activity peaked (Journal of Sexual Medicine, doi.org/cd6v).

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

Brains of teenage girls exposed to high levels of family stress when they were toddlers showed reduced connections between the amygdala, which is also known for processing fear and emotions, and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an outer region responsible for emotional regulation.

Researchers at the Humboldt and Charité Universities in Berlin, led by Dr Julie Seibt from the University of Surrey, used cutting edge techniques to record activity in a particular region of brain cells that is responsible for holding new information — the dendrites.

At the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a psychiatric team is mapping the brain's intricate web of neural connections, using images from MRI scans, to try to identify regions responsible for depression.

In particular, theta activity increased at the junction of three brain areas: the parietal region, just behind the crown of the head, which perceives sensory information and integrates it into the mysterious state called consciousness; the temporal lobe, behind the temples and responsible for making sense of sound; and the occipital lobe, located at the bottom back of the brain and responsible for processing vision.

This suggests that the two brain regions aren't solely responsible for interoception, says Khalsa.

Likely so, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center who have shown that a small region within the amygdala, an almond - shaped structure in the brains of all mammals, is responsible for producing emotional calls and sounds.

Using non-invasive brain imaging, the researchers found that people at - risk for anxiety were less likely to develop the disorder if they had higher activity in a region of the brain responsible for complex mental operations.

The prefrontal regions are responsible for analytic reasoning, impulse and desire inhibition, and cognitive flexibility based on information from many other brain regions.

In an interconnected network of billions of neurons, it is unlikely that any single brain region is responsible for an experience — even if media coverage touting the «love center of the brain» suggests otherwise.

The amygdala is an almond - shaped structure at a crossroads in the brain's circuitry: it links the cortex, which is responsible for conscious thought, with regions of the brain that control the body's emotional responses.

The hands have a hefty region dedicated to them in the somatosensory cortex — the area of your brain that processes and maps inputs from the multitude of neurons responsible for touch.

The key issue seems to be when the peripheral nervous system joins up with the cerebral cortex, the region of the brain responsible for higher thought processes such as memory, attention, thought, awareness and language.