Sentences with phrase «brain regions use»

The most active brain regions use — and thereby contain — the most oxygen.

Back at MIT, cognitive neuroscientists Liane Young and Rebecca Saxe have been studying the right temporal parietal junction, a brain region used for reasoning about others» intent.

The brain regions they used to make those choices were also different: for individuals with anorexia nervosa, choices about what to eat were associated with activation in the dorsal striatum, a brain region known to be related to habitual control of actions.

The hand - grip testing was a follow - on study to earlier published research by Macey and his colleagues of the same brain region using a «Valsalva maneuver.»

We sampled the bees from the surface of the bee ball at 0, 30, and 60 min after formation of the bee ball and examined the Acks - expressing brain regions using in situ hybridization (n = 5, 7 and 7 for 0, 30 and 60 min, respectively).

Second, the lab is studying how early life stress impacts both the transcriptome in stress - related brain regions using deep - sequencing methods and the addictive potential of the prescription opioid oxycodone using the drug self - administration paradigm, in male and female rats.

When people experience adversity early in life, brain regions used in threatening situations tend to over-develop.

Not exact matches

«Two adjacent brain regions allow humans to build new thoughts using a sort of conceptual algebra, mimicking the operations of silicon computers that represent variables and their changing values.»

Exercise could strengthen some of the pathways our brain uses to relay signals for recent events, or boost the size of certain brain regions that are key for learning and storing memories.

You could use a digital device but studies show us that activities using the tactile senses excite the creative regions of the brain, so a notebook and pen is better.

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.

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As parents gaze at their newborn; talk gently; use soft, higher - pitched voices; and are positive, warm, and encouraging, their brain's gray matter, or cell bodies, actually grow in the emotion and thought regions that support parenting behaviors.

Recent research suggests that the brains of good early readers use all four of the brain regions associated with each of these functions.

When adults communicated face - to - face using infant - directed speech, babies experience enhanced activity in brain regions associated with processing auditory messages.

And then we also were going to do neuroimaging where, in particular, we're using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, which looks at blood flow in the brain and therefore tells us what regions of the brain are involved in a task.

The researchers used functional near - infrared spectroscopy, a technology that measures oxygenation in regions of the brain using light, to assess the babies» brain activity.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Key brain regions have been identified by imaging studies, as have key neurochemical pathways bringing about the possibility of using drugs to block the nocebo effect.

However, when using the Internet, brain regions that deal with complex reasoning and decision - making also lit up.

It won't be the last, as scientists use the approach to understand human brain development and test whether the tiny entities might one day serve as cortical repair kits, replacing regions of the brain that have been injured or failed to develop normally.

Brain scans of musicians as they improvised in a musical dialogue with another player showed that the improvisers used regions involved in syntax during production of language.

In animal models, the researchers found that using microRNA to disrupt cells in the brain's prefrontal cortex — a region associated with complex planning and decision - making — affected learning and memory later in life.

Activity in the PFC region of the mens» brains was measured throughout the test using a unique neuroimaging technique called functional near infrared spectroscopy or fNIRS.

Focusing on the neural pathway from the brain's prefrontal cortex to the amygdala, they combined optogenetics — a technique that uses light to control the activity of neurons in living tissue — with behavioral testing, a methodology that allows researchers to study functional connections between different regions of the brain.

«Without using markers for different brain regions, the claim that he has achieved a 3D model of the brain is entirely unjustified.»

Researchers used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), an enhancement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to evaluate and compare the structural and functional properties of the main connections between different brain regions.

Using a computer model based on direct brain recordings from epilepsy patients, they are the first to show the existence of a network of neural regions that can push or pull on the synchronization of the regions directly involved in a seizure.

Using clever statistical tests called mediation analyses to look at these interactions, the researchers found that aerobically fitter older men can perform better mentally than less fit older men by using the more important brain regions when neUsing clever statistical tests called mediation analyses to look at these interactions, the researchers found that aerobically fitter older men can perform better mentally than less fit older men by using the more important brain regions when neusing the more important brain regions when needed.

Using data gathered from the sessions, Grassi's team discovered increased synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, a region of the brain critical to memory processing and storage.

In the future, studies are aimed at using novel molecular approaches to selectively delete AMPK in specific brain regions associated with nicotine dependence to better understand the functional role of this protein in addiction.

Longo says this is not surprising, since these are the digits with the highest tactile sensitivity, and larger regions of the brain are devoted to their use.

The research team used a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and a state - of - the - art segmentation approach to discover differences in the volumes of subfields of the hippocampus, a seahorse - shaped region in the brain.

The amount of light reflected back from each region is determined by how much blood and oxygen the brain is using in that area.

When the researchers analyzed the brain scans, they found that the memory champs were activating some brain regions that were different from those the control subjects were using.

Currently, fcMRI is not used clinically, and the kinds of MRI and CT scans used to assess stroke damage don't measure how well different brain regions work together.

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.

A study, published today in Science Advances, found that when scientists used noninvasive brain stimulation to disrupt a brain region called the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), people appeared less able to see things from the point of view of their future selves or of another person, and consequently were less likely to share money with others and more inclined to opt for immediate cash instead of waiting for a larger bounty at a later date.

The team's approach relied on methods developed in the past decade or so to study «functional connectivity» in the adult human brain — essentially using fMRI to determine which brain regions have synchronized activity when the subject is not engaged in any particular task.

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.

It turned out that the babbling youngsters were instead using a region of their brain that was previously thought to be involved only in learning songs, not performing them.

Although the technique is not yet refined enough to reveal the smallest projections from neurons, says Smith, it allows researchers to spot interesting regions that they can then cut out and examine more closely using other techniques — which will improve our understanding of the brain.

Through a clinical collaboration between Caltech, Keck Medicine of USC and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, the now 34 - year - old Sorto is the first person in the world to have a neural prosthetic device implanted in a region of the brain where intentions are made, giving him the ability to perform a fluid hand - shaking gesture, drink a beverage, and even play «rock, paper, scissors,» using a robotic arm.

Their research technique of measuring electrical brain activity using an electroencephalogram (EEG) in these brain regions also predicted mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a condition that is likely to develop into Alzheimer's, with 80 per cent accuracy.

Specifically, they have been looking at which brain regions need to be connected to the electrode used for deep brain stimulation.

When the scientists used functional MRI to look at the subjects» brain activity, they found that the treated subjects showed less activity in the insula, a region associated with craving.

The technique is an indirect measure of neural activity in the brain: as a region activates, it consumes oxygen, and neurologists use fMRI to track fresh oxygenated blood surging in to replace the old.

For instance, knowing if there is a simple increase or decrease in connectivity between brain regions compared to healthy individuals, or whether those with autism use entirely different brain regions to implement cognitive flexibility will enable researchers to better design interventions to improve cognitive flexibility skills.

DTI is one imaging technique researchers are using to identify regions in the brain that change when humans learn how to use technology.

In the study, the researchers then used a combination of different techniques to map the connections from the habenula to the frontal area of the brain, and to precisely control the activity of neurons in these regions.