Sentences with phrase «certain areas in the brain»

«You slam your door on your finger, and certain areas in the brain light up,» says Robert Bonakdar, MD, director of pain management at the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in San Diego.

It has been amply demonstrated that when you eat sugars, when you eat chocolate, or when you eat anything sweet, certain areas in your brain are activated.

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Intentional daydreaming is linked to a thicker cortex (a good thing) in certain key areas of the brain, new research finds.

We can't see it, obviously, but doctors identify it when they spot an excess of gray matter in a certain area of the brain.

Glutamate is the No. 1 excitatory transmitter in the brain,» Melillo said, adding that it can excite certain areas of the brain more than others, causing an imbalance.

Certain areas such as a baby's brain, stomach, and mouth can be correctly developed to take on each specific role they uphold in the body because of the advances breastfeeding provides.

The brains of the super-agers showed less cortical thinning, or neuron loss in certain areas, said lead researcher Emily Rogalski, research associate professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

«As certain areas of the brain become more variable, it seems to compensate in some ways for the other parts of the brain that are decreasing,» said Aaron Heller, an assistant professor in the Psychology Department and senior author of the paper.

Previous studies have mainly focused on the role of certain brain areas in isolation.

The area of brain damage detected is linked to difficulties in certain cognitive skills, decision - making, and the ability to regulate emotions.

However, we use optogenetics to systematically stimulate certain unaffected areas of the brain so that they sprout connections into the damaged hemisphere in order to assume its functions.»

A recent study showed that certain brain areas expand in people who have greater numbers of friends on Facebook.

The presence of 6 - MAM also results in a sharp increase in the signalling molecule, dopamine, in certain areas of the brain.

These variations in abilities and talents presumably arise from differences among our brains, and many studies have linked certain very specific tasks with cerebral activity in localized areas.

Previous studies have shown that people diagnosed with emotional instability disorders exhibit a decrease in the volume of certain brain areas.

Like misdirected letters and packages at the post office, the neurons made from bipolar disorder patients also differed in how they were «addressed» during development for delivery to certain areas of the brain.

In addition to changes in consumption, the area of the brain responsible for certain metabolic processes, the hypothalamus, also responded more to food odors, compared to non-food odors, after alcohol infusion vs. salinIn addition to changes in consumption, the area of the brain responsible for certain metabolic processes, the hypothalamus, also responded more to food odors, compared to non-food odors, after alcohol infusion vs. salinin consumption, the area of the brain responsible for certain metabolic processes, the hypothalamus, also responded more to food odors, compared to non-food odors, after alcohol infusion vs. saline.

A functional MRI scan, known as an fMRI, will check for increases in blood flow in certain areas of the brain as I react to or record an experience, initiate an action, or ponder something.

The scientists used imaging techniques to visualize the activity in certain areas of the flies» brains while these were stimulated with different odours, and they were able to localize and identify the receptor for citrus.

Grafman's team found patterns of blood flow in specific areas of the brain suggesting certain ideological proclivities that could be correlated with party affiliation.

In the August issue of Nature Neuroscience, cognitive scientists report that certain lower level brain areas appear to play a role.

They found that in 17 of the 19 participants the fusiform face area, the brain's face - recognition region, was turned on most strongly when they saw somebody of their own color, indicating that it responds to certain kinds of faces with greater acuity.

Previous studies found that people with schizophrenia have fewer synapses in certain brain areas than people without the condition.

The lighting up of certain brain regions leads to increased blood flow to active areas, and this is what you see in an fMRI image.

Several studies show that creative types tend to have low levels of a certain kind of dopamine receptor in the thalamus, a brain area that helps regulate motor function and sensory perception.

After concluding that increased stem cell production in a certain area of the brain had a positive effect on behavioral deficits of Alzheimer's, Prof. Offen has moved to research into the area of the brain that controls memory.

Spence and colleagues use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) technology to determine whether someone is fibbing by tracing blood flow to certain areas of the brain, which indicates changes in neuronal activity at the synapses (gaps between the neurons).

Significant sex differences were also found for rates of scratching and mean gray matter intensity values in certain areas of the brain.

Similarly, Neanderthal variants impacting development of a particular suspect brain area may help to inform cognitive disability seen in certain brain disorders, say the researchers.

Though not identical, itch and pain are closely related; they share the same pathways in certain brain areas.

The researchers believe the TRN fine - tunes the brain's control over local brain regions, enhancing or reducing slow waves in certain regions so those areas can communicate with each other, or inducing some areas to become less alert when the brain is very drowsy.

There appears to be a connection between the OCD symptoms and abnormalities in certain areas of the brain, but that connection is not clear.

There may be a slow - growing tumor in certain areas of the brain that can cause dementia symptoms.

Experts suspect the disorder is caused by abnormalities in certain areas of the brain, the circuits that connect them, and the neurotransmitters (brain chemicals) that transmit messages among brain cells.

In a few select areas of the brain, it can continue throughout adulthood, and is believed to be vitally important for certain forms of learning and memory, and in mood regulatioIn a few select areas of the brain, it can continue throughout adulthood, and is believed to be vitally important for certain forms of learning and memory, and in mood regulatioin mood regulation.

The previous line of thought was that a certain area of the brain was in charge of hand function, but new research shows that other body parts compensating for the missing hand (like a foot, mouth or arm) just as effectively «light up» the erstwhile hand area.

The human brain has developed into something that has a «strong regional bias», in other words, certain areas and sides of the brain control certain commands and body parts.

He also «suggests the division boundaries between certain areas of the brain, particularly those which are concerned with language and thought, are «blurred» in people with psychoses.

One 2015 study reported that brains of super agers are thicker in certain areas than normal brains, and also have fewer tangles (a type of protein associated with Alzheimer's disease), and a large supply of neurons linked to social intelligence.

As the authors expected, a higher waist - to - height ratio was associated with less blood flow in certain areas of the brain involved in attention, memory, reasoning, and judgment.

There's different areas of psychotherapy that deal with these phenomena, and they term them different ways, but they can be called core beliefs, or certain mental schemas, so when our brain experiences very strong emotions, the amygdala wires those emotions down in implicit memories.

The condition itself occurs in a specific area of the brain due to dysfunction of certain neurotransmitters (chemical messengers).

Satiety and physiological hunger was assessed by measuring hormonal markers and perceived appetite sensations combined with psychological reward - driven eating motivation, making use of fMRI to determine brain activation in certain areas associated with food motivation and reward.

However, there are certain areas that have a permeable barrier, such as the periventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, which sits in the 3rd ventricle of the brain.

Actually I just realized I mistated what I read — the study showed somewhat larger brain volume in certain areas including the hippocampus.

If too much caffeine is being chronically absorbed, there is a high likelihood that similar to MSG, it could cause glutamate toxicity and related damage in certain areas of your brain.»

Dementia occurs worldwide in elderly people, particularly Alzheimer's disease that creates an inability to use glucose for energy in certain areas of the brain.

Jon Kabat - Zinn's groundbreaking work with mindfulness training in chronic pain patients in the 1980s led to clinical studies looking at whether activating and reinforcing certain areas of the brain would decrease pain.

It suppresses the immune system, redistributes fat, shrinks certain areas of our brain involved in learning and emotional regulation, causes painful muscle contraction, impairs digestion, and affects our sleep.