Sentences with phrase «certain brain regions»

«Social interactions seem to impose important cognitive challenges that must be met by enhanced investment in certain brain regions,» he says.

The condition has been linked to widespread reduction in the brain's tissue volume but it was observed that certain brain regions show a subtle increase in tissue over time.

The study also demonstrates an association between NCAN variations with volumes of certain brain regions in young adults and infants, suggesting that the gene is able to affect brain structure and function.

Researchers find hyperconnectivity between certain brain regions in those compulsively addicted to video games.

In turn these electrical changes caused the brain to develop abnormally, with certain brain regions growing in too small or completely failing to develop.

In the new study, published 9 January in Scientific Reports, developmental neuroscientist Moriah Thomason of Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and colleagues report a difference in how certain brain regions communicate with each other in fetuses that were later born prematurely compared with fetuses that were carried to term.

PET scans have demonstrated that some individuals have twice as many mu opiate receptors in certain brain regions as others.

«Using some drugs such as ecstasy can make certain brain regions overheat and then become damaged,» Dr Li says.

In the field of affective neuroscience, rivalling theories debate whether emotional states can be regarded as an activity of only certain brain regions.

imagine By Jonah Lehrer Inspiration may seem as if it comes out of nowhere, but researchers have found that certain brain regions signal they have arrived at a eureka moment a full eight seconds before that feeling hits.

«We think that playing video games trains certain brain regions like the hippocampus,» says Schenk.

But in the next few decades, scientists and clinicians may develop sophisticated ways of tapping into certain brain regions to ease bad memories that can contribute to problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, he says.

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.

The study shows that in more intelligent persons certain brain regions are clearly more strongly involved in the exchange of information between different sub-networks of the brain in order for important information to be communicated quickly and efficiently.

Pain processing in certain brain regions implements predictive coding principles, offering a novel perspective on the neural basis of pain perception.

Findings from this study are similar to those conducted with younger yoga and meditation practitioners where the volume of certain brain regions implicated in thinking, planning, reasoning, and memory were enhanced following regular practice.

New research from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas investigating brain differences associated with risk - taking teens found that connections between certain brain regions are amplified in teens more prone to risk.

CR can lower the prevalence of age - related loss of function and multiple diseases, including tumors, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, and protects against diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, sarcopenia, and neurodegeneration of certain brain regions in rhesus monkeys (31).

For instance, the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus was found to have a marked effect on GABA levels in certain brain regions and lowered the stress - induced hormone corticosterone, resulting in reduced anxiety - and depression - related behavior.

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.

Together, the two lines of research suggest that an unusually high degree of connectivity in certain brain regions might predispose people to have synesthesia, Fisher wrote in an email to Science.

Reid knew from previous studies that depression reduces the size of certain brain regions, including the hippocampus and gray matter, both generally implicated in emotion.

Musical training at an early age may lead to the increased growth of certain brain regions, according to a new study presented Friday at the 53rd annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Philadelphia.

They found that certain brain regions had more connections between each other and within themselves than did other regions.

In intelligent persons, certain brain regions are more strongly involved in the flow of information between brain regions, while other brain regions are less engaged.

Likewise, certain brain regions of these optogenetically stimulated, post-stroke mice showed increased levels of proteins associated with heightened ability of nerve cells to alter their structural features in response to experience — for example, practice and learning.

Furthermore, Dr. Johnsrude was able to show that activation of certain brain regions, the higher - order speech sensitive cortex, could be viewed as a neural signature of effortful listening.

In recent years, researchers have observed that this variability in the BOLD signal in the function of certain brain regions may be a good thing, linked to younger age and better cognitive performance.

People who have many friends have certain brain regions that are bigger and better connected than those with fewer friends.

The results, published in Scientific Reports, also shows that this NCAN type is associated with volumes of certain brain regions in young adults and infants.

In short, the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus had a marked effect on GABA levels in certain brain regions and lowered the stress - induced hormone corticosterone, resulting in reduced anxiety - and depression - related behavior.

The probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus was found to have a marked effect on GABA levels in certain brain regions and lowered the stress - induced hormone corticosterone, resulting in reduced anxiety - and depression - related behavior.

Another study shows that lactobacillus influenced GABA levels in certain brain regions, leading to lowered stress hormones, anxiety and depression.

Separate research4 also found the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus had a marked effect on GABA (an inhibitory neurotransmitter that is significantly involved in regulating many physiological and psychological processes) levels in certain brain regions and lowered the stress - induced hormone corticosterone, resulting in reduced anxiety - and depression - related behavior.

In short, the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus had a marked effect on GABA [an inhibitory neurotransmitter that is significantly involved in regulating many physiological and psychological processes] levels in certain brain regions and lowered the stress - induced hormone corticosterone, resulting in reduced anxiety - and depression - related behavior.

Prior research has also shown that the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus had a marked effect on GABA (an inhibitory neurotransmitter that is significantly involved in regulating many physiological and psychological processes) levels in certain brain regions and lowered the stress - induced hormone corticosterone, resulting in reduced anxiety - and depression - related behavior.5