Sentences with phrase «changed brain activity patterns»

In female mice, pregnancy also changed brain activity patterns.

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For example, the intensities and patterns of the brain waves in different areas of the cortex change according to the kind of mental activity that is going on.

When a small subset dies, the pattern of activity that the olfactory processing regions in the brain receives for a specific smell doesn't change very much.

A relatively new area is to look at the developing nervous system by scanning infants, children, and adults at rest, to chart changes in activity patterns as the brain matures.

Yet the stimulus is perfectly stable, and it is instead the pattern of brain activity that is changing during viewing and producing the perceptual alterations or the illusion of an unstable object.

Meaningful progress in cognitive neuroscience depends on mapping patterns of brain activity, which are constantly and rapidly changing with every experience we have.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that even a brief episode of immune system activation within days of birth can cause persistent changes in sleep patterns concurrent with increases in epilepsy - like brain activity — a combination of symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns in human and animal brains in the resting state in order to figure out how different parts of the brain are connected and to identify the changes that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases.

The results in his thesis show that improved motor timing of both female elite level soccer players and experienced male golfers leads to improved outcome accuracy, with associated changes in motor performance, as well as in the brain's activity patterns related to these performances.

The study participants had to give a similar speech at the end of the treatment period, so researchers could assess whether their patterns of brain activity had changed.

We will examine whether and how these changes activate self - sustaining patterns of brain activity that represent internal state and heighten sensitivity to taste and smell and trigger food seeking.

In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, he discovered abnormal patterns of brain activity that change the ability to learn and create memories.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that even a brief episode of immune system activation within days of birth can cause persistent changes in sleep patterns concurrent with increases in epilepsy - like brain activity — a combination of symptoms...

Using a technology called functional Near - InfraRed Spectroscopy (fNIRS), which uses infrared light to track changes in blood oxygen in different parts of the brain to provide a measure of what brain regions are becoming more activated (consuming more oxygen) during certain tasks, the investigation will compare the brain patterns of children with ASD and typical children who have similar imitation scores and eyetracking patterns, to determine whether children with ASD process the same imitation tasks differently from typically developing children, at the level of their brain activity.

The brain is rewarded for changing its own activity to more appropriate patterns.

Talking to a therapist actually changes brain patterns and activity.