Sentences with phrase «cingulate cortex»

The results of the investigation showed that people who had reported more experiences of social support over the preceding 9 days had lower dorsal anterior cingulate cortex activity in response to the virtual social exclusion task and also exhibited lower cortisol responses to the TSST, suggesting lower levels of experienced stress.

Changes in the Brain's Intrinsic Organization in the Resting State with Real - Time fMRI Neurofeedback Training of Posterior Cingulate Cortex Activity

Resting - state functional connectivity of subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in depressed adolescents

Initiation of joint attention is associated with morphometric variation in the anterior cingulate cortex of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

From those images, researchers found that the middle cingulate cortex became more active when it was the subject's turn.

Rostral anterior cingulate cortex activity mediates the relationship between the depressive symptoms and the medial prefrontal cortex activity.

Humans have the biggest population of spindle neurons located in the frontoinsular and anterior cingulate cortex areas — the same regions that may be disrupted in autism spectrum disorder.

Another recent study suggests that the amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex become activated when one's personal space is invaded.

That realization led the scientists to investigate how the middle cingulate cortex response differs in individuals at different developmental levels.

In an investigation of predictors of treatment response in depression, Dr. Pizzagalli's laboratory was the first to show that pretreatment resting EEG activity in the rostral anterior cingulate cortex predicted therapeutic improvement 4 - 6 months later in depressed individuals.

Activation of the anterior cingulate cortex correlated with cortical thickness.

Autopsy data also indicate that the frontoinsular and the anterior cingulate cortex structures are abnormal in autism disorder.

The network involves areas of the hippocampus, associated with memory and emotion, and the anterior cingulate cortex which is related to states of arousal.

Activity levels in the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex depended on how well subjects performed in recent trials.

Like the control adults, the control children had a high response in the middle cingulate cortex when viewing their own pictures.

Techniques that directly activate the posterior cingulate cortex like brain stimulation or game play that promotes distraction, particularly within situations that don't allow a routine to form, can lead to more creativity.

Anterior - posterior gradient differences in lobar and cingulate cortex cerebral blood flow in late - life depression.

In a study by Rudie and colleagues, the authors report that structural connectivity (measured by FA) between the medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex did not show significant differences between ASD and TD children (Rudie et al., 2012).

Lower posterior cingulate cortex glutathione levels in obsessive - compulsive disorder.

Insula - dorsal anterior cingulate cortex coupling is associated with enhanced brain reactivity to smoking cues.

Among the default mode areas, the precuneus and posterior cingulate cortex show the greatest consistency across subjects.

Rostral anterior cingulate cortex morphology predicts treatment response to internet - based...

People who regularly meditate tend to have more activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the angular cingulate cortex.

Self responses along cingulate cortex reveal quantitative neural phenotype for high - functioning autism

Anterior cingulate cortex responds differentially to expectancy violation and social rejection

Neural networks including the prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices develop under influence of genetic and environmental factors and play an important role in emotional reactivity but also in emotion regulation, attention, and cognitive control [11, 12].

Functional connectivity of the anterior cingulate cortex within the human frontal lobe: A brain - mapping meta - analysis

They are also using fMRI and MRS to examine functional and neurochemical abnormalities in the rostral anterior cingulate cortex in patients with severe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

Neuroimaging studies have also demonstrated that suppression is associated with higher activation in the amygdale and insula [31], [32], and in regions implicated in cognitive control, namely prefrontal and anterior cingulated cortices [33], [34].

Inititation of joint attention is associated with morphometric variation in the anterior cingulate cortex of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

It was also revealed that brain activity increased in the orbito - frontal cortex, anterior insula and anterior cingulate cortex areas, which all play a part in how the brain shapes a pain experience from nerve signals coming from the body.

«The middle cingulate cortex was active when they imagined themselves dancing — in other words, when they needed to recognize themselves in the action.»

That is, these mind - altering drugs decreased hemodynamic activity, including blood flow, in selected regions, such as the thalamus, the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), the ACC and the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC).

Z - scores will be extracted from regions of interest of pain processing nodes defined from meta - analysis, 7 emotion regulatory, default mode and salience network including anterior cingulate cortex, anterior insula, amygdala, brain stem and thalamus for both task - related and resting functional maps.

The results showed a significant difference between the brains of heavy multitaskers and others: those addicted to using multiple devices simultaneously has lower gray matter density in a brain area called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), which is linked to emotional control and plays a role in decision - making, empathy and how we respond to rewards.

If multitasking does indeed damage the anterior cingulate cortex (a key brain region for EQ) as current research suggests, doing so will lower your EQ while it alienates your coworkers.

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.

But on the other hand, scientists have discovered that when people believe in a God that is primarily loving, they have all sorts of great effects on their blood pressure, heart rates, they get less activity in their amygdala, and more in their anterior cingulate cortex.

Some of the regions that process emotion are already present in infants» brains at birth — the amygdala, hypothalamus, insula, cingulate cortex, and orbitofrontal cortex.

This included areas previously identified as showing growth in new mothers, including the striatum (involved in reward processing, hypothalamus (hormonal control), amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex (emotional processing), and the lateral pre-frontal cortex (memory and decision making).

The new study shows that postpartum depression is accompanied by strongly elevated monoamine oxidase A in the brain, particularly in the prefrontal cortex and in the anterior cingulate cortex.

Neuroscientists have also looked at how political ideologies are represented in the brain; preliminary research indicates that an increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex can be correlated with inclinations towards liberalism, while increased gray matter volume in the amygdala (which is part of the limbic system and thus concerned with emotions) appears to be associated with conservative values.

The results suggested that greater leaning towards liberalism was associated with increased gray matter in the anterior cingulated cortex, whereas greater embracing of conservatism corresponded to increased volume of the right amygdale.

One of the studies looked at the amygdale or the anterior cingulated cortex.

Structural MRI revealed disease - related reductions in cortical thickness in the same regions: the inferior frontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and superior frontal gyrus.

While performing a task intended to activate specific regions of the brain, patients had reduced activation, when compared to the control group, in two brain regions critical for inhibitory control: the inferior frontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex.