Sentences with phrase «comparing brain activation»

For example, I have been involved in studies comparing brain activation in REM sleep with that in lucid - dreaming states, in which we retain much executive brain function.

Compare the brain activation patterns of good and poor readers and explain how this information might inform reading instruction

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The link between depression and the immune system has been shown using positron emission tomography using a tracer for the translocator protein (TSPO) showing increased immune activation in the brains of patients with major depressive disorder compared with control subjects.

In brain - imaging studies, teen brains show more activation in regions that process rewards, motivations and emotions (the socioaffective circuitry in the subcortical, limbic regions) compared to children and adults.

In addition, compared to mice on a regular diet, brain cells from animals in the olive oil group showed a dramatic increase in nerve cell autophagy activation, which was ultimately responsible for the reduction in levels of amyloid plaques and phosphorylated tau.

And when people respond well to placebos, they show stronger activation in brain circuits that control pain compared with those who are less susceptible to the placebo response.

«In the group that lied there were two times the number of areas throughout the brain that showed activation compared with the group that was telling the truth,» Faro says.

Greg Murray and colleagues compared activation of the brain's reward system in 16 men during a gambling task at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7 p.m..

Obese adolescent girls, Stice found, showed greater activation compared with their lean peers in regions of the brain that encode the sensory experience of eating food — the so - called gustatory cortex and the somatosensory regions, archipelagoes of neurons that reach across different structures in the brain.

This image compares the neural activation patterns between images from the participants» brains when reading «O eleitor foi ao protesto» (observed image) and the computational model's prediction for «The voter went to the protest» (predicted image).

The researchers also compared patterns of gene activation in organoid cells to a database of human brain genetic information.

When the team compared brain slices from the two groups of rats, they discovered that in the intact animals, more CREB molecules carried a phosphate group — a crucial step for their activation.

In the Kessler study, brain activation patterns were compared in 22 individuals with moderate to severe TBI and 20 healthy controls.

The analysis revealed that while performing working memory tasks, the young patients with concussion had initial activation that was greater than normal, known as hyperactivation, compared to young controls in the right precuneus and right inferior parietal gyrus of the brain, whereas the older patients had hypoactivation (less than normal) compared to older controls in the right precuneus and right inferior frontal gyrus.

The fMRI scans revealed significantly higher levels of activation in the amygdala, which controls emotion and motivation, in the brains of the male subjects compared to the females, despite the fact that both males and females expressed similar subjective assessments of their levels of arousal after viewing the images.

From the descriptive view on the data it seems that compared to sham, verum acupuncture tended to be associated with more activation in the basal ganglia, brain stem, cerebellum, and insula and more deactivation was seen in the so - called «default mode network» and limbic brain areas, such as the amygdala and the hippocampus.

The brains of football players, left, showed significantly higher areas of activation when presented a visual task compared to the brains of cross-country runners, right, who are not typically exposed to subconcussive blows to the head.

At the same time, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans of those who drank the corn syrup drink showed increased activation in a region of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, which has been tied to reward and cravings in past research, compared with the men who drank the low - glycemic index drink.

Higher activation of this brain region has been found in obese compared with normal - weight subjects when anticipating food, suggesting that the rewarding quality of food is enhanced in obesity.

Next we compared how the level of plasma glucose influenced the ability of visual food stimuli (high - calorie and low - calorie foods) to affect brain activation and wanting and liking of food (Figure 4).

«We had more activation in areas of the brain I often call the «CEO regions»» — the frontal regions associated with executive function — «in the children who had musical training compared to others,» says Gaab.

Conversely, women showed greater regional brain activation during SE > SS, compared to men.

When we compared the group effects of the secure priming and neutral priming conditions, the contrast (task > baseline) revealed a significant activation in the whole brain analysis.

Compared to interactions with computers, interactions with human counterparts require more emotional involvement, cognitive effort and brain activation.