Sentences with phrase «complex brain pathways»
Find out at the monthly Brains and Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by Georgia State University, when biologist Mary Kennedy discusses the complex brain pathways that allow us to create memories.
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«This approach, where we use brain imaging to dissect the specific neural pathways of complex syndromes, is very novel and important.
The brain's connections, the synapses, can potentially link each neuron to thousands of others, forming complex electrical pathways that control the body and behaviour.
The anterograde (forward) tracing results of retinal projections in the garden warbler demonstrated virtually identical connections between the eye and the brain as known from other lateral - eyed bird species [e.g. 15]--[18]: fibers either projected onto the contralateral optic tectum (part of the tectofugal system), to the nucleus of the basal optic root (part of the accessory pathway)(data not shown) or curved into the thalamus innervating the dorsal geniculate complex (Gld, for details, see Fig. 1C, 2A, D).
Poetry has also been shown to be beneficial for stimulating neuronal pathways as complex poetry can influence networks in the brain regions that affect emotion and memory.
«Stressors induce complex activation of brain pathways accompanied by the release of various neurotransmitters and neuromodulators.
It is a drastic oversimplification that doesn't account for the complex metabolic pathways that different foods go through, or the effects that foods have on our brain and hormones.
These nerves help us to «feel» our inner world (together they are referred to as the Enteric Nervous System or «ENS») and through a series of complex neural pathways relay the information they receive back up to the brain (the Central Nervous System or «CNS»).
In a stressful situation that involves a perceived threat, the amygdala causes a surge of cortisol, a stress hormone, and shuts down the neural pathway to the pre-frontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking and complex decision making.