Sentences with phrase «connects different brain regions»

Further bolstering this idea, the researchers used an MRI - based method to measure the white matter that connects different brain regions and found that the IFJ is highly connected with both the FFA and PPA.

WHITE MAGIC Targeting parts of the brain's white matter, the tissue that connects different brain regions (shown), may be key to whether stimulating the brain with electricity will work as a treatment for memory problems and other ills.

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So some of them tend to have well - developed connections between different regions of the brain; that's where the white matter — the cables connecting different processors in the brain.

It serves as a neural switchyard with millions of communication cables that operate like telephone trunk lines connecting different regions of the brain.

In an era of increasing excitement about mapping the brain's «connectome,» this finding fits with our growing understanding of complex brain functions as residing not in discrete brain regions, but in densely connected networks of neurons spread throughout different parts of the brain.

«This shows how important it is to implement different brain regions into in vitro models, especially when studying how neurological diseases impact connected regions of the brain.»

«Neuroscience right now needs a meta - approach linking all of this together,» she says, a project to create not only a vast map of the brain but a schematic of pathways and how different regions connect.

White matter consists of large bundles of nerve cells that connect different regions of the brain and enable communication between them.

In addition, brain «connectomics» provides quantitative information about how different brain regions are connected.

When compared to the control group, type 2 patients showed decreased integrity in the white matter of two different areas in the brain — the cingulum bundle, which is a fiber tract that connects regions in the default - mode network, and the uncinate fasciculus, which connects regions important for executive function and memory.

New York, NY (February 1, 2012)-- For decades, researchers have debated whether Alzheimer's disease starts independently in vulnerable brain regions at different times, or if it begins in one region and then spreads to neuroanatomically connected areas.