Sentences with phrase «controlling brain regions»

He could see that movement - controlling brain regions become active about a quarter of a second before subjects said they'd consciously decided to push the button.

Dopamine, in addition to moderating mood, controls brain regions crucial to movement.

While researchers found that playing strategy games better engaged memory and cognitive control brain regions, making them better suited for improving memory tasks, they hypothesize that action games that stimulate the limbic area and elicit more emotional arousal might be beneficial for other clinical populations like patients with mood disorders.

Research is beginning to show the connection In a 2005 study, researchers at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures activity in different areas of the brain, to see whether subjects could learn to control a brain region involved in pain and whether that could be a tool for altering their pain perception.

Not exact matches

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The brain regions that process reward, motivation, and taste didn't react as strongly, whereas the areas that promote overall self - control had a boost in activity.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure changes in blood flow, she found that as people received more information, their brain activity increased in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region behind the forehead that is responsible for making decisions and controlling emotions.

According to a University of Iowa study on brain activity led by physiological psychologist Debra L. Johnson, introvert brains show more activity in areas dealing with learning and planning, while extrovert brains are more active in regions that control sensory processes, like watching and listening.

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.

If the human stream of occasions of dominating awareness is to be influenced by many regions of the brain at once, and is in turn to exercise control over many such regions, it must be directly in touch (both spatially and temporally) with large portions of the brain.

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To correct a couple of Nii's definitions: cerebellum... Nii defined this as «our heart», the actual definition is «The cerebellum (Latin for little brain) is a region of the brain that plays an important role in motor control.»

Specifically, they had decreased activity in two brain regions that control central processing of emotion and sensation:

More than any other experiences infants have, they trigger the development and strengthening of neural connections in the brain between the regions that control emotion, cognition, language, and memory.

Schore points out that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, a brain region in the right hemisphere, both has the most complex emotion and stress - regulating systems of any part in the brain and is also the center of Bowlby's attachment control system.

A new study suggests that age - associated improvements in the ability to consider the preferences of others are linked with maturation of a brain region involved in self control.

More than any other experiences in infancy, these rudimentary interactions trigger the development and strengthening of connections among the regions of the brain that control emotion, cognition, language, and memory.

«The affected brain regions are important for controlling emotion and aggressive behavior.»

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

One predominant theory proposes that many SIDS victims exhibit abnormalities in regions of the brain that control breathing and arousals during sleep.

The findings support the idea that reduced activation in brain regions responsible for inhibitory control could explain impulsivity traits present in bipolar disorder.

Scientists have gained a better molecular understanding of the region of the brain in individuals with epilepsy which — due to a developmental abnormality, trauma, stroke, or a growing tumor — has stopped responding to control signals, and this results in recurrent seizures.

Even if a scan shows abnormal activity in a brain region associated with impulse control or regulation of emotions, such imaging provides no more than probabilistic information, Hyman said.

You can also track your eye movements to see which objects catch your attention, and why, and rotate a virtual brain to discover which regions control learning and memory.

A brain imaging study shows that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome may have reduced responses, compared with healthy controls, in a region of the brain connected with fatigue.

Focusing on the neural pathway from the brain's prefrontal cortex to the amygdala, they combined optogenetics — a technique that uses light to control the activity of neurons in living tissue — with behavioral testing, a methodology that allows researchers to study functional connections between different regions of the brain.

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

French surgeon Pierre Paul Broca, for example, found that a region on the brain's left side controls speech.

For instance, both MDD and SAD patients, relative to healthy controls, showed cortical thickening in the insular cortex, a brain region vital to perception and self - awareness.

This time around, she and her team wanted much more precise, instantaneous control of the brain region.

Your level of self - control, researchers have found, may have to do with a region of the brain that lets us take the perspective of others — including that of our future self.

Our homeostatic system regulates our need for food and is controlled mainly in the hypothalamus (in the lower region of the brain).

When the researchers analyzed the brain scans, they found that the memory champs were activating some brain regions that were different from those the control subjects were using.

The nerve cells involved in this integration process and control of hormonal signals reside in an area of the insect brain known as the mid-Ventral Ganglion (mVG), which in turn communicates with a region of the central brain that is akin to the mammalian hypothalamus.

However, according to Alexander Soutschek, an economist at the University of Zurich and lead author on the study, previous research on self - control and delayed gratification has focused instead on the prefrontal brain regions involved in impulse control.

Now research in rodents suggests that gut microbes may alter the inventory of microRNAs — molecules that help keep cells in working order by managing protein production — in brain regions involved in controlling anxiety.

The findings revealed that a brain region called the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC) is associated with courage: the participants who were able to control their fear effectively and get closest to the snake showed the highest activity in the sgACC.

His investigations of how monkeys plan their actions led him to study implants that can tap into the motor - control regions of the brains of paralyzed people.

Participants who understood BRONCANTO's rules exhibited very different reactions to sentences containing an error in sentence structure or grammar than did members of the control group: initially, upon hearing a blunder, the electrical impulses to one region of the brain decreased.

Then they would lie in a high - resolution positron emission tomography (PET) scanner for a grueling 90 minutes while the machine took pictures in 2 - millimeter increments of their nucleus accumbens, a region deep in the brain that (among other things) controls reward and motivation.

Most of the bird's vocal learning brain regions are tucked into areas that also control movement.

When Lidstone's team analyzed the patients» brain activity, the PET images showed dopamine flooding the synapses in the crucial motor control region of their brains, just as surely as from a dose of medication.

The researchers hypothesized that a distinct region of the brain might control confidence.

His autopsy suggests one troubling explanation: Charles Whitman had a brain tumor pressing on his amygdala, a region of the brain crucial for emotion and behavioral control.

In the study, the researchers then used a combination of different techniques to map the connections from the habenula to the frontal area of the brain, and to precisely control the activity of neurons in these regions.

Lack of sleep affects appetite, too: A 2012 Swedish brain - scan study identified heightened activity in the right anterior cingulate cortex — a brain region associated with hunger control — in the sleep - deprived.

Previous research has linked social function to the prefrontal region of the brain, but circuits that affect prefrontal control of social behavior were unknown.

Remarkably, mice raised in the germ - free cages displayed fewer motor deficits and reducedaccumulation of misfolded protein aggregates in brain regions involved in controlling movement.

This pattern of reduced serotonergic neurotransmission matters, because some of the alcohol - induced abnormalities were found in brain regions involved in judgment, self - control and emotional regulation.

«When different brain regions assume the highest importance within a functional brain network is the key to improving both prediction and control of epileptic seizures,» Lehnertz said.