Sentences with phrase «deep in the brain»

Or does it pull in contributions from other parts of the cerebral cortex and even from areas that are involved in emotional behavior, like the amygdala, which lies deep in the brain's core?

Deep in your brain lies a small almond - shaped structure called the Amygdala.

The work, published June 3 in PLoS ONE, suggests self - assessed Internet addiction, primarily through online multiplayer games, rewires structures deep in the brain.

Costa and Jin implanted tiny electrodes in each mouse's brain to record the activity of neurons within the striatum, a structure deep in the brain known to be involved in motor commands.

As another crucial part of the new study on Internet addiction, the research team zeroed in on tissue deep in the brain called white matter, which links together its various regions.

Elizabeth Elliott wondered if Alzheimer's disease might affect how memories are stored deep in the brain.

Last spring Deisseroth's group published an optogenetics study that helped to elucidate the workings of deep - brain stimulation, which uses electrodes implanted deep in the brain to alleviate the abnormal movements of Parkinson's disease.

Innate social behaviors in the mouse brain: Neuroscientists image activity deep in the brain while mice engage in fighting and mating.»

Using «freshman physics,» neuroscientists have deployed electric fields to stimulate neurons buried deep in the brains of mice — a method that could one day lead to noninvasive therapies for people with Parkinson's disease and other brain disorders.

A new, noninvasive method could one day replace treatments for Parkinson's disease and — experimentally — Tourette syndrome that rely on electrodes implanted deep in the brain.

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.

For instance, the globus pallidus — dual almond - shaped structures deep in the brain — puts a brake on muscle contractions to keep movements smooth.

Normally, pain signals begin somewhere in the body and work their way to the thalamus, deep in the brain, and then to the prefrontal cortex, producing conscious perception of pain.

But slower, more goal - directed waves, a mix of alpha and beta waves, are deeper in the brain.

These targets include the limbic system, a group of evolutionarily old structures deep in the brain, «which is where viruses like to reactivate,» Jacobson explains.

However, treating stress - related disorders requires accessing the brain's emotional hub, the amygdala, which is located deep in the brain and difficult to reach with typical neurofeedback methods.

«Thin, flexible polymers record «conversations» deeper in the brain with less injury - risk.»

Sometimes they're so deep in the brain that it would make it surgically difficult to be able to access it.

«Ultrathin endoscope captures neurons firing deep in the brain: New fiber - based endoscope, tested in mice, poised to bring new insights into brain function.»

Instead of the brain moving largely in unison, an area deep in the brain called the corpus callosum - which connects the left and right halves of the brain — shakes more rapidly than the surrounding areas, placing significant strain on those tissues.

Research into the planning region is important because the area is deeper in the brain and may have escaped damage in many paralysis cases, Andersen says.

Amygdalae Sometimes called the body's «emotional thermostat,» these two structures are deep in the brain, one on each side.

Their fierce hunger is driven by a malfunctioning hypothalamus, a region deep in the brain that governs hunger and growth.

These two, almond - shaped clumps of nerve cells deep in the brain are sometimes referred to as the emotional thermostat for their role in the processing of emotions, particularly fear.

Moreover, these neural network models can predict to some extent how a neuron deep in the brain will respond to any image.»

The BROADEN trial, which implanted metal electrodes deep in the brain in a region called area 25, failed early on to show a statistically significant effect on depression and was halted after just 90 participants were treated.

Since there's no clear physical connection between a father and his child — at least not like the one seen with mom and baby — researchers are starting to look deep in the brain for better clues to understand the power of this relationship.

Like morphine and other narcotics, a painkiller called fentanyl disrupts nerve cells deep in the brain that register pain as well as other cells that govern breathing rhythm.

Boyden said there is considerable interest in brain regions that are important for learning or addiction — learning gone wrong — with particular attention to small groups of neurons deep in the brain that manufacture dopamine, a chemical transmitter involved in regulating communication between neurons.

Sure enough, the two dyes oozed along different sets of neurons and met in the thalamus, a relay station for visual information deep in the brain.

With their grid - cell work, the Mosers have been the first to crack one such code deep in the brain; now the challenge for the field is to find all the rest.

«To make electroceuticals practical, devices must be miniaturized, and ways must be found to power them wirelessly, deep in the brain, many centimeters from the surface,» said Newsome, the Harman Family Provostial Professor and professor of neurobiology at Stanford.

They shot to fame in 2005 with their discovery of grid cells deep in the brains of rats.

By selecting for traits that helped animals avoid them, snakes ultimately endowed us with forward - facing eyes, for example, and enlarged visual centers deep in our brains that are specialized for picking out specific features in the world around us, such as the general shape of a snake's body camouflaged among leaves.

Their dense packing, small size and location deep in the brain make them difficult to reach with traditional experimental techniques.

Electrodes implanted deep in the brains of epileptic patients have detected single neurons dedicated to the recognition of a particular person in different situations and guises.

They next listed the stimulation sites, either deep in the brain or on the surface of the brain, thought to be effective for the treatment of each of the 14 diseases.

However, getting this same benefit with noninvasive stimulation is difficult, as you can't directly stimulate the same site deep in the brain from outside the head,» explains Fox, an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

He suspected that DMT might be produced in the pineal gland, a minute organ nestled deep in the brain.

Natural neural stem cells — cells that can develop into other brain tissues — are found deep in the brain, in the subventricular zone and hippocampus.

And ultimately, he wants to install these light - sensitive receptors on neurons deep in the brain as well.

«We were stunned that, deep in the brain's visual system, the neurons are actually doing simple linear algebra.

By recording neuronal activity in the input and output layers of the olfactory bulb, as well as feedback from olfactory cortical areas and neuromodulatory signals, Albeanu and his team aim to understand computations the bulb performs and how this information is decoded deeper in the brain.

The pineal gland is located deep in the brain and makes the sleep regulating hormone melatonin.

Deep in the brains of the million Americans with Parkinson's disease, changes to their brain cells put them at high risk of dangerous falls — a problem that resists even the most modern treatments.

Additionally, light can be delivered to structures deep in the brain with optical fibers or micro-LEDs.

In contrast, the Drosophila sex pheromone cVA is detected by both sexes and elicits dimorphic behavior by routing the signal via different third order neuronal circuits deep in the brains of males and females [19].

He can coax the new neurons into the precise kind of neuron most vulnerable in HD, which are normally hidden deep in the brain.

While many contend that the earliest cognitive deficits are caused by damage to the striatum — a structure deep in the brain known to be severely affected in HD — recent evidence suggests that this claim may paint an incomplete picture of the widespread changes occurring in the brains of HD patients during the very early stages of the disease.

One batch mimicked a region deep in the brain, and another mimicked the cortex, the crevassed outer layer where thinking occurs.