Sentences with phrase «deeper brain areas»

Then, Feng recognized a novel opportunity to directly measure whether tDCS generates EFs in deep brain areas among patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, who are often treated by implanting DBS electrodes.

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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?

, I think the milk chocolate and peanut butter candy combo is stored somewhere deep in the «what tastes good» area of my brain.

Another clinical trial, which Kaplitt is not involved in, is testing the effect on depression of a deep brain stimulator implanted into the same brain area.

Memory enhancement and deep - brain stimulation of the entorhinal area.

Deep - brain stimulation involves the surgical placement of electrodes in the brain to deliver stimulation to targeted areas that control movement, similar to the way pacemakers are used to maintain a healthy heart rate.

An area of the mouse hippocampus glows green, indicating that the new method of electrical stimulation excited neural activity in this deep brain structure.

Seeking additional insight into similar mechanisms at work in other centers of the brain, Donato and his team discovered that the signal to develop one area known to be involved in more abstract functions, including memory and navigation, originated from deep within the brain, in a specific population of neurons that kicks off the maturation of an entire neural network.

«If we get better at mapping the brain areas responsible, it will lead to more precision in the use of technologies that may repair these damaged connections, like deep brain stimulation.»

If areas of the brain start to disconnect or become fragmented and balkanized, as occurs in deep sleep or in anesthesia, consciousness fades and might cease altogether.

Opioid receptors have also been found in areas of the brain that regulate voluntary breathing — when you feel the need to take in a deep swallow of air, you do it.

Combining data recorded from football players with computer simulations of the brain, a team working with David Camarillo, an assistant professor of bioengineering, found that concussions and other mild traumatic brain injuries seem to arise when an area deep inside the brain shakes more rapidly and intensely than surrounding areas.

The abnormality thus detected consists in a less deep fold in Broca's area, a region of the brain specialized in language and communication, functions that are impaired in autistic patients.

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.

Known as deep brain stimulation (DBS), the technique gives neurosurgeons the almost magical ability to reach into the brain and turn off troublesome areas at will.

In subsequent examinations, high total gadolinium concentrations were measured in the deep brain (cerebellum) of gadodiamide - treated rats, corresponding to the area of the MRI abnormalities.

Magnetic resonance imaging scans pinpointed the right insular area as the culprit, a region deep inside the brain linked with the part of the nervous system that sets off stress - related responses.

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.

Compared to controls, patients with depression had decreased fractional anisotropy (FA), a measure of the structural integrity of white matter connections, around an area near the deep gray matter of the brain that is strongly associated with the brain's reward circuit.

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.

When brain activity in this area is naturally reduced — for example, when we drop off to sleep or fall into a deep meditative state — our sense of where the body ends is appropriately minimized.

«With this new approach, we can navigate through millions of important brain fibers and tracts to access deep areas of the brain where these benign tumors or hemorrhages are located with minimal injury to normal brain,» said Britz.

All patients underwent deep brain stimulation, which involves implanting electrodes and stimulating areas of the brain that control dysfunctional behaviours.

Poon believes this discovery will spawn a new generation of programmable microimplants — sensors to monitor vital functions deep inside the body; electrostimulators to change neural signals in the brain; and drug delivery systems to apply medicines directly to affected areas.

Tuna, marlin and great white sharks heat up certain areas — swimming muscles, parts of their viscera and the eye and brain — but these regional endotherms can stay at lower depths only for short periods and must rise to warmer waters, unlike the deep - dwelling opah.

These findings open the door for researchers to potentially explore therapies that could target this area of the brain and disrupt its role in addiction, potentially with new drugs or other techniques such as deep brain stimulation or transcranial magnetic stimulation.

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.

nucleus accumbens An area deep within the front part of the brain that is linked to pleasure and motivation.

NYC Neuromodulation 2017 will focus on technologies and mechanism for advanced brain stimulation in areas that include transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), high - definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD - tDCS), electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), deep brain stimulation (DBS), and other emerging areas.

The light can reach deep into a mouse's brain tissue to target specific areas for exact periods of time, with «scalpel - like precision,» Bruchas said.

It was atrophy of a brain area, which is a normal consequence of aging, that was involved in generating deep sleep.

amygdala An area deep within the brain and near the temporal lobe.

Although optogenetics is not yet possible in humans, Dr. Paz believes we may be able to use similar therapies like deep brain stimulation to target a specific area in real time to stop a seizure.

============== So «val» variant of COMT makes a person more prone to the illness because it «forces» the dopamine deeper into the lower areas of the brain?

Whereas Zhang et al. [25] found more activation in almost all brain areas from deep needling and Wu et al. [52] found more activation from superficial needling in the somatosensory area, motor area and language areas (Broca and Wernicke areas), and from deep needling more deactivation in the limbic system.

Crucially, their brains also have basal ganglia similar to ours — this is the area deep in the brain that, along with the cerebral cortex, is responsible for important functions such as the control of movement and «executive functions» such as decision - making, learning and habit formation.

2016 — Anne B. Young receives the sixth Leslie Gehry Brenner Prize for Innovation in Science for her pioneering research on the area deep in the brain called the basal ganglia which controls movement.

Taking 3 to 4g of EFAs (Omega 3, 6, 9) has been clinically proven to treat depression as, like deep breathing, it restores normative function to your brain, particularly in the areas where irrational thoughts / feelings can overwhelm you.

The study also showed that the people sleeping in the hammock bed entered restorative deep sleep phase sooner, thus indicating that the swimming sensation may have an impact on the areas of the brain that are involved in deep sleep stages.

As we perfect our skill through physical drill, whether it be piano scales or ballet barre exercises or DeNealian drill sheets or karate katas, the information is moved into deeper areas of the brain that bypass conscious thought.

Research suggests spiritual experiences originate deep within primitive areas of the human brain — areas shared by other animals with brain structures like our own.

The same can not be said for another type of brain tumor called a glioma, which develops in a deeper and sometimes surgically inaccessible area of a cat's brain.

Areas deep in the brain, especially the amygdala and insula, appear to exhibit abnormal function reflected in overall decreases in resting state connectivity and smaller overall size.