Sentences with phrase «different brain areas»

Gatti, C., Cantelmi, M. G., Brunetti, M., Gaiti, A., Calderini, G., and Teolato, S. Effect of chronic treatment with phosphatidyl serine on phospholipase A1 and A2 activities in different brain areas of 4 month and 24 month old rats.

«But from there it engages a large - scale network, and lots of different brain areas become involved.

By performing these actions with people placed inside a brain scanner, she has helped to demonstrate that guiding the gazes of others activates different brain areas than following.

The constant activity of the brain is observed as brainwaves that oscillate at different frequencies in different brain areas which keep a steady «beat».

The different strains infected different brain areas.

He believes the brain uses a kind of voting system: different brain areas weigh up the various attributes of apples, pears and plums, say, and compete with each other to have their preference chosen.

«We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure different brain areas of our research subjects while they watched short segments of the Star Wars, Indiana Jones and James Bond movies,» explains Aalto University Associate Professor Iiro Jääskeläinen.

«They allow us to deactivate different brain areas swiftly and reversibly without affecting circuit connectivity.

A study of 473 adults has found that people who are overweight have less white matter, which connects different brain areas and enables signaling between them.

Previously, researchers had two theories about how neurons in the motor cortex might control movement: One was that these neurons fired in patterns that represent more abstract commands, such as «move your arm to the right,» and then neurons in different brain areas would translate those instructions to guide the muscle contractions that make the arm move; the other was that the motor cortex neurons would actually send directions to the arm muscles, telling them how to contract.

Owen's team plans to address that concern by using the two mental tasks, which reliably activate different brain areas, as a basis of communication, where «yes» is signaled by thinking about playing tennis and «no» by mentally walking through your home.

The present study revealed a consistent subcellular segregation of immunoreactive sites detected by Aβ - specific antibodies and pab27576 within neurons of different brain areas, at pre - and post-plaque stages of the amyloid pathology.

«We took an approach of studying depression in the sense that different brain areas and circuits of the brain might mediate or contribute to very discrete aspects of depression,» said study first - author Daniel Knowland, a UC San Diego graduate student.

He has spent years poring over studies of long - distance connections in the rhesus macaque monkey brain, ultimately creating a map of 383 different brain areas, connected by 6,602 individual links.

Such «form rivalry» occurs in a different brain area from stereopsis, so the two can coexist in harmony.

The connectivity was measured in 15 patients with visual hallucinations, 40 patients without visual hallucinations, and 15 healthy controls by calculating the level of synchronization between activation patterns of different brain areas.

Certain types of memory are encoded in different brain areas, and depending on where Sacktor injects the inhibitor in his animals, he can zap away different categories of memory.

In food - restricted mice, just being shown the visual cue associated with the liquid treat provoked a strong response in sets of neurons in three different brain areas.

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have developed a method to recreate connections between neurons from two different brain areas in a dish.

More recently, brain scans have directly linked these conditions with changes in levels of neurotransmitters — chemicals that convey messages across neurons — or alterations in the number or structure of neurons in different brain areas.

To visualize the double - projecting hippocampal neurons, Cho and Kim used a tracing method in which hippocampal neurons that project to different brain areas were labeled with fluorescence proteins with different colors.

We will record from different brain areas, including the prefrontal cortex, posterior parietal cortex, amygdala and hippocampus, as the animals perform the task.

The rationale behind the Human Connectome Project's focus on these fiber bundles is that the different brain areas are believed to acquire their functional characteristics based on how they are connected to each other.

Early PET studies first reported that older adults activated more and different brain areas than younger adults (e.g., Backman et al., 1997; Grady et al., 1992; see Park & Reuter - Lorenz, 2009, for a review).