Sentences with phrase «different brain networks»

Brain breaks, by switching activity to different brain networks, allow the resting pathways to restore their calm focus and foster optimal mood, attention, and memory.

That may sound like a case of lust rather than love, but lust and love involve very different brain networks.

Each form of Alzheimer's disease should perturb different brain networks and so influence the concentration of different proteins that can be measured in the blood.

Reviewing neuroscience literature from more than 200 journals, the authors give an account of how the flow of thoughts is grounded in the interaction between different brain networks — a framework that promises to guide future research in neuroscience.

If this treatment becomes a standard practice, he says, it will reveal a lot about how different brain networks become reactivated after severe head trauma.

The imaging can help us distinguish between the different brain networks that contribute to distinct sub-symptoms.

According to recent literature, older people employ a different brain network than younger people when performing this task, especially when squeezing with their less - dominant hand, which loses strength faster than the other.

Not exact matches

We have shown in our lab that different [brain] networks are engaged when we focus compared to when we ignore the same thing.»

MRIs of the brain show that social thinking and analytical thinking involve entirely different neural networks and that they operate something like a seesaw.

He spells out the neuroscientific view of our brains as a dynamic network of 100 billion neurons capable of 100 trillion different connections — a number larger than that of the elementary particles in the universe.

Neural networks simulate brain activity by trying to make connections between different data points and using those connections to create original «ideas» (but think of those ideas as crowd - sourced from a bunch of external sources).

Like the router in a computer network, the brain's version can be reconfigured to send signals to different locations.

In their research with rhesus macaques, it was found that the three brain areas AIP, F5 and M1 that are responsible for planning and executing hand movements, perform different tasks within their neural network.

However, all the lesions were part of the same functional network, located on different parts of a single circuit that normally allows neurons throughout the brain to cooperate with each other on specific cognitive tasks.

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.

«New analysis of brain network activity offers unique insight into epileptic seizures: Researchers are exploring «evolving epileptic brain networks» to gain a better understanding of brain activity in epilepsy patients and the roles played by different regions of the brain.»

«For each network, we assess various aspects of the importance of individual brain regions with different centrality indices that were developed earlier for the social sciences.

«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.

«In our studies, we are showing that the extracellular matrix network is an important part of distinguishing different brain regions and that, subsequently, physiological and pathophysiological processes in these brain regions are unique.

«And then we can finally say something fundamental,» he predicts, «about what's different about the brain's functional network in schizophrenia and other conditions.»

Neurons are thus organized on many different scales, from small microcircuits and assemblies all the way to regional brain networks.

The researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan 21 of the participants» brains while they viewed pairs of short film clips showing classmates of varying status within this social network, telling them all they needed to do was indicate whether the clips in each pair were the same or different, and that this task was unrelated to the first part of the experiment.

In keeping with these earlier findings, Parkinson and her colleagues found activity in a widely distributed network of brain regions was sensitive to the social status of the people in the film clips, with individual regions responding to different aspects of it.

The study found that under psilocybin, activity in the more primitive brain network linked to emotional thinking became more pronounced, with several different areas in this network — such as the hippocampus and anterior cingulate cortex — active at the same time.

In comparison, activity in the different areas of a more primitive brain network became more synchronised under the drug, indicating they were working in a more co-ordinated, «louder» fashion.

Neuroimaging studies by Peter Brugger of University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland have shown that the network of brain regions responsible for creating a sense of bodily self is different in people with the condition (Brain, vol 136, p brain regions responsible for creating a sense of bodily self is different in people with the condition (Brain, vol 136, p Brain, vol 136, p 318).

It is possible, even likely, that addiction networks for cocaine and for food operate in different parts of the brain yet use similar mechanisms.

There are new books covering the nature and theory of consciousness; how men think; the different ways in which brain lesions may affect thinking; neural networks; and Zen and neural networks.

Mapping the human brain's network of interconnections, known as the connectome is typically done with help from computational tools because recreating interconnections between different brain regions has been challenging in the lab.

«Although different types of brain stimulation are currently applied in different locations, we found that the targets used to treat the same disease are nodes in the same connected brain network,» says first author Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD, an investigator in the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and in the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at Bbrain stimulation are currently applied in different locations, we found that the targets used to treat the same disease are nodes in the same connected brain network,» says first author Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD, an investigator in the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and in the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at Bbrain network,» says first author Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD, an investigator in the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and in the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at BBrain Stimulation and in the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at BIDMC.

For our brain, animate and inanimate objects belong to different categories and any information about them is stored and processed by different networks.

In an effort to disentangle the roles that different regions of the brain play in complex problem solving, researchers have traced the networks of neurons activated in chess players» brains as they contemplate their next move.

Listening to music activates large networks in the brain, but different kinds of music are processed differently.

«We wanted to test the hypothesis that these various stimulation sites are actually different spots within the same brain network,» explains Fox.

«By mapping the network of activity in the brain and how it changes over time,» Bassett said, «we aim to quantify the reconfiguration of this network that leads to different stages of a seizure.»

In the researchers» petri dishes, different cell types develop, connect into a network, exchange signals and produce metabolic products typical of the active brain.

«The different topological embedding of these regions into the brain network could make it easier for smarter persons to differentiate between important and irrelevant information — which would be advantageous for many cognitive challenges,» proposes Ulrike Basten, the study's principle investigator.

Studies of earworms can help to understand how brain networks, which are involved in perception, emotions, memory and spontaneous thoughts, behave in different people, the authors said.

Mice that are more vulnerable to developing depression - like symptoms show different networks of electrical brain activity than more resilient mice.

The functional connections of the brain network were examined by measuring the correlations between the spontaneous brain signals of the different regions of the brain during rest (Aertsen et al., 1989; Biswal et al., 1995; Salvador et al., 2005; Achard et al., 2006).

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.

«These initial results should be treated as a resource not only for decoding how this network guides the vast array of very distinct brain functions, but also how dysfunctions in different parts of this network can lead to different neurological conditions,» said Dr. Callaway.

By inserting these proteins into the living brain, we can study and perturb different elements of neural circuits, giving us a picture of how individual components function within the complex network.

«One of the overriding problems in disorders like autism, we think, is that it's a problem of communication between different areas of the brain and neurons communicating with each other in networks,» said Morrow, who is affiliated with the Brown Institute for Brain Scibrain and neurons communicating with each other in networks,» said Morrow, who is affiliated with the Brown Institute for Brain SciBrain Science.

A key step in disentangling this vast network is to find ways to access each of the thousands of different kinds of cells in the brain.

Dr. Ruta, Rockefeller University, shows in her latest paper featured in Cell that the mushroom body, a pair of structures in insect brains, acts as a «switchboard» to relay sensory information to different neuronal networks based on the fruit fly's previous experience and context.