FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Both an internal «clock» and an internal «hourglass» affect how
different parts of your brain respond to sleep deprivation, a new study shows.
The cast includes Whitney Cummings as Julia Brizendine, the narrator and neuropsychiatrist who takes the audience from each different female character and explains what
different parts of the brain respond to and how men respond back.
Not exact matches
Scientists exploit this flow when they use functional magnetic resonance imaging to determine what
parts of the
brain respond to
different stimuli.
For example, macaque monkeys lack a musical culture, but nonetheless have neurons in the auditory
part of their
brains that
respond in a
different way to
different tone intervals.
Recordings from neurons in the amygdala, a
part of the
brain involved in fear learning and implicated in anxiety disorders, showed that individual amygdala neurons
responding to the tone changed their preference («tuning») for tones
of different pitch following fear learning.