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The researchers also used EEGs to monitor electrical activity in the brain as the 13 people with OCD viewed images linked with their obsessions, such as cleaning toilets.

We will record the electrical activity in the brains as animals perform a visual decision - making task.

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But these are regarded as epiphenomena, as the rattling of the train is to the motion of the train, or else phenomena equated with chemical and electrical activities in the brain.

Testing showed a significant increase in light - induced electrical activity from the eyes to the brain, indicating the rods and cones were operating as they should in the visual cycle.

They in turn transmit messages to the brain as a pattern or code of electrical activity.

George is referring to his role as editor - in - chief of Brain Stimulation, a journal launched three years ago to cover the growing list of technologies that can alter the brain's electrical actiBrain Stimulation, a journal launched three years ago to cover the growing list of technologies that can alter the brain's electrical actibrain's electrical activity.

Scientists in the US are planning to map the brain activity of the dragonfly as it hunts, using a specially built backpack to transmit electrical signals from the insect's active neurons to a computer.

Under this procedure, a patient's brain is cooled to as low as 50 degrees Fahrenheit, which causes electrical activity in neurons to stop — suggesting that long - term memories are stored statically.

«We found more changes in brain electrical activity in male subjects, than in females, which was a surprise, as we expected it would be the other way around.

In an electroencephalogram (EEG)-- a recording of the brain's electrical activity — the synchronous rhythm of the nerve cells manifests as a periodic pattern.

Intracortical BCIs such as BrainGate use a tiny array of implanted electrodes to pick up the electrical activity of neurons in the motor cortex of the brain.

«Our goal in the project was to close the gap in knowledge that exists on role of serotonin in the brain cortex, particularly as it concerns brain circuitry, its electrical activity and function,» said Roberto Fernández Galán, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Scientists recorded electrical activity in the brains of rat pups as their mamas nursed, licked and cared for their offspring.

This may help us to understand how processes such as learning and memory formation, which require long - term changes in the brain, arise from the short bursts of electrical activity through which neurons signal to each other,» Greenberg said.

The device is thought to modulate electrical activity in the circuitry of the dysfunctional brain, explains Oxford University neurosurgeon Tipu Aziz, who is exploring DBS as a treatment for cluster headaches.

Such studies could guide still - experimental therapies such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, which aims to suppress or boost brain activity in targeted areas through electrical currents.

Just as computers use programming languages such as Java, the brain seems to have its own operating languages — a bewildering set of codes hidden in the rates and timing with which neurons fire as well as the rhythmic electrical activities that oscillate through brain circuits.

fMRI works by tracking blood flow in the brain, which can be used as a real - time proxy for electrical activity when neurons fire.

To compare hearing ability in former musicians to people who never played an instrument, researchers measured the electrical brain activity produced by a type of auditory processing called «neural timing,» which enables people to respond to split - second changes in sound such as the transition from a consonant to a vowel.

In a normal brain, the neurons of the central thalamus crackle with electrical activity when we struggle to pay attention to the world around us, and they accelerate their action as we emerge from sleep.

Monitoring networks of electrical brain activity holds promise for understanding not only depression, but other forms of mental illness as well, said Conor Liston, an assistant professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine who was not involved in the study.

They do this by looking at the electrical activity of individual neurons in a live mammal brain to build a bigger picture of its function as a whole organ.

When a patient with epilepsy experiences increased electrical activity in the brain, or seizures, this could be associated with an increase in a range of behaviors, such as hyper - sexuality, hypergraphia (an intense desire to write), hyper - morality and hyper - religiosity, explained Brick Johnstone, professor of health psychology at Missouri University and lead researcher on the study.

The Human Connectome Project, for example, has begun to map the pathways of neurons in the human brain — that is, the bundles of fibers that serve as the roadways along which electrical and chemical activity travels.

Future research will use this imaging technique to study electrical activity in mouse brains as they perform tasks, helping correlate brain activity to behavior.

This graph of electrical activity in the brain is known as an EEG.

Another study found that earthing changed the electrical activity in the brain, as measured by electroencephalograms.

Epilepsy, also known as seizure disorder, is a serious condition in which a person experiences a sudden surge of electrical activity in the brain, affecting how they act or feel.

Children who have experienced neglect in institutional settings exhibit diminished electrical neural activity, decreased brain metabolism, and differences in neural reactions when processing information, such as identifying others» facial expressions.

If the electrical activity stays in one region of the brain, only a portion of the body will be affected, such as focal facial seizures.

The brainstem auditory evoked response test, commonly abbreviated as BAER, reads electrical activity in the ear and brain to measure their response (or lack thereof) to sound stimuli.

According to MedlinePlus, a seizure in humans is defined as «the physical findings or changes in behavior that occur after an episode of abnormal electrical activity in the brain.»

The hearing test known as the brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER) or brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) detects electrical activity in the cochlea and auditory pathways in the brain in much the same way that an antenna detects radio or TV signals or an EKG detects electrical activity of the heart.

For example, in 1977 it was reported that electrical activity in the brains of pointer dogs showed the dogs went through cycles of REM and slow - wave or non-REM sleep just as we do.

It is caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain which causes associated symptoms such as muscle twitching, uncoordination and more.

Non-epileptic seizures are usually focal - motor seizures and are caused by an abundance of electrical activity in the brain due to a brain lesion, such as an abscess or tumor.

The increasing popularity of neurofeedback is based on the growing evidence that a wide variety of psychological disorders can be understood as firing mistakes in the brain's electrical activity.

Specifically, we examined the timing of an intervention (placement into a foster care home), as well as attachment security with the primary caregiver at 42 mo and children's brain electrical activity in relation to teacher - rated social skills at 8 y of age.