Infants of depressed mothers exhibit atypical frontal
electrical brain activity during interactions with mother and with a familiar, non-depressed adult
[jounal] Dawson, G / 1999 / Infants of depressed mothers exhibit atypical front
electrical brain activity during interactions with mother and with a familiar, nondepressed adult / Child Development 70 (5): 1058 ~ 1066
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The electrical brain activity during rapid eye movements in sleep were highly similar to those occurring when people were presented with new images,» said Dr. Nir.
Not exact matches
When researchers looked at their
brain activity during these times, they saw that one hemisphere of the
brain had
electrical patterns resembling nighttime sleep, whereas patterns from the other hemisphere indicated wakefulness.
During REM sleep, the
brain generates high - frequency waves of
electrical activity and the eyes flicker; in humans, REM is closely linked to dreaming.
Sleep was assessed in the children
during one night with in - home electroencephalography (EEG)-- a method used to record
electrical activity in the
brain and makes it possible to identify different sleep stages — whilst parents reported their own insomnia symptoms and their children's sleep problems.
After getting a full night's rest at the lab, which researchers monitored by measuring neural
electrical activity, their
brains were scanned via functional MRI as they waited to be shown, and then viewed 90 images
during a 45 - minute session.
After the associations between smell and place were well established, the researchers could see a pattern of
brain wave
activity (the
electrical signal from a large number of neurons)
during retrieval.
To triangulate the location of the focus, neurosurgeons insert electrodes into the
brain to monitor
electrical activity that occurs
during a seizure.
In addition,
during sleep the
brain - wave patterns of dogs are similar to people's, and they exhibit the same stages of
electrical activity that are observed in humans — all of which is consistent with the idea that dogs are dreaming.
For example, records of
electrical activity in the
brain showed that, on average, they experienced deep, non-rapid eye movement sleep for 30 per cent less time compared with participants who slept
during a new moon.
16 Dreaming is connected to bursts of
electrical activity that blow through the
brain stem every 90 minutes
during REM sleep.
The investigators studied the effects of ∆ 9 - THC on
electrical brain activity in 24 human subjects who participated in a three - day study
during which they received two doses of intravenous ∆ 9 - THC or placebo in a double - blind, randomized, cross-over, and counterbalanced design.
Davidson, R.J. et al. (2000) While a phobic waits: regional
brain electrical and autonomic
activity in social phobics
during anticipation of public speaking.
Briefly, the 128 - channel Geodesic Sensor Nets connected to a DC - coupled amplifier (Net Amp 300,
Electrical Geodesic Inc.) were used to measure
brain activity during 40 min of a passive auditory oddball task in infants at 6 months and 18 months of age.