Sentences with phrase «from other brain areas»

The scanner data suggests that the vmPFC integrates information from other brain areas and uses this information to calculate an overall value.

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Or does it pull in contributions from other parts of the cerebral cortex and even from areas that are involved in emotional behavior, like the amygdala, which lies deep in the brain's core?

In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cells.

They help communicate between different neocortical layers and across cortical areas from one side of the brain to the other.

Whereas some of the other types of visual prostheses propose stimulating different areas of the brain from the one Pezaris is targeting, another promising project known as the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is expanding its U.S. clinical trial into Europe.

Seeking additional insight into similar mechanisms at work in other centers of the brain, Donato and his team discovered that the signal to develop one area known to be involved in more abstract functions, including memory and navigation, originated from deep within the brain, in a specific population of neurons that kicks off the maturation of an entire neural network.

Researchers have known for years that TBI has significant effects on the gastrointestinal tract, but until now, scientists have not recognized that brain trauma can make the colon more permeable, potentially allowing allow harmful microbes to migrate from the intestine to other areas of the body, causing infection..

The team's results may begin to answer an outstanding question from the Zika epidemic: Why have Zika - related microcephaly and other brain abnormalities been seen in areas hard - hit by outbreaks in the past few years but not in the decades following the virus's discovery in 1947?

But doing your taxes won't help get an unwanted melody to go away, which might suggest that the brain areas that support musical recall are different from the brain areas that support other kinds of memory.

«Our results, as well as similar results from other labs, point to a need for carefully designed tasks and paradigms that can reveal different functions in key areas of the brain and different vulnerabilities to the aging process,» Reagh added.

Combining data recorded from football players with computer simulations of the brain, a team working with David Camarillo, an assistant professor of bioengineering, found that concussions and other mild traumatic brain injuries seem to arise when an area deep inside the brain shakes more rapidly and intensely than surrounding areas.

The nature of senior moments led scientists to believe they stem from disruptions in the hippocampus — an area that, among other roles, acts as the brain's «save» button, allowing us to retain new information.

The patient's brain signals were decoded by an electrocorticographic (ECoG) implant that can cover a large area of the brain, taking in and translating information from many groups of neurons and providing more stable readings than have been achieved through other methods.

The question comes from the discovery that brain areas thought to be involved in introspection and other aspects of consciousness are fully formed in newborn babies.

By studying other parts of the brain in both humans and monkeys, however, a team from Johns Hopkins University has now concluded that last - minute decision - making is a lot more complicated than previously known, involving complex neural coordination among multiple brain areas.

The changes occurred primarily in areas of the brain involved in social tasks like reading the desires and intentions of others from their faces and actions.

Using electron microscopy to look at thousands of ultrathin brain slices taken from awake and sleeping mice, they found that after sleep, the size of most synapses — specifically, the surface area where two neurons touch each other — shrank by about 18 percent.

In addition to a number of other studies planned or in process, the team is interested in exploring further how the brain stem is connected functionally to other areas of the brain, «because usually the brain doesn't work from just one area; it's a network of areas that all work together,» Stephenson said.

Because of the work of several other collaborators, Haughey says, his team knew that some sort of inflammation - promoting molecule was released from brain and targeted to the liver after brain injury to send immune system cells to the damaged area, but the identity of this go - between had been elusive for years.

Connections coming from other areas in the brain tend to link to individual digits while connections that originate within the area tend to link to multiple digits,» said Roe.

These neurons can switch between a «sleeping» state and a «waking» state depending on input they receive from neurons and other brain areas.

«We have long wondered how the cerebral cortex can process and integrate separate information lines coming in from different brain structures, or from other areas of the cortex, and how it sorts out what information is relevant at any given moment,» says senior study investigator Bernardo Rudy, MD, PhD.

The thalamus receives signals from various areas of the brain and shoots them off to other regions.

Extracellular aggregates can be removed from the brain and other areas of the body by specialized antibodies that hone in specifically on them and remove them from the tissue.

«The most likely reason that people do not follow their instincts stems from their self - image — governed by the narrative self housed in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), among other brain areas,» emails Kyra Bobinet, M.D., a neuroscience designer and CEO of engagedIN, a neuroscience firm that specializes in behavior change.

In a new study, Christian Benedict, together with Samantha Brooks, Helgi Schiöth and Elna - Marie Larsson from Uppsala University and researchers from other European universities, have now systematically analyzed the areas of the brain, involved in the feeling hunger and food cravings.

Some theories suggest that fibromyalgia may result from stress - induced changes in the hippocampal area of the brain; others from stress - induced disruptions of the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis (which affects adrenal function and cortisol production); and still others from low levels of the neurotransmitter, dopamine, caused by genetic factors and triggered by exposure to stressors, such as emotional distress, physical trauma, viral infections or inflammatory disorders.

These cases and others — from the commonly known (Alzheimer's disease) to the highly unusual (Ecstatic epilepsy, in which seizures convey a feeling of transcendent joy) to the almost supernatural (the Doppelganger effect, where people see and interact with a duplicate of their own body)-- are linked, Ananthaswamy suggests, by the simple fact that each condition involves disruptions in an area of the brain where the «self» is thought to reside.

At the same time that these nerve impulses are going to the brain to tell you it hurts, there are other nerves in the spinal cord that go to the muscle near the area of pain and cause a reflex movement away from the pain.

The problem, however, is that when little kids under the age of 7 spend so much time doing organized activities, it takes time away from the free play that is so desperately needed for developing other areas of their brain and wellbeing.

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Just to mention some possibilities, it could arise from deficient processing in other brain areas that provide input to the amygdala, abnormal anatomical connectivity to the amygdala and local damage to the amygdala circuitry itself (Blair, 2010; Anderson and Kiehl, 2012).

Despite the assets the area has suffered from brain drain with graduates leaving the midsized town to head to other southern cities that offer more professional opportunity.