Sentences with phrase «frontal brain cortex»

Fetal human NSCs, isolated from the frontal brain cortex of a 28 week term fetus, (SCP - 27, P1) were obtained from the National Human Neural Stem Cell Resource (NHNSCR, Orange, CA).

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And studies measuring cerebral blood flow discovered introvert brain activation is greater in the frontal cortex, where things that necessitate focus and attention happen, such as remembering, planning, decision making, and problem solving.

That is why we need all parts of our brain, not only the frontal cortex.

The frontal cortex (what Siegel and Bryson call the «upstairs brain») is responsible for rational self - monitoring and decision - making, and it isn't fully developed until our mid-20s.

Modeling ADHD - type arousal with unilateral frontal cortex damage in rats and beneficial effects of play therapy, Brain and Cognition.

In fact the brain's frontal cortex, responsible for keeping you alert, innovative, and flexible, is the first to falter during extended sleep loss.

The first PET scan of a person with Cotard's revealed that metabolic activity in the frontal and parietal regions of the brain was so low as to resemble that of someone in a vegetative state (Cortex, doi.org/mmt).

Recordings of neural activity in the frontal cortex of the rats showed that, like humans with schizophrenia, these rats also lacked the low frequency burst of brain activity (delta wave) during the timing task.

It turns out that while they were praying, participants had less blood flow to their prefrontal cortex and frontal lobe, the areas of the brain where complex behaviors such as planning and expression of personality take place.

Moreover, researchers found that the aging brain's failure to coordinate deep - sleep brainwaves is most likely due to degradation or atrophy of the medial frontal cortex, a key region of the brain's frontal lobe that generates the deep, restorative slumber that we enjoy in our youth.

Functional brain - imaging experiments done at the end of the past century using positron - emission tomography (PET) found marked activation in the frontal lobe of volunteers who had taken hallucinogens, in particular in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the insula cortex.

The Disney ad stoked big responses in the orbito - frontal cortex and ventral striatum, two areas associated with feelings of reward, the parts of the brain that say, «I like that!»

You're Dead, for example, they found that about 65 per cent of the frontal cortex — the part of the brain involved in attention and perception — was responding in the same way in all the viewers.

When they examined these participants» brain images, one pattern in particular stuck out: People who got earworms more often had a thinner right frontal cortex, which is involved in inhibition, and a thinner temporal cortex, which processes sensory stimuli like sound.

The brain areas that showed greater activation on warmer days were regions typically activated by MS patients during task performance: the frontal, dorsolateral, prefrontal and parietal cortex.

According to a study conducted by researchers from CNRS and Inserm at the Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CNRS / Inserm / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1), amusics exhibit altered processing of musical information in two regions of the brain: the auditory cortex and the frontal cortex, particularly in the right cerebral hemisphere.

The scientists observed that, when hearing and memorizing notes, amusics exhibited altered sound processing in two regions of the brain: the auditory cortex and the frontal cortex, essentially in the right hemisphere.

The women's brains showed greater activity in the frontal cortex — the region that regulates emotions — during the premenstrual part of the cycle, but not other times.

Although brain - imaging studies of human participants watching funny cartoons or listening to jokes reveal the activation of evolutionarily ancient structures such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, more recently evolved, «higher - order» structures are also activated, including distributed regions of the frontal cortex.

Brain imaging measured activity in the primary motor cortex, located in the frontal lobe.

A clinical ultrasound imaging device (General Electric LOGIQe) was used, with the ultrasound probe applied at the scalp overlying the brain's temporal and frontal cortex (visible on the imaging screen).

What's more, brain scans taken during the task revealed that while the non-musicians primarily employed their left frontal cortex, the musicians used the right - hand side too (Brain and Cognition, DOI: 10.1016 / i.bandc.2008.07.brain scans taken during the task revealed that while the non-musicians primarily employed their left frontal cortex, the musicians used the right - hand side too (Brain and Cognition, DOI: 10.1016 / i.bandc.2008.07.Brain and Cognition, DOI: 10.1016 / i.bandc.2008.07.009).

By attaching electrodes to the heads of infants and toddlers and measuring brain activity, Nathan Fox of the University of Maryland has discovered that the brains of timid children are more active on the right side — specifically, in a region called the right frontal cortex.

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging — a technique that monitors brain activity in real time — the Johns Hopkins group found reversing a decision requires ultrafast communication between two specific zones within the prefrontal cortex and another nearby structure called the frontal eye field, an area involved in controlling eye movements and visual awareness.

Normally the brain reacts by sending information from the temporal cortex to the frontal cortex (a center of higher - order thought) and back in a loop.

Those who woke during REM sleep and successfully recalled their dreams were more likely to demonstrate a pattern of EEG oscillations called theta waves in frontal and prefrontal cortex areas — the parts of the brain where our most advanced thinking occurs.

The brain imaging data revealed that two distinct regions in frontal cortex tracked the estimated abilities of oneself and others.

«Though the «blind brain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Cabrain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - CaBrain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada.

In a study reported in the journal Nutritional Neuroscience, the researchers looked for relationships between several omega - 3 fatty acids in the blood, the relative size of structures in the frontal and parietal cortices of the brain, and performance on tests of fluid intelligence in healthy elderly adults.

Losses generated ERPs that originated deep within the medial frontal cortex, a part of the brain located behind the upper forehead.

She and colleagues examined DNA from individual brain cells taken from three donated human brains and tested bulk samples from the hippocampus (an area important for learning and memory) and the frontal cortex (where most thinking and decision making is thought to happen).

Brain imaging performed when the children were between 6 and 10 years old revealed abnormalities in the thickness of the brain cortex of the precuneus and rostral middle frontal reBrain imaging performed when the children were between 6 and 10 years old revealed abnormalities in the thickness of the brain cortex of the precuneus and rostral middle frontal rebrain cortex of the precuneus and rostral middle frontal region.

Although there is a good deal of evidence for some level of dissociation between multiple systems that approximate controlled and automatic processing respectively, with parts of the brain such as areas of frontal cortex (controlled) and limbic regions (automatic) implicated in these processes, it seems highly unlikely that there are dedicated, independent, sub-systems at the neural level that are specific to these modes of processing.

The researchers saw that among the PTSD group, who were all taking the drug paroxetine (sold as Paxil), the patients who showed the most improvement from the SSRI were those who showed the least activation, prior to treatment, of a brain area called the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, also known as the inferior frontal gyrus.

Those whose mothers smoked throughout pregnancy had smaller total brain volumes and reduced amounts of grey and white matter in the superior frontal cortex, an area involved in regulating mood.

Specifically, females without autism have a slightly higher level of RORA in the frontal cortex of the brain than males without autism, while the levels of the protein are comparably lower in the brain of both males and females with autism.

At a press conference there today, researchers reported that there was evidence of moderately advanced CTE in several regions of Duerson's brain, including the frontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus, which play roles in impulse control, mood, memory, and other cognitive functions.

Because the researchers were able to record several regions of the patients» brains, they saw that regions associated with «higher - order» abilities — like the inferior frontal cortex, which is involved with language — had only representations of attended speech.

By scanning his subjects with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Ehrsson found the illusion involves interconnected areas of the brain, including the premotor cortex in the frontal lobe (responsible for sensory guidance of movement) and the intraparietal cortex in the parietal lobe (involved in locating and recognizing body parts).

In addition, the brain showed thickening in a frontal lobe region, the frontopolar cortex, that is known to lower language - based reasoning ability.

In addition, increased brain activity in the frontal and parietal cortices, areas usually associated with memory maintenance, predicted a greater likelihood that the subject would falsely identify items as previously paired even though they were not.

According to researchers at the University of Lisbon and at Vita - Salute in Milan, false statements activate a section of the brain's frontal polar cortex, which is related to problem solving.

Imaging studies have shown differences in the frontal cortex and subcortical structures of the brain in patients with OCD.

The researchers scanned the entire brain and discovered that memories of alcohol consumption — often prompted by external stimuli — caused activation of this protein in specific regions of the frontal cortex, the area of the brain related to memory processing, as well as in the nucleus of the amygdala, which is responsible for emotional memories and involved in the emotional symptoms related to withdrawal.

Menin mediates Tat - induced neuronal apoptosis in brain frontal cortex of SIV - infected macaques and in Tat - treated cells.

Since the TMEM106B genetic variant on brain aging was also apparent in patients with Alzheimer's disease, Rhinn explained that «one interpretation is that TMEM106B is a critical element of a resilience network in the frontal cortex that limits the extent of neuronal loss and gliosis.»

Among females, however, vapors laced with nicotine altered the activity levels of 148 genes in the brain's frontal cortex.

Abeta42 - immunoreactive plaques were detected in frontal cortex in 11 of the 13 control animals, but not in six brain regions examined in each of the four immunized vervets.

We were unable to confirm the anti-inflammatory effects of exercise in the frontal cortex using inflammatory gene expression, as the Grn − / − mice used in this study (∼ 8 months when brains were collected) were not old enough to manifest these changes, which become prominent around 1 year of age (Ahmed et al., 2010; Wils et al., 2012).