Sentences with phrase «frontal lobe also»

A semifunctional frontal lobe also means that toddlers have practically no sense of time and patience and therefore «experience wanting as needing,» Lieberman says — i.e., when they want a chicken nugget, they really, really need it NOW!

The frontal lobes also have a role in regulating behavior and help prevent us from saying or doing things that might be viewed as threatening, bizarre or generally inappropriate.

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For example, the frontal lobes, with their ability to empathize and to anticipate consequences of choices in the future, can override whatever selfish or antisocial urges may also be harbored in the brain.

According to a recent Framingham Heart Study, people who experience the heart arrhythmia atrial fibrillation (AF), may also suffer from a smaller brain, specifically reduced frontal lobe volume.

Attention disorders involve a complex interplay of genetic, biochemical, and environmental factors; there is also speculation that frontal lobe activity is reduced in these individuals.

Studies of brain - damaged patients have shown that the same brain area responsible for processing such words — a region in the left frontal lobe known as Broca's area — is also involved in social tasks, such as recognizing emotional expressions.

In particular, obesity has been linked with dysfunction of the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in memory and learning, and of the frontal lobe, the part of the brain involved in decision making, problem solving and emotions, suggesting that it might also affect memory; however, evidence for memory impairment in obesity is currently limited.

With the fMRI, Spence was able to see that she activated extensive regions of her frontal brain lobes and also took significantly longer to respond when agreeing with the cops» account.

The study also found significant differences between DupB - / - and DupB + / - apes in 12 distinct brain regions, with the largest clusters within the frontal lobe.

The amateur climber's brain had also suffered subcortical lesions in the frontal lobes.

When we looked at the brains of Franciscan nuns in prayer, we found increased activity in the frontal lobes (same as Buddhists), but also increased activity in the inferior parietal lobe (the language area).

Basically, the same brain circuits that make for super human intelligence in our frontal lobes (allowing decision making, problem solving, and planning) also produce worry.

«Multitasking hijacks your frontal lobe,» says Chapman, who is also the author of Make Your Brain Smarter.

Earlier research also correlated fitness levels with activation in the brain's frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for executive function.

Sleep deprivation produces a «double hit» to the brain in this regard: there is a sharp reduction in frontal lobe activity leading one to misjudge hunger and eat more junk and also leading to an exaggerated activation of reward centers (mostly the amygdalae) after eating.

Kevin Costner stars as a convict who has a frontal lobe injury that allows the memories of a dead CIA agent to be implanted in his brain in Criminal also starring Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Alice Eve, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds.

In the world of evolutionary biological psychology, it is a well known fact that the frontal lobe of our brain is the newest area of the brain and also the part that is responsible for giving us the ability of complex reason and planning.

Other research has shown that spending holiday time in an «enriched» setting — defined as offering new experiences that are rich in sensory, social, physical, and cognitive interactions — can actually «turn on the genetic expression of key «brain fertilizers» in the frontal lobes, enhancing executive functions such as stress regulation, attention, concentration, good planning and ability to learn, also improving physical and mental health.»

At the same time your dopamine levels are spiking, meth is also reducing blood flow to your frontal lobes, hobbling that section of your brain that helps you make good and responsible decisions.

The frontal lobe is a sensitive part of the brain, and is also responsible for your personality.

Given the importance of the frontal lobe in behavioral regulation [50], we also hypothesized that variations in this brain area (both in regards to lower volume and slower growth) would be related to greater disruptive behavioral problems in children (as measured by the Child Behavior Checklist, CBCL).

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies have also showed greater development of axonal connections in the frontal lobe from the 10 months to 24 months post-conceptual period than at earlier time points [48].