Sentences with phrase «frontal lobe brain»

«Association discovered between atrial fibrillation, reduced frontal lobe brain volumes.»

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Some of the specific brain regions that sprang into action when Kurzweil was thinking outside the box: the dorsal anterior cingulate, which lies in the frontal lobes deep inside the brain, just above the band of fibers that connect the two hemispheres; the back part of the parietal lobes; and the right cerebellum, a cauliflower - shaped structure that lies at the base of the brain.

That stems in part from the presence in our brains of a well - developed frontal lobe, an evolutionary advantage we hold over the rest of the animal kingdom.

As we age, that part of our frontal lobe fires less surely, impeded by another part of the brain responsible for what scientists call the «default mode,» which we use to daydream.

It helps signals move faster around the neural network, and in two important areas of the brain, the frontal and temporal lobes, myelin levels increase with age, peaking on average around age 50 and in some people continuing to rise into their 60s.

In fact, in animals, play helps the frontal lobe of the brain mature.

It described the forelock (frontal lobe) of the brain of someone who used to curse the prophet Mohammed (Peace and Blessings be upon him) as being a lying and sinful.

When the brain - activities change in one way, consciousness changes in another; when the currents pour through the occipital lobes, consciousness sees things; when through the lower frontal region, consciousness says things to itself; when they stop, she goes to sleep, etc..

Neither one liked this, but their mother — then an older, second - career education major who knew these things (I have learned, by the way, to emphasize «second - career» over «older»)-- was now in a position to explain to them the dangers of making important decisions without her advice, since their brains still lacked frontal lobes.

Executive skills come from a part of the brain called the frontal lobes, which is up here way behind your eyes and is actually the control switches for the brain in the sense that if we take conscious control of our thinking, our planning, controlling our own impulses, and basically behaving in socially acceptable ways, your frontal lobes are involved in all of those.

Your child's personality is governed by the frontal lobes of the brain.

Commenting at the time on the 2010 Purdue study for Sports Illustrated [20][15], Randall Benson, a neurologist at Wayne State University in Detroit, speculated that the Purdue researchers may have taken what amounted to a «real - time snapshot» of the early stages of the corrosive creep that wears away at the frontal lobe, a part of the brain involved in navigating social situations.

The brain's frontal lobes permit us to reason, problem - solve, and plan ahead.

Primitive reflexes are primarily tested with suspected brain injury or some dementias such as Parkinson's disease for the purpose of assessing frontal lobe functioning.

During the tween years, myelination is particularly occurring in the frontal lobe of the brain, the section of the brain that begins just behind the forehead.

Reduced cortical thickness: Hong and colleagues found reduced cortical (the outermost part of the brain) thickness in internet - addicted teen boys (Hong 2013), and Yuan et al found reduced cortical thickness in the frontal lobe of online gaming addicts (late adolescent males and females) correlated with impairment of a cognitive task (Yuan 2013).

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.

Focus on the Good While high school sweethearts typically meet, fall in love and dissolve before their brains are fully developed — somewhere in their mid - to late 20s — I met Ben just as my brain's frontal lobes were reaching maturity.

When Thompson's team looked at brain scans of 206 healthy people aged 70 to 80, they found that those with at least one copy of the FTO variant had 8 per cent less volume in their frontal lobes and 12 per cent less in the occipital lobes, compared with their counterparts lacking the variant.

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.

As for cortical thinning, Dr. Zhao said that other research provides convincing evidence to support the theory that reduced cortical layer thickness in some brain regions may result in the decreased thickness of the frontal lobe, a large part of the brain that is involved in variety of functions, including emotion.

To amplify slow waves and get them into optimal sync with spindles, researchers plan to apply electrical brain stimulation to the frontal lobe in future experiments.

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.

Their results showed that AF was associated with smaller frontal lobe volumes, even after adjusting for age, gender, vascular risk factors and APOE4 (a gene independently linked to smaller brain volumes).

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.

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.

«Because you've associated things over time, you're going to associate a certain triggering point in the frontal lobe or the basal forebrain and tell certain regions of the brain stem to adopt a state of activity as if it were receiving signals from the body that were consonant with emotion x.

The 2009 book The Playful Brain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functBrain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functbrain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functions.

Essential to the growing brain, play stimulates development of the cerebellum, which coordinates movement, and the frontal lobe, which regulates decision - making and impulse control.

«This turns out to be correlated with core areas of the brain,» particularly «the frontal lobes and the temporal lobes.»

Theta wave activity starts in the back of the brain, in it's fear center — the amygdala — and then interacts with brain's memory center — the hippocampus — before traveling to the frontal lobe where thought processing areas are engaged.

Until the last few decades, the frontal lobes of the brain were shrouded in mystery and erroneously thought of as nonessential for normal function — hence the frequent use of lobotomies in the early 20th century to treat psychiatric disorders.

Presenting at a recent conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Toronto, Canada, the researchers hypothesized that the frontal lobes may be a «mastermind» that directs brain activity and allows us to do two things at Brain Mapping in Toronto, Canada, the researchers hypothesized that the frontal lobes may be a «mastermind» that directs brain activity and allows us to do two things at brain activity and allows us to do two things at once.

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

First, he inflicted injuries in two parts of infant rats» brains: the frontal lobe, which controls motor function and the ability to plan and execute tasks, and the parietal lobe, which influences spatial functions.

The personality of railroad foreman Phineas Gage took a turn for the worse when an accidental explosion shot a tamping iron through the frontal lobe of his brain.

The SLF connects the brain's frontal lobe — responsible for decision - making, emotion and understanding consequences of actions — with the parietal lobe, which processes language and sensory input.

Frontotemporal disorders are the result of damage to neurons in parts of the brain called the frontal and temporal lobes, gradually leading to behavioral symptoms or language and emotional disorders.

The regions that contributed to social functioning in the parietal and temporal lobes were located only in the brain's left hemisphere, while both left and right frontal lobes were involved.

Using MRI technologies, brain scans of subjects with Down syndrome showed some compromise in the tissues of brain's frontal lobe compared to those from the control group.

Broca's area, located in the frontal lobe of brain, plays a key role in expressive speech.

This is caused by the loss of neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.

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.

The so - called telencephalon gives rise to the most sophisticated parts of the brain — including the frontal lobes and other so - called association areas that do the heavy lifting when it comes to problem solving, social interactions, and memory.

The brain maps further revealed ASD individuals had both excessive slow and fast waves in the frontal lobe.

MRI scans taken of Johnson's brain revealed that he has a large brain lesion in his frontal lobes, an area of the brain important for impulse control and emotion.

The scans revealed that men with ASD had differences in brain connections in the frontal lobe, a part of the brain that is crucial to developing language and social interaction skills.

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 animals lack a layer of neurons considered essential to information processing, and many parts of their brains — especially the frontal lobe, the site of higher cognition in people — looked underdeveloped.