Overstreet - Wadiche and UAB colleagues posed a basic question: Since the number of neurons in the dentate
gyrus increases by neurogenesis while the number of neurons in the cortex remains the same, does the brain create additional synapses from the cortical neurons to the new granule cells, or do some cortical neurons transfer their connections from mature granule cells to the new granule cells?
Not exact matches
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Xiaosi Gua and Shihui Hana induced
increased activation in the ACC / paracingulate and the right middle frontal
gyrus by having subjects look at painful images in VR.
In women not taking the pill, the team found an
increase in the volume of grey matter in the right parahippocampal and fusiform
gyri, areas of the brain involved in spatial location and facial recognition (Brain Research, DOI: 10.1016 / j.brainres.2010.06.019).
Now a research team, led by Dr Diego Gomez - Nicola from the Centre for Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton, has detected
increased neurogenesis in the dentate
gyrus that partially counteracts neuronal loss.
Side view of the brain summarizing blood flow results from tens of thousands of study subjects shows
increased blood flow in women compared to men, highlighted in the red colored areas of the brain: the cingulate
gyrus and precuneus.
Increase in donations was linked to bilateral lesions in the dorsomedial parietal cortex, while decrease in donations was observed in the veterans who had suffered damage in posterior parts of the right hemisphere, including superior temporal sulcus and middle temporal
gyrus.
This novel approach — combining information obtained simultaneously from MRI images of the stomach, feelings reported by the subjects, and brain scans — can offer new insights which would otherwise have been unknown, for example that activation in a brain area called the mid-temporal
gyrus seems is in some way influenced by the
increased water load in this experiment.
In the image, yellow shows the
increased RbAp48 in the dentate
gyrus.
They found
increased functional connectivity between striatal subregions and heteromodal association and limbic cortices including insula and superior temporal
gyrus (Di Martino et al., 2011).
The folds in the human brain form sulci (grooves) and
gyri (ridges), adding to its surface area to maximize the number of cells that can pack into our skulls, and
increasing the quantity of information we can process.
Exercise did not
increase progranulin protein levels in frontal cortex (B), thalamus (C), or hippocampus (D), despite producing the expected
increase in the number of doublecortin - positive neurons in the dentate
gyrus (E, ** p < 0.01).
There was no significant
increase in progranulin protein levels in the frontal cortex (Fig. 4B h), thalamus (Fig. 4C i), or hippocampus (Fig. 4D j), despite observing the expected
increase in doublecortin - positive neurons in the dentate
gyrus (Fig. 4E t), indicating
increased neurogenesis as a positive control.
Specifically, FC decreases were identified in regions implicated in episodic memory (EM) processing (posteromedial cortex, ventral medial prefrontal cortex, and angular
gyrus), whereas connectivity
increases were detected in dorsal and anterior medial prefrontal and lateral temporal cortices.
Compared to sham, verum acupuncture
increased the connectivity between the amygdala, the PAG (periaqueductal gray) and the insula, and decreased the connectivity between the amygdala with the middle frontal cortex, the postcentral
gyrus and the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC).
When contrasting sequences with two levels of embedding against one, we observed decreased behavioural performance and
increased BOLD responses in the inferior parietal lobule (IPL) and the middle frontal
gyrus (MFG) of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC).
By independently manipulating the grammaticality and auditory tonal working memory demands of nested atonal musical sequences, we found that grammatical violations of nested musical dependencies led to
increased BOLD responses in the right inferior frontal
gyrus (IFG) and bilateral anterior insular cortices (AIC), whilst
increased auditory working memory demands led to enhanced responses in the bilateral middle frontal
gyri (MFG) and inferior parietal lobules (IPL).
For the main effect of GRAMMATICALITY (UNGRAMMATICAL > GRAMMATICAL), we found a cluster of
increased BOLD response with maxima in the right inferior frontal
gyrus (IFG; pars opercularis, triangularis, and orbitalis), right middle frontal
gyrus (in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex), and right anterior insular cortex (AIC).
Chronic rapamycin treatment tended to
increase dentate
gyrus DCX immunoreactivity in aged animals, but this effect was far from reaching statistical significance.
Specifically, meditation has been shown to
increase brain gray matter volume (which smart phones destroy) in the right angular and posterior parahippocampal
gyri.
Increases occurred in left temporo - parietal cortex and left inferior frontal
gyrus, bringing brain activation in these regions closer to that seen in normal - reading children.
The current analysis also found significantly
increased GMV in the right fusiform
gyrus and the right inferior parietal lobule.