Sentences with phrase «helps different brain regions»

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By subdividing the brain more strategically, the map can help pinpoint particular sections» functions and help determine how different cortical regions contribute to development, aging and disease.

And customizing the feedback fMRI is generally more difficult than customizing the dose of a drug, because each person might be helped best by targeting a different brain region with a different mental exercise.

In addition to revealing the functions of different areas within the prefrontal cortex, studies have also demonstrated the flexibility of the region, which has helped experts optimize cognitive therapy techniques to enable patients with brain damage to learn new skills and compensate for their impairments.

Even as practice changes the brain's anatomy, it also helps different regions of the brain talk to one another.

Although these tumors originate in different regions of the brain, all of them originate near or can spread to the cerebral cortex, the brain's highly folded outer layer that helps us perceive the world, form conscious thoughts and use language.

Last September the institute released a complete genomic map of the mouse brain — a free, searchable, three - dimensional analysis of 21,000 genes (including 85million images) that will help neuroscientists understand how different regions of the brain operate and interact.

Mapping the human brain's network of interconnections, known as the connectome is typically done with help from computational tools because recreating interconnections between different brain regions has been challenging in the lab.

It binds to the beta - amyloid plaques that characterize Alzheimer's disease, helping to measure the extent to which plaques have formed in different brain regions.