Sentences with phrase «how different parts of their brains»

«A really important problem in brain research is understanding how different parts of the brain are functionally connected.

«This research gives us deeper insights into how people make decisions relevant to law, and particularly how different parts of the brain contribute to decisions about crime and punishment.

Dr Marco Catani from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, said: «White matter provides key insights which allow us to paint a precise picture of how different parts of the brain develop during critical periods in childhood.

For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns in human and animal brains in the resting state in order to figure out how different parts of the brain are connected and to identify the changes that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases.

As part of his training he became involved in neuroscience research; in particular he was part of group that was using new imaging techniques to see how different parts of the brain worked together in real time.

The researchers are now working on scaling up the number of electrodes so they can record from multiple neurons at a time, potentially allowing them to determine how different parts of the brain are connected.

FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Both an internal «clock» and an internal «hourglass» affect how different parts of your brain respond to sleep deprivation, a new study shows.

Indeed, not only did cognitive performance improve, they saw a marked boost in how different parts of their brains worked together.

We are also investigating how the different parts of the brain contribute to speech understanding.»

Not exact matches

How comes it that, with different nerve - fibres of touch and sight, we distinguish different space - points, but with one fibre distinguish nothing, although the different fibres are connected in the brain just as much as the parts are in the single fibre?

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Phil Carlsen and Devon Hubbard at neuromarketing company MindSign in San Diego, California, are also using fMRI to see how active different parts of a viewer's brain are during a screening (see diagram).

Rob Barton of Durham University and Chris Venditti of the University of Reading, both in the UK, examined how the relative sizes of different parts of the brain changed as primates evolved.

«Because it was the first time anyone had implanted this part of the human brain, everything about the surgery was different: the location, the positioning and how you manage the hardware.

These two types of waves were generated in different parts of the brain, offering spatial clues about how the brain focuses itself, the researchers also found.

«It's the first time you can see the inhibitors of serotonin reuptake, like antidepressants, working in different parts of the brain, and you can use this information to analyze all sorts of antidepressant drugs, discover new ones, and see how those drugs affect the serotonin system across the brain.»

The testing looks at how well different parts of the brain — the left and right prefrontal cortices — operate together at rest, which helps determine the rate of decline of speech abilities in the patient, she said.

«We used magnetic resonance imaging to compare the health of the brain's white matter and how strongly it connects different parts of the brain,» explains Elizabeth Head, Ph.D., the study's senior author.

The team used this change in the variability of the song to look at how the activity of single cells in different parts of the brain altered their activity depending on the social environment.

(Paradoxically, stimulants can help offset such hyperactivity problems, possibly by leveling out inconsistencies in how fast different parts of patients» brains process information.)

The principles of circuit construction that have emerged from Jessell's studies in the spinal cord are now known to apply throughout the brain, and in particular they have helped to explain, in molecular terms, how different parts of the cerebral cortex acquire their specialised character.

Studying how animals plan over these different timescales has been challenging, in large part because it requires many brain areas operating at once, and neuroscientists have lacked the tools to observe neural activity over broad swaths of the brain.

«These initial results should be treated as a resource not only for decoding how this network guides the vast array of very distinct brain functions, but also how dysfunctions in different parts of this network can lead to different neurological conditions,» said Dr. Callaway.

The principles of circuit construction that have emerged from Jessell's studies in the spinal cord are now known to apply throughout the brain, and in particular they have helped to explain, in molecular terms, how different parts of the cerebral cortex acquire their specialized character.

How the other great apes lost the cells remains unknown, but the researchers theorize genetic disruptions affecting the cells» migration to different parts of the brain, differentiation, or survival could have led to the loss.

We need to understand how billions of neurons in different parts of the brain talk to each other, and how malfunctions in neural connections get expressed as behavioral abnormalities.»

The cast includes Whitney Cummings as Julia Brizendine, the narrator and neuropsychiatrist who takes the audience from each different female character and explains what different parts of the brain respond to and how men respond back.

The study, from a University in Budapest, Hungary, reports that different parts of dogs» brains process and react to a word they know and how it's said, in a fashion similar to our own brains.