Sentences with phrase «human cortex shows»

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Recordings of neural activity in the frontal cortex of the rats showed that, like humans with schizophrenia, these rats also lacked the low frequency burst of brain activity (delta wave) during the timing task.

Biologists have taken another whack at the human ego, showing that our brain's cerebral cortex — the seat of higher thought — is eerily similar to a clump of neurons inside the head of the lowly marine ragworm.

They found that highly introspective people — those who were more confident after making their choices — had a larger amount of grey matter in the right anterior prefrontal cortex, an area that shows marked development in humans (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1191883).

Results from humans show several areas of the prefrontal cortex are strongly involved in dominance and hierarchy, says Andreas Meyer - Lindenberg of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany.

«What we show is that the Zika virus infects neuronal cells in dish that are counterparts to those that form the cortex during human brain development.»

By combining SNP - targeting allele - specific silencing and gain - of - function approaches, we showed that a 46 - glutamine expansion in human HTT was sufficient for a dominant - negative effect on spindle orientation and changes in the distribution within the spindle pole and the cell cortex of dynein, p150Glued and NuMA in neural cells.

Nonhuman primates (NHPs)-- like humans, but unlike mice — have a well - developed prefrontal cortex, a brain region responsible for higher mental functions that shows significant defects in many human neurocognitive conditions.