Sentences with phrase «identify brain regions»

By analyzing multiple patients with damage to a particular voxel or cluster of voxels and comparing their cognitive abilities with those of patients in whom the same structures were intact, the researchers were able to identify brain regions essential to specific cognitive functions, and those structures that contribute significantly to intelligence.

In a previous study, we used kakusei as a neural activation marker to identify the brain regions in the European honeybee that are active during foraging behavior [13], [14].

«Then we want to identify brain regions that become active with each such process.»

To identify the brain regions involved in canceling a decision, the new study recruited 21 subjects for a modified «stop signal task,» a commonly used neuroscientific behavioral test that involves canceling a planned movement.

The researchers presented the overlapping streams at two different rhythms — two images per second and 1.5 images per second — allowing them to identify brain regions responding to those stimuli.

In order to identify the brain region responsible for spatial memory, the researchers had a special trick.

The team, led by CSHL Associate Professor Adam Kepecs, has identified a brain region in rats whose function is required for the animals to express confidence in their decisions.

Researchers recently identified the brain regions that become active when we see extraordinary postures, offering insight into how skilled athletes and performers confound us.

The study is «very elegant,» and an important step toward identifying the brain regions that produce hallucinations — and keep them in check, says Georg Northoff, a neuroscientist at the University of Ottawa who was not involved with the work.

Researchers have identified a brain region that may be responsible for the urge to grab a midnight snack.

Already in 2015, the same research group published a meta - study in the journal Intelligence, in which they identified brain regions — among them the prefrontal cortex — activation changes of which are reliably associated with individual differences in intelligence.

We identified brain regions where individuals with ASD showed significantly less social minus belief brain activity compared with typically developing participants.

Not exact matches

A few years ago, Ragini Verma, an associate professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and her colleagues identified differences in brain maps, or how regions connect.

Key brain regions have been identified by imaging studies, as have key neurochemical pathways bringing about the possibility of using drugs to block the nocebo effect.

In a new study published in Cell Reports, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes identified different types of neurons in a brain region called the reticular thalamus.

In mice exposed repeatedly to cocaine, UMSOM researchers identified an increase in a molecule that plays a role in mitochondria division (or fission) in a reward region of the brain.

To identify the artists, the program relied on activity in multiple brain regions, not just visual ones.

An earlier study had identified the connection between the thalamus — a brain region that relays incoming signals from the muscles and senses — and the dmPFC, along with the role this neural circuit can play in modifying a mouse's desire for confrontation.

Also surprising was that while male and female brains did not differ in cell counts in cortical regions, the study identified 11 subcortical areas with gender - specific differences.

The scientists discovered a unique brain region within the mid frontal gyrus that identifies placebo pill responders in one trial and can be validated (95 percent correct) in the placebo group of a second trial.

For the past eight years, he and his colleagues have been studying epilepsy patients who have had electrodes implanted in a region of their brains called the medial temporal lobe, as part of a study to identify the source of their seizures.

One region of the brain became active when the subjects identified conscious rules, while a different region became active for the unconscious rules.

At the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a psychiatric team is mapping the brain's intricate web of neural connections, using images from MRI scans, to try to identify regions responsible for depression.

This contrast thus aims to identify which regions of the brain are involved in assigning responsibility for a crime, holding constant the crime itself.

Probably not: the brain regions identified in this new study, in particular right DLPFC, have previously been highlighted in a number of other studies addressing related but slightly different questions.

A new study has identified such a region in the human brain, and researchers can increase or decrease -LSB-...]

DTI is one imaging technique researchers are using to identify regions in the brain that change when humans learn how to use technology.

Lack of sleep affects appetite, too: A 2012 Swedish brain - scan study identified heightened activity in the right anterior cingulate cortex — a brain region associated with hunger control — in the sleep - deprived.

Now, neuroscientists in Japan who are working with survivors of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami have identified one brain region whose size seems to predict susceptibility to PTSD symptoms and another brain region that shrank slightly in people with the highest number of symptoms.

The group identified 12 categories of words — concepts such as time, location, emotion or social relevance — that seemed to activate more than 100 brain regions in different ways (Nature, doi.org/bfqp).

A new study by researchers at Roche in Basel, Switzerland has identified a key brain region of the neural circuit that controls social behavior.

Neuroscientists have already made great strides, identifying key brain regions and potential molecular mechanisms.

This allows researchers to identify peaks of activity in different regions of normal people's brains while they carry out particular mental tasks.

Brain imaging studies seem so simple and elegant: Hook someone up to a functional MRI (fMRI) machine, which measures blood flow; see which parts of the brain light up; and identify regions associated with love, rejection, Brain imaging studies seem so simple and elegant: Hook someone up to a functional MRI (fMRI) machine, which measures blood flow; see which parts of the brain light up; and identify regions associated with love, rejection, brain light up; and identify regions associated with love, rejection, etc..

The study identified five genes predictive of feeding success representing a range of biological systems: sensory integration (NPHP4, PLXNA1); hypothalamic regulation, a region of the brain that plays a key role in hunger signaling (NPY2R); facial development (WNT3, a gene associated with lip and palate development); and energy expenditure (AMPK, a regulator of whole body energy balance).

This tells the computer exactly how the patient's brain geometry differs from that of a generic brain and allows the boundaries of functional regions, like the visual cortex, to be identified.

Using this setup, as well as whole - brain searches by functional neuroimaging, the researchers identified a specific region in the prefrontal brain essential for metamemory decision making.

«Genetic body / brain connection identified in genomic region linked to autism.»

Restrictions in the motion and speed of the molecules give researchers clues to identify larger brain tracts, or bundles of axons that link one brain region to another.

Indeed, functional brain imaging has identified a set of adjacent regions, referred to as the fusiform face area (FFA), that are situated on the left and the right sides of the brain, at the bottom of the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex.

«What is truly exciting about our findings is the opportunity that such a method offers to identify the specific brain regions involved in the generation of seizures, which in turn can provide guidance on how to optimize surgical interventions to stop seizures,» Lopes says.

Sometimes brain scans fail to identify which regions need to be removed to stop epileptic seizures.

Now a study in Nature Neuroscience last October has found clues to the brain's predilection for the positive, identifying regions that may fuel this «optimism bias» by preferentially responding to rosier information.

The study, published today in open - access journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, also identifies changes in a specific brain region in the male voles.

Both electrical mapping with the implanted electrodes and the more conventional functional whole - brain imaging in a magnetic scanner identified a cluster of regions in the FFA in both cortical hemispheres of Blackwell's brain that responded strongly to faces.

Another challenge is confronting the tendency to identify complex social constructs, such as morality, with specific brain regions.

Sanjaya Saxena, director of the Obsessive - Compulsive Disorders Program at the University of California at San Diego, found lower metabolism (an indication of the level of activity in that portion of the brain) among hoarders in regions of the brain roughly corresponding to those identified in the University of Iowa study.

«Identifying a network of fatigue - related brain regions could reframe the current construct of cognitive fatigue and help define the pathophysiology of this multifaceted yet elusive symptom of MS,» said John DeLuca, Ph.D., VP of Research & Training at Kessler Foundation.

They identified regions of the brain that became active when people saw things, other regions that became active when they heard sounds, and so on through the list of senses.

They found that the algorithm was most accurate at identifying Alzheimer's when the brain regions being compared were about 2250 to 3200 cubic millimetres.