Sentences with phrase «in frontal lobe»

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies have also showed greater development of axonal connections in the frontal lobe from the 10 months to 24 months post-conceptual period than at earlier time points [48].

An avian model of early parent - offspring bonding is filial imprinting in precocious birds which is accompanied by extensive reorganization in the frontal lobe.

«My whole mental being was affected... this stuff is rolling around in your frontal lobe and everything else in your life becomes a distraction.»

After more than a decade of work with such patients as well as healthy subjects, Laureys's team has identified a network of key brain regions in the frontal lobe (the part of the cortex beneath the forehead) and the parietal lobe (which is behind the frontal lobe).

Sleep deprivation produces a «double hit» to the brain in this regard: there is a sharp reduction in frontal lobe activity leading one to misjudge hunger and eat more junk and also leading to an exaggerated activation of reward centers (mostly the amygdalae) after eating.

Her brain scans show a large black spot in the frontal lobe.

Caffeine impacts the primary motor cortex found in the frontal lobe, which is a part of the brain responsible for muscle activation.

For example, researchers are looking at how inflammation decreases the firing rate of neurons in the frontal lobe of the brain in people with depression.

A new study indicates that citicoline supplements can help boost energy and efficiency in your frontal lobe — the region responsible for decision - making, reasoning, and working memory.

The result showed acupuncture at «open point time» was associated with more deactivation in the frontal lobe, temporal lobe, cingulate cortex and cerebellum than acupuncture at the «closed point time».

The model, which describes the function of three types of inhibitory nerve cells in the frontal lobe, is being presented in the scientific journal PNAS by researchers from Linköping University and elsewhere.

The lab focuses on healthy development of GABA in the frontal lobe during adolescence, and the impact of initiation of alcohol use.

In addition, the brain showed thickening in a frontal lobe region, the frontopolar cortex, that is known to lower language - based reasoning ability.

By scanning his subjects with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Ehrsson found the illusion involves interconnected areas of the brain, including the premotor cortex in the frontal lobe (responsible for sensory guidance of movement) and the intraparietal cortex in the parietal lobe (involved in locating and recognizing body parts).

«We were able to demonstrate how the strength of synapses in the frontal lobe is linked with the neurological abilities of infants.

The scans revealed that men with ASD had differences in brain connections in the frontal lobe, a part of the brain that is crucial to developing language and social interaction skills.

These regions in the frontal lobe are known to control eye movements in tasks like reading.

«From a lesion in the frontal lobe would you be able to tell if an individual was able to form an intent to commit a crime?»

The brain maps further revealed ASD individuals had both excessive slow and fast waves in the frontal lobe.

Broca's area, located in the frontal lobe of brain, plays a key role in expressive speech.

This notion dates back to 1861, when the pioneering French neurologist Paul Broca found lesions in the frontal lobe of a speechless man.

So face patches could be in the frontal lobe, she thought.

Brain imaging measured activity in the primary motor cortex, located in the frontal lobe.

As the emotional intensity rises it is accompanied by a decline in frontal lobe cognitive functioning.

The 2009 book The Playful Brain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functions.

«Because you've associated things over time, you're going to associate a certain triggering point in the frontal lobe or the basal forebrain and tell certain regions of the brain stem to adopt a state of activity as if it were receiving signals from the body that were consonant with emotion x.

Functional brain - imaging experiments done at the end of the past century using positron - emission tomography (PET) found marked activation in the frontal lobe of volunteers who had taken hallucinogens, in particular in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the insula cortex.

Reduced cortical thickness: Hong and colleagues found reduced cortical (the outermost part of the brain) thickness in internet - addicted teen boys (Hong 2013), and Yuan et al found reduced cortical thickness in the frontal lobe of online gaming addicts (late adolescent males and females) correlated with impairment of a cognitive task (Yuan 2013).

During the tween years, myelination is particularly occurring in the frontal lobe of the brain, the section of the brain that begins just behind the forehead.

Unusual activity in the frontal lobe, observed in former National Football League (NFL) players as they carried out a cognitive test, matched records for heavy blows they had received to the head while on the field.

«In addition,» Dr. Cruger says, «neuroscientific studies, including CT scans and MRI studies, have seen volumetric differences between typically developing youngsters and children diagnosed with ADHD — not in those somatosensory regions, but in frontal lobe regions noted to be essential for the inhibition of impulses.»

Some of the specific brain regions that sprang into action when Kurzweil was thinking outside the box: the dorsal anterior cingulate, which lies in the frontal lobes deep inside the brain, just above the band of fibers that connect the two hemispheres; the back part of the parietal lobes; and the right cerebellum, a cauliflower - shaped structure that lies at the base of the brain.

When Thompson's team looked at brain scans of 206 healthy people aged 70 to 80, they found that those with at least one copy of the FTO variant had 8 per cent less volume in their frontal lobes and 12 per cent less in the occipital lobes, compared with their counterparts lacking the variant.

The majority of activation was occurring in the frontal lobes, where conscious thought occurs — and they were taking much, much longer to answer the questions.

The researchers have focussed their attention on the activity patterns of 237 neurons that had been recorded some years previously using electrodes implanted in the frontal lobes of two rhesus monkeys.

MRI scans taken of Johnson's brain revealed that he has a large brain lesion in his frontal lobes, an area of the brain important for impulse control and emotion.

Falk noted extra convolutions in the frontal lobes, which are believed to be involved in thought experiments.

Researchers once believed that the experience of having an unbroken view was entirely created by the brain sending a copy of the eye movement command signals originating in the frontal lobes to the visual centers.

The amateur climber's brain had also suffered subcortical lesions in the frontal lobes.

When we looked at the brains of Franciscan nuns in prayer, we found increased activity in the frontal lobes (same as Buddhists), but also increased activity in the inferior parietal lobe (the language area).

Basically, the same brain circuits that make for super human intelligence in our frontal lobes (allowing decision making, problem solving, and planning) also produce worry.

In a study at New York's Cornell University, brain scans of women during peak PMS time showed much greater activity in the frontal lobes — the area that controls our emotions.

Green Room stays planted in the frontal lobes of your mind for a long time.

Housed in the frontal lobes, they help students plan, start, oversee, and finish tasks big and small.

When we write out our thoughts and feelings, we clear space in the frontal lobes for positive emotion and higher cognitive processes.

What they've found so far shows that older adults who are lifelong bilinguals have more white matter in their frontal lobes (important to executive function) than monolinguals, and that their temporal lobes (important to language function) are better preserved.

Children who quiet their minds and practice self - reflection boost development in the frontal lobes where the executive functions for paying attention, emotional regulation, and cognitive flexibility reside.

Other research has shown that spending holiday time in an «enriched» setting — defined as offering new experiences that are rich in sensory, social, physical, and cognitive interactions — can actually «turn on the genetic expression of key «brain fertilizers» in the frontal lobes, enhancing executive functions such as stress regulation, attention, concentration, good planning and ability to learn, also improving physical and mental health.»

Dysfunction in the areas in the frontal lobes, basal ganglia, and cerebellum may negatively impact regulation of behavior, inhibition, short - term memory, planning, self - monitoring, verbal regulation, motor control, and emotional regulation.

Not exact matches

That stems in part from the presence in our brains of a well - developed frontal lobe, an evolutionary advantage we hold over the rest of the animal kingdom.