Sentences with phrase «in other parts of the brain»

However, these compounds can have wide - ranging side effects since they can also bind to iron in other parts of the brain where healthy cells need it to survive.

At the same time, we are trying to find out where the serotonin might originate from in other parts of the brain.

Other research shows changes in other parts of the brain; these studies are not the focus of this post.

Scientists have come to this conclusion after finding that smokers who suffered a stroke in the insular cortex were far more likely to quit smoking and experience fewer and less severe withdrawal symptoms than those with strokes in other parts of the brain.

Thus it is possible that a single neuron might be interdependent in the mode of ontic power with a macroscopic feature of action (e.g., conscious understanding) simultaneous with it and also make a contribution by way of its causal power to a later neural occurrence in some other part of the brain.

While performing studies on glial cells in other parts of the brain, Chen noticed that the hypothalamus also appeared to have a lot of glial cell activity.

It is therefore likely that the timing mechanism we have discovered also exists in other parts of the brain,» said Professor of neurophysiology Germund Hesslow.

Some evidence hints that duplicate enhancers may help control genes important in other parts of the brain.

«The OFC appears to carry a lot of varied information,» he notes, and although the activity that Redish and colleagues detected is intriguing, «discovering whether and how the animal uses each kind of information in other parts of the brain is still very much an ongoing task in the field.»

Certain brain structures in the frontal and parietal lobe provided a rhythmic electrical signal, and this synchronised the activity in other parts of the brain, particularly in the areas responsible for visual processing.

This, coupled with degenerative processes in other parts of the brain, could explain why clothing, baths, toilets, etc are not perceived for what they are — or their purpose understood.

«All I can say is that when amyloid starts to show up, we start to see tau in other parts of the brain, and that is when real problems begin,» said Jagust.

Rather, they die from new tumors that come back in other parts of the brain,» said James Connor, distinguished professor of neurosurgery.

The reasons for this may be lesions in the prefrontal cortex, problems in the neurotransmitters that carry signals through the brain or lesions in other parts of the brain that receive signals from the prefrontal cortex.

Almost twice as many patients with strokes in the insular cortex quit smoking compared to those with strokes in other parts of the brain — 70 percent vs. 37 percent.

They found that patients with strokes occurring in the insular cortex had fewer and far less severe withdrawal symptoms than those with strokes in other parts of the brain.

In other parts of the brain, these same neurons are known to be crucial for processing sensory input, such as vision or touch, and their dysfunction is associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.