Sentences with phrase «individual brain regions»

«For each network, we assess various aspects of the importance of individual brain regions with different centrality indices that were developed earlier for the social sciences.

If individual brain regions are too isolated from one another or are interconnected at random, will be low.

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Scientists have gained a better molecular understanding of the region of the brain in individuals with epilepsy which — due to a developmental abnormality, trauma, stroke, or a growing tumor — has stopped responding to control signals, and this results in recurrent seizures.

The only way the team can be sure they have grown the equivalent of a fetal brain would be to genetically test individual cells from different regions of the organoid, and compare them to those of human fetus, says Christof Koch at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seabrain would be to genetically test individual cells from different regions of the organoid, and compare them to those of human fetus, says Christof Koch at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in SeaBrain Science in Seattle.

PET scans have demonstrated that some individuals have twice as many mu opiate receptors in certain brain regions as others.

Recently, groups working independently at Yale Medical School; the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Harvard; and the University of California at San Diego reported that in afflicted individuals an important region of the brain called the hippocampus is smaller than average.

For instance, knowing if there is a simple increase or decrease in connectivity between brain regions compared to healthy individuals, or whether those with autism use entirely different brain regions to implement cognitive flexibility will enable researchers to better design interventions to improve cognitive flexibility skills.

The Brain Activity Map project launched recently by President Obama — and funded to the tune of $ 100 million in the US budget announcement earlier this month — highlights the need for research that focuses both on how individual neurons work and the ways that different regions of the brain work together as a Brain Activity Map project launched recently by President Obama — and funded to the tune of $ 100 million in the US budget announcement earlier this month — highlights the need for research that focuses both on how individual neurons work and the ways that different regions of the brain work together as a brain work together as a unit.

The brain - on - a-chip allowed the researchers for the first time to look at both the drug's impact on the individual regions as well as its downstream effect on the interconnected regions in vitro.

Just as in sighted individuals using vision, the brain regions that play a critical role in processing the structure and geometry of objects are distinct from the brain regions that process the cues that signal the material properties of objects in blind echolocators.

Research done by Dr. Mel Goodale, from the University of Western Ontario, in Canada, and colleagues around the world, is showing that echolocation in blind individuals is a full form of sensory substitution, and that blind echolocation experts recruit regions of the brain normally associated with visual perception when making echo - based assessments of objects.

Prior work by Bradley S. Peterson, MD, director of the Institute for the Developing Mind (IDM) at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and colleagues showed that individuals at familial risk for depression — whether or not they have exhibited signs of depression in the past — have a pattern of thinning in certain cortical regions of the brain.

To view which brain regions were activated in these individuals, an advanced brain imaging technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used.

Peering into the subjects» brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that on average the regions of the brain that usually light up when an individual is aroused, the hypothalamus and fusiform gyrus, responded normally to moderately erotic images.

For instance, a previous study discovered significant differences between male and female brains in four regions of white matter — and that female - to - male trans individuals who hadn't had sex reassignment surgery had white matter in these regions that more closely resembled a male brain.

MX's brain responded in much the same way as the architects» brains did, activating a network of regions that process vision and recognize individuals.

Above, individual spots represent acetylated histones in a brain region called the hippocampus.

In keeping with these earlier findings, Parkinson and her colleagues found activity in a widely distributed network of brain regions was sensitive to the social status of the people in the film clips, with individual regions responding to different aspects of it.

And individual genes in individual regions of the brain would start to show epigenetic alternations that would change the degree to which those genes were expressed, leading to changes in behavior and ultimately to the vulnerability to a drug of abuse.

In a new study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, neuroscientists from the University of Chicago show that white matter in a region of the brain called the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) has less integrity and density in people with IED than in healthy individuals and those with other psychiatric disorders.

A more troublesome finding is a coordination between two brain regions, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and temporoparietal junction, that is more strong than in individuals who are not compulsive video game players.

And as past cases demonstrate, a shift of inches or a varied assault type can change everything for an individual patient, determining whether key brain regions are shattered or spared.

As Meeks and Jeste continue developing their model of wisdom in the brain, they plan to study the distribution of wisdom in the general population and examine brain - damaged individuals to confirm the regions involved.

The amygdala is a region of the brain known to act as a threat detector and activates when an individual is exposed to images of fear or sadness, while the dmPFC is involved in cognitive processes (e.g., perception, emotions, reasoning) associated with social interactions.

The brain regions they used to make those choices were also different: for individuals with anorexia nervosa, choices about what to eat were associated with activation in the dorsal striatum, a brain region known to be related to habitual control of actions.

«Key brain region responds to subjective perception in study of individual neuron activity.»

ASD individuals also had reduced alpha waves in brain regions associated with senses and gross motor movement, which might explain why they could not mimic instructed tasks.

«Atrophy of the hippocampus, a region of the brain crucial for memory, is a common feature of AD, although it may also be detected in asymptomatic individuals as well as healthy adult carriers of the ApoE ɛ4 allele,» explained Andy Simmons, PhD, of the Department of Neuroimaging of the Institute of Psychiatry of King's College London.

When neuroscientists scanned the brains of obese individuals viewing images of desirable food, they found greater activity in brain regions rich in dopamine receptors.

New research from the University of Georgia indicates that this may have to do with lowered brain activity in regions important for empathy in individuals with borderline personality traits.

A new study using different brain imaging techniques linked the intensity of an individual's placebo effect to the amount of dopamine (a neurotransmitter involved in the pleasure and reward pathway) released in a midbrain region called the nucleus accumbens.

We now know why an individual with a brain injury affecting the inferior frontal gyrus and the orbito - frontal regions can no longer interpret the emotions related to what his or her peers are saying, and may, as a result, adopt socially inappropriate behaviour.»

«You can think of different brain regions as individual instruments in an orchestra,» Dzirasa said.

«Two brain regions linked to conceptual organization: Using fMRI to watch how subjects process individual experiences into memories, researchers unveil a broader role for how the hippocampus can help make connections.»

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.

In our study, we examined whether the role of specific brain regions for communication within and among brain modules varies with individual differences in intelligence, i.e., whether a specific brain region supports the information exchange within their own «family» more than information exchange with other «families», and how this relates to individual differences in intelligence.»

To trace the longer pathways that interconnect different brain regions, CBS labs developed a genetic method to label each individual nerve cell a different color to identify and track axons and dendrites over long distances.

To point out which specific brain regions have the strongest association between global network organization and IQ, an exploratory analysis was conducted, in which the normalized path length of each individual node (i.e., voxel) was correlated with IQ separately (supplemental material, available at www.jneurosci.org).

To further probe which specific brain regions have the strongest association between global network organization and IQ, the normalized path length of each individual node (i.e., voxel) was correlated with the full - scale IQ scores separately.

Additional tissue samples (specific adipose depots, skeletal or cardiac muscle, kidney, intestine, brain / brain regions etc.) are also sampled for individual investigators.

The main themes — what the scientists call «syllables» — are composed by the higher structures, but the individual notes get filled in by the lower brain regions.

January 12, 2016 Individuals with rage disorder have smaller volumes in brain structures linked with emotion People who have a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme outbursts of anger, such as road rage, have significantly lower gray matter volume in the brain region that plays an important role in regulating emotion, report scientists from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Elias and the OCAR primarily focus on understanding why ERP works (e.g., fear tolerance versus fear habituation; the roles of guilt, willingness, and acceptance; patterns of brain activation during exposure; functional connectivity among brain regions), tailoring treatment to the individual (e.g., elucidation of predictors of response and their underlying processes / mechanisms and neural correlates; rigorous diagnostic characterization of obsessive compulsive related disorders), and evaluating innovative treatments and augmentation strategies (e.g., acceptance and commitment therapy; optimization of inhibitory learning; pharmacological augmentation).

Using linear regression, we demonstrate that the multivariate pattern of gray matter density within these brain regions significantly predicts individual intelligence scores in the remaining, i.e., independent sample used for model testing (N = 108; correlation between predicted and actual intelligence scores: r =.36).

Brain activation (fMRI) was significantly altered in XR - NTX - treated individuals in regions associated with the integration of emotion, cognition, reward, punishment, and learning / memory.

They found that patient versus impulsive individuals had very different activity in two specific brain regions involved in drug addiction.

Global scaled inclusivity (SI) shows that several brain regions are consistently partitioned into the same modules across individuals.

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

Not only is this a novel way to study basic biological mechanisms of these commonly targeted receptors inside the brain and individual neurons, but it's also a tool scientists can use to study specific effects of drugs in various regions of the brain.

Scientists will be able to zoom in and out of a digitized brain; focusing down to the level of individual neurons or pulling back to examine whole brain circuits or regions.