«Goal - directed behaviour is regulated by large collection of
interconnected brain regions.
Human emotions arise from a network of
interconnected brain regions.
Not exact matches
What is intriguing is that the
regions that show the strongest reduction in activity are among the most heavily
interconnected in the
brain.
If individual
brain regions are too isolated from one another or are
interconnected at random, will be low.
Cocaine produces its addictive effects partially by acting on the
brain's limbic system — a set of
interconnected regions that regulate pleasure and motivation.
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.
In an
interconnected network of billions of neurons, it is unlikely that any single
brain region is responsible for an experience — even if media coverage touting the «love center of the
brain» suggests otherwise.
Understanding how these different
brain regions are
interconnected will deepen our understanding of motivation, desire, pleasure seeking and addiction.
Until recently, however, it was not possible to examine how such «intelligence
regions» in the human
brain are functionally
interconnected.
«The model is really flexible, and we are already starting to use it with fMRI data to understand how
regions of the
brain interconnect and change over time,» said Fuchen Liu, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics and Data Science.
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.
The hippocampus, a
brain region that consists of several
interconnected subregions, each with a distinct neuron population, plays a vital role in memory.