Sentences with phrase «larger brain parts»

This is because larger brain parts are thought to have a later and longer process of neurogenesis — the development of neurons or nerve cells from neural stem cells and progenitor cells.

Not exact matches

His goal is wildly ambitious — in large part because of how little is really understood about the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and spinal cord, and its healing mechanisms.

I've come to Moscow to attend the third annual Open Innovations Forum, an extravagant two - day event that is designed to bring startups, traditional industry, government, and the public together to cultivate growth in Russia's tech community and stanch the brain drain that sends a large part of Russia's ample engineering and programming talent in search of work elsewhere.

That could be why parts of the brain related to thinking and memory are larger in people who exercise regularly compared to those who don't, say Harvard Health experts.

Only the series of dominant occasions known as the soul is a separate society, i.e., a set of personally ordered occasions which provide continuity in time for the patterns already generated in large part by nexus of living occasions within the field of activity proper to the brain.

The entities directly below the level of a person, the immediate constituents of a person, are the organs such as the brain and heart, and other large scale body parts, such as the arms and hands.

Large parts of the brain can be removed through injury, yet visual memory is retained.

Seattle's largest network, PEPS.org, uses Zero to Five as part of the weekly curriculum, in a «brain development break.»

DHA, or docosahexaenoic acid, or omega - 3 fatty acids are involved in the construction of the brain and the central nervous system, and they make up a large part of the fat contained in the brain (25 - 35 %).

Babies who are exclusively breastfeed for 3 months have been known to develop better cognitive aftermaths because larger parts of their brains are developed, such as parts related to language, emotional function, and cognition.

Generally, it refers to involvement of large parts of the brain (or the whole organ), instead of identifiable changes confined to parts of the brain.

As for cortical thinning, Dr. Zhao said that other research provides convincing evidence to support the theory that reduced cortical layer thickness in some brain regions may result in the decreased thickness of the frontal lobe, a large part of the brain that is involved in variety of functions, including emotion.

Recently, Goadsby proved that the posterior of the hypothalamus — the part of the brain involved in circadian rhythm — is measurably larger in people who suffer from cluster headaches.

Translational — bench to bedside — research remains a particular challenge in the clinical neurosciences, in large part due to the inaccessibility of the brain.

If these principled relations among brain parts hold true, then Boskops would have had not only an impressively large brain but an inconceivably large prefrontal cortex.

Part of the corpus callosum connecting the two brain hemispheres was indeed larger in musicians.

However, the brain has some self - repairing potential that accounts for the renewal of certain neuronal populations living in the dentate gyrus, a simple cortical region that is part of the larger functional brain system controlling learning and memory, the hippocampus.

The parts of the brain that provide the wiring for where these large appendages arise are very large in this fossil.

They found that girls with anorexia nervosa had a larger insula, a part of the brain that is active when we taste food, and a larger orbitofrontal cortex, a part of the brain that tells a person when to stop eating.

Specifically, the researchers found that they had a thickening of the cortex in a part of the brain known as the temporal occipital region, which comprises a large network of structures involved in reading.

The visual cortex, the largest part of the human brain, is responsible for analyzing information from the eyes and enables us to perceive the visual world.

Previous research by the Northwestern group provided tantalizing clues, showing that SuperAgers have distinctive brain features: thicker cortexes, a resistance to age - related atrophy and a larger left anterior cingulate (a part of the brain important to attention and working memory).

The brain attempts to adapt and respond to those challenges and that occurs in large part through changes in expression of brain genes through epigenetic mechanisms.

Brain scans revealed that the more television a kid watched, the larger certain parts of the brain Brain scans revealed that the more television a kid watched, the larger certain parts of the brain brain were.

Shepard's project is in DARPA's Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program, part of the larger Federal - government - wide BRAIN Initiative.

Neurobiologist Arturo Alvarez - Buylla of The Rockefeller University in New York City got interested in the adult mammalian brain's capacity to produce new cells after he and others discovered in the 1980s that songbirds renew large parts of their brains every year.

That circuitry may have formed the basis for the cerebral cortex — the largest part of our brain and perhaps the most critical in shaping the way we think.

Most modern studies of bipolar disorder have concentrated on the brain's cortex, the largest part of the brain in humans, associated with higher - level thought and action.

Surprisingly little study has been done on large, loopy networks like the ones in the brain — probably in part because it is easier to think about brains as tidy assembly lines than as dynamic networks.

There aren't yet any instruments that can measure what a large, complicated neural net is doing in detail, especially while it is part of a living brain, so scientists have to find indirect ways of testing their ideas about what's going on in there.

A new University of California, Berkeley, study suggests the human brain's aptitude and versatility can be credited in large part to «connector hubs,» which filter and route information.

Previous research suggests our ability to cooperate and exhibit empathy — both thought to be critical to human success — relied in part on the large brains of our hominin ancestors, relative to body size; and that selection against aggression within early human populations allowed us to thrive.

Previous studies have found that the part of the brain responsible for verbal memory is larger in musicians, and Jakobson and Chan agree that future studies should investigate whether music training boosts development of the region, thereby making musicians more handy with words.

But when you analyze your brain, you will find inside it a set of nerve cells that form a large complex: one that can distinguish among a large repertoire of states in a way that its parts can not; and one that does so maximally, more than any other set of nerve cells, more than the entire body, than any crowd of men, than the world itself.»

When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.

For patients who have experienced a large stroke that cuts off blood supply to a large part of the brain, the use of standardized medical management protocol and surgery to decompress swelling can improve life expectancy, Mayo Clinic researchers found in a recent study.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

In 1953 he underwent a major operation to remove parts of the brain as treatment for his epilepsy, including large portions of the hippocampus and adjacent structures.

«While the results of this study are preliminary, they hold promise for enhancing and maintaining brain reserve in later life, particularly among sedentary individuals who may benefit most urgently from behavioral interventions like Experience Corps,» said Carlson, who is now leading a larger fMRI trial as part of a large - scale randomized trial of the Baltimore Experience Corps Program.

For example, Kerr said, «Based on the predominantly somatic descriptions of mindfulness experience offered by the belly - focused group, we would expect there to be more ongoing, resting - state functional connectivity in this group across different parts of a large brain region called the insula that encodes visceral, somatic sensations and also provides a readout of the emotional aspects of so - called «gut feelings».»

«If yawning cools certain parts of the brain, it makes sense that larger brains with more cortical neurons require longer yawns and more influx of air,» Elainie Alenkær Madsen of Lund University in Sweden who was not part of the study told The Atlantic.

Studying how animals plan over these different timescales has been challenging, in large part because it requires many brain areas operating at once, and neuroscientists have lacked the tools to observe neural activity over broad swaths of the brain.

This knowledge will help researchers understand the events that lead to the destruction of large parts of the brain and eventually the complete loss of cognitive abilities.

The medial septal area projects to a large number of brain regions that show theta modulation, including all parts of the hippocampus as well as the entorhinal cortex, perirhinal cortex, retrosplenial cortex, medial mamillary and supramamillary nuclei of the hypothalamus, anterior nuclei of the thalamus, amygdala, inferior colliculus, and several brainstem nuclei (Buzsáki, 2002).

The cerebrum is the largest and most developmentally advanced part of the human brain.

This man also showed a large increase in the volume of the hippocampus, which is a part of the brain connected with memory.

When the researchers looked specifically at parts of the brain associated with learning and remembering new information, they found that they were larger in the super agers than in other older adults.

JJ Virgin recommends against giving wheat or gluten to kids and Dr. David Perlmutter blames grain in large part of the rising epidemic of MS and other brain conditions.

Analysis of the results showed a link between increased exercise and larger volume in parts of the brain related to memory.

In large part, it's the birth - control pills that are changing the hormones in their brain, the neurotransmitters in their brain.