Sentences with phrase «lateral brain areas»
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Histological analyses found that the metabolic activity of striatal tissue, striosome area, and in the area of the lateral ventricles (inner brain areas) was significantly lower than sham rats in 3 - NP and 3 - NP - iPSC - 42 rats, while 3 - NP - iPSC - 7 and -21 rats had higher levels of metabolism in the striatum than the 3 - NP and 3 - NP - iPSC - 42 rats.
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Core areas of research at the institute include work on brain - computer interfaces to aid patients with spinal injury and paralysis; innovative advances in computational neuroscience to address behavior and mood disorders; and research into mechanisms of cell death as part of efforts to identify therapies for neurodegenerative diseases that include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer's.
Thirst and hunger originate from the same Hypothalamus nuclei in our brain — the Lateral Hypothalamic Area.
Activity in one correlates with awareness of the external: a network of lateral frontoparietal brain areas — the regions on the outer side of the frontal and parietal lobes.
In humans, decisions relating to the present involve regions of the brain (viz. limbic and paralimbic cortical structures) that are also consistently implicated in impulsive behavior and cravings such as heroin addiction, whereas decisions that pertain to the future involve brain regions (viz. lateral prefrontal and parietal areas) known to support deliberative processing and numerical computation.
It has been shown that a brain network including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and lateral prefrontal cortex areas, mostly modulated by the neurotransmitter dopamine, subserves the function of regulating thoughts, emotions and responses.13 Patterns of activation of these brain structures are related to the efficiency of resolving conflict14 and variations in the size and structure of the ACC have been related to the EC score obtained in temperament questionnaires.15
As many researchers have long suspected, intelligence does have a «seat» in the human brain: an area just behind each of the temples called the lateral prefrontal cortex.