«In the near future, we will continue this research and extend analyses of tDCS to
other brain areas and functions.»
In their next project, the scientists want to expand their study to include a number of
other brain areas that are also active for body recognition.
«I was very curious at that point what glial cells would be doing in the hypothalamus, since glial cells have been shown in
other brain areas to have an influence on regulation of neuronal function,» she says.
Stolk's studies have pinpointed
other brain areas critical to mutual understanding.
«In both humans and voles, we believe
other brain areas are likely involved too, including the amygdala, a brain area important for attaching positive or negative importance of specific stimuli to motivate behavioural responses.»
Although the primary visual cortex usually communicates mainly with other parts of the vision system, many
other brain areas contributed to the processing of images in volunteers who received LSD.
Pavlovian memories Addictive drugs cause dopamine neurons, which synthesize and store the neurotransmitter dopamine, to release it, signaling to
other brain areas to take note of the context surrounding the drug — the better to replicate the experience in the future.
However surgery is permanent and has the potential to damage
other brain areas.
After intensive training this rhythm played a stronger role in influencing
the other brain areas — i.e. the pacemaker was more effective.
This rhythm alters the excitability of neurons in
other brain areas, and this is how it coordinates them.
The scanner data suggests that the vmPFC integrates information from
other brain areas and uses this information to calculate an overall value.
These neurons can switch between a «sleeping» state and a «waking» state depending on input they receive from neurons and
other brain areas.
Using an optical fiber implanted in that region, the researchers were able to stimulate the primary motor cortex near where the stroke had occurred, and then monitor biochemical changes and blood flow there as well as in
other brain areas with which this region was in communication.
«If this region is overactive, it hinders
other brain areas that are involved in the initiation and termination of movements.
Gene analyses of the hippocampus and
other brain areas revealed dysregulation in the genes linked to manifestation of damaging reactive oxygen species and neuronal function.
«The most likely reason that people do not follow their instincts stems from their self - image — governed by the narrative self housed in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), among
other brain areas,» emails Kyra Bobinet, M.D., a neuroscience designer and CEO of engagedIN, a neuroscience firm that specializes in behavior change.
There are
other brain areas that take care of physiological functions like breathing, heart rate, body temperature and others.
Seen gaze - direction modulates fusiform activity and its coupling with
other brain areas during face processing
One study found a correlation between the ability to resolve conflict and FA in the anterior corona radiata, a major pathway connecting the ACC to
other brain areas (22).
Thus, the improved self - regulation following IBMT may be mediated by the increase of communication efficiency between the ACC and
other brain areas (5, 16).
So, as noted earlier by Kernberg regarding denial and splitting, the person will continue to have a memory that he or she previously didn't feel this way, «but this memory has no emotional relevance» for the person because that area of the brain that was previously active is now entirely turned off (entirely inhibited by the activity of
the other brain area).
In the earlier stages of love,
other brain areas such as the caudate nucleus and the ventral tegmental areas become active.
The violent group, when compared with non-violent controls, also exhibited significant reductions in the F / N - difference in
other brain areas in addition to the amygdala.
Just to mention some possibilities, it could arise from deficient processing in
other brain areas that provide input to the amygdala, abnormal anatomical connectivity to the amygdala and local damage to the amygdala circuitry itself (Blair, 2010; Anderson and Kiehl, 2012).
Not exact matches
Or does it pull in contributions from
other parts of the cerebral cortex and even from
areas that are involved in emotional behavior, like the amygdala, which lies deep in the
brain's core?
«Using so much of your
brain to lie may make it hard to monitor yourself in
other areas.»
That means that
brain - training programs, intelligence - exercising puzzles, or
other efforts to increase IQ in general are largely wasted effort (becoming a subject
area expert is another matter entirely).
Inhaling essential oils activates the hypothalamus — the
area of the
brain which sends messages to
other parts of the body.
But, if you are the one to offer the contrast for the
other end of the scales (in picture form, of course), then you'll be speaking to the action -
area of their
brain: «If you're thinking you're busy — too busy to make it — then it's you this weekend is for.
Glutamate is the No. 1 excitatory transmitter in the
brain,» Melillo said, adding that it can excite certain
areas of the
brain more than
others, causing an imbalance.
ImPACT [Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing] and
other cognitive testing wouldn't establish a baseline or reveal deficits in these
areas of the
brain [so] more and different evaluations are needed.»
There are recent studies that say people who read a substantial amount are more able to empathize with
others, and also that the
brain is engaged in several different
areas by particular words, such as
areas related to the senses of taste, touch, or smell especially.
Other research shows that ADHD children with a particular gene variation have thinner tissue in the
area of the
brain that's associated with attention.
«But breast milk has been shown to be helpful in
other areas of development, so we looked to see what effect it might have on the
brain.
A study by Luby and
other WUSM researchers showed that a mother's love had a physical effect on the size of her child's hippocampus — the
area of the
brain responsible for memory.
Because consistently elevated cortisol affects the way the baby's
brain develops, the way he responds to stress in the future, his immune system, his risk of obesity and
other areas of development.
Although the role of the visual cortex and
other areas of the
brain are being identified, and their functions clarified, it is not likely that there is a «truth» center in the
brain or a «lying» center.
The super-agers also had developed increased thickness in an
area of the
brain associated with decision - making, impulse control and emotions and
other functions that was not found in the
brains of their peers or of healthy younger people.
In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main
brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to
other cells.
They help communicate between different neocortical layers and across cortical
areas from one side of the
brain to the
other.
Using resting - state MRI analysis on thousands of people's
brains around the world, the research has found that the
areas of the
brain which are associated with learning and development show high levels of variability, meaning that they change their neural connections with
other parts of the
brain more frequently, over a matter of minutes or seconds.
On the
other hand, regions of the
brain which aren't associated with intelligence — the visual, auditory, and sensory - motor
areas — show small variability and adaptability.
These neurons, he believed, somehow turned up or down the «volume» of the neurons he'd recorded in
other areas of the
brain.
«As certain
areas of the
brain become more variable, it seems to compensate in some ways for the
other parts of the
brain that are decreasing,» said Aaron Heller, an assistant professor in the Psychology Department and senior author of the paper.
Brain areas involved in emotion are less active in such people, but this can't explain
other behaviour common to psychopaths, such as drug abuse.
While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a
brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the
brain's emotional processing
areas, whereas
other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.
To make matters more challenging, Lappas decided at this early stage in the experiment to search for patterns not only in the auditory cortex but in
other areas of the
brain as well.
You're also known for discovering that the prefrontal cortex, an
area of the
brain essential to decision - making and our ability to behave appropriately around
others, is compromised in the
brains of addicts.
Finally, the team used functional MRI scans of subjects»
brains to show that contemplating God's beliefs activates the same
brain areas as thinking about one's own views, while thoughts about
other Americans» views activate a
brain area used for inferring
other people's mental states.
Their results demonstrated that, instead of an overall decrease in variability with aging, as earlier studies showed, the
brain displayed regional differences, with some
areas of the
brain showing increases in variability across age while
other areas showed a decrease.