Sentences with phrase «medial frontal lobes»

Anatomically, these neurons have widespread connections to the brain stem, a primitive region that controls waking and sleep; to nearby basal ganglia involved in movement; and to the medial frontal lobes, which are involved in motivation.

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Moreover, researchers found that the aging brain's failure to coordinate deep - sleep brainwaves is most likely due to degradation or atrophy of the medial frontal cortex, a key region of the brain's frontal lobe that generates the deep, restorative slumber that we enjoy in our youth.

Injuries to various parts of the frontal lobe can leave some people unable to talk or can alter personality, yielding impulsive or antisocial behaviors, and lesions to the medial temporal lobe can erase our memories or prevent new ones from forming.

Namely, they investigated language and cognition control areas in the frontal regions of the brain, and medial temporal lobe structures that are important for memory and are brain areas known to atrophy in MCI and AD patients.

These modules include the visual (yellow), sensory / motor (orange) and basal ganglia (red) cortices as well as the default mode network (precuneus / posterior cingulate, inferior parietal lobes, and medial frontal gyrus; maroon).

Imaging studies using these composite measures of SES have found significant correlations between composite scores and regions in the medial temporal lobe and frontal lobe (Raizada et al., 2008; Jednoróg et al., 2012), but without knowing associations to specific SES markers, it is difficult to compare these studies with other structural imaging studies.