Sentences with phrase «normal brain activity during»

«Our goal was to see if the high - risk individuals showed normal brain activity during these executive tasks or whether or not they showed some of the pathology of individuals who already have schizophrenia,» Belger said.

This large - scale epileptic network comprises various areas of the brain involved in normal brain activity during both seizure - free intervals and those involved in so - called pathophysiological activities such as seizures.

Not exact matches

The current increased the activity of normal beta waves, a kind of brain wave that is usually active during sustained muscle activities, such as holding a book.

The scientists compared recordings from normal periods to those just before and during seizures; their yardstick was an algorithm developed from chaos theory to measure the degree of complexity in brain activity.

Also, the patterns of brain activity that we see on imaging when they are lying down may not be the patterns that the brain produces during normal upright activity.»

When they occurred during wakefulness, they were accompanied by complete behavioral arrest — a period of no movement throughout the body — and immediately followed by recovery of normal brain activity and movement.

This fluid keeps the brain from banging into the skull during normal activity.

The combination technique developed by Yang et al. will likely be used by other scientists to further study the role of NMDA receptors in specific brain cells during addiction and normal brain activity.

The researchers measured an increase in blood flow in the brain's prefrontal cortex during all 3 activities, in comparison with rest times where blood flow decreased to normal rates.

In a study involving rats, researchers discovered that young male rats respond to normal episodes of hypoxia, or brief periods of oxygen deprivation, during sleep by increasing brain activity to take deeper and more frequent breaths.