Sentences with phrase «occipital cortex»

Inattention Predicts Increased Thickness of Left Occipital Cortex in Men with Attention - Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder

However, age differences were identified in more posterior visual regions, including lateral occipital cortex, where older adults showed similar ERS for both retrieval targets and lures.

Cortical activation for individuals with migraine was specifically suppressed in visual area V2 of the brain's occipital cortex with the POTs, and this cortical activation suppression was extended to other visual areas as well.

They showed significantly higher measurements of specific electrophysiological parameters, known as beta and theta oscillations, in brain regions called the right temporal lobe and bilateral occipital cortex.

Migraineurs, they found, have a hypersensitive occipital cortex, which covers the back of the brain.

If, on the other hand, the ERG yields normal electrical responses for both eyes, then the loss of vision is considered central; i.e., bilateral optic neuritis, an optic chiasmal lesion at the base of the brain, or an optic tract and / or visual occipital cortex based problem.

Analysis of main effects identified deactivation in the right fusiform gyrus and bilateral parietal - occipital cortex in the secure priming condition, but not in the neutral priming condition.

By contrast, females on average had higher density in the left frontal pole, and larger volumes in the right frontal pole, inferior and middle frontal gyri, pars triangularis, planum temporale / parietal operculum, anterior cingulate gyrus, insular cortex, and Heschl's gyrus; bilateral thalami and precuneus; the left parahippocampal gyrus, and lateral occipital cortex.

The existence of auditory responses in the occipital cortex of cataract - recovery patients, as observed in the study, therefore poses crucial questions regarding how these non-visual inputs coexist or even interfere with visual functions.

This hypothesis is supported by EEG and functional MRI scans, which revealed in previous studies that just before insight takes place, the occipital cortex, which is responsible for visual processing, momentarily shuts down, or «blinks,» so that ideas can «bubble into consciousness,» Kounios says.

«This was a particularly exciting finding,» said senior author Geoffrey K. Aguirre, MD, PhD, a behavioral neurologist and an associate professor of Neurology at Penn. «A neural response within the occipital cortex strongly suggests that people have a conscious experience of melanopsin stimulation that is explicitly visual.»

The light is processed by an area of the brain called the occipital cortex.

Neuroimaging studies showed that such triggers set off an electrical wave of firing neurons that spread over the occipital cortex at a rate of several millimeters per minute.

Rafique and colleagues (2016) examined the effectiveness of multi-day rTMS to the occipital cortex in a patient with continuous visual phosphene hallucinations for more than 2 years following occipital stroke.

Very preterm individuals compared to controls showed reduced grey matter in temporal, frontal, occipital cortices and cerebellum, including putamen, insula, cuneus, fusiform gyrus, thalamus and caudate nucleus.

Using measures of penile tumescence, the striatum, anterior cingulate, insula, amygdala, occipital cortex, sensorimotor cortex and hypothalamus have been shown to play a role in penile erection [15], [20].