Sentences with phrase «of brain activation»

Recent research has revealed abnormal patterns of brain activation in people who have experienced psychological trauma.

Brain scans taken after the exercise intervention showed a significant decrease in the intensity of brain activation in eleven brain regions while participants correctly identified famous names.

But her most important achievement, she thinks, was shedding new light on the physiology of brain activation by using a variety of different contrast agents.

Patterns of brain activation during self - deprecation are fundamentally the same as those during self - deceptive pride, Keenan is finding.

neuroimaging, which enables characterization of the integrity of neural networks and patterns of brain activation associated with normal and abnormal functioning and suggests new avenues for diagnosis and evaluation of treatment effects

Her Lab (Brain Development: Perception to Action) uses a combination of behavioural and brain imaging tools (i.e. DTI and EEG) to probe the brain and investigate the patterns of brain activation as they relate to perceptual - motor and social - emotional development in children and youth.

Functional MRI mapping of brain activation during visually guided saccades and antisaccades: cortical and subcortical networks.

He and his colleagues have found that performing basic numerical and mathematical tasks triggers atypical patterns of brain activation for children with dyscalculia.

It is based on the «self - regulation» of brain activations underpinned by the principles of feedback control systems.

An MRI image showing the multivariate brain pattern that predicts fibromyalgia status on the basis of brain activation during multisensory stimulation.

Now, this work is the first report of brain activation associated with outdoor temperature in MS.. This finding is novel and important for persons with MS who are shown to have worse cognition during warmer weather,» said Victoria M. Leavitt, Ph.D., research scientist at Kessler Foundation and principal investigator for the study, funded by a grant from the National MS Society.

«When people are instructed to imagine events that might happen in their personal future and then to remember actual events in the past, we find extensive and very striking overlap in areas of brain activation,» he says.

In a follow up study, Arzy et al. showed that the location and timing of brain activation depended on whether mental imagery is performed with mentally embodied or disembodied self location.

Network Analysis of Brain Activations in Working Memory: Behavior and Age Relationships.

Dr. Pizzagalli's research has shown that specific patterns of brain activation correspond to individual differences in treatment response and particular phenotypes of depression.

«The meta - analytic study provides the statistically concordant map of brain activations across a large number of studies and characterizes the commonalities of all studies included.

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy of Brain Activation During Heart Rhythm Coherence

Assumptions are often made that differences in patterns of brain activation between females and males in a particular task must mean that females and males use different mental processes to complete that task; however, mental processes are highly complex and involve interaction between many different regions of the brain (Fine, 2013).

Brain imaging studies on delusions have typically relied on correlations of brain activation patterns with the presence of delusional beliefs.

The same is true for the modern functional neuroimaging (FNI) because it follows the same experimental logic, in which it regards the pattern of brain activation as the dependent variable and the experimental task as the independent variable.

Children with the lowest scores on the social cognition tests showed atypical responses to the unknown words — no response at all, for example, or activity in a different part of the brain, while those with the higher scores showed a more typical pattern of brain activation in the left hemisphere, the authors report online today in PLOS ONE.

The new study is the first to show a characteristic pattern of brain activation in a «social» situation involving the assessment of another person's trustworthiness, says psychologist Lisbeth Nielsen of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Imaging studies have shown that when autistic children see a familiar face, their pattern of brain activation is different from that of normal children.

The researchers also screened out participants with concussions, which can disrupt patterns of brain activation and function, Scherf added.

«If males and females found the pictures equally arousing, you would assume they would have similar patterns of brain activation,» said Hamann.

Predicting recovery will require the development of effective, low - cost measures that correlate with changes in patterns of brain activation.»

Verbally vocalizing and documenting physically the desires of your frontal lobe, that brain region responsible for decision - making, rational thought, and problem - solving, cements novel patterns of brain activation that will be communicated to your parietal lobes, the intention centers of your brain.

Assumptions about what differences in patterns of brain activation might mean can be dangerous if we allow gender stereotypes to influence the interpretation of scientific results (Fine, 2013).

Scientists found that dog owners» aroma actually sparked activation in the «reward center» of their brains

The research found that «the patterns of brain activation in these people mirrored those seen in the brains of drug addicts when they were exposed to drugs.

Patterns of brain activation in foster children and nonmaltreated children during an inhibitory control task.

Rapid feedback of regional activation level or of distributed patterns of brain activation might provide a novel means of instructing subjects on how to modulate their own brain function.