Sentences with phrase «of brain areas controlling»

Beyond mapping the precise locations of the brain areas controlling these movements for the first time, Chang and colleagues also recorded and analyzed patterns of neuron activity in those areas.

Not exact matches

Unlike the non-dieters, the dieters tended to show a heightened response in the areas of their brains linked with processing rewards, and a lowered response in the parts of their brains linked with a sense of control.

According to a University of Iowa study on brain activity led by physiological psychologist Debra L. Johnson, introvert brains show more activity in areas dealing with learning and planning, while extrovert brains are more active in regions that control sensory processes, like watching and listening.

This may be especially true if the area being treated is near parts of the brain that control sight, motor skills or speech.

A study from 2014 confirmed the link between pornography use and decreased brain matter in the areas of motivation and decision making, impaired impulse control and desensitization to sexual reward.

There have been studies done on long - term meditators, and researchers have found through FMRI's that there are distinct changes in areas of the brain that typically lead to greater levels of peace, well - being and better mental and emotional control.

And it was in the area of the brain that controlled emotions and many people who had a tumor in this part of the brain also had obsessed urges to write.

In 2007, researchers published the first randomized, controlled study of the effect of being raised in an orphanage; that study, and subsequent research on the same sample of Romanian orphans, found that compared with babies placed with a foster family, those who were sent to institutions had lower IQs, slower physical growth, problems with human attachment and differences in functioning in brain areas related to emotional development.

Indeed, in a paper from the University of California, San Francisco, researchers claim to have done just that — identify a group of kids with pure SPD — and found that their brains are in fact different from controls in key sensory areas.

Now, knowing that the area of your brain responsible for impulse control and self regulation is very underdeveloped (and remains that way even through the teenage years), what do you think you might do?

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Apnea is usually caused by immaturity in the area of the brain that controls the drive to breathe.

It is imperative to understand that respiration is monitored and controlled by certain areas of brain that are developed by 36 week of intrauterine life.

Both activities sent blood rushing to the areas of the brain that control memory and language.

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.

The authors searched for genetic mutations that might explain the disproportionately high risk of SUDEP in people with poorly controlled focal epilepsy, which, by definition stems from a specific area of the brain.

A defining characteristic of stroke is the loss of motor control due to structural damage in specific brain areas.

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.

Accordingly, the anterior prefrontal cortex, i.e., the brain area controlling conscious cognitive processes and playing an important role in the capability of self - reflection, is larger in lucid dreamers.

The illness was later renamed progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) to describe the weakness or paralysis (palsy) patients develop when brain areas that control eye movements are affected by the syndrome — which produces the classic symptom of motionless eyes described by Dickens.

It is not surprising that addiction can be traced to an area of the brain that controls learning and memory as well as reward.

The nerve cells involved in this integration process and control of hormonal signals reside in an area of the insect brain known as the mid-Ventral Ganglion (mVG), which in turn communicates with a region of the central brain that is akin to the mammalian hypothalamus.

Today, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announce the discovery of a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior.

Deep - brain stimulation involves the surgical placement of electrodes in the brain to deliver stimulation to targeted areas that control movement, similar to the way pacemakers are used to maintain a healthy heart rate.

To rule out a placebo effect, a control group received TMS in a different area of the brain.

«There's a part of the finch's brain that controls song, which we call area x.

A team of CSHL scientists have discovered a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior.

Most of the bird's vocal learning brain regions are tucked into areas that also control movement.

«What we have here is a unique window into the workings of a complex high - level brain area, as we work collaboratively with our subjects to perfect their skill in controlling external devices.»

This pruning changes the relative density of receptors in the circuit linking the area of the brain involved with processing rewards (the basal ganglia) and the area of the brain implicated in inhibition and control (the prefrontal cortex).

The unusual case suggests that when inhibitory fibers are damaged, brain activity in one area can spill into neighboring areas — in this case, the part of the brain that that controlled arm movement, Feddersen says.

In the study, the researchers then used a combination of different techniques to map the connections from the habenula to the frontal area of the brain, and to precisely control the activity of neurons in these regions.

The finding that individuals with Tourette syndrome exhibit increased GABA in brain areas linked to the planning and selection of movements offers a more parsimonious account for how tics might be controlled in Tourette syndrome.

The Nottingham experts however believe that this new control may come as a result of a higher amount of GABA, which is being released in the brain during adolescents, and which inhibits the motor regions such as the Supplementary Motor Area.

«We discovered that rhythmic oscillations of groups of neurons in the prefrontal cortex — an area of the brain involved in decision - making and executive functions — controlled the strength of oscillations in neurons of the neighbouring nucleus accumbens, an area involved in pleasure, reward and addiction,» says Liu.

The brain area that controls neck muscles used to be between areas that control the thumb and the top of the head (black arrow) but a new study puts the neck between the shoulder and the trunk (red arrow).

The connectivity was measured in 15 patients with visual hallucinations, 40 patients without visual hallucinations, and 15 healthy controls by calculating the level of synchronization between activation patterns of different brain areas.

«We were able to show that structural changes occur in brain areas linked to self control and emotion regulation,» says Annette Brühl, head physician at the Center for Depression, Anxiety Disorders and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich (PUK).

Eating behaviors are also linked to areas of the brain associated with self - control (such as the left superior frontal region) and visual attention (such as the right middle temporal region).

«Drinking at such high levels can suppress areas of the brain that control basic life - support functions such as breathing and heart rate, thereby increasing one's risk of death,» said senior author, Aaron White, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Advisor to the NIAAA Director.

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

Compared to controls, patients with depression had decreased fractional anisotropy (FA), a measure of the structural integrity of white matter connections, around an area near the deep gray matter of the brain that is strongly associated with the brain's reward circuit.

They emphasize the interaction between neurons in two brain areas of the prefrontal cortex — the controlling area on the front side of the brain.

When these birds sing, the activity of a master gene called FoxP2 declines in a key region of the brain involved in vocal control known as Area X.

The experts emphasize the importance of the brain areas related with attention control in the control of movements, which «may also suggest some therapeutic routes,» such as complementing «mobility therapies based on physiotherapy with another type of cognitive training that increases the attention of patients.»

After analyzing brain tissue samples, the researchers identified an area of the gene where a single change reduced BDNF levels in the hypothalamus, a key area that controls eating and body weight.

Scientists know that our memories are stored in specific areas of the brain, but there has been some debate over whether a single brain region can store different memories that control opposing behavior.

In general, areas of the brain that control movement are on the opposite side of the body from the limbs they control.

Perusing the literature, he found earlier experiments that demonstrated a crucial part of the amygdala known as the central nucleus contained links to the key brain stem areas that control the autonomic functions involved in the fear response, like acceleration of breathing and heart rate.

«The idea is that if you can couple those motor signals that are associated with moving the same - sided limb with the actual movements of the hand, new connections will be made in your brain that allow the uninjured areas of your brain to take over control of the paralyzed hand,» Leuthardt said.