Sentences with phrase «of brain electrical activity»

The team examined the brainwave patterns of 36 infants (17 in the first experiment and 19 in the second) using electroencephalography (EEG), which measures patterns of brain electrical activity via electrodes in a skull cap worn by the participants.

Patterns of Brain Electrical Activity in Infants of Depressed Mothers who Breastfeed and Bottle Feed: The Mediating Role of Infant Temperament.

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Those are converted into electrical impulses that pass to the part of the brain known as the hypothalamus, which governs our endocrine system and hormones, and much of our activity.»

EEG (Electroencephalography), is a test used to detect abnormalities related to electrical activity of the brain.

The EEG promptly reads these electrical waves and relates them to memory, emotions and attention according to the activity in specific areas of the brain.

The headset was monitoring the electrical activity of Agus» brain in real time.

For example, doctors could one day routinely use the headsets to obtain a «quantitative measurement of depression» in patients based on their brains» electrical activity, Agus said.

The $ 299 device measures brain electrical activity via 16 scalp sensors, which the company claims allow recognition of basic emotions and up to 30 specific thoughts, such as «lift this object,» «fire death ray,» or «fly forward.»

Electroencephalography, or EEG, machines that track the brain's electrical activity at the scalp have been around for the better part of a century.

But these are regarded as epiphenomena, as the rattling of the train is to the motion of the train, or else phenomena equated with chemical and electrical activities in the brain.

When researchers looked at their brain activity during these times, they saw that one hemisphere of the brain had electrical patterns resembling nighttime sleep, whereas patterns from the other hemisphere indicated wakefulness.

Charles Walcott, a neurobiologist at Cornell University, says he's «always a little suspicious» of electrical brain activity studies, because it can be difficult to tease out what's sleep and what isn't.

During REM sleep, the brain generates high - frequency waves of electrical activity and the eyes flicker; in humans, REM is closely linked to dreaming.

Absence seizures cause a short period of «blanking out» or staring into space, due to brief abnormal electrical activity in the brain.

Researchers studying the brain have long been interested in its neural oscillations, the rhythmic electrical activity that plays an important role in the transmission of information within the brain's neural circuits.

So Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and his colleagues recorded the electrical activity in almost 500 neurons in the somatosensory and motor cortex of a monkey's brain while it thought about using both its forelimbs.

To see whether this was also true in people, Ed Bullmore of the University of Cambridge and his colleagues mapped electrical brain activity in 19 volunteers.

Schalk points with his pen at a large rectangular field on the side of the screen depicting a region of her brain abuzz with electrical activity.

Because the neural circuitry of the brain operates via electro - stimulation, applying small amounts of electrical current to the scalp (transcranially) has been investigated as a means of modulating brain activity.

«Modeling the rhythmic electrical activities of the brain: A new mathematical tool has been developed to help computational neuroscientists explore neural circuits» dynamic responses to stimuli.»

Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of tbrain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of tBrain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of tbrain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.

The main problem is that it is extremely difficult to measure electrical activity deep inside the brain of a living person, and differences between the brains of living people and those of the animals and cadavers that previous studies have used are significant.

The stethoscope picks up brain wave activity through a pair of wearable electrodes that detect electrical emissions from the neurons beneath them.

At least one study suggests that in cluster headache sufferers this hypothalamus - adjoining region may differ not only in its electrical activity but also in its interactions with other parts of the brain.

A crescent of electrical activity spotted in rats may allow researchers to map the depressed brain

Recording the electrical activity of neurons directly from the surface of the brain, the scientists found that for a simple task, such as repeating a word presented visually or aurally, the visual and auditory cortexes reacted first to perceive the word.

An area of the mouse hippocampus glows green, indicating that the new method of electrical stimulation excited neural activity in this deep brain structure.

Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which measures the anatomy and structural integrity of the brain, and magnetoencephalography (MEG), which measures magnetic fields created by the brain's electrical activity, were used to track potential age - related differences as groups of younger and older adults performed a memory task.

But whereas the latter blankets large swaths of the brain with a whiteout storm of electrical activity — leading to temporary, and occasionally permanent, memory impairment — TMS is more of a focused tickle of the circuitry.

Their research technique of measuring electrical brain activity using an electroencephalogram (EEG) in these brain regions also predicted mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a condition that is likely to develop into Alzheimer's, with 80 per cent accuracy.

As signals are sent from one cell to the next, rhythmic patterns of electrical activity, commonly known as brain waves, are generated.

Among other things, the decade - long mission aims to develop new technologies for studying the electrical activity of the brain in action.

They in turn transmit messages to the brain as a pattern or code of electrical activity.

The computer monitors slow cortical potential, a component of the brain's electrical activity; when the SCP is positive, a cursor travels from the bottom to the top of the screen; if neutral, it goes the other way.

Lamm and his group recently sought the answer to answer this question by combining measures of electrical activity in the brain (via electroencephalogram) with functional magnetic resonance imaging to show blood flow patterns in 25 participants getting rounds of shocks on their hands.

These types of activities lead to much smaller electrical signals, and are at the level of typical brain activity.

George is referring to his role as editor - in - chief of Brain Stimulation, a journal launched three years ago to cover the growing list of technologies that can alter the brain's electrical actiBrain Stimulation, a journal launched three years ago to cover the growing list of technologies that can alter the brain's electrical actibrain's electrical activity.

Microfabricated silicon needle - electrode devices were expected to be an innovation that would be able to record and analyze the electrical activities of the microscale neuronal circuits in the brain.

Scientists in the US are planning to map the brain activity of the dragonfly as it hunts, using a specially built backpack to transmit electrical signals from the insect's active neurons to a computer.

Brown and his colleagues have previously analyzed the electrical waves produced by the brain in different states of activity.

Your brain transmits information about your current location and memories of past locations over the same neural pathways using different frequencies of a rhythmic electrical activity called gamma waves, report neuroscientists at The University of Texas at Austin.

The team embarked on a massive brain imaging study: Across 9 UK laboratories (University of Birmingham, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow, University of Kent, University College London, University of Oxford, University of Stirling, and University of York), 334 participants — 10 times the original amount — read sentences that were presented one word at a time, while electrical brain activity was recorded at the scalp.

The researchers recorded electrical activity in the brains of 10 female participants with fibromyalgia.

The participants were asked to recall some of the word pairs ten minutes later, then left to sleep overnight while the researchers recorded the electrical activity of their brains.

After the associations between smell and place were well established, the researchers could see a pattern of brain wave activity (the electrical signal from a large number of neurons) during retrieval.

Moberly observed that freeze behavior, breathing rate, and electrical activity of these brain regions were coordinated literally on the same wavelength.

The EPOC detects brain activity noninvasively using electroencephalography (EEG), a measure of brain waves, via external sensors along the scalp that pick up the electrical bustle in various parts of the furrowed surface of the brain's cortex, a region that handles higher order thoughts.

To determine which areas of the brain may contribute most to a patient's seizures, surgeons typically examine electroencephalograms (EEGs), which reveal electrical activity in different parts of the brain.

The $ 299 headset's 14 strategically placed head sensors are at the ends of what look like stretched, plastic fingers that detect patterns produced by the brain's electrical activity.

In deep, slow - wave sleep, recordings of the brain's electrical activity show sparse bursts of big, slow waves.