Sentences with phrase «of brain regions involved»

Relative to healthy controls, MDD youth displayed a potentiated response to peer rejection in a ventral network of brain regions involved in the identification of emotional and social stimuli and the generation of affective states (Phillips et al., 2003), including the sgACC, anterior insula, amygdala and NAcc.

In the 2007 - 2008 academic year, for instance, awards supported research on topics such as the imaging of brain regions involved in the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autism.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) assessed the strength of hippocampal connections to an extensive network of brain regions involved in emotion.

«Identification of a network of brain regions involved in mathematics.»

«Our study reveals a network of brain regions involved in the sharing of self - related information on social media,» says Meshi.

A network of brain regions involved in self - disclosure on Facebook has been determined, according to a new study published in the open - access journal Scientific Reports.

At this point the Scientific Americanarticle combines interesting conclusions with possible presumption concerning our Creator's playing along with the experiment: «The quantity and diversity of brain regions involved in the nuns» religious experience point to the complexity of the phenomenon of spirituality.

A new study suggests that age - associated improvements in the ability to consider the preferences of others are linked with maturation of a brain region involved in self control.

Not exact matches

But it is now clear that the right hemisphere plays a significant role in language processing as well, and that language comprehension and production involve many regions of the brain.

The thrust of the cumulative argument of Cobb's book is that since Whitehead wrote statements that clearly imply that regional inclusion obtains between molecular and electronic occasions, we ought to be receptive to the suggestion that «soul» occasions include the regions of brain occasions and God includes the regions of all temporal occasions, because there is no principle involved in these latter two instances which has not been acknowledged by Whitehead himself in the case of the relations holding between molecular occasions and electronic occasions.

This idea fits what we know about localization of function in the brain — different mental functions involve different regions.6

A person deprived of eyes or of the region of the brain where vision is involved must have a subjective experience that differs from the person equipped with these organs.

And then we also were going to do neuroimaging where, in particular, we're using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, which looks at blood flow in the brain and therefore tells us what regions of the brain are involved in a task.

The researchers found that the connectivity of regions involved in vision increased on LSD so that the visual cortex was «talking to» more of the brain.

Recognizing rhythms doesn't involve just parts of the brain that process sound — it also relies on a brain region involved with movement, researchers report online January 18 in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Brain scans of musicians as they improvised in a musical dialogue with another player showed that the improvisers used regions involved in syntax during production of language.

In one group of robins, the team removed cluster N, a brain region involved in processing signals from the «pair - forming photopigments» in the eyes thought to relay magnetic compass information.

Using a computer model based on direct brain recordings from epilepsy patients, they are the first to show the existence of a network of neural regions that can push or pull on the synchronization of the regions directly involved in a seizure.

As for cortical thinning, Dr. Zhao said that other research provides convincing evidence to support the theory that reduced cortical layer thickness in some brain regions may result in the decreased thickness of the frontal lobe, a large part of the brain that is involved in variety of functions, including emotion.

The neocortex, involved in higher - level function such as language and reasoning, was the region of the brain affected.

After the incoming smell signal pattern is processed, this information is sent to different parts of the brain, including regions involved in memory and emotion, as well as to the cortex, where thinking takes place.

A clever experiment pinpoints the brain region involved in taking the perspective of our future selves or that of others

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.

However, according to Alexander Soutschek, an economist at the University of Zurich and lead author on the study, previous research on self - control and delayed gratification has focused instead on the prefrontal brain regions involved in impulse control.

Now research in rodents suggests that gut microbes may alter the inventory of microRNAs — molecules that help keep cells in working order by managing protein production — in brain regions involved in controlling anxiety.

The researchers discovered that in brain regions involved in regulating anxiety — the amygdala and prefrontal cortex — microbe - free mice had an overabundance of some types of microRNA and a shortage of others compared with normal mice.

It turned out that the babbling youngsters were instead using a region of their brain that was previously thought to be involved only in learning songs, not performing them.

Trying to find the right medicine for the sickest of these patients, Rapoport scanned their brains to zero in on regions involved in OCD and found increased activity in the basal ganglia, a center for movement and habits located at the base of the forebrain.

This contrast thus aims to identify which regions of the brain are involved in assigning responsibility for a crime, holding constant the crime itself.

Along with behavioural studies, imaging has helped to build the view that pain involves many brain areas and that chronic pain may cause long - term changes to the morphology or function of some of these regions.

Research suggests that we empathize by effectively putting ourselves in others» shoes: for example, when we observe someone feeling sad, we simulate their experience by activating the same regions of the brain that are involved when we feel sad ourselves.

Much of the research so far has targeted single regions of the brain, yet it is possible that multiple regions are involved.

Less than a quarter of drug - resistant patients, however, meet the medical criteria for the procedures, the main one being a distinct site of origin in the brain for their seizures (confirmed with brain scans and electroencephalography) that does not overlap with regions involved in essential functions, such as language.

Interestingly, the researchers found that the degree of functional connectivity, between brain regions involved in detecting grammatical violations and those related to working memory, predicted the performance accuracy of the participants in determining whether a sequence was grammatical or not.

Remarkably, mice raised in the germ - free cages displayed fewer motor deficits and reducedaccumulation of misfolded protein aggregates in brain regions involved in controlling movement.

This pattern of reduced serotonergic neurotransmission matters, because some of the alcohol - induced abnormalities were found in brain regions involved in judgment, self - control and emotional regulation.

The brain scans also showed that the A allele was associated with increased activity in the lateral and medial prefrontal cortex, regions that belong to a network involved in the encoding of emotional memories.

Lewy bodies are protein deposits that develop in nerve cells in regions of the brain involved in thinking, memory and movement.

After controlling for factors known to influence brain volume and cognitive test scores, such as age and gender, the researchers found that a higher self - reported frequency of game playing was significantly associated with greater brain volume in several regions involved in Alzheimer's disease (such as the hippocampus) and with higher cognitive test scores on memory and executive function.

A postmortem analysis of human brain tissue, for example, conducted by Witelson and her colleagues at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster, revealed that women's neurons were 11 percent denser than men's in the prefrontal cortex and in a region of the temporal cortex that is involved with language processing, comprehension, and memory.

Tallying the genes that were most perturbed by loss of Lef1 in this brain region revealed that over 20 were involved in mood disorders like depression and anxiety.

Now that the location and identity of the wake - promoting neurons are precisely defined, the supramammillary region joins other parts of the brain known as being involved in keeping people awake, such as the nearby lateral hypothalamus, the upper brain stem and basal forebrain.

The researchers also found a striking demonstration of the underlying brain regions that are involved in gambling when they studied the gambling behaviour of patients who had experienced brain injury due to a tumour or stroke.

Specifically, the researchers found that they had a thickening of the cortex in a part of the brain known as the temporal occipital region, which comprises a large network of structures involved in reading.

Consider the hippocampus, a region of the brain involved in long - term memory formation.

In Callie's scans, Berns observes activation in the caudate, a brain region involved in processing rewards, after exposing her to the smell of his daughter.

When adults learn hierarchical rules, Frank and Collins have combined experimental data with computer models of brain function to suggest, that the key circuit involved is a connection between the PFC and another region called the striatum.

More specifically, his work has shown that dopamine signalling in two connected brain regions involved in opiate - related memory processing, called the Basolateral Amygdala (BLA), a region deep within the brain, and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), located near the surface of the brain, is switched by opiate exposure.

Animal studies show that a critical region of the brain, known as the amygdala, is intricately involved in fear responses, especially the amygdala on the right side of the brain.

Researchers have long thought that the region of the brain involved in some of the highest forms of cognition and reasoning — the prefrontal cortex (PFC)-- was too underdeveloped in young children, especially infants, to participate in complex cognitive tasks.