Sentences with phrase «on brain activity»

The treatment was found to have effect on the brain activity of patients with mild form of the progressive brain disorder.

Indeed, this work is the first to be published in a series of papers understanding the impact of green and urban spaces on brain activity in older adults.

Because the very action of creating goals has such a strong impact on brain activity, it's crucial to take the process seriously and stick to your decisions.

But the impact of language experience on brain activity has not been well understood.

Scientists have yet another way to spy on brain activity.

The chapter discusses the effects of childhood interpersonal trauma on brain activity, self - awareness and social functioning.

But, she said, studies of older adults have found that regular exercise can have positive effects on brain activity and mental abilities.

Our hypothesis was that playing brain games would have an impact on brain activity.

The patterns were surprisingly consistent from person to person, to the extent that the researchers could predict, based on brain activity, the feelings of an individual who had never been scanned before.

«They show that one can exert influence on brain activity by means of a super-simple method, electrical stimulation through the scalp.

Gozzi, A. * Schwarz, A., Reese, T., Bertani, S., Crestan, V., Bifone, A. Region - specific effects of nicotine on brain activity: A pharmacological MRI study in the drug - näve rat (2006) Neuropsychopharmacology, 31 (8), pp. 1690 - 1703

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.

A research study conducted at Nottingham University in the UK found that immediate reward in the form of points in a video game had a similar effect on brain activity as stimulant medication.

«With training, animals stopped producing overt behavior and started relying on brain activity.»

They compared the effect of both drinks on brain activity in the dorsal striatum, a key part of the brain's reward circuitry.

Moreover, assessments with MR neuroimaging showed that the SSRI had different effects on brain activity when associated with expectations of improvement or not.

Professor Mark Dadds, of the UNSW School of Psychology, says previous research suggested that oxytocin — a hormone with powerful effects on brain activity linked to the formation of social bonds — could have benefits for children with the disorder.

By sticking the chip into different spots on patients» heads while they are having unrelated neurosurgery, he is eavesdropping on brain activity, looking for clues such as what might precede an epileptic seizure.

«To be able to know if two people are talking between themselves, and even what they are talking about, based solely on their brain activity is something truly marvellous.

The implant eavesdropped on his brain activity and, together with sensors taped to the shoulder and above the eyebrow reading the electrical activity of muscle contractions, allowed him to slowly spell out words with the power of thought.

That seems to be what President Obama was implying in his recent SOTU address (for more on the Brain Activity Map Project, see this NYT article).

Then, paired t - tests were conducted to test the effect of oxytocin on brain activity in the region of interest identified in this comparison.

MAZMANIAN: Emeran Mayer and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to look at the effects of specific microorganisms on brain activity.

The research on brain activity by Rosalind Picard and her colleagues at MIT's Media Lab suggests that students» brain activity is nearly non-existent during lectures - even lower than when they are asleep.

The effectiveness of the game on brain activity has sparked some scientific controversy over the years, with some studies showing that playing Brain Age has no effects on brain development.

Another study investigating the effect of attachment style on brain activities during a simulated experience of social exclusion reported that high anxiety was positively correlated with activity in the insular and anterior cingulate cortex (DeWall et al., 2012).

But the impact of language experience on brain activity is not well understood, Luk says.

«The next step will be to identify in advance those smokers who will have more difficultly quitting and target more intensive treatments, based on brain activity and network connectivity.»

Substances have a profound impact on brain activity and neurotransmitters.

Objective: We examined effects of the glycemic index (GI) on brain activity in the late postprandial period after a typical intermeal interval.

None perceived a difference between the two types of sweat, but the pre-exam sweat had a different effect on brain activity, lighting up areas that process social and emotional signals, as well as several areas thought to be involved in empathy (PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0005987).

None perceived a difference between the two types of sweat, but the pre-exam sweat had a different effect on brain activity, lighting up areas that process...

The Yale research team had demonstrated in a prior study that fructose and another simple sugar, glucose, had different effects on brain activity.

After that, researchers expected that the computer would be able to do the opposite way: identify which song participants were listening to, based on their brain activity — a technique known as brain decoding.