Sentences with phrase «on brain activity when»

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

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This increases brain activity during a time when labor progress relies on a woman's primitive brain instincts.

Birthing practices that isolate women from their innate capacity to birth can interfere with these behaviours because women then focus on breastfeeding as a left brained activity when actually research has shown us it is more of a right brained activity (Smilie 2008).

What we know from research is that there's lots of activity going on inside your baby's growing brain when she's in the early stages of sleep.

The breastfeeding mothers, on average, had higher activity in the parts of their brains linked to nurturing behaviors and showed greater sensitivity to their babies when seen again at four months postpartum.

The team's approach relied on methods developed in the past decade or so to study «functional connectivity» in the adult human brain — essentially using fMRI to determine which brain regions have synchronized activity when the subject is not engaged in any particular task.

Also, the patterns of brain activity that we see on imaging when they are lying down may not be the patterns that the brain produces during normal upright activity.»

In a series of experiments in mice, the researchers developed a computer program that connected the neural activity in the animals» brains to musical notes, so that when one group of neurons switched on, a corresponding musical note played.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig have recently discovered that these capabilities are embedded in a much more finely - tuned way than previously assumed — and even differ depending on the style of the music: They observed that the brain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of mBrain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig have recently discovered that these capabilities are embedded in a much more finely - tuned way than previously assumed — and even differ depending on the style of the music: They observed that the brain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of mbrain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of music.

When researchers turn on the lights, they can monitor and measure brain activity.

«This suggests more people may have mental activity initially but then lose their memories after recovery, either due to the effects of brain injury or sedative drugs on memory recall,» explained Dr Parnia, who was an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Southampton when he started the AWARE study.

But her brain is undergoing a frenzy of activity in an attempt to heal itself from the trauma she suffered on Saturday, when she was shot in the head in Tucson, Ariz., by a gunman who also shot 19 other people, killing six.

When an adult does that, «you get a little blip» in their brain activity, she says — a microvolt of electricity lasting a 10th of a second that can be picked up with EEG electrodes on the scalp.

The technique relies on the observation that when activity in an area of the brain increases, blood - oxygen levels in that region rise, which modulates the MRI signal.

The results are «movies» of brain activity showing not only where and when activity occurs but also how signals move across the brain on a millisecond - by - millisecond level, information no other research team has produced.

This synthetic combination turns on only when in the presence of a magnetic field, allowing them to control neuronal activity in the brain.

Until now, most sleep research has focused on global control of sleep, which occurs when the entire brain is awash in slow waves — oscillations of brain activity created when sets of neurons are silenced for brief periods.

When the goal was to increase functional connectivity, a monetary reward was given on trials with high temporal correlation between the two relevant brain activities was detected.

«That may be because when the brain is focused on processing new information — such as taking part in an unfamiliar activity with unfamiliar people in a new location — less «brain power» is available to focus on the family relationships,» said lead author Karen K. Melton, Ph.D., assistant professor of child and family studies in Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences.

These «delayed response tasks» suggest that working memory, at the level of brain cells, is the result of self - sustaining patterns of neural activity — a group of neurons starts firing when the initial information is presented and maintains that firing internally when the stimulus is no longer present until the animal acts on that information.

When a patient with epilepsy experiences increased electrical activity in the brain, or seizures, this could be associated with an increase in a range of behaviors, such as hyper - sexuality, hypergraphia (an intense desire to write), hyper - morality and hyper - religiosity, explained Brick Johnstone, professor of health psychology at Missouri University and lead researcher on the study.

Rissman's team found that they could accurately predict the participants» subjective experiences of each face as novel or familiar based on the measured brain activity alone, and that the accuracy of the predictions was highest (95 percent) when the participants were most confident about their answer.

Throughout it all, the fMRI machine recorded activity in a part of the brain that tends to turn on when it encounters something that it finds «rewarding.»

«That may be because when the brain is focused on processing new information — such as taking part in an unfamiliar activity with unfamiliar people in a new location — less «brain power» is available to focus on the family relationships,» lead author Karen K. Melton, Ph.D., assistant professor of child and family studies, said in a press release.

When our brains don't get enough to chew on in terms of mental activity, this might be where eating out of boredom comes in.

Men, on the other hand, showed a distinctively different brain activity when they tried to suppress their urge.

When your brain takes on new information, this demand increases activity between the neurons.

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.

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California at Los Angeles were able to measure brain activity in 41 persons on a cell - by - cell level and found that neurons in the amygdala became extremely active when participants were shown pictures of animals.

Our bodies also emanate information via electrical activity from brains and hearts, DNA from flaking skin cells and shedding hair, and data on health status from germs emitted when we cough, sneeze or spit.

Kevin O'Keefe came across a recent study which indicates that older readers needed less brain activity when reading on a tablet than on paper or e-Readers.

An article in The Economist on April 14, 2011, cited a study by Carnegie Mellon University that used brain imaging to prove a 37 % decrease in parietal lobe activity when listening to someone talk on the phone.