Sentences with phrase «on the side of the brain opposite»

Coup injuries are those that occur at the site of impact, while contrecoup injuries occur on the side of the brain opposite the impact point.

Not exact matches

Such movement makes the brain bump into the interior of the skull at the point of impact, as well as on the opposite side of the skull, resulting in contusions (bruises) that damage two sites in the brain, called the coup and contrecoup injuries.

Normally, the brain works out where sounds are coming from by relying on information from both ears located on opposite sides of the head, such as differences in volume and time delay in sounds reaching the two ears.

The stroke patients showed activity in the exact same areas — just on the opposite side of the brain.

Brain imaging has revealed that positive and negative emotions are polarized on opposite sides of the prefrontal cortex.

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

The reason the flash was on the opposite side of the eye has to do with the way the brain processes an image.

But in males, each cerebellum had more links to the cortex on the opposite side of the brain than females.

Strokes that occur in one brain hemisphere can result in poor motor function on the opposite side of the body, leading to heavy reliance on the «good» side.

The memory loss was unexpected, and Dr. Penfield and I suspected that the surgeon had operated on the wrong side of the brain, and that there was some damage in the corresponding region in the opposite hemisphere, so that we were seeing the effect of a bilateral lesion.