But he adds that it remains to be seen how the OPFC interacts
with other areas of the brain, such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, that also play important roles in motivation and emotion.
«That alone was an amazing finding, as it shows the extent to which the visual cortex also processes information
from other areas of the brain,» explains Tobias Bonhoeffer, who investigates processes in the visual cortex with his department at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology for many years.
To make matters more challenging, Lappas decided at this early stage in the experiment to search for patterns not only in the auditory cortex but in
other areas of the brain as well.
For a particularly hard task, like determining the antonym of a word, the brain required several seconds to respond, during which the prefrontal cortex
recruited other areas of the brain, including presumably memory networks not actually visible.
«Long - range connections that allow this region to talk to
other areas of the brain seem to drive function,» says Zeynep Saygin, a postdoc at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
Unlike the visual cortex, say, whose coding will be influenced by light falling onto the retina, the entorhinal cortex creates the hexagonal pattern entirely internally, by integrating whatever information about the environment is received
by other areas of the brain.
Compared to the people with no elevated levels, people with elevated levels on three or more biomarkers had on average 5 percent lower volume in the hippocampus and
other areas of the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease.
An expert in stroke care, Dr. Goldberg focuses his research on injury of the brain's «white matter,» which contains the long «arms» by which nerves
reach other areas of the brain.
The problem, however, is that when little kids under the age of 7 spend so much time doing organized activities, it takes time away from the free play that is so desperately needed for
developing other areas of their brain and wellbeing.
Since the prefrontal cortex and
other areas of the brain responsible for impulse control, willpower, and healthy decision - making are not fully developed, risk - taking behavior often happens during this stage of life.
Dentate granule cells are part of a circuit that receive electrical signals from the entorhinal cortex, a cortical brain region that processes sensory and spatial input
from other areas of the brain.
And this applies to
other areas of the brain as well as the hippocampus, where we are beginning to ask questions about how these areas become dysfunctional in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.
Although the role of the visual cortex and
other areas of the brain are being identified, and their functions clarified, it is not likely that there is a «truth» center in the brain or a «lying» center.
Characteristic connectivity patterns can be observed between the area surrounding the implant and
other areas of the brain.
(Addiction also causes changes in
other areas of the brain, such as the cortex and the limbic system, that further influence these behaviors.)
Cole says it would be useful to explore whether connectivity between the prefrontal cortex and
other areas of the brain is altered — while the brain is at rest — in people with severe mental illness.
The entorhinal cortex is a link between the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus, and
the other areas of the brain.
However, decisions to donate to a given organization were associated with lesions in
other areas of the brain.
In addition to a number of other studies planned or in process, the team is interested in exploring further how the brain stem is connected functionally to
other areas of the brain, «because usually the brain doesn't work from just one area; it's a network of areas that all work together,» Stephenson said.
It's also known that the hippocampus sends signals to
other areas of the brain — the amygdala and the hypothalamus — that have also been shown to control anxiety - related behavior.
«Nonetheless, we think that we can use optogenetics to put together a larger picture of connectivity between other types of neurons in
other areas of the brain.»
Some nerve cells send signals far away to
other areas of the brain, while other neurons send signals within the same area.
Based on their discovery, Kreitzer and his team revised their assumptions about how fast - spiking interneurons may function elsewhere, suggesting that the neurons are critical for learning in
other areas of the brain, too.
In order for the basal ganglia to function properly,
other areas of the brain must «fire» (communicate) sufficiently with the basal ganglia so it can do its job of inhibiting involuntary and repetitive movement.
However,
these other areas of the brain may not fire adequately into the basal ganglia due to various reasons, including imbalanced brain development in childhood, brain injury, brain inflammation, brain degeneration, or other glitches in brain circuitry.
But it also tells us that
other areas of the brain aren't affected.»
Other areas of the brain that support working memory are the hippocampus, which is involved in long - term memory storage and spatial orientation, and Broca's area, located on the left side of the frontal lobes and involved in language processing and verbal fluency.
They also monitored two
other areas of the brain, the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex, as control regions because they «weren't expecting any stimulus preference there,» Mormann said via email.
However, if the asphyxia persists the baby can develop hypoxic - ischemic encephalopathy, a type of brain damage that destroys tissue in the cerebral motor cortex and
other areas of the brain.
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other area of the brain that is impacted by trauma and abuse is the Hippocampus.
Another study using voxel - based morphometry and MRI on experienced Vipassana meditators was done to extend the findings of Lazar et al., which found increased grey matter concentrations in this and
other areas of the brain in experienced meditators.