Sentences with phrase «other brain areas as»

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There are recent studies that say people who read a substantial amount are more able to empathize with others, and also that the brain is engaged in several different areas by particular words, such as areas related to the senses of taste, touch, or smell especially.

«As certain areas of the brain become more variable, it seems to compensate in some ways for the other parts of the brain that are decreasing,» said Aaron Heller, an assistant professor in the Psychology Department and senior author of the paper.

Brain areas involved in emotion are less active in such people, but this can't explain other behaviour common to psychopaths, such as drug abuse.

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.

Finally, the team used functional MRI scans of subjects» brains to show that contemplating God's beliefs activates the same brain areas as thinking about one's own views, while thoughts about other Americans» views activate a brain area used for inferring other people's mental states.

Their results demonstrated that, instead of an overall decrease in variability with aging, as earlier studies showed, the brain displayed regional differences, with some areas of the brain showing increases in variability across age while other areas showed a decrease.

Whereas some of the other types of visual prostheses propose stimulating different areas of the brain from the one Pezaris is targeting, another promising project known as the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is expanding its U.S. clinical trial into Europe.

Previously, researchers had two theories about how neurons in the motor cortex might control movement: One was that these neurons fired in patterns that represent more abstract commands, such as «move your arm to the right,» and then neurons in different brain areas would translate those instructions to guide the muscle contractions that make the arm move; the other was that the motor cortex neurons would actually send directions to the arm muscles, telling them how to contract.

«One camp of neuroscientists believe that we access both the phonology and the visual perception of a word as we read them, and that the area or areas of the brain that do one, also do the other, but our study suggests this isn't the case,» says Glezer.

«Our results, as well as similar results from other labs, point to a need for carefully designed tasks and paradigms that can reveal different functions in key areas of the brain and different vulnerabilities to the aging process,» Reagh added.

Inhibiting the same area of the brain with similar techniques increased the amount of time mice slept, especially non-REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, although sleep was not instant upon drug administration, as has been shown for other parts of the arousal system, Pedersen says.

The brain's cortex, where most cognitive functions occur, has areas specialized for reading as well as face recognition, language comprehension, and many other tasks.

The nature of senior moments led scientists to believe they stem from disruptions in the hippocampus — an area that, among other roles, acts as the brain's «save» button, allowing us to retain new information.

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

To do this, we observed neurons in this area, some of which encourage activity in their fellow brain cells, so - called excitatory neurons, and others that tamp down activity, known as inhibitory neurons.

Several of the brain areas that had lost gray matter during pregnancy responded with the strongest neural activity to their own babies as opposed to the photos of other infants.

Trimble discusses research findings that show our brain's emotionally driven limbic system is deeply connected with other areas of the nervous system, such as the sensory cortex, which helps us process our surroundings.

During the study of a number of aardvarks by researchers of the Brain Function Research Group at the University of the Witwatersrand, all but one of the study animals — as well as other aardvarks in the area — died because of a severe drought, with air temperatures much higher than normal and very dry soil in the area.

A study out of none other than the University of Cambridge found the same engagement of several brain areas — all involved in reward and motivation — in people with compulsive sexual behavior as previously found in people struggling with drug addiction.

These findings open the door for researchers to potentially explore therapies that could target this area of the brain and disrupt its role in addiction, potentially with new drugs or other techniques such as deep brain stimulation or transcranial magnetic stimulation.

As a comparison group, they injected saline (saltwater) in the same brain area of other mice.

«This lack of synchronization with frontal regions in ASD — an impairment in brain connectivity — may lead to symptoms of the disorder that involve processes that require brain coordination between frontal and other areas, such as language processing and social interaction,» Just explained.

Gradinaru also thinks the method is a good candidate for targeting areas other than the brain, such as the peripheral nervous system.

Using an optical fiber implanted in that region, the researchers were able to stimulate the primary motor cortex near where the stroke had occurred, and then monitor biochemical changes and blood flow there as well as in other brain areas with which this region was in communication.

But all three labels also elicited some activity in the brain area associated with reward, the ventral striatum, as well as other regions related to desire and feeling connected.»

They often work on a particular topic such as the brain, memory, attention, and other areas and are frequently employed by universities.

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.

Pelt and Sethian are now applying their approach to other new areas, such as real - time analysis of images coming out of synchrotron light sources, biological reconstruction of cells, and brain mapping.

The previous line of thought was that a certain area of the brain was in charge of hand function, but new research shows that other body parts compensating for the missing hand (like a foot, mouth or arm) just as effectively «light up» the erstwhile hand area.

These pregnancy - induced brain changes involve the pruning of the size and structure of certain areas of the brain that process social information, such as the feelings, intentions, thoughts or beliefs of others.

Vascular dementia, on the other hand, appears to occur when blood flow to certain areas of the brain is interrupted, such as during strokes and so - called mini-strokes.

A whole area of research known as «the cytokine model of cognitive function» is dedicated to examining just how much this never - ending inflammation is linked to depression, anxiety, brain fog, and other autoimmune brain problems.

Cortical activation for individuals with migraine was specifically suppressed in visual area V2 of the brain's occipital cortex with the POTs, and this cortical activation suppression was extended to other visual areas as well.

They also protect our heart, brain, and other vital organs, give our bodies structure, and act as a deposit area for minerals (such as calcium).

Some theories suggest that fibromyalgia may result from stress - induced changes in the hippocampal area of the brain; others from stress - induced disruptions of the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis (which affects adrenal function and cortisol production); and still others from low levels of the neurotransmitter, dopamine, caused by genetic factors and triggered by exposure to stressors, such as emotional distress, physical trauma, viral infections or inflammatory disorders.

First, the fat stores become full, then the bloodstream and eventually insulin drives the excess energy into other areas in the body that are still insulin sensitive such as your liver, heart, pancreas, eyes and brain.

«Alice has demonstrated great range in her interests and abilities, and she has connected to other areas at HGSE by taking courses related to Mind, Brain, and Education; Technology, Innovation, and Education; and research - related courses that will enhance her work as a professional,» says HDP Program Director and Lecturer Terrance Tivnan.

Kids who are perceived as «brains,» or are disabled, gay or sexually ambivalent, new to the school or area, or different in some other way are typically picked on.

For example, IDEA supported local communities that were developing and implementing early childhood programs; schools serving students with low - incidence disabilities, such as children who are blind or deaf or children with autism or traumatic brain injury; and schools in rural or large urban areas, where financial and other resources are often scarce.

Special education programs and services are provided by trained personnel in the following areas as defined by federal and state law: autism, deaf - blindness, deafness, developmental delay, hearing impairment, intellectual disabilities, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, emotional disabilities, specific learning disability, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury or visual impairment including blindness.

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.

Together with other high - quality herbs, these powerful antioxidant enzyme stimulators target specific areas of health such as vision, brain, oral, joints, skin and kidney health to name a few.

Melatonin is a hormone produced in a small structure adjacent to the brain called the pineal body as well as in other areas of the body.

Since 1980, Nelson Barry has also served as a mediator in more than 2,000 cases and as an arbitrator in more than 50 others in the areas of brain injury, wrongful death, burn injury, back and neck injury and other catastrophic injuries.

Because of the broad spectrum of symptoms and disabilities that can come from this injury, such as brain dysfunction, bruising of the brain, torn tissue, and long - term complications that affect other areas of the body, pursuing compensation may help you and your family handle the difficult times that may lie ahead.

And as our research has shown, the longer you concentrate on positive words, the more you begin to affect other areas of the brain.

So, as noted earlier by Kernberg regarding denial and splitting, the person will continue to have a memory that he or she previously didn't feel this way, «but this memory has no emotional relevance» for the person because that area of the brain that was previously active is now entirely turned off (entirely inhibited by the activity of the other brain area).

In the earlier stages of love, other brain areas such as the caudate nucleus and the ventral tegmental areas become active.