A specific type of regular oscillation seen in the hippocampus and several
other brain regions connected to it.
Not exact matches
These neurons are
connected to
other brain regions via long - range projections.
WHITE MAGIC Targeting parts of the
brain's white matter, the tissue that
connects different
brain regions (shown), may be key to whether stimulating the
brain with electricity will work as a treatment for memory problems and
other ills.
The measurements are used to build images that trace the shape and direction of the axons and how the neurons in one
region are
connected to
other brain regions.
«It's not so much how the
brain is structured, but the way these
regions are
connected to each
other,» Lee said.
In the final experiment, the researchers followed the PBelCGRP neurons» long - reaching branches (called axons) to the cells they
connect with in
other regions of the
brain.
From there, the fibers spread out like a sheet,
connecting brain regions that are important for seeing objects with
other brain regions that coordinate which objects to focus attention upon.
These frontal
regions also became better
connected, both within themselves, and to
other parts of the
brain that deal with sensory input and motor control.
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.»
In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that more socially
connected people have
brains characterized by stronger intrinsic connectivity between the amygdala and
other brain regions subserving social cognition, using resting - state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fcMRI).