Sentences with phrase «other brain structures»

The «hippocampal theta rhythm» is a strong oscillation that can be observed in the hippocampus and other brain structures in numerous species of mammals including rodents, rabbits, dogs, cats, bats, and marsupials.

It may be that subjective perceptions of facial emotion are formed through repeated cycles of processing between the amygdala, the temporal cortex and other brain structures that shape a person's values and social perspectives.»

Located near the center of the brain, the nucleus accumbens is connected, by intermingled populations of cells, to many other brain structures having roles in pleasure seeking and drug addiction.

Whether Arc is involved in regulating the plasticity of other neurological functions mediated by other brain structures, like learning, memory, or repair, remains to be tested but will be examined in the future, says Shepherd.

These neurons connect to the forebrain and other brain structures that regulate mood and behaviour.

Not exact matches

We also know that other animals with brains that are structured similarly display similar forms of consciousness and self - awareness.

We know that our earliest relationships actually build the brain structures we use for relating to others our whole lives.

You can't teach a baby to walk before his little muscles are developed enough; you can't teach him to talk before his oral structures and the brain wiring that enables this are present and he won't be able to truly «self soothe» no matter how long you leave him to cry himself to sleep, until he has developed the brain structures and cognitive skills that enable emotional regulation — in other words, the ability to calm himself when he becomes upset.

In their lifetime, how you connect with them — how you communicate, share affection, help them learn to reflect on their emotions and understand the importance of relationships — will shape the structure of their brain, model how they have relationships with others in the future, and nurture their developing mind.

Studies on genes, brain structures and hormones have failed to identify a clear link between, on one hand, differences at birth between the sexes and, on the other, particular behaviour.

Other research indicates that teenage marijuana use may adversely impact the developing brain: it has been linked to changes in neural structure and function, including lower IQ, as well as an increased risk of psychosis in vulnerable individuals.

For more consistent results, the researchers only recruited women, and the participants completed surveys to see if there were any other factors at work that could affect brain structure, such as depression or level of formal education.

STOP SIGNS Brainlike structures grown from autistic patients» stem cells (right) produced greater numbers of brain cells that make other brain cells less active (green and red) compared with structures grown from the cells of a non-autistic family member (left).

Yet researchers are still trying to understand how activity in this hypothalamus - adjacent area could conjure the condition — and to determine what other glitches in brain structure, metabolism or interactions contribute to sufferers» throbbing noggins.

Their analysis focused on the substantia nigra, a brain structure where Parkinson's disease kills neurons that use the chemical dopamine to communicate with other cells.

The cortex and its gateway, the thalamus — the quail egg — shaped structure in the center of the brain — on the other hand, are essential for consciousness, providing it with its elaborate content.

PANS is thought to be an inflammatory condition that results when an infection or some other invasive trigger spurs the body to turn on itself and attack structures in the brain.

Invertebrates lack a cortex, an amygdala and many of the other major brain structures routinely implicated in human emotion.

Researchers traced the hormone's path from the skeleton to the hypothalamus — a brain structure that maintains blood sugar levels and body temperature and regulates other processes.

Severe CTE was defined as tau clusters and several other degenerative abnormalities affecting not only the cortex, but deeper brain structures including the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the brain stem.

Sweatt believes that his findings in the hippocampus apply to other regions involved in memory processing, including the cortex, the brain's outermost layer, and the amygdala, two almond - shaped structures in the midbrain.

An offshoot of a project with performance artist Marina Abramovic, the Mutual Wave Machine invites two people at a time to sit in a dome - like structure and gaze at each other while seeing a simplified visualization of their brain activity with lights all around them.

Novitch's group and many other labs are still trying to figure out why the brain bits can vary so much in size, composition and structure.

«Eventually, we want to be able to image whole brains, as is, with this method to see the entirety of their neural networks and other structures.»

Dr. Vállez García and the team are now considering what to look at next, such as inflammation in the brain or changes in the structure of other functional regions.

It's the first known evidence of such a dinosaur brain — but now that they know to look for it, the researchers say, they might go back and look at other endocranial casts of dinosaurs to see whether they might contain traces of other such structures.

Memory waves It is well established that sleep strengthens newly formed memories, and slow brain waves are thought to enhance the transfer of information from the hippocampus, a brain structure that is crucial to memory formation, to other parts of the brain for long - term storage.

«It's not so much how the brain is structured, but the way these regions are connected to each other,» Lee said.

In addition to collecting scans of brain structure and function, the research teams at 21 study sites around the country will regularly gather a trove of other information from each youngster, from psychological, cognitive, and environmental data to biological specimens such as DNA.

Several other structures located along the side of the brain form two lateral subnetworks, one of which potentially serves to regulate the internal status of the body (i.e. taste, hunger, visceral information) and the other as a «mega-integration» subnetwork that allows the interaction of information from nearly the entire cortex.

Lynch and Granger base their characterization on our current understanding of how the human brain works, describing in detail its physiology and structure and comparing it with the brains of other primates.

Over his 35 - year career, the neurobiologist at the University of Arizona at Tucson has probed the minute brain structures of cockroaches, water bugs, velvet worms, brine shrimp, and dozens of other invertebrates.

Previous studies by this group, and many others, have shown short - term increases in self - reported anxiety when digitally - dependent people have their digital devices removed, and longer - term increases in their depression and loneliness, as well as changes to actual brain structures and capability to fight infections in some.

Previous research from other studies had linked hearing loss with marked differences in brain structure compared to those with normal hearing, both in humans and animals.

Different brain structures seem to support different kinds of learning and memory; brain damage can lead to the loss of one type without disturbing the others.

However, Evans says «other accounts do not generally explain math disability in terms of underlying brain structures, though the disorder must ultimately depend on aberrations in the brain.»

Other biological components of homosexual behaviour have also been found: brain structures that differ with sexual orientation, for example, and robust theories for how genes survive in the population despite rarely being passed on by homosexual people.

Like all other vertebrates, the gonads (testes and ovaries) are influenced by hormones produced by the pituitary gland, which itself is controlled by hormones from the hypothalamus, a structure in the brain.

Extended imaging sessions at UCLA allowed the statisticians to model links between structures in epileptic patients» brains and to compare them either individually or collectively with each other and with the controls.

Based on studies of other genes related to FOXP2, the authors suggest that the loss of functioning protein from one copy of this gene might disrupt the proper growth of key speech and language structures in the brain.

«And many studies of the brain and central nervous system, using imaging, EEG and other objective measures of brain structure and function, add to the existing evidence that central nervous system dysfunction is a critical element in the disorder.

«We have long wondered how the cerebral cortex can process and integrate separate information lines coming in from different brain structures, or from other areas of the cortex, and how it sorts out what information is relevant at any given moment,» says senior study investigator Bernardo Rudy, MD, PhD.

Working independently, three teams of researchers have developed a clear picture of the structure and mechanism of the misshapen, threadlike proteins — called prions in their infectious form — that are the hallmarks of mad cow disease, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and 19 other brain - wasting diseases.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

Humans can easily learn foreign words that refer to a specific object, and it was assumed that chimps and other animals could not, perhaps owing to their different brain structure.

Professor Baron - Cohen commented: «Although these very clear sex differences in brain structure may reflect an environmental or social factor, from other studies we know that biological influences are also important, including prenatal sex steroid hormones (such as fetal testosterone) as well as sex chromosome effects.

A second major theme is the development of methods for studying human brain structure and function using MRI and for integrating fMRI data with other imaging methods such as EEG.

It's generally accepted that the fusiform gyrus, a brain structure located in the neocortex, allows humans to tell one another apart with a speed and accuracy that other species can't manage.

Other neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, ALS and Huntington's disease, are also caused by certain amyloid structures interfering in the brain.

This past summer, along with Roy and other colleagues, he reported that — contrary to neuroscience dogma — the neural circuit in the brain structure called the hippocampus that makes a particular memory is not the same circuit that recalls the memory later.