Sentences with phrase «other parts of the brain»

At the same time, we are trying to find out where the serotonin might originate from in other parts of the brain.

We would see many other parts of your brain light up.

Other jobs that require precision timing might rely on other parts of the brain.

Chronic activation of the fear response can damage other parts of the brain responsible for cognition and learning.

For the control groups, they also had patients with injuries to other parts of the brain as well as healthy participants undergo the gambling tasks.

Those signals tell other parts of your brain, or specific parts of your body, what to do.

Taking your direct attention away from work and constant interaction lets other parts of your brain go to work for you, with serious benefits.

However, these compounds can have wide - ranging side effects since they can also bind to iron in other parts of the brain where healthy cells need it to survive.

Walking benefits other parts of the brain too, including those associated with memory, cognition, social function, speech, hearing, behavior and learning.

Unlike other parts of the brain and body that develop automatically over time, the circuits that direct executive function require appropriate stimuli to develop appropriate response capabilities.

The result is an experience which aims to stimulate other parts of the brain, to provoke personal memories and «deepen the connection» to a work of art.

Other research shows changes in other parts of the brain; these studies are not the focus of this post.

Using resting - state MRI analysis on thousands of people's brains around the world, the research has found that the areas of the brain which are associated with learning and development show high levels of variability, meaning that they change their neural connections with other parts of the brain more frequently, over a matter of minutes or seconds.

More and more evidence from other parts of the brain suggest that a molecule called ATP is part of the signaling mechanism where damaged neurons tell the glia that they are in distress.

The finding suggests that neuroscientists «will have to look at other parts of the brain for the cause of memory loss,» says Harding.

A PATIENT NAMED SALLY recently suffered a stroke that damaged her right parietal lobe without affecting other parts of the brain.

Animal research suggests other parts of the brain are involved in replaying memories too, says Loren Frank at the University of California, San Francisco.

Ross says this suggests that discrete timing is governed by other parts of the brain.

The tumor has threadlike tendrils that extend into other parts of the brain making it difficult to remove it all.

The dye molecules are small enough to leak out of blood vessels in the dura but too big to pass through the blood - brain barrier and enter other parts of the brain.

The brain stem and certain other parts of the brain are particularly rich in the receptors that attach to opioids.

The team focused on the primary auditory cortex, which is the first cortical region to receive auditory signals from the ears via other parts of the brain, and the nonprimary auditory cortex, which plays a more sophisticated role in processing those stimuli.

Now that the location and identity of the wake - promoting neurons are precisely defined, the supramammillary region joins other parts of the brain known as being involved in keeping people awake, such as the nearby lateral hypothalamus, the upper brain stem and basal forebrain.

They have had to reduce this amygdala activity and reroute it to other parts of the brain because the amygdala can not be active all the time due to this annoying sound.»

By studying other parts of the brain in both humans and monkeys, however, a team from Johns Hopkins University has now concluded that last - minute decision - making is a lot more complicated than previously known, involving complex neural coordination among multiple brain areas.

It looks as if music is riding the coattails of other parts of the brain that evolved for other functions.

It showed epileptic brains engage other parts of the brain to handle alertness tasks.

The trigger sounds targeted the misophonics» anterior insular cortex of the brain, a network that directs our attention toward stimuli that are meaningful to us, and other parts of the brain related to processing and regulating emotion.

The brain cortex can try... but there are other parts of the brain constantly trying to exert their influence, putting pressure on us to take actions that we may have previously decided aren't in our best interest.

A helpful metaphor is to think of executive function as the brain's CEO directing other parts of the brain, such as those that control the senses and body movement, to take action to carry out plans and perform tasks.

The excessive secretion of the hormones cortisol and adrenaline pumping through our bodies, coupled with the activation of the fear response, can damage other parts of the brain responsible for cognition and learning.

These give you a welcome moment of respite from the puzzles and a chance to flex other parts of your brain as you attempt to build a profile of the people who have now gone missing.

At least one study suggests that in cluster headache sufferers this hypothalamus - adjoining region may differ not only in its electrical activity but also in its interactions with other parts of the brain.

The amygdala interacts with many other parts of the brain, and experiences shape the responses of each of those regions.

Research teams from diverse fields — biomedical engineering, neurology, neuroscience, pharmacology and cell biology — also are working together to demonstrate how the virus destroys vital fetal brain cells, reduces fetal brain cell growth, and wreaks havoc on other parts of the brain, said Hongjun Song, a briefing speaker who is director of the Stem Cell Program at the Institute for Cell Engineering and professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

«This strengthens evidence that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex integrates information from other parts of the brain to determine punishment and shows a clear neural dissociation between punishment decisions and moral responsibility judgements.»

The rTMS pulses directly stimulate an area about the size of a quarter, although scientists are examining whether they affect other parts of the brain, too.

In December scientists reported discovering an enzyme that preserves memories; blocking its action could, in principle, delete memories without damaging other parts of the brain.

Scientists have come to this conclusion after finding that smokers who suffered a stroke in the insular cortex were far more likely to quit smoking and experience fewer and less severe withdrawal symptoms than those with strokes in other parts of the brain.

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.

Thus it is possible that a single neuron might be interdependent in the mode of ontic power with a macroscopic feature of action (e.g., conscious understanding) simultaneous with it and also make a contribution by way of its causal power to a later neural occurrence in some other part of the brain.

For example, dolphins as well as ducks sleep with only one half of their brain at a time, the other part of the brain is fully awake.

Unfortunately, the other part of my brain is significantly louder and clamors, You deserve a treat, and it's healthy!

The «prefrontal cortex is more responsive to intervention than other parts of the brain,» writes Mr Tough.

Don't neglect the other parts of your brain: Even though your brain is tuned to the mommy channel most of the day, don't forget you also have a «me brain,» a «friend brain,» and a «spouse brain.»

Ito says the next step is to explore which connections to the CA1, CA3, or other parts of the brain could be responsible for this effect.

«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.