Sentences with phrase «particular brain regions»

Besides differences in the sizes of particular brain regions, however, no other potential explanations have surfaced.

Young adults with thinner cortex in particular brain regions are more impulsive during a decision - making task than teens with thicker cortex, according to a large correlational study of adolescents from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort.

It turns out that alerting the system to contradictions relies on particular brain regions, especially one called the anterior cingulate cortex.

Similarly, it is possible to generate genetic mutant mice in which the genetic mutation of interest (a knocked - out, overexpressed, or mutated endogenous gene) is induced selectively within particular brain regions in adult animals.

We need to modify brain activity in humans to test whether particular brain regions contribute to perception and behavior, and we need to do the same in animals to modify activity in particular cell - types to understand the molecular basis of these processes.

«By studying how damage to particular brain regions produces specific forms of cognitive impairment, we can map the architecture of the mind, identifying brain structures that are critically important for specific intellectual abilities.»

To determine which of the two receptor populations — the one in the forebrain or the one in the brainstem — is most critical in that regard, the team then crossed the knockout mice with a line engineered to activate receptor expression in particular brain regions.

The training uses an auditory or visual signal that corresponds to the activity of a particular brain region, called neurofeedback, which can guide people to regulate their own brain activity.

A team led by UC San Francisco (UCSF) scientists has identified the disruption of a single type of cell — in a particular brain region and at a particular time in brain development — as a significant factor in the emergence of autism.

He hopes ENIGMA researchers will next look to see if there are links between a particular brain region's size and one of these disorders.

In a response befitting the self - correcting nature of science, Iacoboni's U.C.L.A. colleague Russell Poldrack and 16 other neuroscientists from labs around the world published a response three days later in the Times, explaining: «As cognitive neuroscientists who use the same brain imaging technology, we know that it is not possible to definitively determine whether a person is anxious or feeling connected simply by looking at activity in a particular brain region.

An approach called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), for example, records changes in blood flow that occur when a spark of activity passes through a particular brain region.

Also around that time, French scientists Marc Dax and Paul Broca independently discovered the speech production center of the brain when autopsies of speech - impaired patients revealed lesions in a particular brain region, later named the Broca's area.

The final stage is headed by Jian Jin, a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, will develop new compounds that will allow researchers to even more precisely activate the G - coupled receptors of individual cell types in the particular brain regions.