Sentences with phrase «patterns of brain»

The analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data focused on the variations in both local and interregional patterns of brain activity as a function of resistance to peer influence (RPI).

High and low sensation seeking adolescents show distinct patterns of brain activity during reward processing

Patterns of brain activation in foster children and nonmaltreated children during an inhibitory control task.

Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS) In an attempt to learn about patterns of brain development in children, we are studying the differences in brain patterns between children with autism spectrum disorders and typically developing children.

Our connections with caregivers influence patterns of brain functioning that persist throughout our lives, shaping how we think, feel, remember, and behave.

The research found that «the patterns of brain activation in these people mirrored those seen in the brains of drug addicts when they were exposed to drugs.

For example functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), children with a history of preschool - onset depression demonstrated distinct patterns of brain activation, which were similar to those of adults with depression.34 Other research documents that DSM - IV criteria for depression do not adequately capture the disorder's course in preschool - aged children.35 Similar to the heightened awareness regarding preschool depression, evidence suggests that young children can also suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder when age - adjusted diagnostic criteria are employed.36

«Reading regularly with young children stimulates optimal patterns of brain development and strengthens parent — child relationships at a critical time in child development, which, in turn, builds language, literacy, and social - emotional skills that last a lifetime.»

The study essentially correlates specific patterns of brain connectivity — the degree to which different parts of the human brain talk to each other — with a suite of what are generally considered positive traits, such as education, income, and self - control.

Different responses exhibit different patterns of brain activation.)

Assumptions are often made that differences in patterns of brain activation between females and males in a particular task must mean that females and males use different mental processes to complete that task; however, mental processes are highly complex and involve interaction between many different regions of the brain (Fine, 2013).

The bottom of the skull (occiput) and the first bone (atlas) play a significant role in the coordination patterns of the brain and immune system.

Eventually, devices will likely become advanced enough to translate patterns of brain activity into words, pictures and more.

In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, he discovered abnormal patterns of brain activity that change the ability to learn and create memories.

Distinct patterns of brain activity in young carriers of the APOE - epsilon4 allele.

Huang and colleagues previously reported that, during sharp - wave ripples in the hippocampus, patterns of brain activity thought to occur during memory replay and consolidation, gamma waves were disrupted in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

It is not yet understood why such conflicting patterns of brain connectivity results are observed across different studies, and factors contributing to these heterogeneous findings have not been identified.

It is not yet understood why such conflicting patterns of brain connectivity are observed across different studies, and the factors contributing to these heterogeneous findings have not been identified.

Dr. Elias and the OCAR primarily focus on understanding why ERP works (e.g., fear tolerance versus fear habituation; the roles of guilt, willingness, and acceptance; patterns of brain activation during exposure; functional connectivity among brain regions), tailoring treatment to the individual (e.g., elucidation of predictors of response and their underlying processes / mechanisms and neural correlates; rigorous diagnostic characterization of obsessive compulsive related disorders), and evaluating innovative treatments and augmentation strategies (e.g., acceptance and commitment therapy; optimization of inhibitory learning; pharmacological augmentation).

Her Lab (Brain Development: Perception to Action) uses a combination of behavioural and brain imaging tools (i.e. DTI and EEG) to probe the brain and investigate the patterns of brain activation as they relate to perceptual - motor and social - emotional development in children and youth.

But to understand what these different patterns of brain activity do, we need to be able to understand the information that they convey — ideally by manipulating them individually.

We will examine whether and how these changes activate self - sustaining patterns of brain activity that represent internal state and heighten sensitivity to taste and smell and trigger food seeking.

We know certain patterns of brain activity are associated with certain psychiatric disorders.»

«We can explore how certain experiences line up with certain patterns of brain activity.

Taking inspiration from linguists, who view spoken words as syllables that can be infinitely recombined, we seek to discover the «syllables» of behavior — and the patterns of brain activity that generate them.

This state of arousal involves neurons in the fly's brain that respond to the female's chemical signal and generate self - sustaining patterns of brain activity that persist well beyond the original sensory input.

«If males and females found the pictures equally arousing, you would assume they would have similar patterns of brain activation,» said Hamann.

Andrew Feigin and his colleagues at North Shore LIJ Health System in Manhasset, N.Y., scanned the brains of 12 unmedicated Tourette's patients — some of whom also had OCD — and 12 healthy subjects using positron - emission tomography, which reveals patterns of brain activity.

As he takes more scans, he hopes to find patterns of brain activity that are unique to each group.

The researchers also screened out participants with concussions, which can disrupt patterns of brain activation and function, Scherf added.

The study participants had to give a similar speech at the end of the treatment period, so researchers could assess whether their patterns of brain activity had changed.

Patterns of brain activation during self - deprecation are fundamentally the same as those during self - deceptive pride, Keenan is finding.

Patterns of brain activity in 6 - month - old babies accurately predict which of them will be diagnosed with autism at age 2.

«Without the right bias, you get more unusual patterns of brain organization, which means more people at the top and bottom, and less in the middle.»

The 28 men and 45 women also took part in a standardized test, which is typically used to measure different patterns of brain function in older adults, focusing on attention, memory, fluency, language and visuospatial ability.

Research in rats has found that the hippocampus region of their brain forms new memories by replaying patterns of brain activity linked to specific experiences.

Study two involved measuring patterns of brain activity in a different group of participants (non-musicians) who took part in a word generation task and a music perception task.

Analysing the scans, the team found that specific patterns of brain activity associated with the satellites were replayed during rest.

Michael Greicius at Stanford University in California and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify patterns of brain activity associated with different mental states.

«At the heart of these methods is the ability to test if patterns of brain activity are more alike for two similar styles of music compared to different styles.

Meaningful progress in cognitive neuroscience depends on mapping patterns of brain activity, which are constantly and rapidly changing with every experience we have.

Nor is it clear whether the similar patterns of brain activity between the healthy participants and the brain - damaged patient mean that the man is having the same «conscious» experience of the film, Naci notes.

«In pursuit of pleasure, brain learns to hit the repeat button: New study in mice shows how the brain learns to reproduce patterns of brain activity that lead to reward; provides insights for treating addiction and obsessive - compulsive disorder.»

Also, the patterns of brain activity that we see on imaging when they are lying down may not be the patterns that the brain produces during normal upright activity.»

Jerzy Szaflarski, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neurology and director of the UAB Epilepsy Center, says the RNS system can be customized for each individual patient so that it learns which patterns of brain activity lead to seizures in that patient.

In the fall of 2003, two media researchers at the University of Southern California set up a study to look at the patterns of brain activity triggered by violent video games.

Before making decisions about which way to turn, for example, rats pause to retrace their steps by reactivating patterns of brain activity established in previous explorations.

There are clear patterns of brain wave activity, hormone production, cell regeneration and other biological activities linked to this daily cycle.

Instead, Faro and Mohamed say that developing this method into a viable lie - detection system will depend on discovering complex patterns of brain behavior linked to lying.

The team examined the brainwave patterns of 36 infants (17 in the first experiment and 19 in the second) using electroencephalography (EEG), which measures patterns of brain electrical activity via electrodes in a skull cap worn by the participants.