Sentences with phrase «regions on each side of the brain»
The amygdala, a pair of almond - size regions on either side of the brain, helps process emotional information.
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In addition, substances called growth factors, produced naturally in the brain, were more abundant in key regions on both sides of the brain in optogenetically stimulated, stroke - affected mice than in their unstimulated counterparts.
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If it occurs in the motor region of the brain, they become weak on one side of the body.
Schalk points with his pen at a large rectangular field on the side of the screen depicting a region of her brain abuzz with electrical activity.
After exploring the areas of the brain that fuel our empathetic impulses — and temporarily disabling other regions that oppose those impulses — two UCLA neuroscientists are coming down on the optimistic side of human nature.
Based on MRI scans, the researchers attribute the seizures to damaged inhibitory fibers on the right side of the man's central parietal cortex, a brain region near the crown of the head.
Surprisingly, despite Broca's area being one of the most studied human brain regions, neuroscientists are still not exactly sure what the same region does, on the other side of the brain.
Animal studies show that a critical region of the brain, known as the amygdala, is intricately involved in fear responses, especially the amygdala on the right side of the brain.
Depressed patients have «high alpha» on the left side, indicating that this region of the brain is too inactive.
By attaching electrodes to the heads of infants and toddlers and measuring brain activity, Nathan Fox of the University of Maryland has discovered that the brains of timid children are more active on the right side — specifically, in a region called the right frontal cortex.
Indeed, functional brain imaging has identified a set of adjacent regions, referred to as the fusiform face area (FFA), that are situated on the left and the right sides of the brain, at the bottom of the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex.
On the other side, researchers who study behavior will be able to link those activities with regions of the brain, which then can be further studied.»
Many patients with injuries to the left sides of their brains also experience depression, because a region on the left front of the brain is involved in mood control.
In the mid-1800s, the French physician Paul Broca discovered a region on the left side of the brain that is essential for language; damage to Broca's area, as it is called, leaves people unable to talk.
The memory loss was unexpected, and Dr. Penfield and I suspected that the surgeon had operated on the wrong side of the brain, and that there was some damage in the corresponding region in the opposite hemisphere, so that we were seeing the effect of a bilateral lesion.
Activity in one correlates with awareness of the external: a network of lateral frontoparietal brain areas — the regions on the outer side of the frontal and parietal lobes.