Sentences with phrase «related brain circuits»

Whole - brain connectivity approaches have also provided evidence of hypo - connectivity of social processing - related brain circuits in adolescents with ASD (Gotts et al., 2012), though a recent systematic investigation using both ROI - based and ICA - based analytic approaches found very few examples of functional hypo - connectivity in adults with ASD compared with age - matched control participants (Tyszka et al., 2013).

When comparing the scan results for brain activity before treatment and after a year of stimulation, the researchers found that there were changes in the regions linked to anorexia, suggesting that deep brain stimulation was able to directly affect the related brain circuits.

Not only do rats return over and over again to the place they were tickled, the handling triggers the neurotransmitter dopamine in key reward - related brain circuits in the rodents, he says.

Just around the time that the nature of the dilemma crossed the border from impersonal to personal, I would see your amygdala and related brain circuits — your medial orbitofrontal cortex, for example — light up like a pinball machine.

Not exact matches

«When other portions of the brain circuit related to speech were also affected according to our blood flow measurements, we saw more severe stuttering in both children and adults,» said first author Jay Desai, MD, a clinical neurologist at CHLA.

During periods of hunger, hormones heighten the reactivity of food - related reward circuits in the brain, particularly in the striatum.

Thus, this study found that women who have recovered from anorexia nervosa show two related patterns of changes in brain circuit function that may contribute to their capacity to sustain their avoidance of food.

«We discovered gene - related disruption of circuits that connect the autistic brain's layers and hemispheres to each other,» explained Geschwind, who is director of the UCLA Neurogenetics Program and the Center for Autism Research and Treatment and co-director of the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics at UCLA.

We aim to identify molecular, circuit, and network mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction and to develop novel therapeutic approaches to restore brain functions in AD and related disorders.

They could only be a portion of an «extended circuit» that allows the rodent's brain to process anxiety - related information.

The Human Connectome Project is a five - year effort to study brain circuits and how the wiring of the brain relates to human behavior.

So, traditional, symptom - based categories make it difficult to relate diagnosis to genes, particular brain circuits, or basic behavioral mechanisms.

The brain circuits implied are the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala (related to anxiety and fear).

Research shows that excessive experience with toxic stress can disrupt the development of brain circuits related to stress response — and to learning and memory.

The researchers found that when the participants» curiosity had been sparked, there was not only increased activity in the hippocampus, which is the region of the brain involved in the creation of memories, but also in the brain circuit that is related to reward and pleasure.

Again, that makes sense, since the reason for the secondary seizures is constantly present in the affected cat while idiopathic seizures are related to periodic «short circuits» in the cat's brain.

All 5 circuits are related to the frontal lobe, thalamus, and basal ganglia in the brain.