Sentences with phrase «related brain regions»
Verum acupuncture also increased sensorimotor network (SMN) connectivity to pain - related brain regions.
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This pattern of decreases is consistent with previous studies that suggest heightened vulnerability of EM - related brain regions in AD, whereas the observed increases in FC may reflect a compensatory response.
Second, the lab is studying how early life stress impacts both the transcriptome in stress - related brain regions using deep - sequencing methods and the addictive potential of the prescription opioid oxycodone using the drug self - administration paradigm, in male and female rats.
Near - misses thus reinforce your behaviour, which happens by triggering activity in reward - related brain regions like the striatum.
This was measured by EEG (Electroencephalography) sensors on the back of the head, which detected the brain signals in the related brain regions responsible for action planning.
«Identifying a network of fatigue - related brain regions could reframe the current construct of cognitive fatigue and help define the pathophysiology of this multifaceted yet elusive symptom of MS,» said John DeLuca, Ph.D., VP of Research & Training at Kessler Foundation.
The exoskeletons are placed on missing or dysfunctional limbs, where they sense patients» will to move and assist them in doing so to help patients train their muscles (and related brain regions) during rehabilitation.
She had learned that fibromyalgia patients struggled to access certain opioid - related brain regions, including the ACC — the center of emotion, reward and pain that Petrovic had found played a role in placebos.
A memory - related brain region in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.
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When asked to select the articles they'd share, activity in the brain regions associated with assessing value, self - related thinking, and, crucially, considering other people's perspective showed a flurry of activity.
The brain scans found that both experienced and novice meditators activated a network of attention - related regions of the brain during meditation.
The breastfeeding mothers surveyed for the study showed greater responses to their infant's cry in brain regions related to caregiving behavior and empathy than mothers who relied upon formula as the baby's main food source.
In previous studies, the researchers reported multiple serotonin - related brain abnormalities in SIDS cases, including a decrease in serotonin in regions involved in breathing, heart rate patterns, blood pressure, temperature regulation, and arousal during sleep.
«Study could help explain link between seizures and psychiatric disorders: Cells related to seizures, schizophrenia, and ADHD all found in the same region of the brain.»
The results are largely consistent with a growing body of research about the neural basis of aggression, and how it is triggered by changes in the way that the prefrontal cortex, the limbic system and reward - related regions of the brain function.
Alterations in the brain within the region of the visual recognition network might be related to impaired selective attention and working memory in MDD, Dr. Zhao indicated.
Brain activation and severity of symptoms in schizophrenia patients: Red areas represent regions related to the severity of speech fluency in schizophrenia.
«The effect of sleep deprivation on pain sensitivity in operated and intact rats was virtually eliminated by pharmacologically blocking the action of adenosine in a brain region in the anterior hypothalamus known to regulate sleep, which is connected to major pain - related areas,» Vanini says.
Probably not: the brain regions identified in this new study, in particular right DLPFC, have previously been highlighted in a number of other studies addressing related but slightly different questions.
In a healthy brain, these responses are easy to tell apart on a scan: Tennis activates motor - related brain areas, while navigating activates spatial regions.
Interestingly, the researchers found that the degree of functional connectivity, between brain regions involved in detecting grammatical violations and those related to working memory, predicted the performance accuracy of the participants in determining whether a sequence was grammatical or not.
When the familiar word order (komi oku josa) was repeated, brain activation decreased in language - related regions.
The researchers also found increases in gray matter volume in regions that control leg movement and process sensory information from legs, which may reflect changes related to the brain learning how to move in microgravity.
College football players with and without a history of concussions have less volume in the hippocampal region of the brain that relates to memory and emotion, according to a study published Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The odors activated reward - related areas of the brain, the same regions that trigger a pleasurable rush of dopamine when we get our hands on a desirable bit of food.
College football players with and without a history of concussions have less volume in the hippocampal region of the brain that relates to memory and emotion.
Specifically, they found that processing speed and white matter connectivity in a brain region related to memory were linked to learning to play the strategy game, while learning to play the action game was related to a brain region governing mood.
More specifically, his work has shown that dopamine signalling in two connected brain regions involved in opiate - related memory processing, called the Basolateral Amygdala (BLA), a region deep within the brain, and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), located near the surface of the brain, is switched by opiate exposure.
Interestingly, when Dr. Laviolette's team looked at dopamine signaling inside another brain region also involved in opiate related memory procession, and located closer to the surface of the brain, the mPFC, they found that this signaling was also switched by opiate exposure, but opposite to what was observed in the BLA.
So pinpointing these differences in visual areas might reveal important details about processing in brain regions related to social functioning and language, which are not as well understood.
Magnetic resonance imaging scans pinpointed the right insular area as the culprit, a region deep inside the brain linked with the part of the nervous system that sets off stress - related responses.
Higher fit older adults also had greater activation than young adults in some brain regions, suggesting that fitness may also serve a compensatory role in age - related memory and brain decline.
The alterations were found in the nucleus accumbens, a brain region involved in reward - related learning.
In previous studies, the researchers reported multiple serotonin - related brain abnormalities in SIDS cases, including a decrease in serotonin in regions involved in breathing, heart rate patterns, blood pressure, temperature regulation, and arousal during sleep.
«The importance of this work lies in the fact that it demonstrates that the subjective feeling of fatigue can be related to brain activation in specific brain regions.
«Our study reveals a network of brain regions involved in the sharing of self - related information on social media,» says Meshi.
The brain regions they used to make those choices were also different: for individuals with anorexia nervosa, choices about what to eat were associated with activation in the dorsal striatum, a brain region known to be related to habitual control of actions.
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.
The decreased blood flow in the following six regions of the brain were the most important in determining who had football related health trauma: anterior superior temporal lobes, rolandic operculum, insula, superior temporal poles, precuneus and, cerebellar vermis.
The differences in the arcuate bundle, which connects areas of the brain involved in understanding words and regions related to speech production, were particularly severe in those who had a significant history of «delayed echolalia».
«Genetics and brain regions linked to sex differences in anxiety - related behavior in chimpanzees.»
Dr Lawrence, of Psychology, said: «Our findings show for the first time that gamblers have an exaggerated theta response to almost winning in brain regions related to reward processing, which could contribute to them continuing to gamble despite their losses.
We now know why an individual with a brain injury affecting the inferior frontal gyrus and the orbito - frontal regions can no longer interpret the emotions related to what his or her peers are saying, and may, as a result, adopt socially inappropriate behaviour.»
«But exercise incorporating cognitive components also stimulates changes in brain regions related to cognition.
Another brain region, the junction area between temporal and parietal cortex that has been related to the shielding of thoughts against irrelevant information, is less strongly connected to the rest of the brain network.
«Our study seems to suggest that multilingual people are able to compensate for AD - related tissue loss by accessing alternative networks or other brain regions for memory processing.
In our study, we examined whether the role of specific brain regions for communication within and among brain modules varies with individual differences in intelligence, i.e., whether a specific brain region supports the information exchange within their own «family» more than information exchange with other «families», and how this relates to individual differences in intelligence.»
This suggests that human intellectual performance is likely to be related to how efficiently our brain integrates information between multiple brain regions.
They found that activity in the self - related and mentalizing regions of the brain combine unconsciously in our minds to produce an overall signal about an article's value.
But all three labels also elicited some activity in the brain area associated with reward, the ventral striatum, as well as other regions related to desire and feeling connected.»