Sentences with phrase «revealing brain areas»

These images, which depict the long fibers that cross the brain, helped surgeons to plan the operation by revealing brain areas that had to be carefully avoided.

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The images revealed that the hippocampus, a brain area linked with memory and learning, was significantly more active in kids with a positive attitude towards math.

«A study published last year in Experimental Brain Research appeared to provide some partial scientific support for this idea,» notes BPS, explaining that brain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain aBrain Research appeared to provide some partial scientific support for this idea,» notes BPS, explaining that brain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain abrain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain abrain areas.

ImPACT [Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing] and other cognitive testing wouldn't establish a baseline or reveal deficits in these areas of the brain [so] more and different evaluations are needed.»

Comparison images taken and two and four weeks postpartum revealed a small but significant increase in gray matter volume in specific areas of the brain.

In particular, the study, published Jan. 6 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, revealed differences in the white matter of patients» brains and in the cerebellum, an area of the brain not previously linked with the disorder.

Comparing behavior (feeding or egg - laying) to the activity patterns in the antennal lobe reveals that activity in specific brain areas correlates with one of the behaviors.

Nevertheless, studies that compare the vivid imagery of dreams with daytime vision reveal similar patterns of activity in the visual cortex, the largest brain area devoted to vision.

A brief period of postnatal visual deprivation, when early in life, drives a rewiring of the brain areas involved in visual processing, even if the visual restoration is completed well before the baby reaches one year of age, researchers at the University of Trento, McMaster University, and the University of Montreal revealed in Current Biology.

The real - time fMRI scans revealed that when the volunteers successfully got the avatar to follow their gaze, brain areas involved in reward and motivation were activated.

In addition to revealing the functions of different areas within the prefrontal cortex, studies have also demonstrated the flexibility of the region, which has helped experts optimize cognitive therapy techniques to enable patients with brain damage to learn new skills and compensate for their impairments.

As they reported in the journal Radiology, the brain scans revealed unique areas that only lit up during lying.

«Our results, as well as similar results from other labs, point to a need for carefully designed tasks and paradigms that can reveal different functions in key areas of the brain and different vulnerabilities to the aging process,» Reagh added.

The images revealed that dog brains have voice areas and that they process voices in the same way that human brains do, the team reports online today in Current Biology.

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.

Brain - imaging studies have revealed that several blueberry - size regions in the temporal lobe — the area under the temple — specialize in responding to faces.

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

New research reveals that brain damage affecting the insula — an area with a key role in emotions — disrupts errors of thinking linked to gambling addiction.

To determine which areas of the brain may contribute most to a patient's seizures, surgeons typically examine electroencephalograms (EEGs), which reveal electrical activity in different parts of the brain.

Brain scans revealed activity in the fusiform face area, responsible for recognising real faces, they report in «Seeing Jesus in Toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia» (doi.org/vn8).

War veterans constitute a unique opportunity to reveal causal relationship between how specific brain areas are involved in social behavior.

«Dogs process faces in specialized brain area, study reveals: Face - selective region has been identified in the temporal cortex of dogs.»

Brain imaging revealed several brain surface area clusters linked to math and spelling performBrain imaging revealed several brain surface area clusters linked to math and spelling performbrain surface area clusters linked to math and spelling performance.

MRI scans taken of Johnson's brain revealed that he has a large brain lesion in his frontal lobes, an area of the brain important for impulse control and emotion.

Neuroimaging technologies are revealing changes in blood flow to areas of the brain, indicating more activity.

An fMRI would chart blood flow changes a few seconds after that, revealing which areas of the brain were doing the recognising.

This revealed which parts of the brain were most active by detecting small increases in the blood flow to these brain areas.

The study revealed that activations in several areas in the brain belonging to the auditory, limbic, and motor regions were activated by all musical pieces.

MRI scans revealed that the same area of the brain — the posterior cingulate — was most associated with the benefits of rehearsal.

The results reveal how different areas of the brain work together to create specific mental states.

The map reveals that the brain devotes distinct areas to processing different types of phonemes.

Gene analyses of the hippocampus and other brain areas revealed dysregulation in the genes linked to manifestation of damaging reactive oxygen species and neuronal function.

Statistical analyses of the number of Acks signals detected in in situ hybridization experiments using sections corresponding to the middle brain parts (n = 5, 5, and 4 for 0, 30, and 60 min, respectively) revealed that there was a significant increase in the number of Acks signals at 30 and 60 min after the bee ball formation in both the Class I and the Class II KCs, and at 60 min after the bee ball formation in the brain area between the DLs and the OLs, and in the OLs (Figure 4S).

The present study revealed a consistent subcellular segregation of immunoreactive sites detected by Aβ - specific antibodies and pab27576 within neurons of different brain areas, at pre - and post-plaque stages of the amyloid pathology.

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.

But the new findings reveal how the two forces affect different areas of the brain during sleep deprivation.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) monitored the outer area of participants» brains (cortex) during short periods of meditation, revealing brain regions linked with attention and sensory processing were remarkably more developed than their un-meditated counterparts.

Results from research reveals that oxytocin, a substance made naturally in the brain as well as through the entire body, enhanced brain function in areas which have been identified as processing social information in kids having autism spectrum disorders.

It was also revealed that brain activity increased in the orbito - frontal cortex, anterior insula and anterior cingulate cortex areas, which all play a part in how the brain shapes a pain experience from nerve signals coming from the body.

The study also revealed that an area of the brain called the default mode network, which is involved in activities like daydreaming and thinking about the past and the future, shows greater neural connectivity in meditators than nonmeditators.

Further investigation revealed that the researchers failed to report that the MSG was frequently vomited before it could be absorbed, that the monkeys were under anesthesia with a powerful glutamate receptor antagonist (phencyclidine), and that the areas of the brain shown in micrographs were areas of the hypothalamus known to be unaffected by glutamate.

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans reveal that the mental rehearsal of an action activates the prefontal areas of the brain responsible for the formulation of the appropriate motor programs.

The team's scans revealed a tiny area of the brain called the ventral tegmental area (or VTA for short) lighting up when the study's participants were shown a photo of their beloved.

New research is revealing that poverty and stress not only affect the cognitive skills of young children but actually result in significant differences in brain maturation - especially in areas important for language and reading.

Ultrasound evaluations through the fontanel can reveal dilated or enlarged brain ventricles (open areas in each half of the brain).