Sentences with phrase «same areas in the brain»

Using MRIs, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified areas in the brains of children with Tourette's syndrome that appear markedly different from the same areas in the brains of children who don't have the neuropsychiatric disorder.

Not exact matches

The same areas of our brain become activated when we experience rejection as when we experience physical pain,» writes Winch in the post.

Degeneracy doesn't imply deterioration, but instead redundancy as many areas in the brain handle the same or similar tasks.

Dreams in our head are the same way... they are kind of the brain's waiting area for you.

In 2007, researchers published the first randomized, controlled study of the effect of being raised in an orphanage; that study, and subsequent research on the same sample of Romanian orphans, found that compared with babies placed with a foster family, those who were sent to institutions had lower IQs, slower physical growth, problems with human attachment and differences in functioning in brain areas related to emotional developmenIn 2007, researchers published the first randomized, controlled study of the effect of being raised in an orphanage; that study, and subsequent research on the same sample of Romanian orphans, found that compared with babies placed with a foster family, those who were sent to institutions had lower IQs, slower physical growth, problems with human attachment and differences in functioning in brain areas related to emotional developmenin an orphanage; that study, and subsequent research on the same sample of Romanian orphans, found that compared with babies placed with a foster family, those who were sent to institutions had lower IQs, slower physical growth, problems with human attachment and differences in functioning in brain areas related to emotional developmenin functioning in brain areas related to emotional developmenin brain areas related to emotional development.

Another clinical trial, which Kaplitt is not involved in, is testing the effect on depression of a deep brain stimulator implanted into the same brain area.

«Each area of the brain is different with distinct cell types and connectivity, so if we can confirm that one area of circuitry is more involved in a particular symptom than another, we may eventually be able to treat a depression patient more efficiently than treating everyone the same way.»

More experiments with the rats showed that OEA activates the same areas of the brain that mediate the formation of emotionally charged memories in humans, which are more vivid than typical memories.

Zaira Cattaneo at the University of Milano - Bicocca in Italy and colleagues used transcranial magnetic stimulation to block areas of the brain while 16 volunteers without the condition identified whether two images of a face were the same or different.

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

These were clustered together in the same area of the brain as olfactory memory neurons.

As a whole, our study shows that we seem to use the same brain areas for native and new language structures and that Alienese was in the process of being integrated into the participants existing language brain networks.»

When they measured the concentrations in the same area in chimp brains, the team found that the differences between chimps and normal humans were much greater for those nine than for the 12 metabolites not implicated in schizophrenia, suggesting that energy pathways implicated in schizophrenia were also altered by human evolution, the team reports this week in Genome Biology.

This means that both players are building a similar conceptual framework in the same area of the brain, constantly testing one another to make sure their concepts align, and updating only when new information changes that mutual understanding.

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.

At the same time, the researchers monitored nerve firing in a part of the cortex — the ventral intraparietal area — that serves as an interface between the brain's visual and motor processing regions.

The stroke patients showed activity in the exact same areas — just on the opposite side of the brain.

Young children usually show language activity in the same areas on both sides of their brain, Newport noted, and the left side becomes more dominant over time.

At the same time, animal studies exploring the biochemistry of the postpartum brain are uncovering changes in neural circuitry and areas in need of repair.

In contrast, activation of neurons that responded to snake skin, a predator cue that elicits defensive behaviors, in the same brain area showed no change in sexual behaviorIn contrast, activation of neurons that responded to snake skin, a predator cue that elicits defensive behaviors, in the same brain area showed no change in sexual behaviorin the same brain area showed no change in sexual behaviorin sexual behaviors.

Whether reading Chinese characters or French words written alphabetically, the same areas light up in our brains, an insight that could inform learning strategies for literacy

The control group without MAb administration showed PD pathology in multiple brain areas over time, while the mice treated with Syn303 showed significantly reduced pathology in the same areas.

The study found that under psilocybin, activity in the more primitive brain network linked to emotional thinking became more pronounced, with several different areas in this network — such as the hippocampus and anterior cingulate cortex — active at the same time.

But about a decade ago, Leuthardt and Bundy, who is now a postdoctoral researcher at University of Kansas Medical Center, discovered that a small area of the brain played a role in planning movement on the same side of the body.

«The idea is that if you can couple those motor signals that are associated with moving the same - sided limb with the actual movements of the hand, new connections will be made in your brain that allow the uninjured areas of your brain to take over control of the paralyzed hand,» Leuthardt said.

A study out of none other than the University of Cambridge found the same engagement of several brain areas — all involved in reward and motivation — in people with compulsive sexual behavior as previously found in people struggling with drug addiction.

Studies of brain - damaged patients have shown that the same brain area responsible for processing such words — a region in the left frontal lobe known as Broca's area — is also involved in social tasks, such as recognizing emotional expressions.

In rats, the same brain area that stores the animal's own location also maps the movements of other rats.

The brains of humans and dogs light up in the same place in response to vocal sounds, suggesting these processing areas are inherited from a common ancestor

When these same mice were tested after a meal, the same food cue produced a decreased response in the neurons in a subset of these same brain areas.

Just because there is activity in the same area of the brain, it doesn't mean that love and cocaine use are the same.

Yes, rats have this system in much the same areas of the brain as cats.

«They might not arise from the same brain areas, but these observations are of importance in efforts to understand hallucinations that commonly occur in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia,» says Matcheri Keshavan, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School.

As a comparison group, they injected saline (saltwater) in the same brain area of other mice.

To their own surprise, they found that this same brain area also plays a crucial role in situations requiring self - control when no other person is present.

However, this increased activity also extended to the areas in the brain that represent the relevant associated position of the same object, despite the fact that the subject was not concentrating on it.

12 Can't Get Enough of Your Love: Dopamine is produced in the ventral tegmental area of the brain, the same region affected by addictive drugs like cocaine.

Researchers at BYU have shed new light on why you, your friends, neighbors and most everyone you know tend to snack at night: some areas of the brain don't get the same «food high» in the evening.

Though not identical, itch and pain are closely related; they share the same pathways in certain brain areas.

Research suggests that saccades and microsaccades are controlled by the same brain areas, so it seems likely to us that microsaccades also will be found to be abnormal in schizophrenia.

After researchers discovered in 2004 that FOXP2 is expressed in the same areas of the brain in humans and zebra finches, a song - learning bird, neurobiologist Constance Scharff of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin began to investigate whether such birds could help scientists understand how humans learn language.

His team also showed that memories of an event form at the same time in the brain's short - term and long - term storage areas, rather than moving to long - term storage later on.

It is possible for elements of the dream to be recalled later in the day, perhaps triggered by an experience that reactivates the same area of the brain that created the dream overnight.

It's caused by multiple factors acting in different areas of the brain at the same time.

When we looked at the brains of Franciscan nuns in prayer, we found increased activity in the frontal lobes (same as Buddhists), but also increased activity in the inferior parietal lobe (the language area).

The same brain structures implicated in the urge to take drugs are involved in other biological urges, Paulus added, suggesting that a homeostatic approach could have a broad impact on treatments that seek to control addictions or psychiatric disorders, and will lay the groundwork for new areas of research.

Scientists can compare the same brain area when a person is doing nothing, and again when the person is performing a task, to see how blood flow — and activity — in that brain area changes.

Unfortunately, the number of adult stem cells present in local areas of the body vary greatly in number and most researchers agree that there are simply not enough stem cells «at the ready» within brain tissue to heal itself in the same way the skin does after a cut.

Thirst and hunger originate from the same Hypothalamus nuclei in our brain — the Lateral Hypothalamic Area.

The same areas of the brain activated both times, suggesting that babies» brains help them develop a sense of themselves in the context of others, and eventually lay the groundwork for empathy and a shared neural network between people.