Sentences with phrase «same brain region»

This is the same brain region activated by stimulation of the clitoris, vagina, and cervix.

The same can be said for patterns of gene expression changes in the same brain region for different age frames.

The hand - grip testing was a follow - on study to earlier published research by Macey and his colleagues of the same brain region using a «Valsalva maneuver.»

New studies show that money and social values are processed in the same brain region, providing insight into how we make choices

«Our finding of a link between bipolar disorder and the striatum at the molecular level complements studies that implicate the same brain region in bipolar disorder at the anatomical level, including functional imaging studies that show altered activity in the striatum of bipolar subjects during tasks that involve balancing reward and risk,» said TRSI Research Associate Rodrigo Pacifico, who was first author of the new study.

If you're improving connectivity in a brain region involved in working memory, then you should get transfer to other tasks to the extent that they rely on that same brain region,» said Trumbo.

When she realized they were focused on the same brain region, she wondered: What if fibromyalgia came down to a problem with the brain's ability to medicate itself?

According to Harvard research, talking about yourself stimulates the same brain regions as sex or a good meal.

Saxe's team showed that the same brain regions were indeed activated in the blind adults as in 22 sighted volunteers.

Whether imagining the future or recalling the past, the human mind calls on the same brain regions

The preceding imagery already activates the auditory areas once, and when the same brain regions are needed for perception, they are «tired» and will respond less.»

And it is possible that other animals also use the same brain regions to process language.

Once the volunteers felt that the mannequin's body was their own, the same brain regions became active as when they actually looked down at their own bodies.

But for Gallant, the real surprise is that the meanings of words triggered the same brain regions across multiple people in his study.

Using meditation and visualization can boost your results by stimulating the same brain regions that would be active if you were physically engaging in an activity.

Not exact matches

In fact, we almost can't help sharing our thoughts and feelings: Research also shows that talking about ourselves, whether in person or on social media, triggers the same pleasure sensation in the brain as does money or food — self disclosure causes increased activity in brain regions associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even sex.

The numerous, more limited, brain events occur in portions of the same region in which the unified human experience is taking place.

Empathy and forgiveness activate the same region of the brain, which means the more you hone your empathy skills, the easier it is to forgive and be forgiven.

The research shows that up to three or four months after delivery some of the brain regions originally observed at one month postpartum (amygdala, putamen, globus pallidus, and superior frontal gyrus) continued to activate and were correlated with maternal, sensitive behavior among the same group of mothers.

The researchers then found that these same genes carry an additional risk for a phenomenon called spreading depolarization, a slowly - progressing, temporary electrical blackout of a region in the brain.

«The regions in these networks are not talking to each other as much as healthy adults of the same age, even in networks where brain damage didn't occur.

«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.»

Damasio soon discovered other people with damage in the same regions of the brain suffering from the same problem.

Music is processed in the auditory cortex in this same region of the brain, which was why Charyton wanted to study the effect of music on the brains of people with epilepsy.

Research suggests that we empathize by effectively putting ourselves in others» shoes: for example, when we observe someone feeling sad, we simulate their experience by activating the same regions of the brain that are involved when we feel sad ourselves.

In undamaged brains, dj vu likely occurs because of processing errors in these same regions.

Bilingual children appear to store both languages in the same part of a brain region, while people who become bilingual in adulthood put language ability into different cubbyholes.

[Attila Andics et al., Voice - Sensitive Regions in the Dog and Human Brain Are Revealed by Comparative fMRI] Seems that thousands of years of domestication have made our furry friends sensitive to the same vocal cues we are.

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.

One of Cohen's main tools was functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the same instrument Greene and Cushman used to observe blood oxygen levels in different regions of the brain.

He found that the same regions of the brain — located in the poorly understood right temporal lobe, just above the ear — became active in both players during attempts to communicate the rules of the game.

«It is surprising,» said Stolk, «that for both the communicator, who has static input while she is planning her move, and the addressee, who is observing dynamic visual input during the game, the same region of the brain becomes more active over the course of the experiment as they improve their mutual understanding.»

In addition, as with the human brain, the fly brain is compartmentalized into regions that process different sensory information (visual, acoustic, olfactory), and it uses the same types of neurotransmitters as humans.

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.

«We have begun doing X-ray tomography on large brain tissues, then we've gone deeper into specific tiny regions of interest in the same tissue with an electron microscope to see the full connectome there,» Dyer said.

Researchers so far have recruited 12 people ages 12 to 25 who had each experienced a stroke to the same region of their brain's left hemisphere just before or after birth.

MX's brain responded in much the same way as the architects» brains did, activating a network of regions that process vision and recognize individuals.

At the same time, the obese girls sipping milk shakes showed decreased activation in the striatum, a region near the center of the brain that is studded with dopamine receptors and known to respond to stimuli associated with rewards.

They found that the regions of the infants» brains that showed activity when looking at incorrect math are the same regions in adults that respond to errors.

Moberly observed that freeze behavior, breathing rate, and electrical activity of these brain regions were coordinated literally on the same wavelength.

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.

«Even though a signal may emanate from [the same region] deep inside the brain, by the time it gets [projected] to the cortex and the surface of the scalp, the signal appears very random.

But simply comparing predictions with memories could end up canceling out brain regions employed in both conditions, so researchers added a third: imagining Bill Clinton in the same or similar scenarios.

The discovery of connectivity deficits in a specific region of the brain like the SLF provides an important starting point for more research on people with IED, as well as those with borderline personality disorder, who share similar social and emotional problems and appear to have the same abnormality in the SLF.

It turns out that brain regions that do the same job in monkeys and humans aren't always found in the same part of the skull.

In addition, the neurons in the CA3 region of the same as well as the neighbouring brain hemisphere communicate via certain fibres — i.e. associative / commissural (AC) fibres via the AC - CA3 synapses, and are likely to support retrieval of established memories, a process that is called «pattern retrieval.»

When Cox and colleagues infused oxytocin specifically into the nucleus accumbens, a small brain region implicated in drug addiction, they found that it had the same effects as when they administered it systemically.

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.

The sensation of pain in your hand is actually an addition to the many other experiences that are generated by the same region of your brain.

The group did find CD11c microglia and arginase, an enzyme that breaks down arginine, are highly expressed in regions of the brain involved in memory, in the same regions where neurons had died.