Sentences with phrase «several other brain areas»

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There are recent studies that say people who read a substantial amount are more able to empathize with others, and also that the brain is engaged in several different areas by particular words, such as areas related to the senses of taste, touch, or smell especially.

They detected little or no MHCI expression in some areas of the brain, but they found it in several other places, including the visual cortex while the ocular dominance columns were forming, and in the hippocampus — an area of the brain associated with learning and memory — at all ages.

Several of the brain areas that had lost gray matter during pregnancy responded with the strongest neural activity to their own babies as opposed to the photos of other infants.

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.

Because of the work of several other collaborators, Haughey says, his team knew that some sort of inflammation - promoting molecule was released from brain and targeted to the liver after brain injury to send immune system cells to the damaged area, but the identity of this go - between had been elusive for years.

«All along, we knew that synuclein was a good candidate,» says Polymeropoulos, because other researchers had shown that the protein is expressed in several brain areas, including the ones that deteriorate in Parkinson's.

For example, brain deactivation observed in the visual areas (precuneus, cuneus) appeared not only when the vision related points (GB37, UB60) were needled, but also when several non-vision related points (LR2, LR3, ST36) were needled, but not with the other points.