These findings suggest that preschool children with high levels of disruptive behavior may
show abnormal brain activity during certain self - regulation sub-processes, informing potential advances in conceptualizing and treating early disruptive behavior.
Not exact matches
Even if a scan
shows abnormal activity in a
brain region associated with impulse control or regulation of emotions, such imaging provides no more than probabilistic information, Hyman said.
Previous imaging studies have revealed two
brain regions that often
show abnormal activity in these patients: the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC) and the amygdala.
Previous studies from this group have
shown that lowering tau levels reduces
abnormal brain activity in models of Alzheimer's disease, but this is the first demonstration that tau reduction may also be beneficial in intractable genetic epilepsy.
Second, the mice also
showed dramatic increases in brief (lasting 2 - 3 seconds) bouts of
abnormal brain wave
activity.
Both self - described psychics and people with schizophrenia also
showed abnormal neuronal
activity in several
brain regions responsible for monitoring our internal representations of reality.
In the study, they
show how levetiracetam — a drug commonly prescribed for patients who suffer from epilepsy — suppresses
abnormal brain activity and restores memory function in these mice.