Sentences with phrase «similar brain part»

Humans have a similar brain part that enables them to sense emotions from human sounds, regardless of words.

Not exact matches

The scientists then scanned the brains of their subjects while they thought about God and found that they used «similar parts» of their brains when thinking about their own and about God's beliefs, and a different part when thinking about other people's.

Could some brain boosters cause a similar nightmare, making everything in your life unforgettable, including the most mundane parts?

Out of this search came a pair of similar peptides that are made exclusively in the lateral hypothalamus, a part of the brain already known to help control appetite.

If snake venom has a similar structure to parts of the virus, and inhibits these receptors, we thought maybe the virus could also inhibit these receptors in the brain.

«If the sounds of the word had influence in this part of the brain we would expect to see that they activate the same or similar neurons, but this was not the case — «hair» and «hare» looked just as different as «hair» and «soup.»»

Inhibiting the same area of the brain with similar techniques increased the amount of time mice slept, especially non-REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, although sleep was not instant upon drug administration, as has been shown for other parts of the arousal system, Pedersen says.

The results showed that all five scents elicited a similar response in parts of the dogs» brains involved in detecting smells, the olfactory bulb and peduncle.

For example, in transcranial magnetic stimulation, a magnetic field is passed over the scalp above this part of the brain; a similar study could explore whether this technique could be made more effective.

They got similar results when they engineered mice to lack another immune molecule, suggesting that B2M is part of a pathway that affects the brain.

He often refers to the olfactory parts of the brain as the «Old Factory,» as they are remarkably similar across species.

Previous studies had suggested that meditation does something similar for parts of the brain involved in focused attention.

It is possible, even likely, that addiction networks for cocaine and for food operate in different parts of the brain yet use similar mechanisms.

For example, they show that words with similar meanings are grouped together in zones in different parts of our brain.

Indeed, lipid changes in the cerebellum, a primitive part of the brain similar in all vertebrates, were comparable between humans and chimps.

It turned out that there were major spikes in the activity of both the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex when the participants encountered giant roundabouts similar to London's Seven Dials or the Magic Roundabout of Swindon, but those parts of the brain didn't fire up when the satnav fed them instructions.

Another technique dubbed magnetoencephalography (MEG) maps magnetic fields in the brain produced by electrical signals; a similar approach, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), selectively stimulates parts of the brain and is already being used to treat severe depression, migraine headaches and other conditions.

Goldstein and her colleagues found that patients diagnosed with â $ œamnesticâ $ MCI showed greater loss of white matter integrity in a certain part of the brain — the medial temporal lobe â $ «than cognitively normal controls of similar age.

Dr Richard Melloni, who led the research, said that because the part of the brain which his team studied is similar in rodents and humans, the scientists say their findings are probably applicable to people.

They found that words with related meanings lit up similar parts of the brain.

Here we show that in each case the resulting module specific SI map is similar in the brain areas that are included as part of the overall module.

Studying mice and tissue samples from the arteries of patients, researchers atWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest this accumulation is driven, at least in part, by processes similar to the plaque formation implicated in brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Some believe the heavy metal causes neurodevelopmental abnormalities that lead to autism, in part, because methylmercury (a similar compound commonly found in some fish) can damage the brain.

Your brain moves information that is constant into a different part of your brain to free it up for other things, so the more similar your environment, the less your nerves work to perceive.

This is due in part to the release of endorphins and similar neurotransmitters in the brain related to exercise.

Using a technology called functional Near - InfraRed Spectroscopy (fNIRS), which uses infrared light to track changes in blood oxygen in different parts of the brain to provide a measure of what brain regions are becoming more activated (consuming more oxygen) during certain tasks, the investigation will compare the brain patterns of children with ASD and typical children who have similar imitation scores and eyetracking patterns, to determine whether children with ASD process the same imitation tasks differently from typically developing children, at the level of their brain activity.

The study, from a University in Budapest, Hungary, reports that different parts of dogs» brains process and react to a word they know and how it's said, in a fashion similar to our own brains.

Luckily for us, dogs brains are very similar to humans and the part of the brain that controls the experience of emotions is certainly present in dogs.

Benzodiazepines affect some of the same parts of the cells in a dog's brain as alcohol, and so they produce similar effects.

While it's true that, unlike a slot machine, a loot box will always result in some form of a prize, that doesn't change the fact that the simple act of opening loot boxes is incredibly similar to gambling, and taps into all the same parts of the brain.

The reptilian part of our brain can activate a similar response, which is needed when the higher order mammalian response is not effective.