Sentences with phrase «similar brain regions»

There is no way to create a «schizophrenic» mouse, Meyer emphasizes, but certain key cognitive deficits and behaviors can be measured in both animals and humans and are thought to rely on similar brain regions and neural circuits.

Not exact matches

Running the game while recording people's brain activity with a functional MRI machine revealed that people who made similar giving choices (either to give half or what they had, or half of what their partner thought they had) showed similar brain patterns in the medial prefrontal cortex, a region associated with decision - making.

Although Dulac's and Anderson's teams examined different brain regions, both researchers observed a similar relationship between sex - specific neural activity and social behavior.

The researchers thought that loss of flight would impact brain structure — making the brains of ancient penguins and modern penguins similar in certain regions.

Differences in neuronal processing in autism are likely to be widespread, and may be similar across brain regions.

Similar to how the two regions normally connect in the developing brain, the little pieces knew what to do.

Dr Jeffrey Donlea, one of the lead authors of the study, explains: «There is a similar group of neurons in a region of the human brain.

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.

In a similar vein, linguistic psychologist Steven Pinker recently teamed up with neurosurgeons and neurologists at Harvard University and U.C. San Diego to investigate the language functions of a small brain region known as Broca's area.

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.

However, all regions of the human brain have molecular signatures very similar to those of our primate relatives, yet some regions contain distinctly human patterns of gene activity that mark the brain's evolution and may contribute to our cognitive abilities, a new Yale - led study has found.

The subjects» pupils dilated about half a second after their gaze fell on the regions of a cartoon that were critical in making it funny — a period that is very similar to the time it takes our brain to derive meaning from words we read.

The techniques, known as multivoxel pattern analysis and representational dissimilarity analysis, showed which songs Sting found similar to one another and which ones are dissimilar — based not on tests or questionnaires, but on activations of brain regions.

The third critical component of the algorithm was selective memory replay — similar to what is thought to occur in the hippocampus, a brain region associated with memory.

Dogs have the ability to distinguish words and the intonation of human speech through brain regions similar to those that humans use, a study in the 2 September issue of Science reports.

The team also checked the fMRI readings to determine whether any other brain regions had a similar pattern of activity, which would indicate that the brain networks were communicating with one another.

Past studies have shown that this brain region is involved in judging one's own traits and thinking about oneself and similar others.

Other groups soon made similar confirmations in other brain regions.

The activity of friends» brains was more similar than that of people who didn't know each other, particularly in regions involved in attention, emotion and language.

«The brain regions that are activated while the newborns are listening react differently in the two cases,» comments Gomez, «and reflect the preferences observed across languages, as well as the behavioural responses recorded in similar experiments carried out in adults.»

Although the neural networks that seem to be affected in Tourette's and OCD are distinct, they nonetheless involve brain regions with similar functions — in particular, motor activity and decision making.

Similar findings were present in the cerebral cortex and other regions of the brain in these animals and also found in several other mouse models of diabetes.

Warmer colors indicate relatively similar responses for a given brain region; cooler colors indicate relatively dissimilar responses for that brain region.

First, we identified an A. cerana homolog (Acks = Apis cerana kakusei) of kakusei, an immediate early gene that we previously identified from A. mellifera, and showed that Acks has characteristics similar to kakusei and can be used to visualize active brain regions in A. cerana.

These mice developed hallmark signs of PD in their brains and behavior: loss of dopaminergic neurons in the SNc, impaired generation of new neurons in one of the few regions capable of producing them in adult organisms, and impaired muscle coordination similar to human victims of Parkinson's (as evidenced by difficulty in rearing up on their hind legs)(Figure 2).

The results suggest that brain tumours adapt their chemical reactions in very similar ways to survive in the brain, despite starting in very different types of cells and regions.

May 3, 2011 Nicotine and cocaine leave similar mark on brain after first contact The effects of nicotine upon brain regions involved in addiction mirror those of cocaine, according to new neuroscience research.

Findings from this study are similar to those conducted with younger yoga and meditation practitioners where the volume of certain brain regions implicated in thinking, planning, reasoning, and memory were enhanced following regular practice.

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 canine brain maps showed Berns that dogs use a region of the brain known as the caudate nucleus in a similar way to humans.

The research team, led by Bianca P. Acevedo and Arthur Aron, found that the «dopamine - rich brain regions associated with reward, motivation and «wanting»» were activated in similar ways between newly in love couples and those who've experienced «romantic love» over the course of many years.