Sentences with phrase «size areas of the brain»

Researchers looked at many pea - size areas of the brain to gauge how each responded to words.

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A study of older women with MCI found a tie between aerobic exercise and an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

Another study, this time of exclusively older women with MCI, found that aerobic exercise was tied to an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

Reseachers at the Universities of Chicago and Iowa have pin - pointed the the ventromedial area of the prefrontal cortex of the brain (a good - sized chunk of the brain just above your eyes) as the area responsible for making you pause and consider information before you accept it as fact.

A study by Luby and other WUSM researchers showed that a mother's love had a physical effect on the size of her child's hippocampus — the area of the brain responsible for memory.

THE size of a woman's brain changes throughout her menstrual cycle, with some areas growing by as much as 2 per cent in the run - up to ovulation, when women are at their most fertile.

«We wanted to find out how and where visual information about grasped objects, for example their shape or size, and motor characteristics of the hand, like the strength and type of a grip, are processed in the different grasp - related areas of the brain,» says Schaffelhofer.

Scientists suspect that one of the key areas especially affected is the thalamus, a walnut - size structure at the base of the brain that is the gateway for sensory information — taste, touch, vision, and hearing.

By comparing modern and ancient skulls, she found that the cerebellum, an area that acts as a switchboard for the rest of the brain, grew as overall brain size shrank.

Neurons in the shell surrounding the established vocal centers of the parrot brain play a part in vocal learning and other complex motor behaviors, resolving controversies over the size of brain areas involved in song and speech imitation.

Through a «mapping» performed with magnetic resonance, they identified the affected part and the type and size of the lesion, and analyzed the connectivity between the different areas of the brain.

Powers is planning expand his study size and is partnering with another CCTS - funded stroke investigator who developed an animal model of ischemia in order to analyze micro-RNA released in brain tissues at the precise area around a blocked blood vessel.

Studies have also indicated various brain regions as playing a role in ASD, and that these areas may fluctuate in size compared with brains of kids without ASD, but the work is still inconclusive.

William Wcislo of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama, and his colleagues dissected the brains of sweat bee queens, workers and asocial individuals and measured the size of an area called the mushroom bodies.

He says he is documenting the size of the bees» brains in CT scans, and he strongly expects to find shrinkage in the areas used for short - term odor memory and navigation.

The people who were aspirin resistant also had larger areas of the brain affected by the stroke, as measured by MRI diffusion weighted imaging, with infarct size of 2.8 cc compared to 1.6 cc for those who responded to aspirin.

Using electron microscopy to look at thousands of ultrathin brain slices taken from awake and sleeping mice, they found that after sleep, the size of most synapses — specifically, the surface area where two neurons touch each other — shrank by about 18 percent.

As the mice developed, Verma's team found that the rodents» brains were only a third of their normal size, with particularly striking reductions in brain areas involved in learning and memory.

Brain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account overall brain sizes — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bBrain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account overall brain sizes — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bbrain sizes — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bbrain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bwwg).

Brain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account the differing overall sizes of their brains — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than childrenBrain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account the differing overall sizes of their brains — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than childrenbrain matter in this area than children did.

Homo habilis, the first of our genus Homo who appeared 1.9 million years ago, saw a modest hop in brain size, including an expansion of a language - connected part of the frontal lobe called Broca's area.

The patients, doctors found, usually had widespread brain damage, but two injured areas were especially noteworthy: the thin outer rind, called the cortex, and the thalamus, a pair of walnut - size lumps in the brain's central core, along with the neural fibers that connect these regions.

BrainGate has developed a device, named after itself, which is composed of an «aspirin - sized array of electrodes» that is implanted in the motor cortex, the area of the brain primarily responsible for voluntary movement.

Researchers have now uncovered an area in the brain about the size of an almond in humans that wields powerful control over the body's aging process.

However, PTH does not pass through the blood - brain barrier and does not change the size of the stroke - affected area, the researchers found.

Building on this work, the team has now determined that there are seven areas in our DNA where differences in the genetic code are associated with intracranial volume, which is the size of the skull cavity in which the brain resides.

The problem is that these probes are typically much larger in size than neurons and capillaries (they usually have a cross-sectional area of 103 μm2) and can thus cause significant damage to brain tissue when implanted.

These pregnancy - induced brain changes involve the pruning of the size and structure of certain areas of the brain that process social information, such as the feelings, intentions, thoughts or beliefs of others.

The goal was to pinpoint any changes in the size of the hippocampus region of the brain, an area known to play a critical role in memory regulation.

In the past, these same areas of the brain have been been linked to behavior that controls meal size and frequency.

Researchers found that cardiovascular exercise increases the size of the hippocampus, which is the area of the brain that supports memory and learning.

Studies have also indicated that B12 prevents brain shrinkage, making this vitamin and it's benefits an area of interest for researchers as reduced brain size is commonly seen among those with dementia and Alzheimer's.

Bishop's approach is to develop an injection to destroy particular cells in the hypothalamus, an area in the brain about the size of a pearl that controls reproduction in mammals.

It has been shown that a brain network including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and lateral prefrontal cortex areas, mostly modulated by the neurotransmitter dopamine, subserves the function of regulating thoughts, emotions and responses.13 Patterns of activation of these brain structures are related to the efficiency of resolving conflict14 and variations in the size and structure of the ACC have been related to the EC score obtained in temperament questionnaires.15