Sentences with phrase «smaller areas of the brain»

Studies shows that when people are presented with facts and figures, smaller areas of the brain are activated which indicates that information is being processed.

Geographically speaking, the prefrontal cortex is a relatively small area of the brain.

Spatially oriented brains have an above - average grey matter volume in the right precuneus, a small area of the brain associated with processing visual - spatial information.

But about a decade ago, Leuthardt and Bundy, who is now a postdoctoral researcher at University of Kansas Medical Center, discovered that a small area of the brain played a role in planning movement on the same side of the body.

A new study by a University of Texas at Arlington physics team in collaboration with bioengineering and psychology researchers shows for the first time how a small area of the brain can be optically stimulated to control pain.

They focused on the ventral striatum, a small area of the brain that processes reward but is also known to help control movement.

A stroke quickly decimates a small area of the brain, but surrounding brain tissue continues to die over several weeks.

Working in zebrafish, for example, we will identify how small areas of the brain involved in initiating movements influence how the entire brain processes feedback from those movements.

If only a small area of the brain is affected, you get a focal seizure, a minor event that might include muscle tremors.

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Small victories build new androgen receptors in the areas of the brain responsible for reward and motivation.

Comparison images taken and two and four weeks postpartum revealed a small but significant increase in gray matter volume in specific areas of the brain.

Mothers who breastfeed have been found to report lower levels of perceived stress and negative mood, higher levels of maternal attachment, and tend to perceive their infants more positively than mothers who formula - feed.9, 19 - 21 There is evidence to suggest that breastfeeding mothers may also spend more time in emotional care and be more sensitive to infant emotional distress cues than bottle - feeding mothers.22, 23 Relatedly, a small fMRI study of 17 mothers in the first postpartum month, found that breastfeeding mothers showed greater activation in brain areas involved in empathy and bonding than formula - feeding mothers when listening to their own infant's cry.24 These brain areas included the superior frontal gyrus, insula, precuneus, striatum and amygdala.

The amygdala, the small group of nuclei critical to emotional learning, is the brain area that has been reported most often in studies regarding attitudes to race.

On the other hand, regions of the brain which aren't associated with intelligence — the visual, auditory, and sensory - motor areas — show small variability and adaptability.

In the hippocampus area of the brain, the volume was 4 percent smaller.

According to the mri results, 38 minutes after Rennich entered the tube, an area of darkness — of no color at all — appeared on the image of his brain, indicating that the neurons in a small region of the cerebral cortex were no longer transmitting visual information.

It may be a small number of fibers that remain, but this may be enough to convey signals from the motor cortical area of the brain to the spinal cord.»

They charted the small changes in voltage generated by the areas of the brain responding to these stimuli, a process known as event - related potentials (ERPs).

Paul Broca was a famous French physician and anatomist whose work with aphasic patients in the 1800s led to the discovery of Broca's area; a small patch of the cerebral cortex just above the temple, specifically on the left side of the brain.

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.

Current non-invasive techniques can't detect epileptic areas of the brain smaller than approximately eight to 10 square centimeters, so many early - stage epilepsy patients often go undiagnosed and untreated.

Even in the brain tissue of the healthy person, a small area is detected with protein activity.

Falk also observed a small, knoblike structure coming off the right motor cortex, an area of the brain that controls the fingers of the left hand.

The Raman images now show protein activity at neural cell level, but the sensitivity is high enough for detecting areas that are even smaller — as is the case with the brain sample of the healthy person.

She and her colleagues found that people born face - blind have a smaller - than - normal bundle of nerve fibers linking the facial fusiform area to other regions toward the front of the brain.

Those whose mothers smoked throughout pregnancy had smaller total brain volumes and reduced amounts of grey and white matter in the superior frontal cortex, an area involved in regulating mood.

This revealed which parts of the brain were most active by detecting small increases in the blood flow to these brain areas.

Alien hand seems to be caused by damage to a small area at the front of the brain, suggesting that this region has a role in motor control.

An MRI found the cause: A small area of scar tissue in a structure of the brain called the hippocampus.

The brains of the mice were smaller than normal and had fewer neurons in areas that controlled the affected behaviors.

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Small red circles indicate the approximate locations where cortical surface area and thickness were most different between brains of participants with Down syndrome and brains of typically developing participants.

The largest increase in blood flow occurred in two small areas, or nuclei, within the brain stem which control the constriction and dilation of blood vessels in the brain.

The plan is to implant up to 11 small tiles, each loaded with 43 electrodes, into areas of the brain that deal with vision.

«Studies of fetuses and babies with the telltale small brains and heads of microcephaly in Zika - affected areas have found abnormalities in the cortex, and Zika virus has been found in the fetal tissue,» says Guo - li Ming, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of neurology, neuroscience, and psychiatry and behavioral science at Johns Hopkins» Institute for Cell Engineering.

This will consist of injecting the neurons into specific areas of the patient's brain with a small neurological procedure, much the like one used to perform routine biopsies.

But even mild head injury can produce small, round but temporary areas of swelling within individual brain cells, a new mouse study finds.

Besides having less angiogenesis, the older brains also had a smaller pool of progenitor cells in one area of the hippocampus.

In a small new study of retired NFL players, researchers found that overweight players had less blood flow to key areas of the brain and lower scores on mental - function tests than former players of normal weight.

«Meditation also fires up the frontal areas of the brain that are associated with attention,» Dr. Small says.

They include improving the first important chemical stage of carbohydrate digestion through the action of amylase, the physical breakdown of foods to increase its surface area to aid further digestion in the stomach and small intestines, and stimulating the taste buds, which sense food and immediately sends that information to the brain.

Severely neglected children have been found to have smaller prefrontal cortexes, an area of the brain that supports executive function.

In idiopathic epilepsy, the source of these abnormal brain impulses are small areas of abnormal or damaged brain tissue.

Melatonin is a hormone produced in a small structure adjacent to the brain called the pineal body as well as in other areas of the body.

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Because human gray matter follows a nonlinear developmental trajectory, we established a reference for typical development in focal brain areas and constructed an index that measured whether regional gray matter volume was larger or smaller than expected, comparing children with others of the same sex and age.

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