Sentences with phrase «specific areas in the brain»

In this study, the researchers stimulated specific areas in the brains of mice and recorded the evoked brain activity.

Monkeys might not be known for their generosity, but when they do seem to act selflessly, a specific area in their brains keeps track of these kindnesses.

Reading is such a modern cultural invention that there is no specific area in the brain dedicated to it.

The researchers also looked for specific areas in the brain that were responsible for these prolonged naps.

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The EEG promptly reads these electrical waves and relates them to memory, emotions and attention according to the activity in specific areas of the brain.

The AOKI FOUNDATION's primary goal is supporting organizations in the brain science and research areas with a specific focus on regenerative medicine and brain preservation.

It turns out that specific areas of the brain light up in children who are read to more often.

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.

Certain areas such as a baby's brain, stomach, and mouth can be correctly developed to take on each specific role they uphold in the body because of the advances breastfeeding provides.

Tickling the brain with low - intensity electrical stimulation in a specific area can improve verbal short - term memory.

The authors searched for genetic mutations that might explain the disproportionately high risk of SUDEP in people with poorly controlled focal epilepsy, which, by definition stems from a specific area of the brain.

A defining characteristic of stroke is the loss of motor control due to structural damage in specific brain areas.

After exposure, there was a significantly greater decrease in blood flow in specific brain areas, particularly those involved in odor processing, in the chemically intolerant patients.

Also surprising was that while male and female brains did not differ in cell counts in cortical regions, the study identified 11 subcortical areas with gender - specific differences.

Neurologists had presented case studies of «acalculic» patients such as CG from the early twentieth century onwards, if not before, but «people hadn't thought a lot about the specific brain areas involved in calculation», says Butterworth.

Seeking additional insight into similar mechanisms at work in other centers of the brain, Donato and his team discovered that the signal to develop one area known to be involved in more abstract functions, including memory and navigation, originated from deep within the brain, in a specific population of neurons that kicks off the maturation of an entire neural network.

The development suggests that fluid changes in a specific brain area could provide a way to track that damage.

By recording neuronal activity in monkeys as they performed tasks that caused saccades, Dr. Christopher Pack has shown that there are waves of activity that cross specific vision processing areas of the brain in defined patterns, and that these patterns are reorganized by saccadic eye movements.

«Scientists identify specialized brain areas for feeding and egg - laying in hawkmoths: Activity in specific areas in the olfactory center of female Manduca sexta correlates directly with different behaviors.»

Comparing behavior (feeding or egg - laying) to the activity patterns in the antennal lobe reveals that activity in specific brain areas correlates with one of the behaviors.

Gene switches have been identified that work in specific brain areas, potentially enabling targeted treatment of unhealthy cells.

«Only by understanding the complexities of what happens in specific cell - types found in specific areas of the brain during this disease can targeted treatments for Parkinson's disease be produced.»

In the realm of relationships, this mingling of the less and more - concrete means that attachment experiences with specific others, their unconscious emotional tone, and the temperatures they actually feel activate and are stored in overlapping networks of brain areaIn the realm of relationships, this mingling of the less and more - concrete means that attachment experiences with specific others, their unconscious emotional tone, and the temperatures they actually feel activate and are stored in overlapping networks of brain areain overlapping networks of brain areas.

These variations in abilities and talents presumably arise from differences among our brains, and many studies have linked certain very specific tasks with cerebral activity in localized areas.

A major challenge in repairing the brain is obtaining cortical neurons from the appropriate layer and area in order to restore the damaged cortical pathways in a specific manner.

«In both humans and voles, we believe other brain areas are likely involved too, including the amygdala, a brain area important for attaching positive or negative importance of specific stimuli to motivate behavioural responses.»

Bees with a greater density of nerve connections (known as synaptic complexes) in a specific part of their brains had better memories and learned faster than bees with fewer connections in these areas.

«If we develop a drug, we can inject into a specific brain area and then trace moment by moment how it impacts the degradation of vocal ability in songbirds,» Liu says.

The researchers were particularly interested in emotion - specific brain maps, that is, maps on the localisation of emotions in various areas across the entire brain.

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

The researchers used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on a specific area of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to briefly alter activity in this brain region and consequently change the amount of punishment a person doled out.

A neurosurgical procedure in which an implanted neurostimulator delivers electrical signals to specific areas of the brain to help regulate abnormal signals, DBS is currently only approved in the U.S. for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and essential tremor.

The researchers in this study used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on a specific area of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to briefly alter activity in this brain region and consequently change the amount of punishment a person doled out.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging — a technique that monitors brain activity in real time — the Johns Hopkins group found reversing a decision requires ultrafast communication between two specific zones within the prefrontal cortex and another nearby structure called the frontal eye field, an area involved in controlling eye movements and visual awareness.

A new study led by the University of Utah School of Medicine and Chung - Ang University provides evidence that several regions of the brain are hyperconnected in adolescent boys diagnosed with Internet gaming disorder (lines between colored areas, colored areas represent specific brain networks).

Scientists know that our memories are stored in specific areas of the brain, but there has been some debate over whether a single brain region can store different memories that control opposing behavior.

War veterans constitute a unique opportunity to reveal causal relationship between how specific brain areas are involved in social behavior.

In this painless treatment, low - level current is passed through two electrodes placed over the head to tweak the electrical activity in specific areas of the braiIn this painless treatment, low - level current is passed through two electrodes placed over the head to tweak the electrical activity in specific areas of the braiin specific areas of the brain.

Grafman's team found patterns of blood flow in specific areas of the brain suggesting certain ideological proclivities that could be correlated with party affiliation.

In addition, the two genes are turned on in areas that are part of the cortico - striatal - thalamo - cortical circuit, a loop of brain cells connecting the cortex to specific regions involved in processing emotions and movemenIn addition, the two genes are turned on in areas that are part of the cortico - striatal - thalamo - cortical circuit, a loop of brain cells connecting the cortex to specific regions involved in processing emotions and movemenin areas that are part of the cortico - striatal - thalamo - cortical circuit, a loop of brain cells connecting the cortex to specific regions involved in processing emotions and movemenin processing emotions and movement.

In this case, Raman was used to examine brain tissue outside the body, but it could even be used «in vivo» for detecting specific areas during surgerIn this case, Raman was used to examine brain tissue outside the body, but it could even be used «in vivo» for detecting specific areas during surgerin vivo» for detecting specific areas during surgery.

Gene switches have been identified that work in very specific brain areas, potentially enabling light to target unhealthy cells without disrupting healthy ones.

That technology allows scientists to control the activation of neurons in any area of the brain that they expose to specific colors of visible light.

The results showed that with testosterone treatment the volume of grey matter decreased in two specific regions of the brain, the Broca's and Wernicke's areas, which are mainly responsible for language processing.

But when Sirigu and colleagues used transcranial magnetic stimulation — a technique that employs magnetic fields to excite neurons in the brain — to stimulate specific fragments of the motor cortex, they found that the «hand areas» in the motor cortex of both men had reassumed their original «wiring.»

Once I obtained aggressive behaviors in rats by stimulating specific areas of the brain, I started asking whether they liked or disliked the feelings by having them press a lever to turn the stimulation on or off.

«The overall decrease in stroke was driven by men having fewer ischemic strokes, a type of stroke caused by a lack of blood flow to a specific area of the brain,» said Madsen.

Although there is a good deal of evidence for some level of dissociation between multiple systems that approximate controlled and automatic processing respectively, with parts of the brain such as areas of frontal cortex (controlled) and limbic regions (automatic) implicated in these processes, it seems highly unlikely that there are dedicated, independent, sub-systems at the neural level that are specific to these modes of processing.

Now Zaira Cattaneo at the University of Milano - Bicocca in Italy and colleagues have identified the specific brain areas that allow us to recognise our friends.

Chen and his team began by studying how reactive glial cells respond to a specific protein, NeuroD1, which is known to be important in the formation of nerve cells in the hippocampus area of adult brains.