Sentences with phrase «specific areas of brain»

It involves implanting electrodes in specific areas of the brain, then connecting them to a pulse generator placed under the skin of the chest.

The treatment delivers magnetic pulses to specific areas of the brain.

Researchers used a new MRI technique to measure both volume and shape changes in specific areas of the brain, which are both important indicators for tracking the development of dementia.

Even the people predicted to be far from onset had specific areas of brain change during the 3 - year duration of the study.

Furthermore, brain volume, both overall and in specific areas of the brain, has been tied to cognitive functioning.

«Despite its intuitive appeal, it has been difficult to pin down specific areas of the brain that are associated with criminality.

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.

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 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 brain.

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.

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 treatment involves electrodes surgically inserted into specific areas of the brain.

«Like physical exercise, the more you use specific areas of your brain, the more it grows and gets stronger.»

«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.»

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.

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

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 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.

New work by researchers at Vanderbilt University and Harvard University confirms that a specific area of the brain, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, is crucial to punishment decisions.

To signal which direction to move, the researchers generated a phosphene through transcranial magnetic stimulation, a well - known technique that uses a magnetic coil placed near the skull to directly and noninvasively stimulate a specific area of the brain.

«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.

The researchers looked at the dentate gyrus, a specific area of the brain that is critical to memory and particularly vulnerable in Alzheimer's disease, and compared the genes that were turned on and off in normal mice and a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

The condition itself occurs in a specific area of the brain due to dysfunction of certain neurotransmitters (chemical messengers).

In rare cases, surgery may be used to either remove a specific area of the brain that is affected, or install an electrical device to assist in controlling seizures.

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On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

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.

Specific plans for the research will remain to be developed, but potential areas under discussion include accelerating the pace of discovery to support the most innovative and promising science of the brain, including: chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE); concussion management and treatment; and the understanding of the potential relationship between traumatic brain injury and late - life neurodegenerative disorders, especially Alzheimer's disease.

These include Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, the former uses alternating magnetic fields to simulate specific brain areas while the latter aims electrical currents of power equal to a 9 - volt battery to specific brain areas.

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

A growing body of research calls into question the idea that most brain areas are tied to specific sensory inputs

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

Conventional approaches to understanding consciousness are generally concerned with the contribution of specific brain areas or groups of neurons.

For decades, it has been well established that for parts of the brain to mature and establish the specific connections that make cognition possible, waves of neural activity must spread from the eyes, ears, and nose to the center of the nervous system, the brain's sensory cortical areas.

This implies that different cortical areas, for instance those involving cognition vs. those involving perception of sensory stimuli, have evolved to tailor their local circuits to specific brain functions.

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.

Pralle's approach, on the other hand, merely requires injecting a needle full of magnetically sensitive nanoparticles into specific brain areas.

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.

«High treatment effectivity is associated with strong connections between the DBS electrode and specific frontal areas of the brain, such as the «supplementary motor area»,» says Dr. Horn.

«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.

Neural probes with high spatial resolution are needed for both recording and stimulating specific functional areas of the brain.

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 areas.

«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.

DAMAGE to a specific brain area may increase feelings of transcendence, which are part of some religious experiences and other forms of spirituality.

«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.

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.

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.