Sentences with phrase «specific brain areas»

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

Now the first treatment could be on the cards following the identification of specific brain areas that allow us to recognise our friends.

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.

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

While published results on acupuncture and fMRI were heterogeneous, from a descriptive perspective most studies suggest that acupuncture can modulate the brain activity within specific brain areas, and the evidence based on meta - analyses confirmed part of these results.

That's a useful lesson for researchers working on treatments like gene silencing, which may need to be injected into specific brain areas.

The thought is that yoga stimulates specific brain areas which gives rise to changes in antidepressant neurotransmitters like GABA.

Researchers might also develop neuroprotective drugs for specific brain areas.

The study provides new evidence that intelligence relies not on one brain region or even the brain as a whole, Barbey said, but involves specific brain areas working together in a coordinated fashion.

In the late 1800s clinical researchers tied specific brain areas to dedicated functions by correlating anatomical abnormalities in the brain after death with behavioral or cognitive impairments.

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.

The researchers used an innovative technique for magnetically stimulating highly specific brain areas in order to temporarily disrupt normal processing in those areas.

The strategy, devised by Marinho Lopes of the University of Exeter and colleagues, could help surgeons select specific brain areas for removal to stop seizures.

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

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

The scanner mapped participants» neural activity in specific brain areas before, during and after the presentation of the visual target events.

Phillips and her team are the first to use high - resolution, whole - brain MRI data and sophisticated analysis techniques to measure cortical thickness and tissue density within specific brain areas.

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

Topics include localization of brain function; general functions of specific brain areas; anatomy of the neuron; neurotransmission; mechanism of drug action on neurons; genetic, behavioral, and environmental influences on drug addiction; and addiction as a chronic disease.

«Stimulating specific brain area could help defrost arms frozen by stroke.»

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

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.

Such insights inspired Wingeier and other researchers working to target tDCS to specific brain areas.

In neuroanatomical studies, Blakely's team then quantified proteins whose levels change with neuronal activation to identify specific brain regions that might support the serotonin - dependent actions of cocaine, and the result was that the role of serotonin in cocaine action is pronounced in specific brain areas, like areas of the frontal cortex associated with inhibitory control mechanisms, while less relevant in other areas.

We think that caffeine might prevent the increase in pain sensitivity by blocking part of the neurochemical changes induced by sleep deprivation in specific brain areas that control sleep and wakefulness, and project to pain - related sites.»

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.

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

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.

One major goal is to develop self - guided polymersomes that traverse this barrier to deliver their cargo to a specific brain area.

«The only way we could deliver therapeutic proteins or drugs to the brain was via direct injection where you target a specific brain area or by chemically disrupting the blood - brain barrier, which permits proteins in the blood to enter the brain indiscriminately,» says Spencer, now a project program scientist in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego.

Because the fly's brain anatomy is well - known, we can correlate activity to specific brain areas.

Cells of a specific brain area can be transfected by in utero electroporation.

Specific brain areas, most notably the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and anterior insula, activated during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) both when subjects experienced pain and when another person present experienced pain, whereas other areas activated only during the direct sensation of pain [3].

The activation of specific brain areas is automatic once our mental radar detects another person.