Sentences with phrase «specific parts of the brain»

Some fatigue directly results from loss of function caused by the brain injury, in specific parts of the brain.

Given these behaviors, scientists can try to study what specific parts of the brain go wrong in HD, ultimately leading to the symptoms of depression.

For any given activity, such as eating, watching television, making love, or reading, you may use a few specific parts of your brain.

Not only that, some brain imaging research has found that stimulating specific acupuncture points activated specific parts of the brain.

And they've begun putting together several consortia of experts who will look at specific parts of the brain to try to understand precisely what happened when Molaison's memory - making apparatus was destroyed more than sixty years ago.

«But now we're able to map that effect in three dimensions, across brain regions,» he says, which could lead to advances in studying the effects of drugs on specific parts of the brain.

The researchers collected the brain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory at UH.

«Now we have two interesting models that are selectively targeting specific parts of the brain: the thalamus in FFI and the hippocampus in CJD,» says Jackson, who is now a Group Leader at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease.

Take a healthy rat and begin extracting specific parts of his brain.

Wu says it's long been thought that getting to sleep requires an increase in sleep - promoting chemicals in specific parts of the brain as night and bedtime approach in the normal 24 - hour sleep - wake cycle.

The stem cells must be safely implanted into the correct site within the eye and, in order to be functional, must establish working connections with specific parts of the brain.

«The new data presented here suggest that changes which lead to criminal behaviour occur with dysfunction of specific networks — wiring pathways that connect specific parts of the brain.

The researchers suspect that gut bacteria affect their host's anxiety levels by tampering with microRNAs in specific parts of the brain.

«This would seem to refute — or at least make less likely — models in which the behavior effects are the result of direct physical action of parasites on specific parts of the brain,» Eisen wrote in a blog post about the research.

Gene therapy delivered to a specific part of the brain reverses symptoms of depression in a mouse model of the disease — potentially laying the groundwork for a new approach to treating severe cases of human depression in which drugs are ineffective.

A volume decrease in specific parts of the brain's hippocampus — long identified as a hub of mood and memory processing — was linked to bipolar disorder in a study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

Next the team wants to see if probiotic drugs can cultivate certain types of bacteria in the gut, and therefore fine - tune microRNA levels in specific parts of the brain.

The team used mice that had been genetically engineered so that neurons in a specific part of the brain involved in aggression and sexual behavior — the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH)-- would glow green when activated.

And as it arose, a specific part of the brain became dedicated to its recognition.

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.

Through the development of a specific part of the brain that experiences the reward of others, social decisions and empathy - like processes may have been favored during evolution in primates to allow altruistic behavior.

What we now show is that this hormone then travels in the blood to a specific part of the brain, the hypothalamus, to stimulate thirst, thereby preventing dehydration,» said Dr. Kliewer, Professor of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology and holder of the Diana K. and Richard C. Strauss Distinguished Chair in Developmental Biology.

For the study, the researchers gave patients with injuries to specific parts of the brain (the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, the amygdala, or the insula) two different gambling tasks: a slot machine game that delivered wins and «near - misses» (like a cherry one position from the jackpot line), and a roulette game involving red or black predictions, to elicit the gambler's fallacy.

At the time, scientists didn't know that the ability to establish long - term memory was centered in a specific part of the brain.

Previous research has showed that musicians have increased white matter integrity in a specific part of the brain called the corpus callosum, a thick band of nerve fibres that connects the left and right halves of the brain, enabling communication between the hemispheres.

Recent studies have hinted that a specific part of the brain — a central region called the insular cortex — may also play an important role in the cognitive and emotional processes that facilitate drug and tobacco use.

«To the extent that psychiatric or neurological disease is localized to a specific part of the brain, we should now be considering the potentially specialized type of astrocytes regulating nerve connections in that region and their contributions to disease,» he said.

«It is only a neurochemical disorder in specific parts of the brain.»

The molecular changes allow more communication between neurons in a specific part of the brain also known to respond to antidepressant drugs.

The researchers found that when injected into a specific part of the brain (the brain stem) serotonin shortens apnoeic events by interacting with a specific serotonin receptor, the 5 - HT3 receptor, which, in healthy babies, is highly expressed in a region of the brainstem associated with the control of apneas and regular breathing.

A 30 - patient study by Washington researchers, however, has found that magnetically stimulating a specific part of their brains can affect arm movements — raising hope that, in the future, a short course of therapy targeting this area could help to free the arm and restore some use of the stroke - affected limb.

The procedure, which involves the implantation of a «brain pacemaker,» sends electrical impulses to specific parts of the brain.

Clarke's group now suspects that gut bacteria affect their host's anxiety levels by tampering with microRNAs in specific parts of its brain.

Before we are born, the developing brain creates an incredible number of neurons, which migrate to specific parts of the brain to ready us for life.

For your brain, the only difference between worrying and planning is the amount of emotional involvement and self - oriented processing in a specific part of the brain.

Improve cholinergic activities and the release of acetylcholine in the specific parts of the brain

To look at a specific part of the brain select it from the drop - down menu and it will be highlighted on the model for you to view.