Sentences with phrase «subcortical areas»

For example, it is now known that subcortical areas are more strongly functionally coupled with primary sensory, association, and paralimbic areas in children, whereas adults show stronger cortico - cortical functional connectivity between paralimbic, limbic, and association areas (Supekar et al., 2009).

When he applied TMS to 14 depressed patients while they were in an fMRI scanner, he was able to confirm that subcortical areas such as the anterior cingulate — undoubtedly involved in depression — were activated as well.

If you go into the brain stem or into other subcortical areas of the brain, the neurons have no distinguishing features.

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.

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For example, a deep layer 5 pyramidal neuron might snake its gossamer - thin output wire, the axon, to a subcortical target area while also extending a connection to an inhibitory local neuron.

Though vigilance is essential for safe police work, for a hypervigilant officer an action as innocuous as reaching for a wallet may activate the brain's subcortical reactive emotion areas, which leap to the conclusion that the person is going for a weapon.

Imaging scans show the brain shifts its activity (measured by blood flow and oxygenation, indicating which neurons are heavily used at a specific time) from the prefrontal executive control regions to subcortical reactive emotion areas.

Strategies aimed at regulating emotions should restore the balance between cortical and subcortical brain areas.

«It is interesting to consider the evolutionary importance of the connection between the auditory areas, cortical, and the more primitive system of emotional evaluation, subcortical,» says the researcher.

Subcortical brain regions form circuits with cortical areas to coordinate movement, learning, memory and

Fetal neurosonography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have also showed diffuse calcification in the subcortical parenchyma and thalamic areas, ventriculomegaly, lissencephaly, and pachygyria (ie, smooth brains with reduced gyral ridges).6 Nevertheless, to our knowledge, a systematic follow - up of clinical and morphological features of these cases along with anatomic and pathological descriptions associated with congenital ZIKV infection has not been reported.

Play therapy helps a child integrate implicit and explicit memory, the neo cortex and subcortical brain, the left hemisphere and right hemisphere along with many other areas.

A number of psychologists have described some forms of love just as you have: like an addiction; there is intense desire to spend time with the object of our affection, we experience intense cravings, emotional dependence, mood swings, and even loss of control and compulsive behaviors.1 In one study utilizing fMRI technology (brain imaging), subcortical reward systems in the brain were activated when adults viewed photographs of someone who had rejected their love; 2 this part of the brain is the same area that lights up when people experience intense, romantic love3 and is rich in dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter associated with rewards like pleasure.