Sentences with phrase «subcortical structure of»

Imaging studies have shown differences in the frontal cortex and subcortical structures of the brain in patients with OCD.

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This is the same subcortical structure that reacts to fast unconscious assessment of threats.

«During the development from childhood to adolescence, the spontaneous activity of cortical regions involved in basic sensory perception decouples from the activity of subcortical structures relaying sensory information from the sensory organs to the cortex,» explains Keysers.

The grand symphonic piece that is consciousness encompasses the foundational contributions of the brain stem, forever hitched to the body, and the wider - than - the - sky imagery created in the cooperation of cerebral cortex and subcortical structures, all harmoniously stitched together, in ceaseless forward motion, interruptible only by sleep, anesthesia, brain dysfunction, or death.

Please see Fig. 3 for presentation of results that include subcortical gray matter structures.

Another set of neural structures that may not contribute directly to conscious experience are subcortical structures such as the basal ganglia.

These functional maps had large heterogeneous activations, so we parsed them by structure in MNI space to create a final set of functional masks using FSLView's Harvard - Oxford Cortical and Subcortical atlases.

Also noteworthy in this context, the prefrontal brain systems that process rewards and support reward - based decision - making undergo a prolonged and vulnerable developmental trajectory, and an impaired capacity of these prefrontal systems to regulate subcortical structures (particularly striatal regions of the basal ganglia) is implicated in risky, impulsive and otherwise disadvantageous decision - making from childhood through later life (for review, Fareri et al.