Sentences with phrase «tiny area of the brain»

Even in the tiniest areas of brain tissue, the pathways are tangled, almost indescribably dense.
The team's scans revealed a tiny area of the brain called the ventral tegmental area (or VTA for short) lighting up when the study's participants were shown a photo of their beloved.
This is a tiny area of the brain that dictates the emotional response to things with the potential for embarrassment.

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Analysing the area of the brain that creates these tiny flashes of light could help blind people see.
If certain areas of the brain that process visual information are activated — by a blow to the head, for example — tiny stars of light appear.
Some areas of the brain are very tiny,» he adds.
«A tiny variation in the gene that makes the enzyme that breaks down dopamine causes a complete flipflop — not a mere difference in degree — in dopamine activity in these two brain areas,» explained NIMH's Dr. Andreas Meyer - Lindenberg, who, along with Dr. Karen Berman and colleagues, reported their findings in the April 10, 2005 online edition of Nature Neuroscience.
During a seizure, tiny areas of your pet's brain begin sending out electrical impulses that are received by the nerve cells that adjoin them.
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