Sentences with phrase «various parts of the brain»

This information is actually distributed in various parts of the brain rather than stored in a single location.

Brain scans of children learning letters through writing versus through typing showed writing activates various parts of the brain while typing hardly activates it at all.

«MRI scans give us a bird's eye view of the apnea - related difference in volume of various parts of the brain, but they don't tell us, at the cellular level, what happened to the affected neurons or when,» said co-author David Gozal, MD, professor of pediatrics, University of Chicago.

Saxena's findings are corroborated by a recent study from the University of Iowa, involving a group of people who had suffered lesions in various parts of their brains as a result of strokes or other neurological diseases.

Concurrently, the research team recorded electrical signals from TRN neurons and also tracked the mice's behavior while at the same time inactivating various parts of the brain's neural circuits with a laser beam.

«It is believed that once inhaled, the scents alter the mood by stimulating various parts of the brain associated with emotion,» Paul says.

Over time, these connections become thick, hardy road maps that link various parts of the brain — and stimulating one neuron in the sequence is more likely to trigger the next one to fire.

That is a weak excuse against e-books, which are actually so much better for immersing the child in a reading experience, allowing them to use various parts of their brains to process information, make connections and learn more thoroughly.

The researchers enrolled epilepsy patients at Wake Forest Baptist who were participating in a diagnostic brain - mapping procedure that used surgically implanted electrodes placed in various parts of the brain to pinpoint the origin of the patients» seizures.

But a detailed knowledge of how a single neuron works and what are the functions of the various parts of the brain is not enough to give an answer to the initial question.

Nerve cells, or neurons, that produce the chemical messenger molecule serotonin extend long projections called axons to various parts of the brain.

Pleasure, like pain, is thought of as being a sort of simple, absolute, innate, basic thing, but as far as I can see, pleasure is a piece of machinery for turning off various parts of the brain.

This caused massive destruction to various parts of his brain, but especially the temporal lobes and the hippocampal system, which is crucial for personal memories.

«The changes in the various parts of the brain that we can see in the images correspond logically to the symptoms in early onset and late onset Alzheimer's patients respectively,» explains Oskar Hansson, professor of neurology at Lund University and consultant at Skåne University Hospital.

«By activating TLR3, the Zika virus blocks genes that tell stem cells to develop into the various parts of the brain.

That has culminated in the «Neurogrid» project that we're doing right now, where we build models of the components of neurons and synapses, and various parts of the brain, directly with transistors, and do it very efficiently.

The scanner can identify the various parts of the brain that activate as the batter prepares his swing.

That said, the various parts of the brain have been relatively well mapped out; so we can say with a degree of certainty about particular brain activity being dominant in specific zones.

They have also shown that the control of these strategies through functional connections between the various parts of the brain is also not as well - developed as for concentrics.

Present an overview of the impact of trauma on the various parts of the brain, body and nervous system.