Currently, fcMRI is not used clinically, and the kinds of MRI and CT scans used to assess stroke damage don't measure how
well different brain regions work together.
Not exact matches
After the incoming smell signal pattern is processed, this information is sent to
different parts of the
brain, including
regions involved in memory and emotion, as
well as to the cortex, where thinking takes place.
And customizing the feedback fMRI is generally more difficult than customizing the dose of a drug, because each person might be helped
best by targeting a
different brain region with a
different mental exercise.
So some of them tend to have
well - developed connections between
different regions of the
brain; that's where the white matter — the cables connecting
different processors in the
brain.
For instance, knowing if there is a simple increase or decrease in connectivity between
brain regions compared to healthy individuals, or whether those with autism use entirely
different brain regions to implement cognitive flexibility will enable researchers to
better design interventions to improve cognitive flexibility skills.
«New analysis of
brain network activity offers unique insight into epileptic seizures: Researchers are exploring «evolving epileptic
brain networks» to gain a
better understanding of
brain activity in epilepsy patients and the roles played by
different regions of the
brain.»
A second finding involved
brain synchronization — a measure of how
well coordinated the
brain activation was across
different regions of the
brain.
Dr. Ressler's group uses
well - established mouse models to examine
different aspects of fear learning and investigate the role of
different brain regions, in particular the amygdala, in fear processing.