Sentences with phrase «which areas in the brain»

The technique has been instrumental for identifying which areas in the brain control functions such as vision, hearing, or touch.

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That makes sense because one of the first areas of the brain to be affected in dementia are the temporal lobes, which house semantic [word meaning] knowledge.»

Or does it pull in contributions from other parts of the cerebral cortex and even from areas that are involved in emotional behavior, like the amygdala, which lies deep in the brain's core?

-- Daniel Amen, M.D., clinical neuroscientist and brain imaging expert who heads Amen Clinics, which are located in Orange County, Calif., Atlanta, San Francisco, New York City, Washington, D.C., and the Seattle area.

Their brains also show more blood flow in Broca's area, which is involved in speech production, which may be why introverts are inclined toward self - talk.

In one paper from last year, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers identified the area of the brain that processes this information about personal identities, which is called the anterior temporal lobIn one paper from last year, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers identified the area of the brain that processes this information about personal identities, which is called the anterior temporal lobin the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers identified the area of the brain that processes this information about personal identities, which is called the anterior temporal lobe.

«Re-entry», as Edelman states, «provides the critical means by which the activities of distributed multiple brain areas are linked, bound, and then dynamically altered in time during perceptual categorization.

One theory is that this stimulation depletes the nerves of Substance P, a neuropeptide that transmits pain signals to the brain, which then reduces pain and irritation in a treated area.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Which happens to be the area in the brain that controls executive function and self regulation.

The idea was «to identify the areas of the brain in which p11 is particularly important, in order to find targets» for new therapies for depression, says Kaplitt.

Another clinical trial, which Kaplitt is not involved in, is testing the effect on depression of a deep brain stimulator implanted into the same brain area.

The authors searched for genetic mutations that might explain the disproportionately high risk of SUDEP in people with poorly controlled focal epilepsy, which, by definition stems from a specific area of the brain.

More experiments with the rats showed that OEA activates the same areas of the brain that mediate the formation of emotionally charged memories in humans, which are more vivid than typical memories.

The mice, which move backwards when they try to walk forwards on a smooth surface, have a gene for a mutated protein that prompts neurons in the cerebellum, a brain area that controls movement and balance, to die off.

Neurosurgeons use electrode grids to identify which areas of the brain are diseased in order to avoid damaging or removing healthy, functional tissue during operations.

The experiments highlighted an area of the brain known as the «nucleus accumbens», which has been long - associated with motivation, reward and depression — in humans too.

So when the number of receptors you have is decreased, which we discovered happens in people who are addicted to drugs, what results is inappropriate function of the prefrontal areas of the brain that are regulated by dopamine.

The upshot: the monkeys in the larger groups had more gray matter in brain areas linked to processing social information (the middle superior temporal sulcus, amygdala and rostral prefrontal cortex, two of which overlap with those reported on in the Proceedings B study).

The nerve cells involved in this integration process and control of hormonal signals reside in an area of the insect brain known as the mid-Ventral Ganglion (mVG), which in turn communicates with a region of the central brain that is akin to the mammalian hypothalamus.

Language is one of those areas in which scientists observe neural entrainment: When people listen to speech, their brain waves lock up with the volume - based rhythms they hear.

Then she examined the brain scans of her subjects to see which areas of the brain became active and to see whether the age of the volunteers — ranging from 6 to 29 — made a difference in their responses.

«The effect of sleep deprivation on pain sensitivity in operated and intact rats was virtually eliminated by pharmacologically blocking the action of adenosine in a brain region in the anterior hypothalamus known to regulate sleep, which is connected to major pain - related areas,» Vanini says.

Neuroscientists mapped out the brain area responsible for the adult song, which controls muscles in the zebra finch mouth.

In particular, theta activity increased at the junction of three brain areas: the parietal region, just behind the crown of the head, which perceives sensory information and integrates it into the mysterious state called consciousness; the temporal lobe, behind the temples and responsible for making sense of sound; and the occipital lobe, located at the bottom back of the brain and responsible for processing vision.

By using tracer chemicals in experiments with live garden warblers, the researchers followed a circuit of neurons from the cryptochrome molecules to the «cluster N» area of the brain, which is active during navigation, showing for the first time that cluster N uses information from the retina.

Once the rule was learned participants were invited to perform the task in an MRI scanner, allowing the researchers to see which brain areas were recruited.

Until now, the «seizure - generating area» of the brain — in which the earliest signs of seizure activity can be observed — was considered the most important of these regions.

Even more surprisingly, the researchers observed that areas of the brain, the globus pallidus and the substantia nigra, which participate in the reward circuit (activated when we love something), were more involved in people who do not like cheese than in those who do.

In this study, published in Neuron last year, Greene and Shenhav observed that as the subjects made their decisions, they tapped a fascinating selection of brain areas: the insula, normally used to manage probability and risk, and the ventral striatum, which tracks magnitudIn this study, published in Neuron last year, Greene and Shenhav observed that as the subjects made their decisions, they tapped a fascinating selection of brain areas: the insula, normally used to manage probability and risk, and the ventral striatum, which tracks magnitudin Neuron last year, Greene and Shenhav observed that as the subjects made their decisions, they tapped a fascinating selection of brain areas: the insula, normally used to manage probability and risk, and the ventral striatum, which tracks magnitude.

The areas in the brain linked to this type of decision making were the dorsal portion of the medial prefrontal cortex, which is known to support higher cognitive functions such as planning, and the premotor cortex, which is more involved in the execution of real or imaginary movements.

The Nottingham experts however believe that this new control may come as a result of a higher amount of GABA, which is being released in the brain during adolescents, and which inhibits the motor regions such as the Supplementary Motor Area.

In addition to revealing the functions of different areas within the prefrontal cortex, studies have also demonstrated the flexibility of the region, which has helped experts optimize cognitive therapy techniques to enable patients with brain damage to learn new skills and compensate for their impairments.

The researchers also measured the activity of participants» brains with a tool called near - infrared spectroscopy, which measures changes in blood flow to particular areas of the brain.

The fish facing off with their own reflections showed greater activity in an area of the brain tied to fear and negative emotional learning, which suggests they find themselves scarier than any real rival.

The researchers are now investigating which areas of the brain are involved in these various learning strategies.

Instead of the brain moving largely in unison, an area deep in the brain called the corpus callosum - which connects the left and right halves of the brain — shakes more rapidly than the surrounding areas, placing significant strain on those tissues.

This coil permits the targeted stimulation of areas of the brain which, according to the latest research, play a major role in MS - associated fatigue.

To regulate mood, the prefrontal cortex acts as a pacemaker to coordinate the actions of the amygdala, which governs stress responses, and the ventral tegmental area, which plays a role in the brain's reward circuitry.

Children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds had thicker cortex in a part of the brain known as Broca's area, which is necessary for language production and comprehension.

Short pain stimuli are processed in sensory brain areas, whereas ongoing pain is processed in frontal brain areas which are related to emotional processes.

What's more, in a neuroimaging study in which the participants were shown images depicting human suffering, those who gave most generously during the online game also showed greatest activation in brain areas involved in empathy, emotion regulation and positive emotion.

The study also found increased blood flow in limbic areas of the brains of women, which may also partially explain why women are more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, insomnia, and eating disorders.

The reason for using this technique (called continuous theta - burst stimulation) in general is that it makes it possible to determine which brain areas perform which functions.

Clauw explained that fibromyalgia pain comes more from the brain and spinal cord than from areas of the body in which someone may experience peripheral pain.

A powerful X-ray tomography scanner allowed the researchers to image particularly thick sections of the brains of mice, which afforded them views into intact neural areas much larger than are customary in microscope imaging.

This loss of connectivity means that information can not flow as it should between distant areas of the brain, which may help explain impairment in social responsiveness, Jann said.

In order for early intervention of addiction to be possible, the study has deemed it essential to identify the biomarkers which may make a person more vulnerable to drug addiction, due to these particular areas of the brain affecting decision making and impulsivity.

So pinpointing these differences in visual areas might reveal important details about processing in brain regions related to social functioning and language, which are not as well understood.

The findings show just how important it is for people with acute ischaemic stroke (in which blood flow to an area of the brain is blocked or reduced) to be identified quickly and treated by specialist staff in order to reduce the subsequent degree of disability.