Sentences with phrase «with frontal lobe»

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· Opposite arm / leg: contralateral movement for patterning, executive function, connecting the cerebellum with the frontal lobe

The brain is divided into distinct sections, with the frontal lobes being two of the most important areas.

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Less than half a second later, electrodes that were attached to the subjects» foreheads — right above their frontal lobes — picked up a pulse that came with the flash of insight.

«A life of staring endlessly at the surf armed with a pina colada will confound and frustrate the frontal lobe.»

It helps signals move faster around the neural network, and in two important areas of the brain, the frontal and temporal lobes, myelin levels increase with age, peaking on average around age 50 and in some people continuing to rise into their 60s.

Those of you with functioning frontal lobes will realize that the denial of Jesus is fallacious paranoia.

It wouldn't do for either of them to make decisions of any sort with an underdeveloped frontal lobe.

«In addition,» Dr. Cruger says, «neuroscientific studies, including CT scans and MRI studies, have seen volumetric differences between typically developing youngsters and children diagnosed with ADHD — not in those somatosensory regions, but in frontal lobe regions noted to be essential for the inhibition of impulses.»

Primitive reflexes are primarily tested with suspected brain injury or some dementias such as Parkinson's disease for the purpose of assessing frontal lobe functioning.

Reduced cortical thickness: Hong and colleagues found reduced cortical (the outermost part of the brain) thickness in internet - addicted teen boys (Hong 2013), and Yuan et al found reduced cortical thickness in the frontal lobe of online gaming addicts (late adolescent males and females) correlated with impairment of a cognitive task (Yuan 2013).

When Thompson's team looked at brain scans of 206 healthy people aged 70 to 80, they found that those with at least one copy of the FTO variant had 8 per cent less volume in their frontal lobes and 12 per cent less in the occipital lobes, compared with their counterparts lacking the variant.

Walker wonders whether distortions in the patient's frontal lobes combined with increased stimulation of dopamine receptors could account for the increase in artistic skill.

To amplify slow waves and get them into optimal sync with spindles, researchers plan to apply electrical brain stimulation to the frontal lobe in future experiments.

For example, the frontal lobes, with their ability to empathize and to anticipate consequences of choices in the future, can override whatever selfish or antisocial urges may also be harbored in the brain.

Their results showed that AF was associated with smaller frontal lobe volumes, even after adjusting for age, gender, vascular risk factors and APOE4 (a gene independently linked to smaller brain volumes).

«Because you've associated things over time, you're going to associate a certain triggering point in the frontal lobe or the basal forebrain and tell certain regions of the brain stem to adopt a state of activity as if it were receiving signals from the body that were consonant with emotion x.

And my frontal lobes have matured enough to actually do something with it all.

The scientists found that an area in the lower frontal lobe, the so - called orbitofrontal cortex, exhibited smaller volumes in the healthy individuals that reported that they have problems with regulating emotions.

A later study found that in patients with damage to the frontal lobe (the ventromedial prefrontal cortex), decisions to communicate are no longer fine - tuned to stored knowledge about an addressee.

«This turns out to be correlated with core areas of the brain,» particularly «the frontal lobes and the temporal lobes.»

Theta wave activity starts in the back of the brain, in it's fear center — the amygdala — and then interacts with brain's memory center — the hippocampus — before traveling to the frontal lobe where thought processing areas are engaged.

After training, faster reaction times were associated with lower frontal lobe activity, which is consistent with the more energy - efficient neural activity found in younger adults.

The SLF connects the brain's frontal lobe — responsible for decision - making, emotion and understanding consequences of actions — with the parietal lobe, which processes language and sensory input.

Using MRI technologies, brain scans of subjects with Down syndrome showed some compromise in the tissues of brain's frontal lobe compared to those from the control group.

In particular, obesity has been linked with dysfunction of the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in memory and learning, and of the frontal lobe, the part of the brain involved in decision making, problem solving and emotions, suggesting that it might also affect memory; however, evidence for memory impairment in obesity is currently limited.

Dr. Brewer confirmed, speaking clearly, carefully choosing his words, «It extends all the back to 1848,» with the case of Phineas Gage who famously survived being impaled through the head with an iron rod that injured his frontal lobes but suffered dramatic changes in his personality (you can check out his skull and the iron rod at Harvard's Countway library of medicine where it is on display).

The scans revealed that men with ASD had differences in brain connections in the frontal lobe, a part of the brain that is crucial to developing language and social interaction skills.

With the fMRI, Spence was able to see that she activated extensive regions of her frontal brain lobes and also took significantly longer to respond when agreeing with the cops» accoWith the fMRI, Spence was able to see that she activated extensive regions of her frontal brain lobes and also took significantly longer to respond when agreeing with the cops» accowith the cops» account.

«Not until it gets to the frontal lobe does the empty set become abstracted as a value on the number line, analogously with the behavior of the animals,» says Nieder.

«We were able to demonstrate how the strength of synapses in the frontal lobe is linked with the neurological abilities of infants.

Previous research has shown that activity in the right frontal lobe is associated with negative emotions.

The study also found significant differences between DupB - / - and DupB + / - apes in 12 distinct brain regions, with the largest clusters within the frontal lobe.

By scanning his subjects with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Ehrsson found the illusion involves interconnected areas of the brain, including the premotor cortex in the frontal lobe (responsible for sensory guidance of movement) and the intraparietal cortex in the parietal lobe (involved in locating and recognizing body parts).

While both males and females with autism had alterations in regions of the corpus callosum connected to the frontal lobe, the pattern of alterations differed between the sexes.

The research, which emphasises the difference between functional sub-territories in perceiving emotions through vocal communication, shows that the more complex and precise the processes related to emotions are, the more the frontal lobe and its connections with other cerebral regions are solicited.

Activity in the left frontal lobe, on the other hand, is associated with positive emotions.

For the first time ever, thin electrical wires were surgically implanted into the frontal lobes of the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease to determine if using a brain pacemaker could improve cognitive, behavioral, and functional abilities in patients with this form of dementia.

In FTD, the frontal lobes and temporal lobes are affected first, causing changes in the patient's behavior and personality, or problems with language.

Frontal lobe γ - aminobutyric acid levels during adolescence: Associations with impulsivity and response inhibition.

Brain injuries commonly involve damage to the frontal lobes, which results in behavioral problems and difficulties with cognition, most notably, executive function.

Increases in working memory - related activation volume of 82, 73, 83, and 36 % were observed in the left frontal, right frontal, left parietal, and right parietal lobes, respectively, for 3 T compared with 1.5 T.

The result showed acupuncture at «open point time» was associated with more deactivation in the frontal lobe, temporal lobe, cingulate cortex and cerebellum than acupuncture at the «closed point time».

«Typically, the frontal lobes and the temporal lobes take most of the damage, so I would expect those areas will be looked at with some scrutiny,» says Dr. Jerome Stenehjem, of Sharp Memorial Rehabilitation in Kearny Mesa.

The behavioral and neuronal bases of executive function have been well studied in neuropsychological patients (12 ⇓ — 14) and with functional neuroimaging (9, 12, 15 ⇓ — 17), which confirm that executive function is supported by a network of brain regions, primarily involving the frontal lobes and the posterior parietal cortex (9, 12, 15 ⇓ — 17).

Animals were injected intracranially (right frontal lobe) one day post-partum with 200 µl of virus (104 TCID50 / ml)[44].

Again, you can blame it on biology: The frontal lobes of the brain — which deal with responsibility and risk calculation — develop much more slowly in males than females, Dr. Legato says.

For example, researchers are looking at how inflammation decreases the firing rate of neurons in the frontal lobe of the brain in people with depression.

Higher expenditure of energy was associated with larger gray matter volumes in the parietal, temporal and frontal lobes, which included the basal ganglia, posterior cingulate and hippocampus.

This is a survival mechanism that's been with us since long before our frontal lobes developed.