Sentences with phrase «with other brain regions»

Conversely, under - communication with other brain regions (especially the amygdala, an area of the brain associated with basic emotions) likely serves to allow automatic behaviours to go unchecked which may contribute to highly emotional and disproportionate response patterns.

â $ œOur findings fit into an emerging theme in neuroscience research: that during childhood, there is a switch in amygdala function and connectivity with other brain regions, particularly the prefrontal cortex, â $ says Mar Sanchez, PhD, neuroscience researcher at Yerkes and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine.

It also helps build networks that link the prefrontal cortex with other brain regions, allowing them to work together more efficiently.

Measurements of functional brain connections with fMRI during rest showed that immune activation in the hippocampus altered its connections with other brain regions.

From there, the fibers spread out like a sheet, connecting brain regions that are important for seeing objects with other brain regions that coordinate which objects to focus attention upon.

The scientists also found that the cellular responses persisted long after each of the photographs disappeared, further suggesting that the amygdala cooperates with other brain regions to create awareness of the emotional content of faces.

Among 22 patients, the researchers found enhanced memory performance in the four patients with stimulation of the lateral temporal cortex but not among those with the other brain regions stimulated.

Not exact matches

When asked to select the articles they'd share, activity in the brain regions associated with assessing value, self - related thinking, and, crucially, considering other people's perspective showed a flurry of activity.

I could easily show you these regions if I had here a picture of the brain.1 Moreover, the diminished or exaggerated associations of what this author calls the Köperfühlshäre with the other regions, accounts, according to him, for the complexion of our emotional life, and eventually decides whether one shall be a callous brute or criminal, an unbalanced sentimentalist, or a character accessible to feeling, and yet well poised.

A new study suggests that age - associated improvements in the ability to consider the preferences of others are linked with maturation of a brain region involved in self control.

They also found that in other regions of the brain associated with emotional regulation, brain activity actually decreased while listening to the criticism.

Many people with autism spectrum disorder also have an enhanced sensitivity to stimuli such as sounds or touch, and there's mounting evidence that abnormal brain connections — more in some regions, fewer in others — might play a significant role.

On the other hand, regions of the brain which aren't associated with intelligence — the visual, auditory, and sensory - motor areas — show small variability and adaptability.

Damasio soon discovered other people with damage in the same regions of the brain suffering from the same problem.

WHITE MAGIC Targeting parts of the brain's white matter, the tissue that connects different brain regions (shown), may be key to whether stimulating the brain with electricity will work as a treatment for memory problems and other ills.

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

With a large number of electrode channels distributed across the scalp, this method also detects which brain regions show more slow - wave activity than others.

At least one study suggests that in cluster headache sufferers this hypothalamus - adjoining region may differ not only in its electrical activity but also in its interactions with other parts of the brain.

Your level of self - control, researchers have found, may have to do with a region of the brain that lets us take the perspective of others — including that of our future self.

In the new study, published 9 January in Scientific Reports, developmental neuroscientist Moriah Thomason of Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and colleagues report a difference in how certain brain regions communicate with each other in fetuses that were later born prematurely compared with fetuses that were carried to term.

Working independently, Dulac and Anderson mapped patterns of brain activity in different brain regions while mice sniffed, ignored, fought, or mated with other mice.

Further analysis including in tissues from more patients with other forms of epilepsy also showed that CLOCK RNA and protein were often significantly lacking in both in excitatory and inhibitory neurons in affected brain regions.

A study, published today in Science Advances, found that when scientists used noninvasive brain stimulation to disrupt a brain region called the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), people appeared less able to see things from the point of view of their future selves or of another person, and consequently were less likely to share money with others and more inclined to opt for immediate cash instead of waiting for a larger bounty at a later date.

The researchers discovered that in brain regions involved in regulating anxiety — the amygdala and prefrontal cortex — microbe - free mice had an overabundance of some types of microRNA and a shortage of others compared with normal mice.

It found that genes associated with depression are involved in brain cell development, and that there was overlap between these genetic regions and those linked to schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.

Neurodegenerative diseases are caused by the death of neurons and other cells in the brain, with different diseases affecting different regions of the brain.

The results fit with other evidence that autism may be caused by overdevelopment of specific brain regions and schizophrenia by underdevelopment, says Crespi.

«It might also be used to study how neurons from different regions of the brain communicate with each other.»

As CaMKII expression has been associated with consolidation and permanence of memories in other brain regions, this switch may reflect the formation of a stronger and more stable opiate reward memory.

Functional MR imaging taken while the animals received either a juice reward or VTA stimulation revealed that both induced activation of brain regions that previous studies in humans and other primates have associated with reward signaling by means of the neurotransmitter dopamine.

While researchers found that playing strategy games better engaged memory and cognitive control brain regions, making them better suited for improving memory tasks, they hypothesize that action games that stimulate the limbic area and elicit more emotional arousal might be beneficial for other clinical populations like patients with mood disorders.

In a new study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, neuroscientists from the University of Chicago show that white matter in a region of the brain called the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) has less integrity and density in people with IED than in healthy individuals and those with other psychiatric disorders.

In the final experiment, the researchers followed the PBelCGRP neurons» long - reaching branches (called axons) to the cells they connect with in other regions of the brain.

Autism and other specific mental disorders may be caused in part by «specific circuits or regions of the brain [that] had problems with connectivity,» Krienen says.

The team also checked the fMRI readings to determine whether any other brain regions had a similar pattern of activity, which would indicate that the brain networks were communicating with one another.

DeltaFosB already is well known for its association with other neurological conditions linked to persistent brain activity of specific brain regions, such as addiction.

One is the «spine pruning theory,» supported by the observation that the frontal brain regions of people with schizophrenia have fewer dendritic spines, the tentacles on the receiving ends of neurons that process signals from other cells.

Moreover, the degree of «self - other - mergence» is associated with activity in a brain region previously implicated in theory of mind — the ability to understand the mental states of oneself and others.

Using PET brain scans, they showed that those with impaired illness awareness also had reduced glucose uptake in specific brain regions, even when accounting for other factors linked to reduced glucose uptake, such as age and degree of memory loss.

On the other side, researchers who study behavior will be able to link those activities with regions of the brain, which then can be further studied.»

He cautions, however, that such therapy would have to be localized, so that it did not interfere with the protein's role in learning in other brain regions.

«This lack of synchronization with frontal regions in ASD — an impairment in brain connectivity — may lead to symptoms of the disorder that involve processes that require brain coordination between frontal and other areas, such as language processing and social interaction,» Just explained.

«This distinction is linked not just to brain activations selective to the processes studied but is also due to the difference in connections with other cerebral regions that require these two operations,» continues Grandjean.

A study that compares us with other primates finds a brain region linked to social behavior that may offer a biological explanation for why humans, not chimps, produced Shakespeare, Gandhi and Einstein

These frontal regions also became better connected, both within themselves, and to other parts of the brain that deal with sensory input and motor control.

«This study illustrates the potential of gaining fundamental insights into brain function while helping patients with debilitating diseases, and provides us with a powerful way of selecting targets based on their connectivity to other regions that can be widely applied to help guide brain stimulation therapy across multiple neurological and psychiatric disorders.»

Using an optical fiber implanted in that region, the researchers were able to stimulate the primary motor cortex near where the stroke had occurred, and then monitor biochemical changes and blood flow there as well as in other brain areas with which this region was in communication.

In our study, we examined whether the role of specific brain regions for communication within and among brain modules varies with individual differences in intelligence, i.e., whether a specific brain region supports the information exchange within their own «family» more than information exchange with other «families», and how this relates to individual differences in intelligence.»

«During sleep, maybe specific brain regions have slow waves at the same time because they need to exchange information with each other, whereas other ones don't,» says Laura Lewis, a research affiliate in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and one of the lead authors of the new study, which appears in the journal ebrain regions have slow waves at the same time because they need to exchange information with each other, whereas other ones don't,» says Laura Lewis, a research affiliate in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and one of the lead authors of the new study, which appears in the journal eBrain and Cognitive Sciences and one of the lead authors of the new study, which appears in the journal eLife.

But all three labels also elicited some activity in the brain area associated with reward, the ventral striatum, as well as other regions related to desire and feeling connected.»