... preparation, while the other patients (those with damage to the left frontal cortex and to the basal ganglia) obtained the same ... effects. Finally, none of the groups –not even frontal-damage related patients– showed any ...
... with activation in a number of regions. The medial orbito-frontal cortex has previously been linked to appreciation of beauty ... experience correlates with activity in the medial orbito-frontal cortex would fall into the classification of beautiful ...
... underpinnings of risk-taking in young, non-dependent social drinkers has found that the caudate nucleus and frontal cortex regions of the brain show less ...
Raising levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the frontal cortex of the brain significantly decreased impulsivity in healthy adults, in [...]
... age-matched male individuals with no history of alcohol abuse. The samples were from the superior frontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with alcohol ...
... brain's decision right or not"" When they got to give food to the children, the study participants' orbital frontal cortex, the reward region of the brain, lit ...
... , Finland, and colleagues studied 10 patients without severe dementia who had undergone a biopsy of their frontal cortex because they were suspected of having normal-pressure ...
... thinking, and also use both the left and the right sides of their frontal cortex more heavily than the average person. The research ... musicians had greater activity in both sides of their frontal lobes. Because we equated musicians and non ...
... structure are altered, there may be a genetic basis for the change. We found an altered right/left relationship in a part of the frontal cortex that was also associated with altered judgment and decision ...
... are the first to look at "resting" gamma power in the frontal cortex, the "thinking" part of the brain, in children ... development," says Benasich. "By measuring gamma activity in the frontal cortex, which is the last brain area to mature ...
... glutamate receptor antagonist, MK-801. This drug causes the release of more glutamate into the synapse in the frontal cortex. This effect of MK-801 is reduced ...
... mobilised to take some action. It also involves a part of the frontal cortex that has been considered critical in predicting the actions ... -activated, with hate only a small zone, located in the frontal cortex, becomes de-activated. This may seem ...
... smokers who spontaneously quit smoking when they suffer brain damage restricted to a small portion of their frontal cortex ...
... is by quieting activity in the LC and increasing its connections with the frontal cortex," said Cameron Carter, a UC Davis ... indicated that it was the shift in brain activity of the pre-frontal cortex caused by norepinephrine that was responsible for improvements ...
... negative images. Scans also showed that older participants had increased interactions between the amygdala and the dorsolateral frontal cortex, a brain region involved in higher ...
