It was only when Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist, had a stroke at the age of 37, that she fully understood the huge gulf between the left and the right parts of the brain. Emma Brockes reports
... time you feel sleepy, parts of your brain are actually already asleep, according to a new ... wisdom, they say there’s no 'control center' in your brain that dictates when it’s time for you to drift off ...
Alcohol numbs the parts of the brain that process threats while stimulating its reward centres
... first time that we process cash and social values in the same part of our brain (the striatum)--and likely weigh them against one another when making decisions. So what's more important-- ...
... frontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with alcohol abuse that is a part of the brain pathway that involves feelings of desire and reward.
“This protein may play a role in the reward ...
... the fornix and the peduncular projections – that consist largely of axons that project from one part of the brain to another.
The researchers tested the patients’ degree of consciousness and ability ...
... some cases, these molecular guides -- non-signaling brain cells known as glia -- form a kind of ... Dr. Huang says, although he notes that other parts of the brain have their own specific wiring patterns. ...
Doctors said that Senator Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant glioma in the upper left part of his brain.
... associated with shrinking (“volume loss”) of specific parts of the brain in adulthood, finds a related study ... 17 years, who agreed to undergo specialized brain scans known as magnetic resonance imaging ...
... between neurons, which is altered by chronic alcohol abuse. The central amygdala, a part of the brain involved in emotions such as stress and fear, is important in regulating alcohol consumption. ...
... to regard the robotic device as part of their own bodies.
The primary motor cortex, a part of the brain that controls movement, has thousands of nerve cells, called neurons, which fire together as ...
... the chemical makeup of the areas known to generate new neurons in the hippocampus with other parts of the brain, the team discovered that astrocytes in the hippocampus were sending one signal to the ...
... proteins that occurred in vertebrates provided a pool of proteins that were used for making different parts of the brain into the specialised regions such as cortex, cerebellum and spinal cord.
Since ...
... Fellows Ann Meyler and Tim Keller measured blood flow to all of the different parts of the brain while children were reading and found that that the parietotemporal areas were significantly less ...
A part of the brain that can stay active in brain-damaged patients offers recovery clue, say scientists.
