... markedly lower in depressed people compared with non-depressed people, in both the left and right hippocampus region of the brain.
But even among depressed people, the lower a ...
... research showed that attentional lapses normally induce activity in frontal and parietal regions of the brain, “command centers” that may compensate for lost focus by increasing attention. However, ...
... repaid or not.
The subjects also received doses of either the brain chemical oxytocin (OT) or a placebo via ... game—OT reduced activity in two brain regions: the amygdala, which processes fear, danger ...
... the greatest lead exposure in childhood. The specific regions of the brain involved were those responsible for organizing actions, ... (5)5: e112. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050112)
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... Technology have discovered that reason struggles with emotion to find equitable solutions, and have pinpointed the region of the brain where this takes place. The concept of fairness, they found, is ...
... severed nerves but the nerves also grow correctly in the direction of their original target region in the brain.
Perspectives for the future
In the future, this new model can be used to identify ...
... time-series of three-dimensional images of brain activity. In a typical fMRI experiment, a time ... able to orchestrate the responses of so many different brain regions, turning them on and off at the same ...
... of these sounds correlates with activity in high-level auditory regions in the brain, but not the initial cortical region where sound is processed. Because many previous neuroimaging studies have ...
... not only improved the skills of struggling readers, but also changed the way the parietotemporal regions of their brains activated when they comprehended written sentences. This was the first brain ...
... regulate and control emotion better than their younger counterparts. The study identified two regions in the brain that showed increased activity when participants over the age of 60 were shown ...
... areas of the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary movements, as expected, but also in regions of the brain that involve cognition, executive functioning, memory, and involuntary muscle control ...
... of a female stranger.
The authors looked for activity in the nucleus accumbens, a region of the brain most commonly associated with reward and one that has also been shown to play a role in ...
... doses of Ritalin boosted neurotransmitter levels primarily in the PFC, suggesting a selective targeting of this region of the brain. Since then, he and Devilbiss have focused on how Ritalin acts on ...
... 2.5 million project to create models of how the brain and immune system function and change over time ... course of activity in various brain regions, communication among brain cells, and time-dependent ...
... can dilate or constrict blood vessels, depending on whether or not the cells are bound by neurotransmitters.
When a region of the brain becomes active, neurotransmitters begin to trickle out of that ...
