• Her research team also used positron emission tomography to study short-term memory and discovered the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to be active in short-term maintenance of verbal and nonverbal information while the left frontal opercular regions were only linked to verbal memory. (wikipedia.org)
  • Increased working memory load activates superficial layers of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. (mpg.de)
  • Results demonstrated strong convergence in brain regions commonly associated with the working memory construct (i.e., dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, fusiform gyrus, and posterior parietal cortex). (nih.gov)
  • Bunge, 2004 ) have attributed a role for the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) (particularly the left DLPFC) in the application and maintenance of rules, rather than in their initial learning. (jneurosci.org)
  • While viewing errors by others there was activation in lateral and medial temporal lobe structures, posterior cingulate cortex, precuneus and medial prefrontal cortex possibly reflecting simulation and storing for future use alternative action sequences that could have led to successful behaviors. (nature.com)
  • Here we studied the role of central amygdala (CeA), ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), brain regions implicated in incubation of cocaine and heroin craving, in incubation of methamphetamine craving. (nature.com)
  • We also assessed the role of basolateral amygdala (BLA) and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC). (nature.com)
  • Based on previous findings with heroin and cocaine, in the present study we assessed the roles of central and basolateral amygdala (CeA and BLA, respectively), ventral and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC and dmPFC, respectively), and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in incubation of methamphetamine craving. (nature.com)
  • For example, self-face recognition occurs in the right brain, and autobiographical memory is mainly related to the hippocampus, and self-reference is related to the medial prefrontal lobe [5]. (researchsquare.com)
  • Medial prefrontal cortex is activated during the process of social, self, and affective events [6]. (researchsquare.com)
  • Activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), medial premotor areas, and the amygdala suggests that creativity is associated with a neural network that involves discipline, language, emotion, and motor function. (medium.com)
  • Low flow Less blood flow was seen in the brain regions known as the thalamus, the posterior cingulate and the medial prefrontal cortex. (maps.org)
  • Decreases in connectivity were also observed, such as between the hippocampus and the posterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex. (maps.org)
  • Cocaine administered into the medial prefrontal cortex reinstates cocaine-seeking behavior by increasing AMPA receptor-mediated glutamate transmission in the nucleus accumbens. (uclahealth.org)
  • The medial frontal cortex (sometimes called the medial prefrontal area) is important in arousal and motivation. (msdmanuals.com)
  • I am particularly interested in the role played by the rostral prefrontal cortex, or Brodmann area 10. (bbk.ac.uk)
  • However, neural activation in two regions frequently attributed to WM were absent from this meta-analysis: the anterior cingulate and the rostral prefrontal cortex, suggesting that these regions may be more sensitive to task or stimuli characteristics. (nih.gov)
  • The anatomical prefrontal WM tracts of the corpus callosum (PFCC), anterior thalamic radiations (ATRs), inferior fronto-occipital fasciculi (IFO), and uncinate fasciculi (UNC) were identified using streamline tractography of DWI. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • By contrast, rule following was associated with activation in temporal, motor, and medial/anterior prefrontal cortex. (jneurosci.org)
  • Introverts show elevated metabolic activity across multiple brain regions including the anterior cingulate gyrus, caudate, temporal lobes, hippocampus, inferior parietal lobe and the cerebellar vermis IX. (amenclinics.com)
  • Probing human and monkey anterior cingulate cortex in variable environments. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Previous research has identified the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) as an important node in the neural network underlying decision making in primates. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Third- and higher-order motor neurons are located in the frontal lobes of the brain anterior to the precentral gyrus (ie, the prefrontal cortex). (medscape.com)
  • If lesions in this area are large and extend to the most anterior part of the cortex (frontal pole), patients sometimes become abulic (apathetic, inattentive, and markedly slow to respond). (msdmanuals.com)
  • In research published in Science , investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have mapped the neurons in the brain that allow a monkey to process and remember the interactions and behaviors of another monkey to influence the animal's own actions. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • At the same time, the researchers recorded the activity of individual neurons in a brain area known to play a role in social cognition, called the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC). (neurosciencenews.com)
  • To their surprise, the researchers found these receptors are not in the prefrontal cortex, the presumed seat of working memory, but in neurons much farther away in the brain's thalamus. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Here, we investigated whether the gyrencephalic ferret cortex possesses human\equivalent postnatal streams of doublecortin positive (DCX+) young neurons. (woofahs.com)
  • The somas of upper motor neurons reside in the brain, where they control the activity of lower motor neurons. (medscape.com)
  • They send fibers that directly connect to lower motor neurons in the brain stem that innervate the muscles of the face, pharynx, and larynx or to lower motor neurons in the spinal cord that innervate the limb, trunk, and respiratory muscles. (medscape.com)
  • The somas of these third- and higher-order motor neurons reside in the brain, and their axons form associative or commissural projections within the brain. (medscape.com)
  • We were also the first to identify and map the dopaminergic projections to the habenula and the spinal cord, and reveal the special dendritic projections from the nigra compacta neurons that allow dopamine to be released from dendrites in the pars reticulata. (lu.se)
  • In this study, we adapted a rule attainment task, the Brixton Spatial Anticipation Test ( Burgess and Shallice, 1996 ), to a functional imaging context with the goal of testing the contribution of different prefrontal cortex (PFC) and temporo-parietal regions to rule acquisition and rule following. (jneurosci.org)
  • The results of these analyses show that the semantic content of narrative speech is represented across parietal cortex, prefrontal cortex, and temporal cortex in complex maps comprising dozens of semantically selective brain areas. (berkeley.edu)
  • Mapping ocular dominance columns in humans using GE-EPI, SE-EPI and SS-SI-VASO at 7 T. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 28 , 1230. (mpg.de)
  • The team then investigated how this gene, which also exists in other mammals and humans, affects a mouse's brain and behavior. (technologynetworks.com)
  • We have previously reported sustained activation in the ventral prefrontal cortex while participants prepared to perform 1 of 2 tasks as instructed. (ox.ac.uk)
  • On the other hand, a conjunction analysis revealed sustained activation in the ventral prefrontal and polar cortex for both conditions. (ox.ac.uk)
  • We argue that the ventral prefrontal cortex is specialized for handling conditional rules regardless of how the task rules were established. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is important for a wide range of cognitive behaviours and is impacted in numerous neuropsychiatric disorders. (europa.eu)
  • In 2002, she received the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology "for research that has combined the techniques of modern functional brain imaging with those of cognitive psychology to study how the brain processes single words. (wikipedia.org)
  • She is a member of Centre for Educational Neuroscience and the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development. (bbk.ac.uk)
  • Her studies combine a variety of methods to study brain and cognitive development including functional and structural neuroimaging, behavioural assessments, and genetics. (bbk.ac.uk)
  • This brain region supports both social functions, such as mentalising or theory of mind, and executive functions such as relational reasoning, multitasking, prospective memory, as well as other cognitive processes such as mindwandering or episodic memory retrieval. (bbk.ac.uk)
  • Emotions were considered "an additional variable" indicating "irrational aspects" of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. 1). (facultyfocus.com)
  • The proposed method provides a new perspective for the analysis of brain structure differences of self-esteem, which also has potential guiding significance in other researches involved brain cognitive activity and brain disease diagnosis. (researchsquare.com)
  • Brain network aims to study the interaction of various brain regions as a whole, which has an important role to have a deep understanding of brain structures and cognitive neural processes. (researchsquare.com)
  • This also includes increasing the grey matter within our brains which leads to greater cognitive function such as memory, concentration, focus, awareness, and attention. (meditationdna.com)
  • Growing commercial interest in cognitive-enhancement technologies escalates the need to understand neurostimulation's long-term effects, especially on the developing brain. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • My previous research focused on the proof of principle that transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation can safely and transiently change neural activity in precise parts of the brain, particularly deep regions of the brain, repsonsible for core cognitive and motivational processes. (plymouth.ac.uk)
  • Sustained spatial attention to vibrotactile stimulation in the flutter range: Relevant brain regions and their interaction. (mpg.de)
  • Attentional modulation in somatosensory cortex during vibrotactile stimulation. (mpg.de)
  • Selective spatial attention to continuous vibrotactile stimulation modulates activity in primary somatosensory cortex. (mpg.de)
  • Brain Stimulation. (tau.ac.il)
  • The most widely used form of tES is transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), originally deployed to help patients with brain injuries or psychiatric disorders. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Still, brain stimulation holds the potential to energize creative potential. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Multi-institutional evaluation of deep brain stimulation targeting using probabilistic connectivity-based thalamic segmentation. (uclahealth.org)
  • 8. Clelland CD, Zheng Z, Kim W, Bari A , Pouratian N. Common cerebral networks associated with distinct deep brain stimulation targets for cluster headache. (uclahealth.org)
  • 10. Bari AA , Fasano A, Munhoz RP, Lozano AM. Improving outcomes of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease. (uclahealth.org)
  • 11. Mirzadeh Z, Bari A , Lozano AM. The rationale for deep brain stimulation in Alzheimer's disease. (uclahealth.org)
  • 12. Alomar S, King NK, Tam J, Bari AA , Hamani C, Lozano AM. Speech and language adverse effects after thalamotomy and deep brain stimulation in patients with movement disorders: A meta-analysis. (uclahealth.org)
  • Henry Markram is a professor of neuroscience at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology ( EPFL ), director of the Laboratory of Neural Microcircuitry ( LNMC ) and the Founder and Director of the Blue Brain Project. (epfl.ch)
  • After working as a biomedical engineer, developing brain-related clinical devises, I pursued an academic career in computational neuroscience at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. (plymouth.ac.uk)
  • Thus, damage to the motor cortex of one hemisphere causes weakness or paralysis mainly on the contralateral side of the body. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The concept of neuroplasticity-the ability of the brain to strengthen neural pathways and master difficult tasks through sustained practice-had been steadily evolving since the end of the 1900s and forms the basis of many influential theories of learning today (Ackerman, 2022). (facultyfocus.com)
  • The gene encodes Gpr12, an "orphan receptor," so-called because it's unclear what molecule in the brain activates it. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. (drbob.com)
  • Hirjak D, Rashidi M, Kubera KM, Northoff G, Fritze S, Schmitgen MM, Sambataro F, Calhoun VD, Wolf RC (2020) Multimodal MRI data fusion reveals distinct patterns of abnormal brain structure and function in catatonia. (uni-heidelberg.de)
  • She is the co-director of the Behavioral Brain Research Training Program at Carnegie Mellon University. (wikipedia.org)
  • In her research, she uses behavioral, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging methods to discover how the brain gives rise to the mind. (wikipedia.org)
  • Researchers believe that changes involving this enzyme in the prefrontal cortex may help explain the increased risk of behavioral problems and mental illness associated with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The results suggest that the dmPFC plays an important role in mapping out our actions and outcomes as well as the actions of others. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • High resolution quantitative and functional MRI indicate lower myelination of thin and thick stripe in human secondary visual cortex. (mpg.de)
  • High resolution quantitative and functional MRI indicate lower myelination of thin and thick stripes in human secondary visual cortex. (mpg.de)
  • and the more recent findings by Stanford's neuroscientist Andrew Huberman (2021) who highlighted the synergistic nature of the entire brain by tracing the complex pathway of dopamine, a neurotransmitter responsible for reward expectation and motivation to proceed towards the reward. (facultyfocus.com)
  • A team of IBM scientists used 410 anatomical tracing studies of the macaque brain to create what is possibly the most complete and complex map of the primate organ. (medgadget.com)
  • Recent neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), electroencephalography (EEG), and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) have brought into clearer focus the architecture and functioning of the brain and have established a more symbiotic relationship between its anatomical parts of the brain. (facultyfocus.com)
  • To solve this issue, we proposed multiple anatomical brain network method based on multi-resolution region of interest (ROI) template to study the structural connections of self-esteem. (researchsquare.com)
  • The multiple anatomical brain network consist of ROI features and hierarchal brain network features that are extracted from structural MRI. (researchsquare.com)
  • The anatomical brain network mainly uses the region of interest (ROI) of the brain as the node, and the correlation between brain regions as edge [7-8]. (researchsquare.com)
  • The definition of ROI is a key step in anatomical brain network analysis. (researchsquare.com)
  • The focus of my postdoctoral work was to sort out the anatomical organization of the dopamine and noradrenaline neuron systems in the brain using the new glyoxylic acid histofluorescence method. (lu.se)
  • It is very likely that the amygdala is involved in processing violence, but the projections to the cortex are not clear. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • The secondary analyses identified portions of the subgenual cingulate cortex, hippocampus, amygdala, and putamen as demonstrating convergent abnormalities. (psychiatryonline.org)
  • Whole-brain analyses showed post-treatment decreases in cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the temporal cortex, including the amygdala, which correlated with reduced depressive symptoms. (medscape.com)
  • Despite the recent interest in the neuroanatomy of inductive reasoning processes, the regional specificity within prefrontal cortex (PFC) for the different mechanisms involved in induction tasks remains to be determined. (jneurosci.org)
  • Further exploration into mapping the neural pathways that are associated with introversion-extraversion may extrapolate meaningful correlations between these personality dimensions and brain physiology. (amenclinics.com)
  • 6. Björklund, A., Divac, I., Lindvall, O.: Regional distribution of catecholamines in monkey cerebral cortex, evidence for a dopaminergic innervation of the primate prefrontal cortex. (lu.se)
  • Cerebral Cortex, 4(1), 8-26. (wikipedia.org)
  • use the functional near-infrared spectroscopy based cerebral blood flow imaging method to estimate the hemodynamic response function of each ROI, in order to study the brain networks that are activated during the processing of self-esteem related information [9]. (researchsquare.com)
  • Here we explored the relationship between personality and regional cerebral blood flow using the introversion-extraversion subscale of the Keirsey temperament scale (KTS-II) and brain single-photon computed emission tomography (SPECT) in former professional American football players. (amenclinics.com)
  • They might be surprised, therefore, to hear that psilocybin - the active ingredient in magic mushrooms - actually decreases blood flow as well as connectivity between important areas of the brain that control perception and cognition. (maps.org)
  • Robin Carhart-Harris at Imperial College London and colleagues recruited 30 volunteers who agreed to be injected with psilocybin and have their brain scanned using two types of fMRI. (maps.org)
  • Mood swing Psilocybin has a similar chemical structure to serotonin - a hormone involved in regulating mood - and therefore binds to serotonin receptors on nerve cells in the brain. (maps.org)
  • A new brain imaging (fMRI) study by Robin Carhart-Harris at Imperial College London has found that the psychedelic or "mind-manifesting" effects of psilocybin could be due to the drug's ability to decrease, rather than increase, activity in certain parts of the brain. (maps.org)
  • During exposure to psilocybin, the brain is in a different, more fluid state, where it is not possible to continue having their traditional negative thinking patterns, and in the majority, the brain resets into a nondepressive mode," he said. (medscape.com)
  • These findings, coupled with research demonstrating that psilocybin and other psychedelics have "rapid and lasting positive impact on mental health" in healthy volunteers, raise an important question: What brain mechanisms mediate these effects? (medscape.com)
  • To fill this gap, the researchers compared changes in brain function before and after administering psilocybin to patients with TRD. (medscape.com)
  • Exposure to imagery, metaphors, philosophy, abstract ideas, and creativity challenges the brain to stay active, and can very well mean the difference between a healthy and happy brain from a slow one. (elearninginfographics.com)
  • The representation of abstract task rules in the human prefrontal cortex. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Based on her book Flooded: A Brain-Based Guide to Help Children Regulate Emotions, Allison Edward will give you the tools they need to help students manage emotions during Part II of this workshop. (learningandthebrain.com)
  • Using brain research and practical interventions, you will learn to set up spaces to reset the brain, de-escalate high-conflict situations and redirect students with emotions in mind. (learningandthebrain.com)
  • First, prefrontal cortex contains a disproportionate share of topologically central regions. (medgadget.com)
  • These psychological processes have their own corresponding brain regions. (researchsquare.com)
  • In addition to these independent brain regions, the difference in self-esteem is also reflected in the brain network connection. (researchsquare.com)
  • The study debunks the theory that suggests that creativity is confined to the right side of the brain, and confirms that multiple regions are harnessed during creative improvisation. (medium.com)
  • 4:03 The essential model of the mind as two systems, not mapped to the brain regions. (infoq.com)
  • the rest underwent a scan that measured connectivity between different regions of the brain. (maps.org)
  • tDCS delivers low-voltage electrical currents to targeted brain regions. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • SCGN+ interneurons appeared in thick sections to be oriented from white matter toward multiple cortical regions, and persistent SCGN\expressing cells were observed in cortex. (woofahs.com)
  • These findings indicate that ferret is usually a suitable animal model to study the human\relevant process of late postnatal cortical interneuron integration into multiple regions of cortex. (woofahs.com)
  • Studies found that reading fiction can help improve empathic tendencies in individuals so much so that the brain uses the same regions when you're reading a story and acting out of empathy. (elearninginfographics.com)
  • Listening to complex notes and reading high levels of prose and poetry stimulate left-sided regions of the brain responsible for introspection. (elearninginfographics.com)
  • Imaging studies of major depressive disorder have reported structural and functional abnormalities in a variety of spatially diverse brain regions. (psychiatryonline.org)
  • Mapping short association fibers in the early cortical visual processing stream using in vivo diffusion tractography. (mpg.de)
  • The primary objective of this research was to conduct a large-scale analysis using multisite diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) tractography data to quantify diffusivity properties along major prefrontal cortex WM tracts in prodromal HD. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • However, developing hypotheses about viewing violence and brain activation needs to start with research on physiological arousal (e.g. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • The present study provides evidence that brain activation during inductive reasoning involves a complex network of frontal processes and that different subregions respond during rule acquisition and rule following phases. (jneurosci.org)
  • The present study demonstrates distinct regional activity profiles unique to extraversion and introversion during a brain activation-task which has not been previously reported. (amenclinics.com)
  • But there are studies that have reported activation reflecting task rules elsewhere in prefrontal cortex, and this is true in particular when it was left to the participants to decide which rule to obey. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The prefrontal cortex (PFC), which lies towards the front of the brain, is responsible for working memory, allowing us to store and process information across time. (europa.eu)
  • Brain networks associated with maintenance and manipulation of somatosensory working memory contents. (mpg.de)
  • Dynamic layer-specific processing in the prefrontal cortex during working memory. (mpg.de)
  • In a paper in Cell , the researchers present evidence that working memory isn't neatly confined to one brain area, but requires the synchronous activity of at least two. (technologynetworks.com)
  • The findings challenge long-held assumptions that working memory is the job of just one part of the brain and help scientists pinpoint its genetic and mechanistic basis. (technologynetworks.com)
  • There were in fact hints from earlier research that multiple brain structures are somehow involved in working memory," says Priya Rajasethupathy , neuroscientist at Rockefeller University. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Imagined and actual speaking disentangle involvement of motor and somatosensory cortices: Submillimeter resolution resolves the cortical organization of speech pronunciation. (mpg.de)
  • Mapping colour-selective columns in V2 across cortical depth using GE- and SE-EPI. (mpg.de)
  • We used a new fMRI-based approach to show that semantic information is represented in complex cortical maps that are highly consistent across subjects. (berkeley.edu)
  • We then used a novel Bayesian generative model of cortical maps to discover how the representations revealed by voxel-wise modeling are organized across the cortical sheet. (berkeley.edu)
  • Findings suggest psychedelics "appear to dysregulate cortical activity, producing an 'entropic' brain state characterized by compromised modular but enhanced global connectivity ― referred to previously as network 'disintegration' and 'desegregation. (medscape.com)
  • Lindvall, allowed for the first time the visualisation of the dopamine neuron system in its entirety, and allowed us to map anatomically the previously unknown dopamine projections to cortical and limbic areas. (lu.se)
  • This proposal will apply cutting edge optogenetic methods to produce dense, single-cell connectivity maps to elucidate the circuit architecture of the mouse PFC, providing insight into the circuit mechanisms that support mnemonic coding. (europa.eu)
  • Functional connectivity-based parcellation of the human sensorimotor cortex. (mpg.de)
  • Mapping visual field specific short V1-V2 connectivity using high resolution dMRI and fMRI. (mpg.de)
  • Neural bases of financial decision making: from spikes to large-scale brain connectivity. (uni-hamburg.de)
  • Scientists have linked creative thinking with specific patterns of brain connectivity. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • For example, scientists using fMRI scans of people engaged in creative tasks have linked the most imaginative answers with specific patterns of brain activity and connectivity, Chrysikou explained in an interview. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • The prefrontal cortex accumulates object evidence through differential connectivity to the visual and auditory cortices. (mpg.de)
  • Such studies have identified differences in brain activity in the left-frontal and right-cerebellar parts of the brain when research participants are given simple verbal response tasks, such as generating associations between nouns and verbs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Brain imaging studies suggest that self-esteem involves multiple psychological processes, including self in perception, memory, and introspection. (researchsquare.com)
  • In 1997, she received the Wiley Young Investigator Award in Human Brain Mapping from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. (wikipedia.org)
  • Human Brain Mapping, 5(2), 79-83. (wikipedia.org)
  • Practice-related changes in human brain functional anatomy during nonmotor learning. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). (mpg.de)
  • Mapping short association fibres in the human visual system with ultra high resolution and high sensitivity diffusion MRI. (mpg.de)
  • Several effective pedagogical strategies have been proffered by established research based on human psychology, the architecture of the brain, and their synergy with effective learning. (facultyfocus.com)
  • Human Brain Mapping 36 (10) , pp. 3717-3732. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • Markram is also the founder of the Brain Mind Institute and the founder of the European Human Brain Project, one of two ten-year one billion Euro Flagship Projects selected in January 2013 by the European Commission. (epfl.ch)
  • Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking Fast Thinking Slow based on the research he did with Amos Tversky into how the human brain works, for which Kahneman win the 2011 Nobel Prize for Economics, is hard to read. (infoq.com)
  • animal models capture this aspect of human brain development is unclear. (woofahs.com)
  • We mapped DCX+ cells in the brains of ferrets at P20 (analogous to human term gestation), P40, P65, and P90. (woofahs.com)
  • Human brain mapping. (uni-tuebingen.de)
  • However, only one other study investigated the effects of psychedelics on human brain function more than 12 hours after acute effects, and few studies have examined anatomic changes that might be related to psychedelic use. (medscape.com)
  • It became increasingly clear that persistent activity in the prefrontal cortex, while important, can't be the whole story," says Rajasethupathy, Jonathan M. Nelson Family Assistant Professor. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Researchers can adjust the flow to either hike or suppress neuronal activity in that brain area. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • A study done at Emory University using fMRI found that the brain retains activity for as much as five days after reading a book. (elearninginfographics.com)
  • The change affects the stability and activity of catechol-O-methyltransferase, which alters the enzyme's ability to break down neurotransmitters in the prefrontal cortex. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Researchers found that undergraduates with different self-esteem grades have brain structural differences. (researchsquare.com)
  • The researchers sought to capture brain changes during that afterglow period that might be correlated with current mood improvements or with longer-term prognoses. (medscape.com)
  • And, as a new study of forgetful mice shows, the brain processes behind this skill are more complex than commonly appreciated. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Catechol-O-methyltransferase is particularly important in an area at the front of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, which organizes and coordinates information from other parts of the brain. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Most existing methods use ROI-based brain network analysis methods to study brain structure and functional connections related to self-esteem. (researchsquare.com)
  • In the present study, the authors applied a novel multimodal meta-analytic approach to test the hypothesis that major depression exhibits spatially convergent structural and functional brain abnormalities. (psychiatryonline.org)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity) This article focuses on a specific piece of evidence to demonstrably verify the effects of those neuroplastic changes as sequella to a chiropractic "high velocity-low amplitude spinal adjustment. (uschirodirectory.com)
  • The second major finding of this study was that we were able to show, using dipole source localization, that this change in SMI that occurs after spinal manipulation predominantly happens in the prefrontal cortex. (uschirodirectory.com)
  • 90% of motor fibers from each hemisphere cross the midline in the lower brain stem and upper cervical spinal cord. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The rationale for rescanning the brain 1 day later is based on research suggesting that the days following a psychedelic experience "constitute a distinct phase, referred to as the 'afterglow,' that is characterized by mood improvements and stress relief. (medscape.com)
  • 2. Lindvall, O., Björklund, A.: The organization of the ascending catecholamine neuron systems in the rat brain as revealed by the glyoxylic acid fluorescence method. (lu.se)