Hemispheric Asymmetry Reduction in Older Adults
... indicate nonsignificant activity. The number of pluses is an approximate index of the relative amount of activity in left and right PFC in each study, and it cannot be compared across studies. PET ⫽ positron emission tomography; fMRI ⫽ functional magnetic resonance imaging; DR ⫽ delayed response tas ...
... indicate nonsignificant activity. The number of pluses is an approximate index of the relative amount of activity in left and right PFC in each study, and it cannot be compared across studies. PET ⫽ positron emission tomography; fMRI ⫽ functional magnetic resonance imaging; DR ⫽ delayed response tas ...
1 Neural Affective Decision Theory: Choices, Brains, and Emotions
... Alternatives). It operates within the Neural Engineering Framework (NEF) developed by Eliasmith and Anderson (2003), using biologically realistic populations of neurons to encode and transform complex representations of relevant information. ANDREA simulates computations among several thousand neuro ...
... Alternatives). It operates within the Neural Engineering Framework (NEF) developed by Eliasmith and Anderson (2003), using biologically realistic populations of neurons to encode and transform complex representations of relevant information. ANDREA simulates computations among several thousand neuro ...
Integrating Optogenetic and Pharmacological Approaches to Study
... 2. Temporal Specificity. The ability to deliver precise activation or inhibition events to defined neural circuit elements at a millisecond timescale, which is consistent with the temporal dynamics of endogenous neural activity, represents the second key strength of optogenetic manipulations. Althou ...
... 2. Temporal Specificity. The ability to deliver precise activation or inhibition events to defined neural circuit elements at a millisecond timescale, which is consistent with the temporal dynamics of endogenous neural activity, represents the second key strength of optogenetic manipulations. Althou ...
Stages of Sleep And Brain Mechanisms
... • REM sleep is also associated with a distinctive pattern of high-amplitude electrical potentials known as PGO waves. • Waves of neural activity are detected first in the pons and then in the lateral geniculate of the hypothalamus, and then the occipital ...
... • REM sleep is also associated with a distinctive pattern of high-amplitude electrical potentials known as PGO waves. • Waves of neural activity are detected first in the pons and then in the lateral geniculate of the hypothalamus, and then the occipital ...
Chapter 2 - Monsignor Farrell High School
... into the brain through which an electrical current is sent that destroys the brain cells at the tip of the wire – electrical stimulation of the brain (ESB): milder electrical current that causes neurons to react as if they had received a message – human brain damage Psychology, Fourth Edition, AP Ed ...
... into the brain through which an electrical current is sent that destroys the brain cells at the tip of the wire – electrical stimulation of the brain (ESB): milder electrical current that causes neurons to react as if they had received a message – human brain damage Psychology, Fourth Edition, AP Ed ...
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... elements onto a conjunctive representation1,2. This convergence of information is crucial not only for simple associations between stimulus features, but just as much for the binding of relationships between places, people, objects and events into complex episodic memories. But how does the brain im ...
... elements onto a conjunctive representation1,2. This convergence of information is crucial not only for simple associations between stimulus features, but just as much for the binding of relationships between places, people, objects and events into complex episodic memories. But how does the brain im ...
Resting-state functional connectivity in neuropsychiatric disorders
... for presurgical mapping of motor, language, and memory areas as well as for the detection of epileptic foci using spike-triggered fMRI [1–4]. The general paucity of fMRI applications in other clinical realms can be attributed to one or several limitations of this approach when used in a standard tas ...
... for presurgical mapping of motor, language, and memory areas as well as for the detection of epileptic foci using spike-triggered fMRI [1–4]. The general paucity of fMRI applications in other clinical realms can be attributed to one or several limitations of this approach when used in a standard tas ...
REVIEW Reticular formation and spinal cord injury
... well-edited books on neuroscience instead of hundreds of articles that contain materials still requiring test of time and difficult for busy clinicians to digest. Other individual references on specific issues such as a micturition centre, source of sildenafil citrate and so on are added. Clinical c ...
... well-edited books on neuroscience instead of hundreds of articles that contain materials still requiring test of time and difficult for busy clinicians to digest. Other individual references on specific issues such as a micturition centre, source of sildenafil citrate and so on are added. Clinical c ...
Lema and Nevitt, 2004a
... glass slides, it is unlikely that the same AVT-ir cell was counted in more than one section. 2.4. Statistical analysis We used one-factor ANOVAÕs to test for differences in standard length and body weight among males and females from the Amargosa River and Big Spring populations. To determine whether ...
... glass slides, it is unlikely that the same AVT-ir cell was counted in more than one section. 2.4. Statistical analysis We used one-factor ANOVAÕs to test for differences in standard length and body weight among males and females from the Amargosa River and Big Spring populations. To determine whether ...
Unique features of the human brainstem and cerebellum
... 2001; Hoover and Strick, 1999; Dum and Strick, 2003; Kelly and Strick, 2003; Akkal et al., 2007). In addition to its contribution to cortical function, the cerebellum also can influence motor control by projections to brainstem structures like the vestibular nuclei that in turn affect movement (Lang ...
... 2001; Hoover and Strick, 1999; Dum and Strick, 2003; Kelly and Strick, 2003; Akkal et al., 2007). In addition to its contribution to cortical function, the cerebellum also can influence motor control by projections to brainstem structures like the vestibular nuclei that in turn affect movement (Lang ...
Biological Rhythms: 2 Day Circadian Examples Biorhythms
... triggers the return to NREM. Drugs that boost 5HT (like antidepressants) can decrease REM. • Drugs that stimulate ACh receptors during sleep quickly move people to REM (like Nicotine patch or smoking ...
... triggers the return to NREM. Drugs that boost 5HT (like antidepressants) can decrease REM. • Drugs that stimulate ACh receptors during sleep quickly move people to REM (like Nicotine patch or smoking ...
Basics of electromagnetic field mapping
... dipoles may cancel out, this so called inverse problem of the cannot be solved uniquely, neither for EEG nor for MEG. This means that for a given scalp field, we can find an endless number of configurations of dipoles that would produce our scalp field. This implies that the researcher has to use a ...
... dipoles may cancel out, this so called inverse problem of the cannot be solved uniquely, neither for EEG nor for MEG. This means that for a given scalp field, we can find an endless number of configurations of dipoles that would produce our scalp field. This implies that the researcher has to use a ...
Appendix S1 Relation of local short
... (f) the conductivity values of the tissue compartments of the head (white-matter, graymatter, CSF, skull, and scalp) are not well-known, so that even an exact geometric model of the head is still only an approximate volume conduction model of the head [173]. Additionally, volume conduction models fo ...
... (f) the conductivity values of the tissue compartments of the head (white-matter, graymatter, CSF, skull, and scalp) are not well-known, so that even an exact geometric model of the head is still only an approximate volume conduction model of the head [173]. Additionally, volume conduction models fo ...
Alzheimer`s Disease: A Clinical and Basic Science Review
... (fornix and cingulum), amygdala, cingulate gyrus, and thalamus. This widespread pattern of neurodegeneration, affecting both limbic and neocortical regions, correlates closely with the array of cognitive deficits and behavioral changes that AD patients exhibit.12 In addition to cognitive impairment ...
... (fornix and cingulum), amygdala, cingulate gyrus, and thalamus. This widespread pattern of neurodegeneration, affecting both limbic and neocortical regions, correlates closely with the array of cognitive deficits and behavioral changes that AD patients exhibit.12 In addition to cognitive impairment ...
C6.4 PPT - Destiny High School
... • Describe the functions of the somatic and autonomic branches of the nervous system. • Identify the general role of the glial cells. • Describe the anatomical structure of a typical ...
... • Describe the functions of the somatic and autonomic branches of the nervous system. • Identify the general role of the glial cells. • Describe the anatomical structure of a typical ...
Is perception informationally encapsulated? The issue of the theory-ladenness of perception
... be. The reason is that these theories require that the perceptual analysis have access to background knowledge, and not just to the theory that is inherent in the system. But this is not true in view of the various implasticities of perception (as the Muller-Lyer illusion), which show that how thing ...
... be. The reason is that these theories require that the perceptual analysis have access to background knowledge, and not just to the theory that is inherent in the system. But this is not true in view of the various implasticities of perception (as the Muller-Lyer illusion), which show that how thing ...
Cerebral cortex and the clinical expression of
... The clinical phenotype of Huntington’s disease (HD) is far more complex and variable than depictions of it as a progressive movement disorder dominated by neostriatal pathology represent.The availability of novel neuroimaging methods has enabled us to evaluate cerebral cortical changes in HD, which ...
... The clinical phenotype of Huntington’s disease (HD) is far more complex and variable than depictions of it as a progressive movement disorder dominated by neostriatal pathology represent.The availability of novel neuroimaging methods has enabled us to evaluate cerebral cortical changes in HD, which ...
Kandel and Schwartz, 4th Edition Principles of Neural Science Chap
... involved in hitting the ball, but it is involved in recording in memory all of the details of the point so that the player can brag about it later. In fact, many other brain regions are also active during this simple behavior. The common sense notion that only a fraction of the brain is used at any ...
... involved in hitting the ball, but it is involved in recording in memory all of the details of the point so that the player can brag about it later. In fact, many other brain regions are also active during this simple behavior. The common sense notion that only a fraction of the brain is used at any ...
Cognitive neuroscience of self-regulation failure
... this newfound capacity to self-regulate can be used not only for comparatively banal tasks such as maintaining posture or using one’s non-dominant hand, but also for behaviors with important health consequences such as resisting the temptation to smoke. If self-regulatory capacity can be increased t ...
... this newfound capacity to self-regulate can be used not only for comparatively banal tasks such as maintaining posture or using one’s non-dominant hand, but also for behaviors with important health consequences such as resisting the temptation to smoke. If self-regulatory capacity can be increased t ...
Implications of two conflicting views
... These functions, which do not operate perfectly at all times for anyone, are critically important for multiple aspects of daily life in all individuals. ADHD is not an all-or-nothing syndrome like pregnancy, where one either is pregnant or is not. It is more like depression. That is, all individuals ...
... These functions, which do not operate perfectly at all times for anyone, are critically important for multiple aspects of daily life in all individuals. ADHD is not an all-or-nothing syndrome like pregnancy, where one either is pregnant or is not. It is more like depression. That is, all individuals ...
Stages of Sleep And Brain Mechanisms
... • REM sleep is also associated with a distinctive pattern of high-amplitude electrical potentials known as PGO waves. • Waves of neural activity are detected first in the pons and then in the lateral geniculate of the hypothalamus, and then the occipital ...
... • REM sleep is also associated with a distinctive pattern of high-amplitude electrical potentials known as PGO waves. • Waves of neural activity are detected first in the pons and then in the lateral geniculate of the hypothalamus, and then the occipital ...
Responses to Rare Visual Target and Distractor Stimuli Using Event
... of 5 and 89 ml of brain tissue, respectively (Fig. 1, A and B; Table 1). Target stimuli generated activity near the regions identified in previous fMRI studies (McCarthy et al. 1997; Menon et al. 1997; Opitz et al. 1999), including the thalamus, bilateral inferior parietal lobules, cingulate, and ri ...
... of 5 and 89 ml of brain tissue, respectively (Fig. 1, A and B; Table 1). Target stimuli generated activity near the regions identified in previous fMRI studies (McCarthy et al. 1997; Menon et al. 1997; Opitz et al. 1999), including the thalamus, bilateral inferior parietal lobules, cingulate, and ri ...
How Neuroscience Predicts The Spontaneous Remission Of Addiction
... of maturing out of addiction. These factors help to account for the NIAAA data illustrated in Figure 1) above. As one gets older, both environmental and neurochemical factors militate against addiction. Peele has frequently noted environmental factors such as graduating from college, getting a full ...
... of maturing out of addiction. These factors help to account for the NIAAA data illustrated in Figure 1) above. As one gets older, both environmental and neurochemical factors militate against addiction. Peele has frequently noted environmental factors such as graduating from college, getting a full ...
Anorexia nervosa during adolescence and young adulthood
... anxiety disorders (Keel and Klump, 2005), and ED and addictive disorders (Baker et al., 2007). An overview of genetic influences in AN was proposed by Striegel-Moore and Bulik (2007) and includes three possible models. First, there is a gene - environment interaction model. This model postulates tha ...
... anxiety disorders (Keel and Klump, 2005), and ED and addictive disorders (Baker et al., 2007). An overview of genetic influences in AN was proposed by Striegel-Moore and Bulik (2007) and includes three possible models. First, there is a gene - environment interaction model. This model postulates tha ...
Alcoholism - Boston University Medical Campus
... the participants were right-handed as determined by a handedness questionnaire (Briggs and Nebes, 1975) and were solicited from the Neurology, Psychology, Psychiatry, Medical, and Outpatient Services of Boston University Medical Center, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System Bosto ...
... the participants were right-handed as determined by a handedness questionnaire (Briggs and Nebes, 1975) and were solicited from the Neurology, Psychology, Psychiatry, Medical, and Outpatient Services of Boston University Medical Center, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System Bosto ...