News tagged with brain areas

May 11, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (24) | 2

A new University of British Columbia study finds that our brains are much more active when we daydream than previously thought.

The 'satellite navigation' in our brains

Sep 11, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (19) | 0

Our brains contain their own navigation system much like satellite navigation ("sat-nav"), with in-built maps, grids and compasses, neuroscientist Dr Hugo Spiers told the BA Festival of Science at the University of Liverpool ...

A Single Neuron Can Change the Activity of the Whole Brain

May 01, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (16) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The pulsing of a single neuron can switch a brain’s waves from the equivalent of a big ocean swell to ripples on a pond, according to new research from Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator ...

Obsessive compulsive disorder linked to brain activity

Medicine & Health / Diseases

Jul 17, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (13) | 0

Cambridge researchers have discovered that measuring activity in a region of the brain could help to identify people at risk of developing obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

Brain abnormality found in boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Mar 17, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (11) | 9

Researchers trying to uncover the mechanisms that cause attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder have found an abnormality in the brains of adolescent boys suffering from the conditions, but not where ...

Echoes discovered in early visual brain areas play role in working memory

Feb 18, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. ...

Brain processes written words as unique 'objects'

Apr 29, 2009 | 5 / 5 (7) | 0

A new study provides direct experimental evidence that a brain region important for reading and word recognition contains neurons that are highly selective for individual real words. The research, published by Cell Press ...

Neuroscientists discover long-term potentiation in the olfactory bulb

May 03, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 0

Ben W. Strowbridge, Ph.D, associate professor of Neuroscience and Physiology/Biophysics, and Yuan Gao, a Ph.D. student in the neurosciences program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, are the first to discover ...

Dynamical theory and novel 4-D colorimetric method reveal modus operandi of intact living brain

Jan 21, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

For the brain to achieve its intricate functions such as perception, action, attention and decision making, neural regions have to work together yet still retain their specialized roles. Excess or lack of ...

Gulf War veterans display abnormal brain response to specific chemicals

Mar 23, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 3

A new study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers is the first to pinpoint damage inside the brains of veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome - a finding that links the illness to chemical exposures ...

Reading the brain without poking it

Jun 29, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 3

Experimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralyzed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny electrodes that poke into the brain. Now, a ...

Ability to literally imagine oneself in another's shoes may be tied to empathy

Jun 23, 2009 | 3.2 / 5 (5) | 3

New research from Vanderbilt University indicates the way our brain handles how we move through space -- including being able to imagine literally stepping into someone else's shoes -- may be related to how ...

Scientists reveal how neuronal activity is timed in brain's memory-making circuits

May 29, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

Theta oscillations are a type of prominent brain rhythm that orchestrates neuronal activity in the hippocampus, a brain area critical for the formation of new memories. For several decades these oscillations were believed ...

The secret life of frogs

Biology / Plants & Animals

Mar 24, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Notre Dame biologist Sunny Boyd's research is a little like "Match.com" for amphibians. Say you're a female tree frog looking for a mate--how do you choose among a number of ...

Brain section multitasks, handling phonetics and decision-making