Above all, the brain's perception of time involves processes linked to memory and attention: witness the impression that time is passing more quickly when we are busy, or doing something amusing or exciting.
When comparing the tumour with the normal brain, most of the genes that are overexpressed correspond to cellular processes linked to proliferation while most of the genes downregulated correspond to neuronal proteins.
Glucocorticoid stress responses can be initiated by physiological perturbations (representing reflexive responses) or by brain processes linking environmental cues with probable negative outcomes.
Our data indicate that lower as well as higher frequency brain oscillations are linked to neurovascular processes during WM.
They found evidence for psychosis-associated DNA methylation differences in numerous loci involved in glutamatergic and GABAergic neurotransmission, brain development, and other processes functionally linked to disease aetiology.
The amygdala, a brain area traditionally linked to emotional processes (LeDoux, 2000; Phelps and LeDoux, 2005; Murray, 2007; Pessoa and Adolphs, 2010), may play an important role in enhancing spatial attention to emotional stimuli.
Actions that produce a negative outcome are processed in the amygdala, a region of the brain often linked to negative emotions.
Only in a rare disease called lissencephaly ("smooth brain") is a lack of complex brain folding linked to mental deficiency.
Scientists will also focus on how the brain records, stores and processes information, and investigate how brain function is linked to behaviour.
