Sentence examples for certain brain functions from inspiring English sources

Perhaps certain brain functions or a pre-specified level of brain activity, signalling a lack of capacity, could be used to delineate ethically justifiable research.

In the 1950s and '60s, scientists began to think that certain brain functions develop normally only if an individual is exposed to relevant information, such as language or visual information, within a specific time period early in life.

These people apparently used their prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that exerts "executive control" over certain brain functions, to tamp down activity in the amygdala, a small region deep in the brain that processes emotional content, especially fear and anxiety.

Many responded that certain brain functions remaining are not compatible with a diagnosis of BD, including EEG activity, evoked potential activity, and hypothalamic neuroendocrine function.

For instance, Alzheimer's patients lose a significant number of neurons (sometimes equaling half the normal brain mass) but still maintain certain brain functions (Fayed et al., 2012; Li et al., 2012; Weiner et al., 2015; Pini et al., 2016).

This survey shows that most neurologists do not understand, or disagree, that certain brain functions can remain in patients diagnosed dead using accepted clinical tests confirming the BD criterion.

Collectively these data point towards an important role for Foxc1 in certain brain pericyte functions (e.g. vessel morphogenesis) but not others (e.g. barriergenesis).

Polysomnography tests were administered while the subjects were sleeping to monitor certain brain and body functions and assess sleep stages.

This study demonstrated that energy landscape analysis could be an important tool to investigate alterations in brain networks that may underlie certain brain diseases, or diverse brain functions that may emerge due to the reconfiguration of the default brain network at rest.

Although appeal to such evidence is itself controversial (e.g., Kauppinen 2008, Prinz 2006), some suggest that persons with certain damaged or underdeveloped brain functions, perhaps including psychopaths and sociopaths, actually make such genuine judgments (e.g., Roskies 2003, 2005).

Repetitive high levels of cortisol can also cause structural changes in certain brain regions implicated in memory functions (i.e. hippocampus, frontal areas and amygdala) (McEwen, 2005).