Specific brain regions process information about different things, he said.
Drayna thinks something similar is happening in specific brain cells of people who stutter.
The researchers were looking for specific brain patterns generated when planning complex voluntary movements.
He interviews many key researchers, including a psychologist, Maurice Sterman, who taught cats to generate specific brain waves at will.
QUESTION FROM DAN FALK: I understand that there's no *one* specific brain structure that measures elapsed time.
Direct brain stimulation seeks to ease symptoms by focusing on specific brain regions involved in dopamine transmission.
They struggled to target the opsins to specific brain cells those associated with, say, sleep or memory or anxiety.
It has allowed Leonardo to identify specific brain cells that steer the insect as it hunts prey.
The technique allows scientists to estimate the density and orientation of the connections running through specific brain locations.
"He had this idea of controlling specific brain cells years before actually being able to accomplish it," she says.
Hypnosis had not only altered her experience but had modified the workings of specific brain pathways in ways that we cannot usually manage through conscious will alone.
