Poets, writers, painters and other artists gifted at mixing colors, objects, words and concepts in novel ways may have especially dense wiring in these various brain regions.
By stimulating various brain regions, Hess induced different reactions: for example, a cat could be made to show the defensiveness it might otherwise display when confronted by a dog.
Together, these studies show that learning to play a musical instrument not only increases grey matter volume in various brain regions, but can also strengthen the long-range connections between them.
Their hypothesis: the inhibited children were "born with a lower threshold" for arousal of various brain regions, in particular the amygdala, the hypothalamus and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, the circuit responsible for the stress hormone cortisol.
First, he and his research team presented a series of words to three epileptic patients, who had had electrodes implanted temporarily in various brain regions, in an effort to locate the source of their seizures.
The disease occurs because nerve cells die in a part of the brain, the substantia nigra, leading to a shortage of dopamine, a chemical messenger that helps carry signals between various brain regions involved in movement.
Oxidative stress markers in various brain regions were measured.
In this field, the dependency of blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) response time series from various brain regions is studied.
Figure 1 Standard uptake values of [ 11 C]AF150(S) in various brain regions obtained from PET experiments.
It was proposed that functional connectivity of various brain regions are represented in different dominant frequency bands [55].
The network can be constructed by choosing various brain regions as nodes and fiber tracts connecting those regions as links.
