News tagged with brain regions

Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in 8 weeks

(PhysOrg.com) -- Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. In a study that will appear in the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Ritalin boosts learning by increasing brain plasticity

Doctors treat millions of children with Ritalin every year to improve their ability to focus on tasks, but scientists now report that Ritalin also directly enhances the speed of learning.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Political views are reflected in brain structure

We all know that people at opposite ends of the political spectrum often really can't see eye to eye. Now, a new report published online on April 7th in Current Biology reveals that those differences in political orientation are ti ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Research on resting brains finds there's a lot going on even when 'idle'

The resting brain is anything but idle -- that simple proposition would be clear if you could peer into Mike Mrazek's noggin as he putters around his kitchen preparing his daily morning feast of scrambled ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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'Knowing it in your gut' is real

A lot of chatter goes on inside each one of us and not all of it happens between our ears.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Brain's energy restored during sleep, suggests animal study

In the initial stages of sleep, energy levels increase dramatically in brain regions found to be active during waking hours, according to new research in the June 30 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. These ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Smelling the light: 'What if we make the nose act like a retina?'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard University neurobiologists have created mice that can "smell" light, providing a potent new tool that could help researchers better understand the neural basis of olfaction.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 17, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

IBMT meditation found to boost brain connectivity

Just 11 hours of learning a meditation technique induces positive structural changes in brain connectivity by boosting efficiency in a part of the brain that helps a person regulate behavior in accordance with their goals, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Brain training reverses age-related cognitive decline: study

Specialized brain training targeted at the regions of a rat's brain that process sound reversed many aspects of normal, age-related cognitive decline and improved the health of the brain cells, according to a new study from ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Differences in human and Neanderthal brains set in just after birth

(PhysOrg.com) -- The brains of newborn humans and Neanderthals are about the same size and appear rather similar overall. It's mainly after birth, and specifically in the first year of life, that the differences ...

Biology / Evolution

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Moral judgments can be altered by disrupting specific brain region

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT neuroscientists have shown they can influence people's moral judgments by disrupting a specific brain region — a finding that helps reveal how the brain constructs morality.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Personality may influence brain shrinkage in aging

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis have found an intriguing possibility that personality and brain aging during the golden years may be linked.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Study reveals how taking an active role in learning enhances memory

Good news for control freaks! New research confirms that having some authority over how one takes in new information significantly enhances one's ability to remember it. The study, in the journal Nature Ne ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Parts of brain can switch functions: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Inherited brain activity predicts childhood risk for anxiety

A new study focused on anxiety and brain activity pinpoints the brain regions that are relevant to developing childhood anxiety. The findings, published in the Aug. 12 edition of the journal Nature, may lead to new strate ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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List of regions in the human brain

Anatomical regions of the brain are listed vertically, following hierarchies that are standard in neuroanatomy. Functional, connective and developmental regions are listed horizontally in parentheses where appropriate.

Functional and connective regions defined as systems are categorized at cerebrospinal systems.

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