Neuroscientists have discovered that theregions of the brain that are activated when we receive money(based on fMRI brain scans) glow even brighter when we give money.
In addition, babies who were breastfed longer than a year had significantly enhanced brain development, especially in areas of the brain dealing with motor function.
A Yale study using fMRI showed that for people who have hoarding tendencies, discarding items can cause actual pain in regions of the brain associated with physical pain.
This lesson plunges into the expanding field of neuroscience and the biology behind behavior, exploring how areas of the brain and brain chemistry can alter mood and cognition.
Learning a physical task with music has also been shown to increase structural connectivity between theareas of the brain that are responsible for processing sounds and controlling movement.
She says that the"unprecedented size" of their study is crucial because it helped to identify the"very small- in the range of a few percent" differences in brain region sizes.
A recent scientific study conducted on people who practiced aerobic exercise consistently for three months showed boosted oxygenation in some brain areas that tend to deteriorate with age.
That was because newly born neurons, induced by drugs and gene therapy, were not able to survive in brain regions already ravaged by Alzheimer's pathology, particularly neuroinflammation.
Comparing non-musicians to experienced players of stringed instruments, he found no difference in the brain regions devoted to the fingers of the right hand but a huge difference for the fingers of the left hand.
I like to put this by saying that this kind of work from neuroscience is answering some of the questions we want answered about consciousness, the questions about what certain brain areas do and what they correlate with.
Brain research has discovered that thearea of the brain which allows us to understand whether a sentence makes sense, and processes the syntax or word arrangement in a sentence, also activates when people hear a musical chord in the wrong place in a traditional progression of chords.
The frontal lobes- thearea of the brain responsible for executive functions, such as planning, working memory, and impulse control- are among the last areas of the brain to mature, and they may not be fully developed until 35 years of age.
Some researchers also tested the efficacy of small talk and revealed that thearea of the brain that controls focus, planning, prioritization, and even organization(which are vital skills for workplace productivity), improved significantly after a little small talk.
For the first time, a study in mice, to be published in the journal eLife, shows that five hours of sleep deprivation leads to a loss of connectivity between neurons in the hippocampus, a region of the brain associated with learning and memory.
TMS using known coils has been shown to be able to stimulate theregions of the brain close to the surface of the skull, but magnetic fields produced by these known coils generally do not penetrate deeply into the brain, unless the intensity of the magnetic field is greatly increased.
Another study, which also utilized the data from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort, discovered that people who drank two sugary drinks a day had lower total brain volume, smaller hippocampal volumes(an area of the brain responsible for forming memories), and poorer memory.
Another study took this research a step further, showing not only that B group vitamins may slow brain shrinkage but that it may specifically slow shrinkage by as much as seven-fold in brain regions specifically known to be most impacted by Alzheimer's disease.8.
While previous research has shown that there is heightened activity in the prefrontal cortex- thearea of the brain that enables most people to feel remorse or learn moral behavior- when normal people lie, this is the first study to provide evidence of structural differences in that area among pathological liars.
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