The researchers took brain scans of 40 volunteers to measure the size of the prefrontal cortex.
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Researchers at Cortex Pharmaceuticals in Irvine, California, for example, are exploring molecules known as ampakines.
Cortex Pharmaceuticals, based in Irvine, California, is one firm that is developing ampakine drugs.
All these are examples of a critter brain that has hijacked the prefrontal cortex.
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When the pre-frontal cortex is fired up, the explicit system is usually turned on.
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Clay Reid, who quit a tenured job at Harvard, studies the mouse visual cortex.
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Most significantly of all, it shrinks the volume of the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus.
The EEG would alert doctors if the cortex, the thinking part of your brain, is still active.
Looking at faces activates a particular part of the ventral visual cortex called the fusiform face area.
The cerebral cortex the part of a mammal's brain that thinks is composed of 2mm-long units called cortical columns.
In the rats' piriform cortex, activity patterns elicited by these similar odours were now different as well.
In Alzheimer's disease, tau is typically found in the outer part of the brain, called the cortex.
Take the prefrontal cortex, an area that plays a key role in levelheaded decision making and long-term goals.
Researchers once assumed that the cortex, the information-processing hub of the brain, was always destroyed in vegetative patients.
Researchers discovered reduced activity in a part of the cerebral cortex of the brain called the "fusiform gyrus".
Likewise, the parietal cortex, which is linked to spatial perception, is proportionally larger in men than in women.
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The frontal cortex even expands in size in this initial phase, as we focus hard on the task.
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In 1986 Kevin Kinsella, a venture capitalist, spotted a neuroscience paper about the olfactory cortex of a rat's brain.
Apparently if the mechanics can be parsed the information is transferred via the visual cortex.
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The Cortex-A57 is ARM's most advanced high-performance applications processor, while the Cortex-A53 is the most power-efficient ARM application processor.
OMAP5, due by 2013, will have two next-generation ARM Cortex A15 processor cores.
Availability: The ARM partnership is expected to ship Cortex-A50 series-based chips in 2014.
Performance might be an issue, in spite of the 1GHz Cortex A8 processor inside, but price likely won't be.
Repeated administration of Yokukansan inhibits DOI-induced head-twitch response and decreases expression of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)2A receptors in the prefrontal cortex.
Everything from the 120MHz Cortex-M3 MCU to the three-axis accelerometer and the Bluetooth radio was on a single board.
Whatever language a person is reading, the same area of inferotemporal cortex, the visual word form area, is activated.
The researchers showed that they could break this new habit by once again inhibiting the IL cortex with light.
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It includes the amygdala, hippocampus, cingulated gyrus, orbital frontal cortex, and the insula.
The researchers found the biggest differences in activity in the posterior cingulate cortex.
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