Protective effect of Toki-shakuyaku-san on amyloid beta25-35-induced neuronal damage in cultured rat cortical neurons.

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Researchers believe the cortical thinning causes depression by interfering with the processing of emotional stimuli, he said.

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The cerebral cortex the part of a mammal's brain that thinks is composed of 2mm-long units called cortical columns.

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Buck's journey, which began in the nose, now reaches far beyond that--into higher cortical areas that control emotions and bodily responses.

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The researchers found that the nucleus accumbens was also interacting with another region of the brain called the auditory cortical stores.

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The limbic brain is in the middle of the reptilian and cortical brains (both in terms of evolution and physical location).

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The cortical columns of those on the autistic spectrum are narrower than those of neurotypicals, and their cells are organised differently.

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This wave known as "cortical spreading depression" activates nerve cells as it goes, and the symptoms sufferers report typically correspond to the area of the brain the wave is passing over.

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Interestingly, body based attention to touch sensations, and more generally the sense of touch, are disordered in chronic pain and IBS. And the disorder seems to be mediated by a cortical mechanism.

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An ectopia is a collection of several hundred nerve cells that have pushed their way up from the lower cortical layers into the outermost one, where they are not found in normal circumstances.

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