4. What is the best title for the text? A. Kids Need to Do Exercise to Protect Their PFC. B. PFC Determines Kids’ Success in School and Life C. Short Light Exercise May Boost Kids’ Brain Activity D. Activity Breaks Affect Short- term Brain Changes ...
We predict that the maturation of brain areas potentially related to curiosity elicitation (hippocampus, anterior cingulate cortex [ACC], prefrontal cortex) and protracted development of hippocampal-PFC and ACC-PFC connectivity lead to differential effects of curiosity and surprise on memory during ...
During uncontrollable stress, the activation in the amygdala, the emotional brain’s alarm center, is turned up, while at the same time, the function of the PFC is turned down. This means that the problem-solving capacities of the PFC are severely impaired. Yet the ability to put an acute...
The human brain develops from back to front and from the inside out, until all regions are formed. A person’s prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the last region to form and is still developing until he or she is at least 24 or 25 years of age[i]. This area of the brain, referred to as...
When your brain goes blank, it temporarily interrupts your ability to perform. Take control of that foggy feeling in your head by employing five practical steps to combat and prevent blank brain.
Virtual reality (VR) continues to expand its uses in medicine, specifically in treatments for psychological conditions like trauma, phobias and eating disorders. The technology is also emerging as a tool in creative arts therapies. In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers from Drexel...
Besides hormones (neural transmitters), there are parts of the brain where the decision to trust/distrust is made. These are called neural correlates, and the ones that help determine trust are: the prefrontal cortex (PFC) (specifically the ventromedial PFC and orbitofrontal cortex) ...
Interestingly, Myers believed that, at least in part, the symptoms were caused by subtle injury to the brain resulting from the overpressure of exploding artillery rounds. It turned out he was prescient; this is what experts now believe is the cause of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). ...
At a very molecular level, this is an incredible example of where the same parents, the same environment, and the same gestational experience can yield significantly different out- comes in brain development that may then predict long-term sex differences in disease risk and resilience. Also, ...
REM sleep is called paradoxical sleep because: a. the body does not need REM sleep, but does need regular sleep b. although asleep, the brain waves are identical to those recorded awake c. dreams often make no sense to the individual once they are awak Is REM deep sleep? What is the...