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Last week, we pulled back the curtain on what it really means to live with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), beyond the jokes about being tidy or the throwaway lines about being ‘so OCD’. We ...
Deep within each half of the brain lies the caudate nucleus. It’s responsible for processing visual information, movement, and memory. Dysfunction may cause conditions like dementia or Parkinson ...
Developing Intuition: Neural Correlates of Cognitive-Skill Learning in Caudate Nucleus. Xiaohong Wan et al. in Journal of Neuroscience , Vol. 32, pages 17,492–17,501; November 28, 2012.
The second area of the brain that they zoomed in on was the caudate nucleus. If you look at a dog's brain you can't see the caudate nucleus because it is deep in the middle of the brain and ...
Listen To Your Caudate Nucleus. By Rick Weiss. April 10, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Share. Add to your saved stories. Save. No doubt about it, there's a lot of good that can come from studying the ...
A brain structure called the caudate nucleus, which plays an important role in cognition, emotions, mood, and motor function, may shrink by nearly 20 percent in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS), ...
Second, the real importance of the M.R.I. study is not that the caudate nucleus lights up when a dog is happy. Rather it is that dogs can be trained to sit motionless in an M.R.I. machine so we ...
The current study applied a bit more magnification, showing that human faces elicit activity in the caudate nucleus, a region associated with reward. On a neurological level, this could indicate that ...
Keiji Tanaka: Firstly, we measured the volume of caudate nucleus and compared the measure between professional and amateur players. There was no difference. Secondly, the game of Erickson et al ...