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In nine of them, they also delivered NIR to the midbrain area through an implanted device.
It's not going to be projecting into midbrain audio centers.
Decorticated cats have their whole midbrain, it's not the cerebellum that's doing all that.
The midbrain retains complex circuits that we use in our reflexive behaviour.
The eyes developed as a sense organ attached to the midbrain and only later were wired to the forebrain.
It is concentrated here in certain centers of the midbrain that play a role in the regulation of emotion.
It seems that a majority of the male based differences are in the midbrain where memory, emotion, reinforcement learning, etc are processed.
In structures underneath there are a lot of brain cells that fire away all the time: the thalamus, the basal ganglia, the dopamine cells in the midbrain that fire like pacemakers.
>Then, they shined a red light outside the skull and were able to activate neural circuits in the midbrain and brainstem at depths of up to 7 millimetersThis appears to be extremely dangerous.
However the usefulness can be glimpsed from neural structures where the connections are clear: the peripheral system, spinal cord, midbrain, and lower sensory and motor regions in the brain.
I think part of the reason neuro-imaging is so preoccupied with midbrain structures at the moment is because their activity is simpler and easier to correlate to the brain's inputs or outputs.
"In vertebrates the capacity for subjective experience is supported by integrated structures in the midbrain that create a neural simulation of the state of the mobile animal in space.
But I know how to determine what portions of the midbrain connected to the caudate-putamen, connected to the prefrontal cortex and connected to the part of the brain that does imaging...is all related to each other.
It seems like the reason his intellectual capacity stayed the same may be because the beam did not touch his frontal lobes, but passed through his midbrain all the way to the back of his head, and appears to have exited near the occipital lobe.
[12] Unlike ******* and amphetamine, methamphetamine is directly neurotoxic to midbrain dopamine neurons.
Here we use the potent channelrhodopsin ChRmine to achieve transcranial photoactivation of defined neural circuits, including midbrain and brainstem structures, at unprecedented depths of up to 7 mm with millisecond precision.
From Wikipedia[1]:>The habenula receives input from the brain via the stria medullaris thalami and outputs to many midbrain areas involved in releasing neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin.
Midbrain definitions
the middle portion of the brain
See also: mesencephalon