Gyrus
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When he was trading fours with me, improvising vs. memorized, his language areas lit up, his Broca's area, in the inferior frontal
gyrus
on the left.
One of these regions is called the left inferior frontal
gyrus.
Average likelihood is 30 percent," the left inferior frontal
gyrus
would respond fiercely.
And it didn't matter if you're an extreme optimist, a mild optimist or slightly pessimistic, everyone's left inferior frontal
gyrus
was functioning perfectly well, whether you're Barack Obama or Woody Allen.
On the other side of the brain, the right inferior frontal
gyrus
was responding to bad news.
And what he's doing is he's passing a small magnetic pulse through the skull of the participant in our study into their inferior frontal
gyrus.
These are scans from Judy Rapoport and her colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health in which they studied children with very early onset schizophrenia, and you can see already in the top there's areas that are red or orange, yellow, are places where there's less gray matter, and as they followed them over five years, comparing them to age match controls, you can see that, particularly in areas like the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex or the superior temporal gyrus, there's a profound loss of gray matter.
Now that syndrome is well known as caused by damage to the fusiform
gyrus.
There are, in fact, 30 areas in the back of your brain concerned with just vision, and after processing all that, the message goes to a small structure called the fusiform gyrus, where you perceive faces.
So, we found that the color area and the number area are right next to each other in the brain, in the fusiform
gyrus.
It's a primitive form of abstraction, and we now know this happens in the fusiform
gyrus
of the brain, because when that's damaged, these people lose the ability to engage in Bouba Kiki, but they also lose the ability to engage in metaphor.
Something very interesting is going on here in the angular gyrus, because it's the crossroads between hearing, vision and touch, and it became enormous in humans.
This is caused by damage to the inferior frontal gyrus, or possibly the anterior insula, both regions behind your temple on the left side of your head.
Attractive faces activate parts of our visual cortex in the back of the brain, an area called the fusiform gyrus, that is especially tuned to processing faces, and an adjacent area called the lateral occipital complex, that is especially attuned to processing objects.
And in particular, one area of the temporal lobe is called the fusiform
gyrus.
And it's known that if people have damage in the fusiform gyrus, they may lose the ability to recognize faces.
But if there's an abnormal activity in the fusiform gyrus, they may hallucinate faces, and this is exactly what you find in some of these people.
There is an area in the anterior part of this
gyrus
where teeth and eyes are represented, and that part of the
gyrus
is activated when people get the deformed hallucinations.
This part of the brain is called the anterior cingulate
gyrus.
Well, we know exactly where it happens, in the temporal lobe, right across, sort of above your ear there, in a little structure called the fusiform
gyrus.
Within the hippocampus - a curved elongated ridge located in each of the brain's two temporal lobes - is a structure called the dentate gyrus, which produces new neurons throughout adult life.
For example, neurogenesis in the dentate
gyrus
that is suppressed by acute and chronic stress is elevated by many antidepressant treatments.
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