Brain regions measuring time have been identified

2001/02/28 Carton Virto, Eider - Elhuyar Zientzia

• Anatomia/Fisiologia

The U.S. Milwake and Alburquerque Medical Schools have used a new magnetic resonance technique to identify brain regions where we calculate time and have concluded that the stopwatch is located in places where it was not thought. Although it has been recognized for years that the perception of time depended on the cerebellum, it seems that the perception of time is regulated by the basal ganglion and the right parietal lobe. To carry out the research, 17 healthy volunteers were asked to measure the time interval between both sounds and checked which regions of the brain were activated. They certainly used the basal nodes to calculate the time.

The research, which has been released in the March issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, can be a way to resolve a series of neurological alterations. Parkinson's disease, both Huntington and age loss syndrome with hyperactivity, has problems with time perception. These diseases are related to basal node dysfunctions, so everything may be related. Preliminary tests to date have shown the importance of dopamine neurotransmitter in these three diseases. In the case of Parkinson's disease, for example, it is possible to improve the perception of time by increasing the level of dopamine in the brain.

Having clarified the place of the stopwatch, it is necessary to know how it works, but that will tell the time.