Sentences with phrase «because brain scientists»

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no scientist can prove or dis - approve heaven because it meant to be so, we don't even know how the brain works properly and yet we try to figure out the great beyond

Some scientists believe brain development occurs during REM sleep, mainly because of the brain activity.

One is early childhood when the brain is malleable, so plastic... and the other is in adolescence that is because of a phenomenon which scientists call meta cognition which means thinking about thinking.

Scientists theorize that once the oxytocin levels return to pre-pregnancy levels after weaning, mom may experience a drop in mood levels because in addition to its contributions to creating life, oxytocin is also responsible for relaxation and psychological stability in our brains.

Scientists still aren't sure why this is the case; it's possible that because breast milk is rich in long - chain saturated fatty acids, it can contribute significantly to brain development.

Because of this different anatomy, many scientists proposed that the bird DVR does not correspond to the mammalian cortex but is instead analogous to another mammalian brain structure called the amygdala.

The scientists recommend that people with advanced - stage fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, which mostly affects teenagers and young adults, receive regular neuroimaging scans because of the tumor's apparent ability to metastasize to the brain.

Scientists justified this because they believed there were no sex differences in brain function aside from reproduction.

Until recently it has been difficult to study the role of glial cells in controlling appetite or any other brain function, because scientists haven't developed many techniques for silencing or stimulating these cells, as they have for neurons.

Psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia and depression are more mysterious, he adds, because there are no known brain lesions scientists can ascribe to those conditions.

«Scientists are excited because this technology allows us to make animal models that we weren't able to see before — for brain diseases, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia,» she says.

This finding, published online in Neuroimage, matters because unraveling how the brain solves the complex task of reading can help in uncovering the brain basis of reading disorders, such as dyslexia, say the scientists.

Because there's evidence that the words we hear and the words we recall or imagine trigger similar brain processes, the study, published online today in PLoS Biology, suggests scientists may one day be able to tune in to the words you're thinking — a potential boon for patients who are unable to speak due to Lou Gehrig's disease or other conditions.

The scientists fed pregnant mice either the high or low glycemic index diet and kept their offspring on the same diet after birth and weaning, because their brains are still forming crucial connections.

Scientists have long suspected that humans evolved large brains because our hominid ancestors had to outwit and elude predators, learn to use fire, and develop complex social structures.

Sleep scientists have found that when specific light receptors in our eyes are exposed to a particular wavelength of blue light, we feel more alert because the brain suppresses melatonin, a key hormone in regulating sleep.

«There is a huge gulf separating our understanding of what kind of brain injuries develop because of mild blast and how they relate to the neuroimaging changes many research groups have detected,» said Dr. David Cook, VA scientist and UW research associate professor of medicine and pharmacology «The similarities we see in the pattern of neuron injury in the cerebellum of mice, the neuron loss previously seen in boxers, and our neuroimaging findings in veterans is a step toward reducing this knowledge gap.»

«This is the kind of study where you think «Yes, I can believe these results,»» because they fit well with what scientists know about fetal brain development, says cognitive scientist Karin Stromswold of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in New Jersey.

Four years ago, when Lawrence Summers suggested that the scarcity of prominent female scientists and engineers was in part because there are fewer women on the extremes of the range of innate math ability — fewer geniuses and fewer duds — he stirred up a lot of misguided arguments about gender differences in the brain.

Brain scientist Professor Thomas Nowotny was surprised to find that the «nose» of fruit flies can identify odours from illicit drugs and explosive substances almost as accurately as wine odour, which the insects are naturally attracted to because it smells like their favourite food, fermenting fruit.

And some cases of mad cow may have gone undetected because scientists examined only certain portions of animals» brains for signs of infection, Hansen says.

Scientists studying brain diseases may need to look beyond nerve cells and start paying attention to the star - shaped cells known as «astrocytes,» because they play specialized roles in the development and maintenance of nerve circuits and may contribute to a wide range of disorders, according to a new study by UC San Francisco researchers.

Well it goes down in the sense [that] it gets a little more focused as well; now know what's happening is this brain dark energy, which scientists call the brain default mode network — and they use the word default because when you're not doing anything else — this is background brain activity that is constantly occurring is all about the brain anticipating and predicting what'll happen next in the environment.

It is very handy for us scientists because we can ferret out a lot of information in animal models, and there is a high probability that it will also apply to the human brain,» says Groh.

Because dragonflies and their close cousins, damselflies, don't possess glomeruli or any higher order smell centers in their brains, most scientists believed these insects were unable to smell anything at all.

Because the brain provides a sort of scaffolding for the facial features, scientists assumed that if something went wrong in brain development, the face would simply lack structural support and become deformed.

Because the computer model uses an overwhelming amount of physical, chemical and biological data, the supercomputer simulation allows scientists to analyze brain waves at a level of detail simply unattainable with traditional monitoring of live brain tissue.

For example, scientists previously assumed that because these spiders have small brains, they would have an innate aversion to the color red and therefore avoid toxicity, Taylor said.

So on to plants and more musings of a non-expert: I understand that plants respond differently to different stimuli — when they are stressed they react differently from when they are relaxed and at peace with themselves — please do nt laugh you scientists because my brain is not a bad hard drive and I recall that some trees share resources with stressed neighbours under stressful conditions.

Optogenetics has taken neuroscience by storm in recent years because the technique allows scientists to study the brain conveniently in animals, activating or inhibiting selected groups of neurons at the flip of a switch. Most often, scientists use a fiber optic cable to deliver light into the brain.

Other scientists just did not believe our results, because they went against conventional wisdom of blood circulation and metabolism in the brain.

Because these chemicals transmit messages between brain cells called neurons, scientists call them neurotransmitters.

Dr Richard Melloni, who led the research, said that because the part of the brain which his team studied is similar in rodents and humans, the scientists say their findings are probably applicable to people.

Because the face and teeth resembled those of later human ancestors, the scientists said that the fossils were those of a human - like, or hominid, species — even though the skull could hold only a chimp - sized brain.

This finding, published online today in Neuroimage, matters because unraveling how the brain solves the complex task of reading can help in uncovering the brain basis of reading disorders, such as dyslexia, say the scientists.

Largely because of the blood - brain barrier problem, scientists have had only limited success delivering AAVs and their genetic cargo to the central nervous system.

But the BBB also blocks the passage of many potentially useful drugs to the brain and it has long stymied scientists who want to learn more about this vital tissue because of the lack of realistic non-human lab models.

Scientists are most fascinated by the older brain's activation of the hippocampus because this area is generally used for more complicated memory tasks such as learning lines from a Shakespeare play.

Those details have been elusive because of the spaghetti - like complexity of the brain, which makes it extremely difficult for a scientist to isolate a neuron and its axon for manipulation and analysis, either in a lab dish or a lab animal.

In another breakthrough, scientists have found around 80 million neurons in our gut which has affectionately been dubbed «the second brain» because as well as being able to communicate with our brain, this massive collection of neurons can act independently and even influence our behavior.

Scientists have reported light from electronics has the potential to disrupt sleep, because it sends alerting signals to the brain.

It's easy for people to dwell on negative affective states because, according to neuroscientists, there are more neural networks in the brain associated with negative affect than with positive affect (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Finkenauer, & Vohs, 2001); some scientists even speculate that these may be in the ratio of 5 to 1.

Mr. Van Ypersele said that «scientists usually try to speak to the brain» and that he supported the arts project because it could help citizens make a connection with climate on an emotional level.

Now if neuro - scientists were claiming that a particular naturally biologically occurring chemical could drastically raise or lower brain function; but they only knew it because of computer models; and the computer models» prediction so far were garbage; and many of the neuro - scientists were caught lying and fudging data; and the chemical were necessary for normal brain function anyway; but they were arguing that we should reorder the world economy anyway by giving them control of the global food economy to limit the slight increase in ingestion that they claim is so dangerous....

«Right now my clients are multinationals, simply because they are the ones with the largest volumes of data, the ones that risk the most by not going digital,» says Inma Martinez, Chief Data Scientist at AI agency Right Brain Future and Venture Partner at Deep Science Ventures, an investor for science start - ups.