Sentences with phrase «brain breaks when»

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When it's time for your five - minute break, it's important to give your brain a well - deserved time out.

When you find yourself tempted to click away from your spreadsheet and turn to Facebook, it probably means your brain just needs a break.

So when the province of Ontario was looking for someone to head an interdisciplinary research centre aimed at breaking down barriers in brain science, Stuss was a natural pick.

Meanwhile, the chair will presumably take on a relaxing air that will help your brain unwind when you need a break.

When your brain shrieks for a break, get back into thoughtless receptive mode, and just feel and absorb.

What fascinates me is in the article they quote him as saying: «I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail,» «There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.»

«The injuries started popping up when the C405 aluminum alloy came out as the bat standard in 1996 — brain damage, broken jaws, teeth knocked out,» says Bill Thurston, rules editor of the NCAA baseball rules committee for the last 15 years.

It worked because Alabama called an onside at precisely the moment when it would simultaneously work and break Clemson's brain long enough to get another uncovered Howard TD.

The instructor shook the plastic bottle he had been carrying, violently breaking an egg inside, exemplifying what happens to an infant's brain when shaken.

Another study of degu rats discovered that babies» brains developed normally if the father rat stayed in the nest, but broke down at the level of synapses — in areas of the brain that influence decision - making and emotions — when the father was removed.

To avoid breaking my brain and our marriage, I have taken a «do it as you wish, when you wish» stance (as long as it's done before bed) with my husband and chores.

The rectrospectoscope suggests that a pre-labor c / s would have resulted in an easier recovery for me (bad pain for two weeks or so, plus about a year when I couldn't sit properly thanks to a bruised or broken tailbone) and (more importantly) a few more functioning brain cells for my son.

The area of the brain that signals when you're awake or asleep breaks down in people with Alzheimer's.

It is not that surprising that our decision making system breaks down when the human brain is confronted with too many options.

Alpha got a break last year when Apple announced that it was using it as the brains behind Siri, an automated assistant that comes with the latest iPhone.

They knew that MHCI wasn't supposed to be expressed in a healthy brain — only in an injured or diseased one, when the blood - brain barrier had broken down.

«The brain becomes more regular when it's misbehaving, and if you could somehow induce it to become more chaotic or more irregular, that would help break the seizure,» Ditto says.

Sleep deprivation hinders your body's ability to break down sugars as well as your brain's ability to tell when you're full.

Strokes often result when accumulated plaque breaks off from a narrowed section of an internal carotid artery and blocks smaller vessels in the brain.

We get a break only when the lights go out: The brain operates at a much - reduced level when we're asleep.

OTC is one of many enzymes that break down excessive nitrogen in our cells; when OTC is deficient, ammonia builds up and poisons the brain.

Breaking the Cycle A great step forward came in the mid-1980s when praziquantel, the first drug able to kill tapeworm larvae in the brain, became widely available.

When the late Robert Sperry was a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he experimented on patients with epilepsy, and noticed that breaking the link between brain hemispheres affected the ability to perform certain tasks.

Garzon - Muvdi explains that when blood vessels break anywhere but the brain, the body's immune cells easily clear the blood cells and their remnants from the area.

The reason, experts now believe, is that neural information processing — the foundation of experience and behavior — may break down, especially when many competing demands suddenly flood the brain.

So when's the last time you took a break from analyzing your data to speculate on which Hollywood hunk should portray the handsome male postdoc, or which famous actress projects the right combination of brains and sex appeal for the postdoc working at the next bench?

The Zurich University study, led by Dr. Thomas Baumgartner, «highlights the neural mechanisms through which oxytocin acts to facilitate trust behavior by investigating what happens in the brain when trust breaks down.»

Pick a day (or more) each week when your phone is put away, and your eyes and brain get a complete break from screen time.

Normally, the more rational prefrontal cortex would put everything into context — but when the brain is sleep - addled, this relationship breaks down.

When we break out of our daily routine and make small changes, our brains are forced to think about how to get the same result.

When this from is broken down, glutamine is released, which may be beneficial for gut and brain health.

When overproduced, Candida breaks down the wall of the intestines and penetrates the bloodstream, releasing toxic byproducts into your body and causing a host of unpleasant symptoms such as brain fog, fatigue, digestive issues and pain.

But the researchers saw different patterns when they broke the group down by age: For patients younger than 65, symptoms worsened when the deep brain stimulation system was turned on; for older patients, the treatment seemed to slow down their decline over one year.

The rest are hemorrhagic strokes, basically a brain bleed that occurs when a blood vessel breaks.

BDNF fortifys our brain cells which prevents them from breaking when exposed to stress.

So when we break down how the brain functions, we have to look at the two nervous systems: the central and the enteric.

Ketone bodies, created when your body breaks down fat for energy, are an alternative fuel for your brain.

It tells your brain when you've got too much fat, and basically decides how quickly or slowly your body breaks it down.

Studies have found that when your brain is low on serotonin, it will crave sugars and simple carbohydrates (which break down quickly into sugars in the body).

Or perhaps we're all broke and so turn to cutting down our cost - per - wear so we don't have to give up those sweet, short lived moments of retail therapy when our brains get hijacked by waves of designer endorphins?

I don't know why our brains suddenly depend on a social media break, when just 6 years ago they barely knew what it meant.

I gave my little man a sip and OMG he could not get enough!!!!!!! He pretty much downed the whole thing in minutes... I was actually nervous that he would get a brain freeze so I made him take a few breaks, but, I kid you not when I say, this guy is all about a green drink!

When the ragtag crew that found Atlantis returns to the underwater city to pick the brain of fearless leader Milo Thatch (voice of James Arnold Taylor; Michael J. Fox was the only actor from the original to bow out of this follow - up), everyone, including Milo's Atlantean girlfriend Kida (Cree Summer), ventures — on a quest for what, beats me — first to a ghost town in the Nordic mountains (where they battle a Verne - ian octopus called «The Kraken»), then to the American southwest (where an Indian elder plays that hilarious old joke where he threatens to kill them by summoning coyotes from Hell after they stave off a threat to his people), then to the home of philanthropist Preston Whitmore (John Mahoney), who was minding his own business one evening when a Viking demon broke in and stole his favourite Scandinavian spWhen the ragtag crew that found Atlantis returns to the underwater city to pick the brain of fearless leader Milo Thatch (voice of James Arnold Taylor; Michael J. Fox was the only actor from the original to bow out of this follow - up), everyone, including Milo's Atlantean girlfriend Kida (Cree Summer), ventures — on a quest for what, beats me — first to a ghost town in the Nordic mountains (where they battle a Verne - ian octopus called «The Kraken»), then to the American southwest (where an Indian elder plays that hilarious old joke where he threatens to kill them by summoning coyotes from Hell after they stave off a threat to his people), then to the home of philanthropist Preston Whitmore (John Mahoney), who was minding his own business one evening when a Viking demon broke in and stole his favourite Scandinavian spwhen a Viking demon broke in and stole his favourite Scandinavian spear.

Remind them that when they get hung up on a problem while doing their homework or independent study, they might try going for a run or taking an exercise break, and then return to the problem with their brain recharged.

So let's return to the calming yet energizing zone of focused attention practices and brain breaks, a place that would greatly benefit students — and their teachers — when revisited frequently.

Especially when topics of study are necessary foundations but are not of high personal relevance to students, brain breaks can enhance their motivation to attend to a potentially tedious subject.

When I asked the students what had happened, they were of one voice: «She didn't give us our brain breaks.»

Recent research shows that our brains aren't idle when we take breaks — they're hard at work processing memories and helping us make sense of what we experience.

When we take a brain break, it refreshes our thinking and helps us discover another solution to a problem or see a situation through a different lens.

A brain break is a short period of time when we change up the dull routine of incoming information that arrives via predictable, tedious, well - worn roadways.