Sentences with phrase «brain scientists know»

Brain scientists know sleep improves memory, but why and how has been a tough nut to crack.

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They may not qualify as brain surgeons or rocket scientists but they know how to execute plans, get things done and beat Einstein to the punch.

This falls in line with what scientists know about how the brain navigates space and improves memory in the real world.

Addyi, known to scientists as flibanserin, is thought to work by changing the balance of certain brain neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin.

Some of Michelangelo's best known works may bear hidden messages suggesting that the human brain is among God's greatest creations, scientists say.

Modern empiricism, on the other hand, which locates the possibilities of science in the brain (as if the brain and its patterns of order were not also in part a construction of the scientist's mind), precisely reverses this: the outside world known by the senses is alone the seat of what is — if anything is — universal, objective, real and certain.

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

Of course, scientists don't yet know if the addition of essential fatty acids in the formula has that same effect on the brain as the natural essential fatty acids found in breast milk.

Scientists still don't know exactly why some babies die without explanation, but recent research points to the possibility of brain stem abnormalities that prevent some babies from being able to rouse from sleep and gasp for air when their blood oxygen levels are too low.

Brain Rules for Baby bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice.

Three recent papers authored by Dr. Peter Nelson and others at the University of Kentucky Sanders - Brown Center on Aging, explore the neuropathology behind a little - understood brain disease, hippocampal sclerosis (known to scientists and clinicians as HS - AGING).

Knowing what the master genes are could give scientists targets for new pharmaceuticals to treat brain diseases.

We currently do not know how these genetic risk factors affect the chemistry of the brain and cause specific symptoms, so it is not yet possible for scientists to design drugs to relieve symptoms shown by people with a particular genetic variant.

But scientists don't know precisely how the ear and brain sense this mathematical difference.

Before the 1996 Ames dwarf study, scientists knew that growth hormone and IGF - 1 help preserve muscle and bone, and that they stimulate brain cell growth as well.

The word barrier sounds formidable, but scientists didn't even know the blood - brain barrier existed until they discovered it by accident just over a century ago.

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

As someone whose brain has shriveled at least one time, maybe twice (scientists don't know if the brain keeps getting smaller with subsequent pregnancies), I find it fascinating to think about this remodeling.

Scientists headed by Dr. Stevens Rehen differentiated human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into neural stem cells and into further complex tridimensional structures, known as neurospheres and brain organoids.

If some precise mix of, say, early brain damage, social ineptitude, paranoia and fury over life's unfair twists cooks up mass killers, scientists don't know the toxic recipe.

Scientists have long known that Alzheimer's disease is a gradual process and that the brain undergoes functional changes before the structural changes associated with the disease show up on imaging results.

Scientists have long known that a bath of protective proteins in the brain, known as neurotrophic factors, can help curb the progression of Parkinson's disease by keeping those dopamine - producing neurons healthy.

Scientists have long known that the functional neural architecture for perception and cognition strongly depends upon plasticity: in other words, our brain has the capacity to change and adapt as a result of experience.

For example, scientists have known for decades that the hippocampus, a structure in the middle of the brain, has the lead role in the formation and preservation of memories, and is one of the regions that shape a person's identity.

Researchers have known for years that TBI has significant effects on the gastrointestinal tract, but until now, scientists have not recognized that brain trauma can make the colon more permeable, potentially allowing allow harmful microbes to migrate from the intestine to other areas of the body, causing infection..

Scientists don't know exactly why alcohol has such a strong effect on developing brains.

Earlier animal studies have shown that A-beta can move into the brain if it's injected into the bloodstream, but scientists didn't know whether A-beta from the blood can be plentiful enough to form plaques in the brain.

An astonishing number of things that scientists know about brains and behavior are based on small groups of highly educated, mostly white people between the ages of 18 and 21.

Brain Terrain - Even though we know they're mostly water ice, these shapes can't be explained by scientists.

Scientists know a good deal about the molecular receptors that mediate the different types of somatosensation, but they know little about how touch is represented in the brain.

Story number 4: Scientists pinpointed the area of the brain responsible for why you know that it was a -LSB-(«we are with you») Music] i.e., why you know all the words to old TV theme songs.

That oddly textured pebble, scientists report at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, is actually an endocast — an impression preserved in the rock — that represents the first known evidence of fossilized brain tissue of a dinosaur (likely a close relative of Iguanodon, a large, herbivorous type of dinosaur that lived about 133 million years ago).

Scientists would love to know if that practice affects other aspects of your brain's control of your body.

Scientists know the nose taps directly into a primitive part of the brain.

Sustained emotional stress is known to damage the brain, and scientists wonder how it might affect the right and left prefrontal cortex, particularly in young children whose brains are still developing.

Despite their growing database of known pheromones, scientists knew little about how the brain actually converts certain sensory input into appropriate behavioral output, especially in mammals.

Knowing these larvae respond to odors but not fully understanding the process by which they make decisions via olfactory cues, scientists at UC Santa Barbara are using this model organism to study brain function as it relates to behavior control.

If it works, actual brain behavior should emerge from the fundamental framework inside the computer, and where it doesn't work, scientists will know where their knowledge falls short.

Since the mid-1980s, scientists have known that the two brain hemispheres of left - handers are more strongly connected than those of right - handers.

Scientists have known for some time that the mutated form of the huntingtin protein impairs mitochondria and that this disruption kills brain cells.

An international team of roughly 300 scientists known as the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA) Network pooled brain scans and genetic data worldwide to pinpoint genes that enhance or break down key brain regions in people from 33 countries.

While the nature of the monarch butterfly's ability to integrate the time of day and the sun's location in the sky are known from previous research, scientists have never understood how the monarch's brain receives and processes this information.

«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.

At the time, scientists didn't know that the ability to establish long - term memory was centered in a specific part of the brain.

Scientists know that our memories are stored in specific areas of the brain, but there has been some debate over whether a single brain region can store different memories that control opposing behavior.

Scientists used a type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), known as diffusion weighted imaging, to measure the brain connectivity in 260 infants at the ages of 6 and 12 months, who had either high or low risks of autism.

Thanks to their efforts, Johnson's remarkable brain is poised to help scientists rethink what we know about the workings of memory.

Although much attention has been focused on the metabolic and behavioral outcomes of PWS, scientists still knew relatively little about the consequences of PWS on development of appetite - related brain pathways in the hypothalamus.

Grid cells and other specialized nerve cells in the brain, known as «place cells,» comprise the brain's inner GPS, the discovery of which earned British - American and Norwegian scientists this year's Nobel Prize for medicine.

The best example of general intelligence that we know of today is the human brain, and the scientists» strategy has been to imitate, at a very fundamental level, how children develop intelligence.