Sentences with phrase «brain researchers indicate»

Brain researchers indicate that implicit prejudice comes from many unconscious «cultural factors» like jokes, catchphrases, overheard taunts, and so forth, from peers, parents and the media.

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When researchers looked at their brain activity during these times, they saw that one hemisphere of the brain had electrical patterns resembling nighttime sleep, whereas patterns from the other hemisphere indicated wakefulness.

When infants in the Dartmouth study were shown a moving picture of a starfish, the left and right hemispheres of their brains lit up (dark red indicates high brain activity; dark blue, low activity)-- but not as much as when researchers spoke to them, saying: «Hello, baby.

«These results indicate strong two - way interactions between the brain and the gut that may help explain the increased incidence of systemic infections after brain trauma and allow new treatment approaches,» said the lead researcher, Alan Faden, MD, the David S. Brown Professor in Trauma in the Departments of Anesthesiology, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at UMSOM, and director of the UMSOM Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research Center.

The findings, which appear in tomorrow's Nature, indicate that more parts of the brain respond to subliminal messages than researchers had thought.

Moreover, some researchers say, the observation that MCPH patients can speak, and that they suffer at most from moderate retardation, indicates that the ASPM gene is not key to intelligence itself — whether or not it might have played a role in scaling up the hominid brain to modern dimensions.

While previous research has indicated that sleep disruption and psychiatric disorders often occur together, this latest study is the first to causally demonstrate that sleep loss triggers excessive anticipatory brain activity associated with anxiety, researchers said.

As participants viewed each face, they were asked to indicate whether it was new or familiar while the researchers monitored their brain activity.

The researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan 21 of the participants» brains while they viewed pairs of short film clips showing classmates of varying status within this social network, telling them all they needed to do was indicate whether the clips in each pair were the same or different, and that this task was unrelated to the first part of the experiment.

Researchers have studied the brain activity of young binge - drinking college students in Spain, and found distinctive changes in brain activity, which may indicate delayed brain development and be an early sign of brain damage.

A research team headed by Wieland Huttner, director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, now reports an important finding that paves the way for further research on brain evolution: The researchers analyzed the gyrencephaly index, indicating the degree of cortical folding, of 100 mammalian brains and identified a threshold value that separates mammalian species into two distinct groups: Those above the threshold have highly folded brains, whereas those below it have only slightly folded or unfolded brains.

The Dresden researchers examined brain sections from more than 100 different mammalian species with regard to the gyrencephaly index, which indicates the degree of folding of the neocortex.

Interestingly, these rats were still motivated to drink sugar water, indicating that the researchers had successfully targeted only alcohol - activated neurons, not the brain's overall reward system.

Researchers at the University of Liège in Belgium reported at a conference in France this week that a study of 13 patients in comas of varying degrees indicated that those with the most activity in these pathways (in the cortex, or brain processing center) had suffered the least brain damage and thereby were most likely to recover if given the correct treatment.

And don't get sleep scientists started on the accuracy of those sleep graphs; according to researchers, it's brain waves, not wrist movement, that indicate what stage of sleep you're in.

The researchers found that these volunteers viewed the horizon as if it were several degrees lower, indicating that the brain tries to keep the horizon as a constant reference point.

Subjects would indicate to researchers when they were planning the movement, so the researchers could see what part of the cerebral cortex — the outermost region of the brain, which plays a key role in functions from movement to attention to learning — responded if a button - push was or was not executed.

Scholarly articles published by over 20 researchers in Monographs, titled «The Relation of Childhood Physical Activity to Brain Health, Cognition and Scholastic Achievement» indicate that while physical activity in schools has diminished in part because of a growing emphasis on student performance and academic testing, decreased physical activity is actually related to decreased academic performance.

Although the research indicates it may someday be possible to regenerate neurons from the body's own cells to repair traumatic brain injury or spinal cord damage or to treat conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, the researchers stressed that it is too soon to know whether the neurons created in these initial studies resulted in any functional improvements, a goal for future research.

Following the whole process from molecule detection and the reaction of the nerves to the outcome of behavior the researchers found a line in the fly's brain that identifies bad odors and leads the fly to avoid these smells as they indicate something is toxic.

More hobbit fossils are needed to settle the matter; (2) Ralph Holloway (Columbia University) states that although the hobbit skull may not have microcephalic morphology (shape), it does seem to indicate other brain abnormalities; (3) another researcher states that the size sample in the study was too small.

Studies have also indicated that B12 prevents brain shrinkage, making this vitamin and it's benefits an area of interest for researchers as reduced brain size is commonly seen among those with dementia and Alzheimer's.

These results indicate that propionate suppressed food intake by affecting reward - driven eating behavior, although the researchers didn't find any significant association between changes in brain signals and food intake.

However, recent studies indicate that it is only glucose and not fructose which suppresses * hunger by reducing * the activity of certain areas of the brain (hypothalamus) that controls appetite, according to the researchers.

Researchers from several universities in Australia indicate that curcumin, a natural anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, may help reduce symptoms of MDD by restoring neurogenesis and healthy brain function, protecting it from oxidative stress, inflammation, and other types of damage, which could in turn lead to improvements in mood.