Sentences with phrase «most brain scientists»

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It is a cult with Richard Dawkins as its leader, and from most of the arguments on here it seems that most of you are being brain washed by him and atheistic scientist.

But most brain research around meditation is still preliminary, waiting to be corroborated by other scientists.

Developmental scientists consider it to be one of the most massive reorganizations in the lifespan, changing the brains, endocrine systems, behaviors, identities, relationships, and more, of everyone involved.

Thirdly, most scientists now agree that socialization does impact on biology — as suggested by theories of epigenetic and brain plasticity.

Scientists imaged more than 1,700 mouse brains to build the most comprehensive mammalian brain map yet.

Up until then, most scientists had believed that the healthy brain was «immune privileged» or free of immune cells.

A worldwide «battle for brains» is going on, he said, a raging fight to attract the latest knowledge and the best scientists to the world's most developed (and most rapidly developing) economies.

Scientists still don't understand many of the most essential functions of the brain, like memory or the fundamentals of brain disease and treatment.

But scientists were stumped on how to best integrate the cell grafts into the brain's complex circuitry, where they would be more targeted and do the most good.

Scientists are using the most - studied brain in history to create a Google Earth for everything inside your head.

Scientists approach rehabilitation in different ways, she said, but most commonly with a kind of bottom - up approach, by training muscles and re-teaching walking, and then hoping that the brain will relearn how to control those functions.

Scientists copy nature's most complex organ in the hope of solving the mysteries of brain disorders, from autism to Alzheimer's

Most people associate prion diseases with the brain, although scientists have found abnormal infectious prion protein in other organs, including the spleen, kidney, lungs and liver.

If scientists better understand how the brain moves after an impact and what movement causes the most damage, Kurt said, «we can design better helmets, we can devise technologies that can do onsite diagnostics, for example in football, and potentially make sideline decisions in real time,» all of which could improve outcomes for those who take a nasty hit to the head.

Nevertheless, there remain many gaps in scientists» understanding of the effects of blasts on the human brain; most new knowledge has come from experiments with animals.

«We looked at the effects of propofol — one of the most common general anaesthetic drugs used during surgery — on synaptic release,» the UQ Queensland Brain Institute scientist said.

One of the two brain - training methods most scientists use in research is significantly better in improving memory and attention, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.

Scientists have developed a new way to detect which areas of the brain contribute most greatly to epilepsy seizures, according to a PLOS Computational Biology study.

Untangling the tightly woven neuronal tapestry to discover what is real is one of the challenges scientists confront when crossing the brain - mind divide, linking the physics of excitable matter to ephemeral subjective, conscious experience, the most real thing there is.

As scientists gain the power to see the brain in its full complexity, he argues, they will finally be able to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the mind.

In April 2016, the tool ranked computer scientists, and when its corpus was expanded to neuroscience in November 2016, it was also used to judge the most influential brain scientists.

«Our software is based on brain - inspired models that have proven to be most helpful to decode various natural signals such as phonetic sounds,» says computer scientist Robin Tibor Schirrmeister.

In terms of perceiving the world around us, facial recognition may be «the single most impressive thing that the human brain can do,» says Erik Learned - Miller, a computer scientist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is giving researchers a first look at the early stages of brain development in patients with Fragile X syndrome, a disorder that causes mild to severe intellectual disability and is the most common genetic cause of autism spectrum disorder.

While bipolar disorder is one of the most - studied neurological disorders — the Greeks noticed symptoms of the disease as early as the first century — it's possible that scientists have overlooked an important part of the brain for its source.

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.

Scientists can now reprogram human skin cells to make working cells that resemble «medium spiny neurons», the type of brain cell that is most affected early in Huntington's disease.

Reykjavik, ICELAND, 25 September 2011 — Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, The Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, the USA, the UK and Romania today report the discovery of a variant in the sequence of the human genome associated with risk of developing basal cell carcinoma of the skin (BCC), as well as prostate cancer and glioma, the most serious form of brain cancer.

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.

Walter is the only foreigner in his lab; most of the foreign scientists at Riken are affiliated to the Brain Science Institute.

Brain Explorers: CBN Helps the Next Generation of Scientists Investigate the Body's Most Complex Organ

«This is a signal moment when scientists around the world are poised to solve some of the most important puzzles of the human brain,» Paxson says.

Interestingly, scientists have discovered that these brain regions are also the areas that show the most significant levels of repeat instability.

Hundreds of scientists at Georgia's premiere universities, private colleges, and research institutes are at the forefront of some of the most promising efforts to understand the complexities of the brain, to alleviate the pain and suffering associated with brain disorders, and to reduce the cost of treating neurological disease.

LA JOLLA, CA — Scientists have long believed that glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive type of primary brain tumor, begins in glial cells that make up supportive tissue in the brain...

«This is a signal moment when scientists around the world are poised to solve some of the most important puzzles of the human brain,» Paxson said.

Now a team of scientists, led by Mary Jo LaDu in the department of pathology at the University of Chicago Medical Center, has shown that the apoE - containing fat transporters found in brain cells are very different from the apoE particles found elsewhere in the body and contain most of their cholesterol in a different form.

Taken together, scientists may be on the verge of finally understanding how a 500 million - year - old marine organism that lacks basic bone structure consistently ranks higher than most mammals when it comes to brain size, neuron count and learning ability.

«Composed of roughly 100 billion neurons... the human brain is so complex that scientists have not yet found a way to record the activity of more than a small number of neurons at once, an in most cases that is done invasively with physical probes.»

Two Gene Mutations Linked to Most Common Brain Cancers Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Duke University Medical Center linked mutations in two genes, IDH1 and IDH2, to nearly three - quarters of several of the most common types of brain cancers known as glioMost Common Brain Cancers Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Duke University Medical Center linked mutations in two genes, IDH1 and IDH2, to nearly three - quarters of several of the most common types of brain cancers known as gliBrain Cancers Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Duke University Medical Center linked mutations in two genes, IDH1 and IDH2, to nearly three - quarters of several of the most common types of brain cancers known as gliomost common types of brain cancers known as glibrain cancers known as gliomas.

Janelia scientists are working on some of science's most challenging problems: discovering the basic rules and mechanisms of the brain's information - processing system and developing optical, biological, and computational technologies for creating and interpreting biological images.

Researchers led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have worked out how a crucial cancer - related protein, a «histone writer» called Ezh2, plays a role in suppressing as well as driving the most aggressive form of the brain tumor medulloblastoma.

Physicians and scientists work closely together to continually improve the ways in which we diagnose and treat head and neck, brain and spine tumors, and offer our patients access to innovative techniques, new drugs, and clinical trials of the most - advanced treatment approaches.

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.

Studies show that WGA can have direct toxic effects on most tissues in your body, including the heart and brain.In fact, it enters the brain so easily that scientists are hopeful it can be used to deliver Alzheimer's drugs.

The most controversial is changes in energy source in the brain (funny how most scientists forget that ketone bodies serve as an alternative energy source....)

And perhaps most surprising, scientists have established that learning and practicing certain skills can cause the corresponding brain areas to morph and grow.

Albeit an unfolded textbook, NG, Time, Economist,... Scientist and most mags are 18 ″... that's how our brains (eye + neural net, see visual integration across saccadic eye movements) read pages: Unfolded, scanning back - forth, diagonal, reverse... and again.

The program was peer - reviewed by animal scientists and canine welfare experts from major academic institutions to corroborate credibility and the most up - to - date scientific knowledge about dogs, how their brains work and what makes them healthy and happy.

The game centres around scientist Dr. Splorchy, who evidently has no interest in what we say here, as in his own words, his experience with VR is «so beyond the capability of your understanding that if I were to try to explain them to your primitive earth mind I would have to rip out most of your brain and replace it with a computer so powerful it hasn't even been invented yet, so no, I will not send you a blurb for your stupid press release.»