Sentences with phrase «about brains and behavior»

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.

olds learn about brain and behavior changes during early adolescence.

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According to the synopsis about the show, «Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior.

The more we're able to explain human behavior in terms of molecular genetics or brain activity or biological function — absent a Creator — then the more questions I have about what I believe, and why.

It is highly unscientific, at the very least, to think that we know everything we need to know about the brain and that any behavior from a PVS patient that contradicts the current theory of «vegetablism» is irrelevant.

And, in recent and evolving research, scientists are charting a «global parental caregiving network» that gets shaped in a new parent's brain to bring about some of the very thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that Kelly and other new parents experienAnd, in recent and evolving research, scientists are charting a «global parental caregiving network» that gets shaped in a new parent's brain to bring about some of the very thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that Kelly and other new parents experienand evolving research, scientists are charting a «global parental caregiving network» that gets shaped in a new parent's brain to bring about some of the very thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that Kelly and other new parents experienand behaviors that Kelly and other new parents experienand other new parents experience.

Once we can talk about feelings, the feelings which are on the non-verbal side of the brain connect to the words on the other side of the brain and we have so much control and therefore, we have control over our behavior.

Find out about the science behind your teen's brain, if his or her behavior is normal, or what tools you can use to talk about drugs and alcohol.

In this slim volume, Tough pulls together decades of social science research on the impacts of poverty and trauma on kids» brains and behavior, and makes a cogent, convincing argument for why this research should lie at the center of any discussions about reform.

With such an undeveloped little brain, they are about as close to their genes as any human will ever get and have little control over their behavior.

The National Toxicology Program issued a report in September 2008, noting «some concern» about the effects on the brain, prostate gland, and behavior in fetuses, infants, and children.

Learn more fascinating facts about your baby's brain development, including where various skills and behaviors are controlled.

Neuroscience has provided some fascinating findings about the human brain and human behavior.

Advances in neuroscience have enabled researchers to learn more about how the adolescent brain functions, from the everyday behavior of teenagers to how they cope with the challenges of disease, learning problems, and social cues.

Researchers were identifying neurotransmitters and their receptors, but «there was a tremendous amount that we didn't know about the brain,» says Sonntag — including exactly where those neurotransmitters were located and how they controlled behavior.

A new study of artifacts from a cave in Israel suggests that our ancestors began regularly using fire about 350,000 years ago — far enough back to have shaped our culture and behavior but too recent to explain our big brains or our expansion into cold climates.

About this Book: This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society Kathleen McAuliffe Houghton Miffllin Harcourt, 2016

Today's studies, presented at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health, provide new insights into how experience might produce long - term brain changes in behaviors like drug addiction and memory formation.

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That is, knowledge about the more than two - millennia - old Eastern tradition of investigating the mind from the inside, from an interior, subjective point of view, and the much more recent insights provided by empirical Western ways to probe the brain and its behavior using a third - person, reductionist framework.

Until recently, little was known about how the microbiota influences the nervous system; however, it is becoming increasingly clear that gut microorganisms can influence the brain and behavior.

The most interesting thing about the results, she says, was not the correction of the autistic symptoms in the mice, but the clues the study provided about how the gut's microbial population may affect the brain and behavior.

Despite profound sex differences in the expression of social behavior and the incidence of these psychiatric disorders, little is known about how the brain mechanisms underlying these phenomena differ in females and males.

The finding raises questions about fructose's effects on the brain and eating behavior.

However, he says, studies like this can «give us some clue» about what can result from multiple insults to the developing brain because it shows experimentally that prenatal and postnatal impacts can work together to have synergistic effects on later behavior, he says.

In addition, there are further scientific questions about the manner in which patterns of maternal care implement in the development of children's brain, endocrine systems, behavior, and relationships.»

«The idea that this parasite knows more about our brains than we do, and has the ability to exert desired change in complicated rodent behavior, is absolutely fascinating,» Ingram said.

In order to broaden the conversation about cognitive enhancement, the Commission instead uses the term «neural modification,» which includes emerging technologies, as well as daily conditions and behaviors that impact brain performance.

Scientists injected fluorescent molecules into about 150 mouse brain structures and used a high - resolution microscope to document the molecules as they moved through the brain's «cellular highways,» which need to be in tip - top shape for different parts of the brain to communicate and coordinate behaviors.

Using a new class of mathematical models that do not make many assumptions about how behavior is organized, we will deconstruct the mouse's normal behavior into motifs, or syllables, and correlate those with brain activity.

Research is essential to reducing the burden of mental illness by improving access to effective care and achieving urgently needed knowledge about the brain, mind, and behavior.

Neuroscience, arguably more than any other aspect of biology, is a science that requires intense computation, because understanding the brain is about understanding how billions and billions of neurons function in orchestras to regulate our thoughts and behavior.

The scientists can then turn different neurons in the striatum on and off to see how this alters the animal's behavior, revealing more about which cells do what in the brain.

In recent decades a rapid expansion in knowledge has occurred about the brain circuits that process and regulate emotional behavior, and in which abnormalities of neural function and structure associate with mood disorders.

On Friday's St. Louis on the Air, host Don Marsh talked to Kim and Leuthardt about how the brain influences emotions, behaviors and more.

Within the fields of microbiology and immunology, neurologic diseases, neuropharmacology, behavioral, cognitive and developmental neuroscience, and psychiatric disorders, the center's research programs are seeking ways to: develop vaccines for infectious and noninfectious diseases; understand the basic neurobiology and genetics of social behavior and develop new treatment strategies for improving social functioning in social disorders such as autism; interpret brain activity through imaging; increase understanding of progressive illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; unlock the secrets of memory; treat drug addiction; determine how the interaction between genetics and society shape who we are; and advance knowledge about the evolutionary links between biology and behavior.

Kreitzer is applying knowledge of an area in the brain called the basal ganglia — gained through research on Parkinson's disease — to pursue answers about decision - making and motivated behaviors.

The FDA had expressed concern about potential effects on the brain, behavior, and prostate glands of fetuses, infants, and young children.

We know a great deal about the genomic mechanisms through which androgens and estrogens influence behavior; by turning genes on and off and thus affecting levels of proteins in cells, they slowly sculpt the brain circuits and peripheral structures required to produce social output.

Learn the science about habit - forming and the brain, and start to track unwanted behaviors.

Throw in your immune system's response (about 70 percent of your immune system lies in your gut), which includes the secretion of all sorts of inflammatory signals that also affect your brain, and you become chronically inflamed, leading to depression, erratic behavior, and even memory problems.

If you have questions about your child's learning, mood, and behavior challenges, including ADHD, autism, anxiety, and even brain injury, take a listen...

Cynthia has always been passionate about applying nutritional approaches for behavior and brain balancing.

A degenerative brain condition much talked about lately and possibly linked to everything from irregular, aggressive behaviors, irrational decision making and spiraling descents into depression.

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And through a set of debrief questions, «teachers and students can think together about how to use these skills at other times of day, connecting «brain powers» to work ethic in the classroom, teamwork and relationships, and successful behavior in school and beyond.&raqAnd through a set of debrief questions, «teachers and students can think together about how to use these skills at other times of day, connecting «brain powers» to work ethic in the classroom, teamwork and relationships, and successful behavior in school and beyond.&raqand students can think together about how to use these skills at other times of day, connecting «brain powers» to work ethic in the classroom, teamwork and relationships, and successful behavior in school and beyond.&raqand relationships, and successful behavior in school and beyond.&raqand successful behavior in school and beyond.&raqand beyond.»

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Both infants may have small brains and have so much still to learn about life, but they already have the capability of understanding which behaviors bring results and which do not.

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