Sentences with phrase «after deep brain»

Patients affected by Parkinson's disease often show marked changes in body weight: they may gain or lose a lot of weight depending on the stage of the disease, or they may put on up to ten kilos after deep brain stimulation (a treatment to alleviate the symptoms).

Parkinson's patients may be somewhat lacking in this respect and therefore eat less and lose weight, whereas the weight gain exhibited after deep brain stimulation seems to point to an increase in pleasure and motivation associated with food.

Not exact matches

During a key experiment in the 1990s, for example, researchers damaged the neocortex of female hamsters after birth but spared deeper brain structures.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

Larry, I am sure that your brain must be hurting after generating such a deep thought.

It may have been the caffeine induced delirium, but after the crap ideas had floated out of my brain and onto the screen, purely for quality control purposes, I started to reach a deeper place in my subconscious.

In a second surgical procedure less than a week after the brain surgery, Velly and his colleagues took readings from the deep - brain electrodes in 25 patients while also collecting electrode readings from their scalp.

The memory - forming structures lie deep within the brain, he says, and they probably remain active for a few minutes after brain activity in the outer cortex has stopped.

Deep brain stimulation is not the only form of electrical stimulation that could help restore movement after a spinal cord injury.

The researchers found that patients treated with deep brain stimulation survived an average of 6.3 years after the surgery, versus 5.7 years for the non-DBS patients after the date they might have gotten surgery based on their match to a surgery patient — a difference of eight months.

A deep convolutional neural network (DCNN), modeled after brain structure, employs multiple hidden layers and patterns to classify images.

The BROADEN trial, which implanted metal electrodes deep in the brain in a region called area 25, failed early on to show a statistically significant effect on depression and was halted after just 90 participants were treated.

When comparing the scan results for brain activity before treatment and after a year of stimulation, the researchers found that there were changes in the regions linked to anorexia, suggesting that deep brain stimulation was able to directly affect the related brain circuits.

It is also the first to demonstrate that a deep convolutional neural network — a computing system modelled after the neuron activity in animal brains that can basically learn on its own — can effectively differentiate between similar plants with an amazing accuracy of nearly 100 %.

Machine - learning systems — and a subset, deep - learning systems, which simulate complex neural networks in the human brain — derive their own rules after combing through large amounts of data.

After two years of deep - brain stimulation, she could independently initiate preparations of a simple meal, assemble ingredients and cook the meal.

Most of the sleeping we do is of the SWS variety, characterized by large, slow brain waves, relaxed muscles and slow, deep breathing, which may help the brain and body to recuperate after a long day.

The researchers, who published their work in Cell today (April 12), designed their a neural network, a program modeled after the brain, using an approach called deep learning, which uses data to recognize patterns, form rules, and apply those rules to new information.

Recent research into consumer decision - making found that «choice closure» after making a decision effectively demonstrates to your deep brain that you're done, enabling your head to move on without being preoccupied with seconds.

Recent research into consumer decision making found that «closure» after making a decision effectively demonstrates to your deep brain that you're done, enabling your head to move on.

After lengths of deep concentration in a lesson, Kodály can be used to refresh the brain so that the children can continue to work effectively - it develops Confidence, Focused thinking & Listening skills.

The search for an engaged couple began back in January, and after a careful review of MANY video applications, Deep Silver has selected the adorable Jennifer Jones and Rob Blackmore to be THE zombified couple who will exchange eternal vows and eat each other's brains on April 23rd.

After with a good grounding in deep learning systems, which mimic the human brain to a degree, we got to the interesting stuff: inscrutability, hidden factors and confounding variables.

They are intelligent, articulate people, many of them deep in debt after qualification, who could have taken their brains, their energy and their skills to more lucrative fields in the law or outside it.