Sentences with phrase «around brain science»

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The Batcave has produced spinouts that stuck around, including the Google Brain research unit and its Verily life sciences arm.
Serious brain science around meditation has emerged only in about the last decade, since the birth of functional MRI allowed scientists to begin watching the brain and monitoring its changes in relatively real time.
This I can not square away — however, I look at the gay issue much differently than most — I think it's much to complicated and we are jumping the gun by saying we just accept gay marriage — or it's an evil sin — what about the science that says testosterone starts forming around the babies brain when they are only 8 weeks into the womb?
If you're looking to combat that pesky summer brain drain in your kiddos (without them catching on), the Museum of Science & Industry's Omnimax theater presents «Dream Big,» a glimpse into engineering marvels around the world.
There is no exact science on why babies are colicky, but doctors believe it has to do with brain development — which is why it ends around 3 - 4 months — and digestion and gas are also believed to contribute.
Whether the topic is popcorn or particle physics, you can count on Marshall Brain and the BrainStuff team to explore and explain the everyday science in the world around us.
With so many different areas of science and technology to choose from, Colan says the show opted to create episodes around hot - button issues including aviation, bionics and mobility and waste management as well as more obscure topics including regenerative medicine and brain - to - computer interfaces.
Convinced, however, that there was in fact «a hell of a field» to build around gerontological science, Finch has spent the past 3 decades at the University of Southern California's (USC's) Leonard Davis School of Gerontology in Los Angeles seeking to understand the genomic control of senescence in the brain.
When the researchers made tiny lesions in the brain with a laser, nearby microglia immediately extended new arms to create a barrier around the injury and began retracting arms on the opposite side, the team reports online 14 April in Science.
The Lundbeck Foundation's annual grants of around DKK 500 million for Danish - based, biomedical sciences research, primarily focused on the brain, are the cornerstone of the Foundation's vision to create better life through new knowledge.
Towards the end of your race: Swish a sports drink around in your mouth, then spit it out: Just rinsing with the sugary drink can trick your brain into recruiting more muscles (especially when they're depleted) and enhance your performance, according to recent research in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
About three hundred years ago people in England on average consumed only 4 pounds of sugar per year.4 According to the USDA, Americans are now consuming around 131 pounds of sugar annually.5 This should come to no surprise that our bodies aren't use to this overconsumption of an ingredient, which is now strongly considered by certain members of the science community as a chronic liver toxin6 and responsible for rewiring our brain chemistry, compelling us to want to eat more.7
Science shows that, during this phase, your brain releases endorphins and hormones that can make you so happy to be around this guy.
The science in this film is absolute bunk, not only pushing forward the often misinformed notion that human beings only use 10 % of their brain's capacity in their lifetimes, but positing that, with increased brain usage, we increase the ability to control and transform matter around us.
The science that fascinates me and my colleagues at the CTTL at St. Andrew's centers around how the brain learns.
The Academy was therefore designed around a four - tier, two - track framework that allows teachers and school leaders to develop a professional pathway to move from the «novice» to «school leader» level in the field of Mind, Brain, and Education Science.
These school schedules also do not match up with the established science that suggests that teenagers often stay up late due to hormonal changes — such as melatonin increases that occur in the brain during one's teenage years — and so while teenagers need nine hours of sleep per night, they typically get only around seven hours and have a harder time waking up.
So the authors designed Mindset Mathematics around the principle of active student engagement, with tasks that reflect the latest brain science on learning.
The book was co-authored by the CTTL's Director and Head of Research, Glenn Whitman and Ian Kelleher who have been presenting around the United States this year how research in the field of Mind, Brain, and Education Science can and should be used to inform, transform, and validate how teachers design their classes and work with each individual student.
Alistair I suspect that part of the answer is that weathermen, as a general rule, have a pretty limited background in science (at least as evidenced by what comes out of the mouths of those on CNN and the various news stations around DC) and expecting them to be able to explain what is causing climate change would be sort of like expecting an EMT to explain brain surgery.
I blogged on my cerebral misadventure as it unfolded, as some may recall, but only got around to writing up an article about it after Ben Lillie, who left high - energy physics to focus on science storytelling and co-created Story Collider, invited me to tell my stroke tale as part of a special story slam in Brooklyn focused on brain science.
The 2018 lineup of speakers will explore some of the most fascinating subjects in science today including the historical origins of the U.S. opioid crisis, understanding how the brain controls parenting behavior, and how «frugal science» can improve science accessibility to better human and planetary health to communities around the world.
The brain science around what trauma, toxic stress and insecure attachment do to growing brains.
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