Sentences with phrase «around one's brain»

A lot of questions start swirling around your brain once you decide it's time to pursue the dream of homeownership.

When a blood vessel bursts in the space around the brain, however, the blood is trapped.

Today's post tries to make sense of all the buzz around brain - based learning.

Although these results are a helpful addition to the wider body of research around brain health and inflammation, what we need is more research to further clarify this relationship.

At just three days old, he underwent spinal surgery and had to be treated for fluid developing around his brain.

The mutation leaves the nerves in the arteries around the brain in a constant state of hyperactivity, causing them to register pain.

We've incorporated research around brain science and memory, and we know that playing games breaks down barriers to receiving information.

Previously, researchers assumed immune cells took an indirect route around the brain, flowing freely through its surrounding fluid.

Because of this, maintaining and increasing the quality of all - around brain function is vital, especially as we age.

Animal studies around the brain's reaction to novelty have suggested increased dopamine levels in the context of novelty.

This tests the fluid from around the brain and the spinal cord.

In the normal body there is a flow of fluid which moves steadily around the brain and through the spinal cord.

But tweaks to the body that sits around the brain — the hardware — can produce different behavior.

My perfectionist self was running around my brain like a maniac for much of the day.

I'd decided to make two flavors and was running some ideas around my brain when I spied some Smoky Honey Habanero rub on my counter.

Something that either Baggs or Pavs wrote after Sunday's game in SD has been rattling around my brain since then.

Douglas Postels, a pediatric neurologist and a lead author of a new study, has shown that the common medical procedure used to diagnose brain infections and also treat nervous system illnesses that lead to increased pressure around the brain, is safe in patients with cerebral malaria.

Some of the ideas we discusssed are still bouncing around my brain.

Dopamine (DOH - puh - meen) is another chemical used to relay messages around the brain.

So, it's best not to ask those questions circling around my brain like sharks, waiting to gobble my happiness up.

Dr Willie Stewart, of World Rugby's Independent Concussion Advisory Group, says the governing body's attempts to tackle the issues around brain injuries have had little effect.

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory tests.

At the meeting, Dr. Shore presented many facts around brain development and gender differences.

One of Nash's patients suffered from tapeworm cysts that twisted around his brain stem.

Nasal mucosal grafting is a technique regularly used in the ENT field to reconstruct the barrier around the brain after surgery to the skull base.

It seems that, as cells are becoming sick during the course of HD, some of their contents are spilled into this fluid, which circulates around the brain.

Without treatment, Leptospirosis can lead to kidney damage, meningitis (the inflammation of the membrane around the brain and spinal cord), liver failure, respiratory distress, and even death.

In the normal mammal, the CSF around the brain shunts back and forth with the arterial pulse.

A stroke occurs when a blood clot blocks the steady flow of blood to your brain or when a blood vessel or capillary in or around your brain ruptures.

«The slowest speed information passes around your brain is approximately 260 MPH.»

As those connections build up, information travels faster around the brain, and further pattern repetitions fuse sets of connected neurons into chunks, «that can access a whole collection of information instantly.»

After all, a story of a girl's anthropomorphized emotions journeying around her brain to help her navigate her family's move sounds pretty heady for a kids movie.

The drugs have to be injected directly into the cerebrospinal fluid, which flows around the brain and spine.

Brain waves created by the coordinated firing of huge collections of nerve cells pinball around the brain.

Schwartz happened to be carrying around some brain scans of OCD patients in a folder.

Some of the key differences, they note, center around brain development and synaptic connectivity.

For example, cocaine also can elevate the levels of serotonin in the minute spaces around brain synapses by blocking the serotonin transporter, a «nanovacuum cleaner» normally involved in whisking serotonin away to limit its actions.

Our cerebrospinal fluid, the shock - absorbing liquid around the brain and spinal cord, is rich in glucose.

For the first time, scientists have temporarily disrupted the blood - brain barrier — the protective layer around the brain — to deliver chemotherapy to a brain tumour.

A technical revolution provides insight into how the brain links memories, a process critical for understanding and organizing the world around us

«Axons grip and slip their way around the brain.»

For example, the fish's skull was made of large, bony plates similar to today's bony fish, but the traces of the nerves and blood vessels around the brain more closely resembled those of cartilaginous fish.

This makes it a common target for antidepressants, which block serotonin from being reabsorbed by neurons after it has dispatched its signal, so more of it stays floating around the brain.

«The glucose gradient increases from within blood vessels into the brain, and that carries our particles toward the [blood — brain barrier],» he says, «and this gradient is much steeper around brain tumors.»

Kipnis proposes that with fewer T cells, older people can not effectively suppress the inflammation around their brains — which could play a part in the cognitive decline that people experience as they age.