Sentences with phrase «as circuitry»

For example, technology and science lessons have benefitted from the ability to zoom in on physical objects, such as circuitry or practical demonstrations.

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Genetics offers one view into the body, but it's just as important to understand how the circuitry of the brain works.

The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well - Being explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health.

Power activates the very same reward circuitry in the brain and creates an addictive «high» in much the same way as drug addiction.

As I have written before, power is addictive and manifests at neurochemical level through a reward circuitry of dopamine flow, the same transmitter responsible for producing a sense of pleasure.

Dr. Saper's research has explored circuitry of the brain that controls basic functions such as wake - sleep cycles, feeding, and immune response, and how these circuits are disrupted in neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, in sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and sleep apnea, and during aging.

The shiny plastic surface seen at the top of the image is known as the web; it will be formed into the circuitry that controls the flexible display.

He counters that mysteries of brain circuitry will be resolved as the project moves forward over the years.

Because the neural circuitry of the brain operates via electro - stimulation, applying small amounts of electrical current to the scalp (transcranially) has been investigated as a means of modulating brain activity.

Hormones drive many of these sex differences, while major life events — such as puberty, pregnancy, parenthood or even traumas — also help shape male and female brain circuitry.

Not surprisingly, our brains are wired with circuitry so that we can scrupulously avoid such fates, whether that means expulsion to the desert as in the Biblical tale of Hagar and Ishmael or the heartbreak of not getting that long - awaited invitation to the high school prom.

The idea that brain circuitries devoted to affiliation and social bonds may well be as sophisticated as our fear mechanisms had been percolating for almost a decade.

Just as DNA's structural logic dictates the functional logic of heredity, he reasoned, the structure of our neural circuitry must explain why we experience red as red, pain as painful, or ourselves as selves.

Kepecs plans to use his model of confidence as a foothold for finding the seat of confidence in the brain and understanding its neural circuitry.

The materials generate static as they rub together while the circuitry acts like a variable capacitor, storing up the electrical charge generated.

But then Russo and two fellow graduate students, Brett Walker and Michael Bell, realized its potential in schools, from light - up textbooks to DIY circuitry projects for kids as young as elementary school age.

The use of MRI for research, rather than diagnostic, purposes is a relatively new development, and clinical investigators in the imaging community often do not understand the basic cellular and neural circuitry issues as well as they should, he says.

One example of this is molecular diodes (molecular devices capable of selecting the flow of charge current), which are of crucial importance as the basic building blocks of molecular circuitry — the future of powering our electronics.

He says there need to be easier ways for people to create circuitry that could lend itself to novel applications such as packaging (see «Ink gets wired for sound «-RRB-.

But the FAA also took another highly unusual, and perhaps illuminating, step: it decided to investigate its own certification process, asking in particular how it could have guaranteed as airworthy an aircraft whose electrical system has suffered a dangerous battery failure so soon, and which also has a history of electrical fires and circuitry failures, some even during the certification process itself.

They are fabricated with the same technological toolset as electronic circuitry.

The stumbling block has been that making integrated circuits requires applying different templates as layers of circuitry are built up.

So for now, hybrid batteries will be best suited to applications with low overall power demands, such as powering electronic circuitry in smart cards, credit cards with electronic chips that hold more information than magnetic strips do.

As a first test, the researchers implanted electrodes into the brains of females to identify the circuitry activated when they naturally formed a pair bond and mated.

To regulate mood, the prefrontal cortex acts as a pacemaker to coordinate the actions of the amygdala, which governs stress responses, and the ventral tegmental area, which plays a role in the brain's reward circuitry.

«Administration of lidocaine to the sphenopalatine ganglion acts as a «reset button» for the brain's migraine circuitry,» noted Mandato.

Martin, head of the INI, wanted to study the circuitry of the macaque neocortex, which carries out higher functions such as spatial reasoning and conscious thought.

As a result, the underpowered heart cells fire weakly and chaotically, forming a tiny cluster of misfiring muscle tissue, which creates a roadblock in the heart's circuitry.

Resurrecting a memory trace appears to render it completely fluid, as pliable and unstable as the moment it was first formed, and in need of fixing once again into the brain's circuitry.

When it's not, it's recognized as an error that corresponds with an attempt to correct the neural circuitry.

In fact, attractive faces activate the same reward circuitry in the brain as food, drugs and money.

The researchers used a variety of conductive threads that were dipped in physical and chemical sensing compounds and connected to wireless electronic circuitry to create a flexible platform that they sutured into tissue in rats as well as in vitro.

As genetic circuitry shapes up, scientists hope the new device will make it easier for them to program cells to do things such as watch for disease, monitor pollution, or even turn on medicine outpuAs genetic circuitry shapes up, scientists hope the new device will make it easier for them to program cells to do things such as watch for disease, monitor pollution, or even turn on medicine outpuas watch for disease, monitor pollution, or even turn on medicine output.

The technology helped NASA identify a steep Martian mesa known as «Von Braun» as a promising site for Spirit to explore, but also indicated that the upward journey would prevent the rover's solar panels from accessing Mars's weak winter sun to charge its batteries and keep its essential circuitry heaters going.

Fearing objects or contexts can be learned; in animals this is being studied as fear conditioning, which depends on the emotional circuitry of the brain.

A government - commissioned independent review by a panel of scientists known as JASON estimated that the plutonium primaries in the current warheads will last a minimum of a century in storage, however, and, therefore, recommended that no action be taken other than routine maintenance, such as replacing surrounding circuitry and parts as they age — a core function of the Lifetime Extension Program the W76s are currently undergoing.

The researchers were able to zero in on the Broca's area as well as related brain circuitry specifically linked to speech, using regional cerebral blood flow as a measure of brain activity, since blood flow is typically coupled with neural activity.

The scientists suggest this same brain circuitry could be involved in integrating other motivational drive states such as thirst.

«Many psychological disorders such as addiction, obesity, and depression involve poor regulation of reward circuitry.

The study supports the importance of the serotonin which is specified and maintained by a specific gene, the Pet - 1 gene — for normal functioning of the neurons, synapses and networks in the cortex, as well as proper development of brain circuitry.

«Our goal in the project was to close the gap in knowledge that exists on role of serotonin in the brain cortex, particularly as it concerns brain circuitry, its electrical activity and function,» said Roberto Fernández Galán, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

The device is thought to modulate electrical activity in the circuitry of the dysfunctional brain, explains Oxford University neurosurgeon Tipu Aziz, who is exploring DBS as a treatment for cluster headaches.

For decades the electronics industry has hummed along according to what is known as Moore's law: As technology progresses and circuitry shrinks, the number of transistors that can be squeezed onto a silicon chip doubles every two years or sas Moore's law: As technology progresses and circuitry shrinks, the number of transistors that can be squeezed onto a silicon chip doubles every two years or sAs technology progresses and circuitry shrinks, the number of transistors that can be squeezed onto a silicon chip doubles every two years or so.

The discovery could be turned into a treatment for conditions associated with abnormal neural circuitry, such as schizophrenia.

Once thought of as mere packing peanuts whose job it was to keep neurons from jiggling when we jog, astrocytes are now understood to provide critical hands - on support and guidance to neurons, enhancing their survival and shaping the shared connections between them that define the brain's labyrinthine circuitry.

The three stages of CD8 + T cell development are well known, but the current study identifies a detailed map of the regulatory circuitry, such as interactions between enhancers and promoters — genetic regulatory regions that function together in driving genes to transcribe proteins to carry out biological processes.

HP originally envisioned the technology as a way to create computer displays in car or train windows, but Xtreme Energetics wants by 2010 to begin including this circuitry in its solar panels to improve their ability gather sunlight — another take on the thin - film model.

So the next time a friend raves about the movie he chose and is less enthusiastic about the just - as - good one that you chose, you might be able to chalk it up to his basic learning circuitry and a genetic difference that affects it.

«Microchip circuitry may be as invisible as the network of nerves on a dragonfly's wing,» Grossman writes.

Other groups have used multiple color LEDs and complex control circuitry to make lights that turn redder as the power is turned down.