Sentences with phrase «as lobed»

An individual breast is made up of between 15 and 20 sections, known as lobes.

Each section of the brain is known as a lobe.

I have also seen a lot of clients who have their ears stretched / gauged complain about headaches, as the lobe area of the ear correlates to the head.

Not exact matches

But as Lucara has continued to process kimberlite, the igneous rock that sometimes contains diamonds, the company has been able to show a random distribution of very large stones in the mine's south lobe.

As we age, that part of our frontal lobe fires less surely, impeded by another part of the brain responsible for what scientists call the «default mode,» which we use to daydream.

It described the forelock (frontal lobe) of the brain of someone who used to curse the prophet Mohammed (Peace and Blessings be upon him) as being a lying and sinful.

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

As Dr. Robert Cantu explains in his 2012 book, Concussions and Our Kids, [15] it «takes more than one type of test to compile a comprehensive baseline,» because neurocognitive tests measure the thinking and reasoning parts of the brain (medial temporal lobe and front lobe), but concussions «also may cause trauma to the calcarine cortex, which is in the back of the brain and controls vision, and the cerebellum, at the top of the neck, where balance and coordination are measured.

Unusual activity in the frontal lobe, observed in former National Football League (NFL) players as they carried out a cognitive test, matched records for heavy blows they had received to the head while on the field.

A semifunctional frontal lobe also means that toddlers have practically no sense of time and patience and therefore «experience wanting as needing,» Lieberman says — i.e., when they want a chicken nugget, they really, really need it NOW!

Primitive reflexes are primarily tested with suspected brain injury or some dementias such as Parkinson's disease for the purpose of assessing frontal lobe functioning.

These reflexes are absent due to the development of the frontal lobes as a child transitions normally into child development.

Enamel — an almost pure layer of a mineral called hydroxyapatite — coats the teeth of almost all tetrapods (four - limbed creatures) and lobe - finned fish such as coelacanths.

It turns out that while they were praying, participants had less blood flow to their prefrontal cortex and frontal lobe, the areas of the brain where complex behaviors such as planning and expression of personality take place.

Focus on the Good While high school sweethearts typically meet, fall in love and dissolve before their brains are fully developed — somewhere in their mid - to late 20s — I met Ben just as my brain's frontal lobes were reaching maturity.

As for cortical thinning, Dr. Zhao said that other research provides convincing evidence to support the theory that reduced cortical layer thickness in some brain regions may result in the decreased thickness of the frontal lobe, a large part of the brain that is involved in variety of functions, including emotion.

Butterworth hopes to monitor the brains of students such as Christopher as they practice Number Sense, to see if their parietal lobes are indeed changing.

For the past eight years, he and his colleagues have been studying epilepsy patients who have had electrodes implanted in a region of their brains called the medial temporal lobe, as part of a study to identify the source of their seizures.

Those Who Can't Remember: To treat his epilepsy, Henry Molaison, known for decades as «H.M.» to protect his identity, had parts of his temporal lobe, including the hippocampus, surgically removed from both sides of his brain in 1953.

For instance, zapping the temporal lobe using deep - brain stimulation can improve spatial memory, and using a powerful magnet to alter activity in the right temporoparietal junction can make our moral compass go haywire, causing behaviors we think of as immoral to become permissible.

As it turned out, he didn't need the slices, because the CT scans revealed two football - shaped lobes of fat contained within two sets of «lips» — tiny structures located in the nasal passage just below the blowhole.

«Because you've associated things over time, you're going to associate a certain triggering point in the frontal lobe or the basal forebrain and tell certain regions of the brain stem to adopt a state of activity as if it were receiving signals from the body that were consonant with emotion x.

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emerge from the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent the speed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - years into intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.

As a number of neuroimaging studies show, the early onset of permanent blindness alters the response of the neurons of the visual cortex and causes a cortical compensatory re-organization in the occipital lobe.

Britton hypothesized that people who have undergone a near - death experience might show the same altered brain firing patterns as people with temporal lobe epilepsy.

The disorder falls into two broad categories: generalized epilepsy, in which seizures begin simultaneously in all parts of the brain, and focal epilepsy, in which seizures begin in a particular region of the brain, such as the temporal lobe.

French scientists in 2007 reported their study of a group of patients who had suffered damage to a region known as the left temporal lobe.

As the emotional intensity rises it is accompanied by a decline in frontal lobe cognitive functioning.

Both tasks caused the brain to work harder in the prefrontal, parietal and temporal lobes of the cortex, the outer layer of the brain that deals with higher functions such as perception and language.

Until the last few decades, the frontal lobes of the brain were shrouded in mystery and erroneously thought of as nonessential for normal function — hence the frequent use of lobotomies in the early 20th century to treat psychiatric disorders.

She strongly suspects these later patches may communicate with the medial temporal lobe, a region where, in 2005, Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology discovered neurons that responded exclusively to specific individuals, such as actor Halle Berry.

Schmitz and Spreng show that, as Alzheimer's progresses, degeneration of the basal forebrain predicts subsequent degeneration in temporal lobe areas of the brain involved in memory.

Indeed, functional brain imaging has identified a set of adjacent regions, referred to as the fusiform face area (FFA), that are situated on the left and the right sides of the brain, at the bottom of the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex.

As such, in a superfluid droplet, the rotation is evenly distributed in vortices, which allows the droplet to withstand stunningly large rotation speeds without forming lobes or disintegrating.

In the fMRI research, the reaction to fear - inducing stimuli shows up in the amygdala, an almond - size mass beneath the temporal lobe also known as the brain's fear center.

They showed significantly higher measurements of specific electrophysiological parameters, known as beta and theta oscillations, in brain regions called the right temporal lobe and bilateral occipital cortex.

Beginning in the late 1990s, neuroimaging studies showed that a specific area of the parietal lobe — the IPS — is important for very basic numerical magnitude processing, such as deciding which of two numbers is larger.

As the jets blast through the galaxy, each generates its own lobe or hot - spot of radiation as it interacts with the gas in the galaxAs the jets blast through the galaxy, each generates its own lobe or hot - spot of radiation as it interacts with the gas in the galaxas it interacts with the gas in the galaxy.

They are found on the lobes of the comet as well as on the neck that connects them.

Studies of brain - damaged patients have shown that the same brain area responsible for processing such words — a region in the left frontal lobe known as Broca's area — is also involved in social tasks, such as recognizing emotional expressions.

Lobe - shaped apses open onto this corridor at either side and ahead, as in a cloverleaf.

Part of the frontal lobe ultimately calculates the willingness to pay in an area known as the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, (vmPFC), which refers to the area's location.

The brain centers in question are paired, lobed structures first discovered in insects and known as mushroom bodies.

COVER View of a cliff and gravel field on the small lobe of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko from a distance of 8 kilometers to the surface, as seen by Rosetta / OSIRIS.

In addition, regions within the temporal and parietal cortex, which support memory and attention, as well as brain structures within the occipital lobe, which process visual and spatial information, were engaged.

Retrospective studies of people with severe temporal lobe epilepsy reveal that many of them initially have an episode of prolonged seizures, known as status epilepticus.

As one Cluster satellite observed uncharacteristically energetic plasma in the lobe, IMAGE saw the «arc» of the theta aurora cross the magnetic footprint of Cluster.

Damage to the areas known as V6 and V6A in the parietal lobe is associated with impaired three - dimensional visual perception.

Saying that damaging the parietal lobe could cause spatial neglect is about as meaningful as saying that bombing New York City could wreck the financial market.