Sentences with phrase «better than neurons»

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It's all well and good to have an opinion on what monetary policymakers ought to do (I've mentioned a few already, even though I'm dead sure that Poloz & Co. are much smarter than me); knowing what they are going to do is far more useful, and typically requires fewer neurons.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

«The best research combines and looks at multiple levels of detail,» rather than just focusing on the connections between neurons and fibres, says Susan Bookheimer of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Because carotid cells produce so much dopamine — up to 45 times more than the fetal neurons — and because they thrive in the relatively low oxygen concentrations found in the brain, he explains, they may do a better job at correcting Parkinson's symptoms than the fetal cells do — and they raise fewer ethical questions.

The generation of acts of volition may well be neurologically more complex than was thought, but for those neurons involved to fire without a cause is logically impossible.

The more relevant question is, If right and wrong are nothing more than the instinctive firing of neurons, then does good even exist?

April] asked, «If right and wrong are nothing more than the instinctive firing of neurons, why bother being good?»

The technology is advancing to the point in which we can have a much better understanding of how the brain works comprehensively, rather than just focusing on neurons because their electrical signals make them appear brighter when imaging the brain.»

Using a technology called VAST, which can automatically label individual neurons, glia, and blood vessels different colors, as well as smaller structures such as dendrites and mitochondria, the researchers analyzed the contents of three cylindrical chunks of brain tissue, each no bigger than grains of salt.

In a partnership melding neuroscience and electrical engineering, researchers from UNC - Chapel Hill and NC State University have developed a new technology that will allow neuroscientists to capture images of the brain almost 10 times larger than previously possible — helping them better understand the behavior of neurons in the brain.

But perhaps more intriguingly, the researchers showed that including excitatory neurons — neurons that stimulate, rather than inhibit, other neurons» firing — as well as inhibitory neurons among the auxiliary neurons can not improve the efficiency of the circuit.

'» If right and wrong are nothing more than the instinctive firing of neurons, why bother being good?

Burrows and Sutton suspect that the gears evolved because they can synchronise the leg movements better and faster than neurons can.

Pitkow and Angelaki think that to better understand the brain, it can be more useful to describe what these populations compute, rather than precisely how each individual neuron computes it.

Neurons with mutated huntingtin are no better than those that lack it completely.

The researchers have shown that a robotic arm guided by a cell - detecting computer algorithm can identify and record from neurons in the living mouse brain with better accuracy and speed than a human experimenter.

A similar argument would, however, conclude that bone is a better structural material than graphite composite, that neurons can transmit signals faster than wires, and that technology based on the wheel is impossible or useless.

B is better than AAV9 at delivering genes to human neurons and glia.

In a study involving dietary ketosis via a low carbohydrate diet (less than 10 percent of total calories), compared to subjects on a 50 percent carbohydrate diet, the low - carbohydrate subjects demonstrated better performance on memory tests, with higher scores being correlated to higher serum KB levels.14 A study using cultured mouse hippocampal cells showed that addition of the KB β - hydroxybutyrate (β - OHB) to cells exposed to Aβ resulted in no decrease in the numbers of dendrites or total neurons — two of the noted pathological changes in AD.

Although empathizing is an innate faculty of the brain's mirror - neuron system, the individual capacity for empathizing, and the intentional application of empathy, are best cultivated through unlocking, encouraging, and supporting its emergence, rather than merely expecting it to develop on its own.