Sentences with phrase «between eyes and brain»

Rather, simplicity refers to a design which facilitates seamless communication between the eyes and the brain, allowing us to process information quickly and effectively.

NERVE PROTECTORS The glowing cells in this micrograph of a mouse's optic nerve help shield electrical signals passing between eyes and brain.

Neuroscientists have studied the shuttling of neurons between the eyes and brain of fetal cats to shed light on visual development in mammals.

When someone suffers a head trauma, sometimes there is damage to the optic nerve that is responsible for passing information between the eyes and the brain.

The neural code of vision is a secret language between the eyes and the brain.

This discovery suggests a new connection between the eye and the brain.

She demonstrated that the formation of appropriate connections between the eye and the brain of mammals depends on neuronal activity before birth.

That connection may benefit those who have lost vision because of damage in the structures between the eye and the brain — the loss of an eye through trauma, for instance, or damage to the optic nerve.

The anterograde (forward) tracing results of retinal projections in the garden warbler demonstrated virtually identical connections between the eye and the brain as known from other lateral - eyed bird species [e.g. 15]--[18]: fibers either projected onto the contralateral optic tectum (part of the tectofugal system), to the nucleus of the basal optic root (part of the accessory pathway)(data not shown) or curved into the thalamus innervating the dorsal geniculate complex (Gld, for details, see Fig. 1C, 2A, D).

The protagonist, Simon, is a self - declared specialist in «the relationship between the eye and the brain», so the film starts on interesting premises about the complex structure of voyeurism.

When we are doing an ophthalmic exam, we check the reflexes to identify any abnormalities in sensation, ability to blink, the coordination between the eye and the brain, etc..

All the time she has been looking for connections - between the viewer and the painting, between eye and brain, the painter and the world.

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Cruising the social media world for a few minutes between assignments gives employees» brains a chance to relax, making them less stressed and letting them come back to work with fresh eyes.

Nor would the observer expect to see the occasions between hillside and the eye, in the nervous system, or percipient occasion a in the brain as green.

Our courses look at how baby massage helps support all of the early responsive care that babies need such as eye contact, using babyease and encouraging the «serve and return» interaction between parents and babies that is crucial for helping babies» brains to develop and to support physical and emotional wellbeing.

They pulled her scalp and most of her face down, and scraped dermoid tissue from the bone between her beautiful eyes, reaching into the suture line to ensure my baby does not have to deal with the invasion of foreign tissue into her brain later in her life.

EYE tests could one day be used for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease, thanks to the discovery of a link between the amount of a characteristic protein in the brain and levels of the same protein in the eEYE tests could one day be used for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease, thanks to the discovery of a link between the amount of a characteristic protein in the brain and levels of the same protein in the eyeeye.

In the study, researchers used a mathematical algorithm to analyze the brain scans and eye movements of 16 young adults between the ages of 20 to 28.

This is the first time a direct connection has been established between a person's eye movements and patterns of brain activity, which follows up on previous studies linking what we see to how we remember.

Stevens and her colleagues manipulated mice to make one eye more active than the other, creating a disparity in activity between the two neural circuits linking the eyes to the brain.

Functional vision is used to perform everyday tasks such as safely crossing the road or finding a book on a bookshelf, but when the visual pathways between the brain and the eyes become damaged, the messages aren't correctly relayed and the visual field becomes reduced.

For instance, what if a patient has visual hallucinations because poor connectivity between the prefrontal cortex and the portion of the brain that governs sight causes the hallucinations to override what the eyes actually see?

If only your left pupil had constricted, your doctor would know that the left retina, optic nerve, and brain stem were intact but that there was a problem somewhere between your midbrain and brain stem and right eye.

Scientists take advantage of this discrepancy between perception and reality to gain insights into how our eyes and brains gather and interpret (or misinterpret) visual information.

Even these trained eyes don't recognize a difference between male and female brain rhythms.

A healthy optic nerve has axons transmitting information from the eye to the brain along the nerve after considerable information processing and synaptic transmission between various cell types within the retina.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging — a technique that monitors brain activity in real time — the Johns Hopkins group found reversing a decision requires ultrafast communication between two specific zones within the prefrontal cortex and another nearby structure called the frontal eye field, an area involved in controlling eye movements and visual awareness.

But there is also a critical feedback loop between these two systems — processed in our brain stem — and our eyes.

Postdoctoral fellow Dominik Heyers and his colleagues peered into the brains of garden warblers, which travel seasonally between northern Europe and southern Africa, and uncovered a link between neurons in the eye and a region of the brain thought to be involved in migration.

The brain does this by forming an angle with two imaginary lines: One stretches between the eye and the object, and the second stretches between the eye and the constant spot.

The Mind's Eye By Oliver Sacks (Alfred A. Knopf) Sacks dips into his case files again, this time to find the peculiarities in the brain that can hijack its functions somewhere between the eye and the mind.

A new study demonstrates that the brain can judge distance based on how far below the horizon an object appears, using the angle between eye level and the object to determine how far off it is.

Some have suggested the bone provided filler between the brain and eyes or reduced strain on the face during eating.

One day, I was doing visual recording and getting more data on the integration between the eyes in spiders and how the information is being transmitted in the brain.

These electrodes were able to provide the rare data needed to prove the link between eye movements, dream imagery, and brain activity.

Neurons are a type of cell, and the majority of those cells live in the semi-solid, three - pound lump of tissue between your ears and behind your eyes - your brain.

Bach - y - Rita had spent much of the 1960s studying the physiology of eye movement at the Smith - Kettlewell Institute of Visual Sciences in San Francisco, and he later became known for helping promote the idea of neuroplasticity — the now widely accepted theory that the brain maintains the ability to adapt, rewire itself and form new connections between neurons throughout a person's life span.

These findings suggest that our vision and our hearing share limited resources in the brain, which is essentially forced to choose between processing info from our eyes or our ears.

A. Folate / folic acid (B9)- Mouth sores and pale skin B. Inositol - Poor brain function, hair loss, high LDL, and eczema C. Vitamin A-Dry eyes, dry skin, bright lights at night bothersome, trouble distinguishing between blues and purples D. Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)- Loss of appetite, pain in limbs swollen feet or legs E. Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)- Anemia, nerve damage, sluggish metabolism, sore throat F. Vitamin C - Bruising, bleeding gums, fatigue, loss of appetite G. Vitamin D - Thin or brittle bones, joint pain, fatigue, depression, getting sick often, impaired wound healing H. Vitamin E-Muscle weakness, Abnormal eye movements, vision problems I. Vitamin K2 - Easy bruising, excessive bleeding from wounds, blood in urine or stool

Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.

The larger ideological conflict between the new king T'Challa (Boseman) and the American revolutionary Killmonger (Jordan) has been seen before in the pages of history books and comics, but it's never been given this type of eye - popping, brain - scrambling, heart - pounding blockbuster treatment.

The researchers found that younger readers between the ages of 21 and 34 showed similar eye movements and EEG measures of brain activity across the three reading devices.

Once Ray was adopted, his new dad took him to Angell Memorial Hospital in Boston where they found out that, while Ray's eyes function fine, there's a disconnect between them and his brain which prevents him from seeing.

The inherited conditions of aortic stenosis (a narrowing above the aortic heart valve or the aortic valve itself), atopy / allergic dermatitis (skin allergies), gastric dilatation volvulus (bloat / stomach dilation), early onset cataracts (a clouding of the lens inside the eye), dilated cardiomyopathy (enlargement of the chambers of the heart and thinning of the muscle wall), elbow dysplasia (abnormal growth of tissues that leads to malformation and degeneration of the joint), epilepsy (brain seizures), hypothyroidism (underactive production of thyroid hormones), intervertebral disk disease (problems with the disks between the vertebrae of the spine leading to neurological problems), and hepatic portosystemic shunt (an abnormal blood circulation where blood is diverted around the liver rather than into it) are more prevalent in purebred dogs than in mixed - breed.

Running interference between the physical world and the brain, hands and eyes are central subjects, the primary receivers of the data overload particular to our time.»

Women, girls, toxic stress, the female brain and immune system, autoimmune disease and chronic physical and mental illness — if you care about any of these, keep an eye out for my upcoming three - part blog series in which I delve into the scientific links between them all.