Sentences with phrase «biology of the brain»

In other words, she says, personality constructs emerging from the basic biology of the brain can be yet another marker that the individual is at risk for TILT, and easier to sensitize to the disease.

However, neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, have been considered out of reach, because the underlying biology of the brain is so complicated.

Central to the initiative is the creation of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, where research investigations will span a continuum, from deciphering the basic biology of the brain to understanding sensation, perception, cognition, and human behavior, with the goal of making transformational advances that will inform new scientific tools and medical treatments.

According to Dr. Bruce Perry, the biology of the brain shows that these connections also protect during duress, and help heal after duress.

The head of Gender Medicine Program in Karolinska has just awarded us with a budget to organize a symposium on the «science of gender» and the biology of brain development from the sexual perspective.

But the fact is that the biology of the brain just doesn't work like the clocks we're familiar with.

His Behavioral Genetics Laboratory, founded in 1998, aims to better understand how the environment affects behavior and the biology of the brain.

On the other side of it, understanding how the brain functions as a computing device will help inform our engineering of computers that are inspired by the biology of brain - circuit architecture.

What Caltech has to offer to a greater extent than most other institutions is the marriage between the biology of the brain and the mathematics of the brain.

Cori Bargmann is a neuroscientist at The Rockefeller University in New York who studies the biology of the brain, asking how genes, the environment, and experience interact to give rise to flexible behaviors.

Dr. Kim's Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, founded in 1998, studies the biology of brain cells that rely on the brain chemical dopamine to communicate.

Grants are to be used for innovative and transformative research into the detailed cell biology of the brain.

Although significant advances have been made in understanding the biology of brain cancers — as well as in tumor diagnosis, treatments, and quality of life of patients with the disease — the mortality rate for brain cancer has remained steady for more than 30 years.

Q: What are the key things you've learned from studying the biology of the brain?

Brain Matters begins with a «mini-textbook» on brain anatomy and physiology, bringing the biology of the brain into context with teaching and learning.

But in this brilliant, groundbreaking new book, researchers Andrew Newberg and Eugene d'Aquili offer an explanation that is at once profoundly simple and scientifically precise: the religious impulse is rooted in the biology of the brain.

Newberg and D'Aquili show that the religious impulse is rooted in the biology of the brain — but is religion merely a product of biology or has the human brain been mysteriously endowed with the unique capacity to reach and know God?

Early chapters, illustrated with stories such as the amazing life of H.M. (see «Beyond the Book») a man whose hippocampus was surgically removed in a failed attempt to relieve his epilepsy, are concerned with the biology of the brain.

Her lifelong fascination with the biology of the brain and its relationship to behavior led her to pursue her education in neuroscience, and her research has been published in several peer - reviewed scientific journals.

We need to learn from classical rhetoric, psychology, the social sciences, biology of the brain — every discipline that tells us how people think and make decisions, and how we can influence their thinking and decision - making.

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