Sentences with phrase «body and brain parts»

Not exact matches

Interleukin - 1 is important for developing the killer T cell response against the virus, but it also affects the part of the brain in the hypothalamus that regulates body temperature, resulting in fever and headaches.

Maurice Op de Beek, CTO of Kiiroo, says this makes for a very realistic experience as the user's brain starts assimilating the body parts in the movie when feeling and vision are in sync.

notice that if the soul was not part of the flesh, and emotions and feeling were a part of it and not the body, they would not be affected by drugs or brain injury, but we know that they are.

Finally, the brain is coordinated so that a peculiar richness of inheritance is enjoyed now by this and now by that part; and thus there is produced the presiding personality at that moment in the body....

Certainly, since these faculties of the soul are dependent upon the health of the physical brain, and the brain is dying as a result of being part of the physical body, our imagination, memory, reason, and emotions are not used to their full capabilities.

We have learned how physical damage to the brain impairs the functioning of various parts of the body to which the nervous system connects it, and severe brain damage of a congenital nature can prevent the development of anything like a genuinely human personality altogether.

Did you ever think when you are typing words, gathering your thoughts, deciding / choosing what to say, and using the best intellect you can find in your brain; that you are conscious in these thoughts / decisions, and that your eyes / hands / brain synapses, are all part of the lense (of the human body) that you are able to see and control to the limitations inherent in its essence?

We shouldn't be blindly defending our faiths and religions and we should be reasonable as God created us with this amazing part of our body: the brain to reason and articulate!

It is said for example that thoughts do not occur at a place in the body at all, not even in the brain; more importantly it is pointed out that the spatial properties of images do not coincide with spatial properties of any part of the brain and that therefore the images must be in some sort of mental space.

The entities directly below the level of a person, the immediate constituents of a person, are the organs such as the brain and heart, and other large scale body parts, such as the arms and hands.

I guarantee that, if you wait long enough, endorphins will come to your brain from where they were secreted by another part of your body, and you will feel good.

There are not two separate brains, but one brain form by multiple parts, just as you do not have two separate bodies, but yet a right hand and a left one.

Inexorable facts connect our consciousness with this body that we know; and that not merely as a whole, but the parts of it are connected severally with parts of our - brain - action.

«To hear these senior Planned Parenthood doctors and executives coldly pricing baby body parts — liver, heart, lungs, kidneys, brains, and limbs — with such casual disregard for the unborn children killed to obtain those parts is reprehensible,» said Carol Tobias, National Right to Life president.

It seems to make empiric sense that if one continues to use an injured body part, in this case the brain, this can delay healing and recovery.

Part of the evidence supporting this belief comes from neuroscience and pediatrics, where recent research shows that harsh or unstable environments can create biological changes in the growing brains and bodies of infants and children.

Injury to the head takes on unique importance when one understands that the brain is neither capable of regeneration nor, unlike many other body parts and organs, of transplantation.

«The brain is part of the body, you want it to be functioning so you can think up solutions and keep perspective,» Moran says.

The cries are part of a stone - age «operating system» that are designed to draw the caregiver close for protection and survival and to help manage the body, brain, and feelings at the time of greatest helplessness.

We still haven't figured out that basically the brain is part of the body and that if the brain has a vulnerability that is expressed in behavior, emotion and cognition.

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This is a part of my body that's always been reserved for sexual activity, and I sort of assumed my brain would make whatever necessary adjustments it had to do to make [breastfeeding] not a completely creepy experience for me.

Together, these vitamins will help your child's eyes, brain, skin, muscles and every other part of his or her body to develop properly over time.

The trauma response is an important part of our lives and it is our brain's and body's way of protecting us at the time of perceived danger.

The bottom of the foot is one of the most sensitive parts of the body, and it has 100,000 - 200,000 nerve endings just ready to register the feeling of stepping on a 2 × 4 plastic rectangle and let your brain know that it really, really hurts.

Nonetheless, the nervous system still responds by shutting off the thinking and planning part of the brain — the prefrontal cortex — in order to send blood to the body so we can fight or run away.

Other vital parts of the body such as the eyes, nervous system and even the brain will rely on fatty acids (the long chain ones) to develop properly.

Placing a shunt or tube in the ventricles — The placement of a shunt in the brain allows our team to drain the spinal fluid that has built up in the ventricles and direct it to other parts of the body, alleviating the enlarged ventricles that have caused the condition.

Sleep is a vital part of your kid's psychological and physical wellbeing since it enables their brain and body to rest and recuperate.

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital performed preseason brain scans of 65 varsity athletes — 23 from collision sports (with routine, purposeful body - to - body contact), 22 from contact sports (where contact is allowed, but is not an integral part of the game) and 20 from non-contact sports.

Our sleep - wake cycle, or circadian rhythm, is the result of a complex balance between states of alertness and sleepiness regulated by a part of the brain called Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SNC); in puberty, shifts in our body clocks push optimal sleep later into the evening, making it extremely difficult for most teenagers to fall asleep before 11.00 pm.

«Every day, most of us take for granted that when we will to move, we can move any part of our body with precision and control in multiple directions and those with traumatic spinal cord injury or any other form of paralysis can not,» said Benjamin Walter, associate professor of Neurology at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Clinical PI of the Cleveland BrainGate2 trial and medical director of the Deep Brain Stimulation Program at UH Cleveland Medical Center.

A study by researchers from McGill University in Canada involving neuroimaging, which creates pictures of the brain's structure and neural activity, showed that smelling the body odor of someone closely related activates the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain responsible for recognizing family.

We found that the inflammation unfortunately gets hijacked by tumor cells that are able to grow faster and penetrate deeper because the blood vessels in the brain are more permeable than in any other part of the body.

While the Johns Hopkins team studies the likely effects of radiation on the brain during a deep space mission, other NASA - funded research groups are looking at the potential effects of radiation on other parts of the body and on whether it increases cancer risks.

A-beta is made by cells in the brain, but also by blood platelets, skin cells, muscles and other parts of the body.

Penfield, one of the giants of modern neuroscience, discovered that stimulating the brain's right temporal lobe — located just above the ear — with a mild electric current produced out - of - body experiences, heavenly music, vivid hallucinations, and the kind of panoramic memories associated with the life review part of the near - death experience.

Researchers envision the e-dura being used in people with spinal cord injuries, as a brain implant and even to correct nerve damage in other parts of the body.

Puberty begins when a part of the brain called the hypothalamus begins pumping out gonadotropin - releasing hormone (GNRH) which in turn prompts the gonads to develop and the body to change.

«Once the body dies, some part of our consciousness leaves us and travels to a new plane,» the scientist explains, evidenced by his machine that measures, as another character puts it, «brain wavelengths on a subatomic level leaving the body after death.»

However, occasionally germ cells can get trapped in the wrong part of the body during development and may later turn into brain tumours, for example.

T: It's very difficult, but you can insert electrodes into a part of the central brain called the mushroom body, and you find EEG - like activity, which changes a bit when the fly goes from waking to sleeping.

Light intensity is detected by special cells in the retina and this information is relayed to the internal body clock, located deep in a part of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

Researchers hypothesize that too much cortisol can have toxic effects on parts of the brain that are important for cognitive functioning, and too little might hinder the body's ability to recruit the biological resources necessary for optimal cognitive functioning.»

«If part of this is related to obesity, moderate exercise and reducing body weight can reduce chronic inflammation in the brain,» he said.

For instance, the morphological mosaic evidence in the skeletons shows that different parts of the body were changing at different times — the legs changed before the arms, and the pelvis changed before the brain.

Neurocutaneous disorders are caused by abnormal development of cells in the embryonic stage, leading to tumors in various parts of the body, including the skin, organs, bones, brain and spinal cord.

This promises to make proton therapy an option for thousands more cancer patients by reducing the risks of healthy tissue being damaged during treatment, particularly in vulnerable parts of the body such as the brain, eye and spinal cord.

One of the classic images used in introductory biology and psychology courses is the motor homunculus: a deformed map of the body drawn on the primary motor cortex, showing which brain areas control different body parts.

Some parts of the body, such as the brain, kidneys and liver, can not be investigated with the stethoscope.