Sentences with phrase «brain adapts»

These results suggest that greater bilaterality in the prefrontal cortex might be the result of the aging brain adapting to the damage endured over the lifespan, in an effort to maintain normal function.

In fact, what the study in question suggests is that all fathers can be capable, sensitive parents — and that their brains adapt to accommodate whatever level of responsibility they take for looking after their children.

This week a story started doing the rounds, with news reports like this one heralding a new scientific discovery: that gay dads» brains adapt to enable them to play the role of mother and father.

It's that when fathers do more hands - on caregiving (and especially when mothers are not around), their brains adapt accordingly.

Your brain adapts to this schedule so it's preparing to feed your baby even before you are.

However many questions about how the brain adapts remain unanswered.

I'm keen to find out the precise sequence of changes to OLs and myelin during learning and whether these changes are needed more in some parts of the brain than others, which might shed light on some of the mysteries still surrounding how the brain adapts and learns throughout life.»

The finding could help researchers understand more about the relationship between autistic traits and how the brain adapts to problem solving in the general population.

«Our eyes and brain adapt and adjust to changing visual input, which is essential to our ability to see,» Shew said.

For example, now that we've used brain signals to control an artificial arm, we can progress to experiments in which we change the properties of the arm or provide visual or tactile feedback to the animal, and explore how the brain adapts to it.»

The finding of this study could help researchers understand more about the relationship between autistic traits and how the brain adapts to problem solving in the general population.

The jumping genes generate neuronal diversity, which might help the brain adapt, Gage speculates.

At high triglyceride contents, the brain adapts to obtain its reward, similar to the mechanisms observed when people consume drugs.

Early studies suggest that the grid system is fully established at around three or four weeks after birth, which implies that babies — humans as well as rats — are born with a very primitive sense of where they are in space, and that this sense develops as their brains adapt to the world.

«Through this study, we unravelled how precisely the brain adapts to the demands of our surrounding environment,» says Sammler.

Skinny neurons require less energy, so evolution shrank them, and brains adapted to operate barely above the noise threshold.

Although researchers still know little about how to help the brain adapt to overcome the declines associated with aging, they do know that exercise — physical and mental — can provide some benefit.

Is our brain adapted to prefer a specific kind of music?»

When Erik first used the BrainPort, the images in his brain appeared as unidentifiable shapes and lines, but over time, through practice, his brain adapted, eventually translating the tactile sensations into recognizable patterns and symbols.

We will study how the brain adapts, or «tunes,» its dynamics to a changing environment.

By analyzing and comparing these two organisms, we can make general theories about how the brain adapts its activity to modify actions.

What we're working on in my lab is neuronal plasticity — how the brain adapts to changes in the environment.

For example, if an animal loses a limb or an eye, the brain adapts to that and partially compensates for the missing information.

Tobias Bonhoeffer, director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany, is a leading researcher on how the brain adapts to its environment.

Through the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering's (CSNE's) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, students like Ben and Alisha are working in research labs at the University of Washington (UW) campus that explore how the brain adapts and processes information through implantable devices.

«From the scientific perspective, [a] BCI provides an opportunity to challenge the brain with a completely novel task while observing how the brain adapts, and what (if any) existing learning scaffolds it harnesses to address the challenge,» Wander said.

When the brain adapts to signaling one muscle group preferentially, the surrounding muscle groups can lose the ability to activate when they are supposed to.

Your brain adapts, finding a new equilibrium that makes allowances for sugar.

Your brain adapts,» she writes.

You get some fast, short - term strength gains because of how your brain adapts to the change in time parameter by increasing signals to your muscles (great trick for convincing people that Nautilus machines work better than conventional weights), but that's all it is: a trick.

Once your brain adapts to the lack of stimulation and you relax into the float, you'll begin to reap major benefits.

When you eat low carb, your brain adapts to deriving more energy from fat so typically you will also burn more fat.

We don't have to get too crazy here, but going out for a 5 - 6 hour hike is going to help your body and brain adapt to the abuse it takes on the mountain over time, and trains you to recover better from day - to - day so that you don't wake up in your tent too sore to move on the second day.

Dr. Hall's laboratory investigates how metabolism and the brain adapt in response to a variety of interventions to diet and physical actvity.

It's easy to fall into the mindset that you'll have time to be happy and enjoy yourself after you accomplish x, y, and z. However, human nature (and plenty of academic research) suggests that after each major achievement, our brain adapts and then sets its sights on a new goal.

The brain adapts and responds to the environments and conditions in which a person lives.

These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it, and we've seen the positive effect remains even two years after the training was over.»

As players work with the intellectual and motor skills needed to win a game, their brains adapt to the pressure by learning, as well as by physically growing, according to many studies.

When a sexual behavior is engaged in compulsively over time, the brain adapts to the flood of neurotransmitters and craves more intense or more frequent stimuli to feel the initial rush.

Schools are responding to an enormous body of research about how children's brains adapt to complex trauma, defined as multiple traumas including physical or sexual abuse, abandonment, and domestic and neighborhood violence.

Your brain adapts to the routine so you focus on the execution.