Sentences with phrase «brain breaks for»

Spurts of teaching should be cushioned with review and brain breaks for optimum retention, according to the latest neuroscientific research.

Training for staff in the West Orange, New Jersey school district was centered around how to integrate brain breaks for better focus and concentration... healthy eating messages sprinkled throughout the school hallways, cafeteria, and classrooms... and nutrition education woven into PE and core curriculum K - 12!

Not exact matches

When it's time for your five - minute break, it's important to give your brain a well - deserved time out.

«Breaks are better for our brains than overtime.

Studies have found that working for one to two hours, then taking a 20 - to 30 - minute break, keeps your brain fresh and enables you to accomplish more in less time.

And your brain will thank you for the break.

For example, try breaking up your work hours into multiple shifts to help keep your brain refreshed during the time you're actually working.

It's pretty clear, he argues that if you can't fairly rapidly achieve mass consumer pricing, your EON (Economy of Now) business on its best days will be a niche nicety for the folks with more money than time or brains and never break out of that box.

So when the province of Ontario was looking for someone to head an interdisciplinary research centre aimed at breaking down barriers in brain science, Stuss was a natural pick.

Recent studies show only one - in - five employees take lunch breaks, despite clear cognitive benefits for our fatigued brains.

The science is incontrovertible: exercise is just as good for your brain as it is for the rest of your body, and just like your heart and your lungs, your brain will work better if you regularly break a sweat.

Oatmeal is a quick, easy breakfast with a happy side benefit — the complex carbohydrates in oats break down very slowly, keeping your brain well fueled for many hours.

When your brain shrieks for a break, get back into thoughtless receptive mode, and just feel and absorb.

It nearly broke my brain at times but it left so much room for delight and imagination with my old nemesis, physics.

What fascinates me is in the article they quote him as saying: «I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail,» «There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.»

I was doing some kitchen cabinet rearranging (for higher efficiency of course... my Type A brain is stupid sometimes) during my winter break from school a couple weeks back, and I totally came across my spiralizer.

My brain is a couple months ahead and I'm so ready for summer, so I'm going to break out a couple summer vegetable recipes now instead of waiting.

They would be perfect brain food for between class breaks.

This ended up being completely worth it since it broke commentator / perpetually terrified risk - phobe Rod Gilmore's brain for the remainder of the game.

«The injuries started popping up when the C405 aluminum alloy came out as the bat standard in 1996 — brain damage, broken jaws, teeth knocked out,» says Bill Thurston, rules editor of the NCAA baseball rules committee for the last 15 years.

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Food fuels athletes» brains and muscles, allowing for them to start and finish a game strong and make quick decisions that can make or break the game.

But maybe despite our best judgment we fall for someone whose brain scan proves he's prone to breaking promises anyway; should we forget about him and try to find someone else?

That is too much for my brain to even break down to explian

Rather than pushing, if you can talk to your child and find out the parts that are hard or scary for your child, then you can brain storm how to break down the challenge to smaller steps, or clear up a misperception of the consequences of that step, and in so doing, turn what was frightening into an opportunity for mastery and success.

The rectrospectoscope suggests that a pre-labor c / s would have resulted in an easier recovery for me (bad pain for two weeks or so, plus about a year when I couldn't sit properly thanks to a bruised or broken tailbone) and (more importantly) a few more functioning brain cells for my son.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

It is not just a break for you, it is a time for your baby's body and brain to slow down, regroup and refuel.

Daytime sleep is, of course, good for infants and all — it helps their brains develop, among other things — but it's really essential for parents, as it gives us those (albeit way too short) refueling breaks we need so we can tackle the rest of the day's stinky diapers, screechy tantrums, and whiny demands.

This breaks down to $ 300 million for the Cancer Moonshot; $ 86 million for the BRAIN Initiative; $ 100 million for the Precision Medicine Initiative's «All of Us» program; and $ 10 million for Regenerative Medicine.

Among those already using the program with his students is Gerald Smith, who teaches conceptual physics and advanced chemistry at Bishop McNamara High School in Washington and plans to attend the march.Students who completed the print - out activity sheet illustrated how headphones work through physics — among the examples Smith intends to post to Twitter after spring break, the week after the March for Science «The kids definitely like to probe their brains a lot in terms of seeing science in real life, not just something far - reaching for geniuses to dobut as something that we exist in every day,» said Smith.

Although the effects evaporated after a day or two, the study shows for the first time that these parts of the autistic brain «are not irretrievably broken,» Pelphrey says.

«For people with epilepsy, there are a number of areas of the brain that are really broken — that's the seizure - generating network,» Bassett said.

To understand speech, as for other cognitive or sensory processes, the brain breaks down the information it receives to integrate it and give it a coherent meaning.

Right now, the only widely available treatment for preventing brain damage from stroke is tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), which breaks up blood clots; it must be given within a few hours to be effective, and though it limits initial damage, it doesn't help the brain restore lost synapses or form new ones.

But it also leads to other problems, Jasanoff notes: Society views broken brains as harder to fix than moral flaws, making life even more challenging for individuals already struggling with mental illness.

The dye, called Congo red, breaks apart hallmark protein clumps in the brain, adding to evidence that these globs are to blame for symptoms of the disease.

For most people, it is a stretch of the imagination to understand the world in four dimensions but a new study has discovered structures in the brain with up to eleven dimensions — ground - breaking work that is beginning to reveal the brain's deepest architectural secrets.

But for those with REM sleep behavior disorder, abnormal activity in the brain stem prompts the system to break down.

The authors conclude that valproate may be effective for treating negative symptoms in psychiatric patients with two copies of the «Val» variant of the COMT gene, which breaks down dopamine in the brain.

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A team led by psychologist Jordan Grafman and neurologist Paolo Nichelli found that the overall strategy the brain uses for chess can be broken down into simpler functions and mapped to specific areas.

According to Halassa, the new research sets the stage for ever more detailed studies on the complex behavior involved in how the mammalian brain pays attention to what's important, and especially how those neural circuits are broken in cases of attention - deficit diseases, such as ADHD, autism, and schizophrenia.

Humans carry a gene for a protein in cells called apolipoprotein E, which helps clear amyloid - beta from the brain by binding to it and breaking it down.

So when's the last time you took a break from analyzing your data to speculate on which Hollywood hunk should portray the handsome male postdoc, or which famous actress projects the right combination of brains and sex appeal for the postdoc working at the next bench?

For more information about Jeneva Cronin's, GRID Lab's and the CSNE's ground - breaking research in the area of sensory feedback, read «For the first time in humans, researchers use brain surface stimulation to provide «touch» feedback to direct movement.»

In neurons, though, such breaks can occur even under normal circumstances, for example, after increased brain activity, as shown by the team of Gladstone scientists in an earlier study.

But in fact, that unlikely combination has just helped an international team make a key discovery about how the brain's «garbage disposal» process works — and how little needs to go wrong in order for it to break down.

Professor Graybiel discovered that there are multiple such «matrisomes» for any one body part, in a form of repetition and overlap that others have likened to a «mosaic of broken mirrors», to form multiple loops connecting the outer layer of the brain — the neocortex — where cognition, perception, and motor control reside, as well as the brainstem, which coordinates movement.

Using a mouse model for this disease, which in humans involves the destruction of white matter in the brain, a research team led by Albee Messing, director of the UW — Madison Waisman Center, found that a protein behind the symptoms of the disease, called GFAP, is broken down more rapidly in the body than researchers previously found in cell culture studies.