Not exact matches
The
finding suggests that the
brains of gifted people may, in fact, be different — although which
came first, the rare ability or the unusual
brain structure, remains a chicken - or - egg inquiry.
According to David Randall, the author of Dreamland, even a short nap «primes our
brains to function at a higher level, letting us
come up with better ideas,
find solutions to puzzles more quickly, identify patterns faster and recall information more accurately.»
Since then, additional high - profile studies have
come out — including an article, published in the journal of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, which
found no evidence that
brain games improve everyday cognition — but the topic is still very much up for debate.
His religious difficulty
came from the kind of theology he
found around him, its habit of identifying words in a book (written by human hands and thought by human
brains) with the words of God, also from the habit of playing fast and loose with the dangerously ambiguous concepts of omnipotence and omniscience, and taking these more seriously than any definite affirmation of the freedom of creatures to make decisions that are their own and not God's.
I
find it amazing that so many
brain dead idiots who claim there is no God... or that he's ok with all facets of the human condition...
come to an article «The Christian Case for Gay Marriage»...
I haven't shut off my
brain, I have just
found a different path to belief, at least when it
comes to truth.
When I
came up with this idea, my baseball - writer pea -
brain kept chirping, «I hope there are surprises to be
found!»
In the midfield, (including RWB & LWB) we have a whole bunch of tweeners... none offer the full package, none make sense in our manager's current favourite formation, except for Sead on the left and Ox on the right, and all of them have never shown any consistency for more than a heartbeat... Sead, who I'm including in this category because of our present formation, looks like a positive addition, minus his occasional
brain farts, but I would rather see what he could do in a back 4 before making my mind up... Ox, who has never played better, which isn't saying much considering his largely underwhelming play in previous seasons, seems to have
found a home in this new formation; unfortunately, can we really expect this oft - injured player to handle the taxing duties that
come with said position over the long haul, not to mention, it looks like he has no intention of staying... Ramsey has relied on the empathy that stems from his gruesome injury years ago and the excitement that was generated a few years back when he finally seemed to put in altogether, but on the whole he has been a big disappointment (neither he nor the Ox have scored enough to warrant a regular spot)... Wiltshire should be put on a weekly contract then played until he suffers his first injury, if and when that occurs he should be shipped - out and no one should very be allowed to say his name on club grounds ever again... Elnehy & Coq are average players who couldn't make any of the top 7 teams currently in the EPL... both have showed some great energy on the pitch, but neither are top quality and no good team can afford to have that many average players on their bench playing the same position, especially with Coq's injury history / discipline concerns and Elheny's headless chicken tendencies... as for Xhaka, his tenure here so far has been incredibly underwhelming... we know he has some skills to provide the long ball but his defensive work is piss poor and he gives the ball away too cheaply and far too often... finally, the enigma himself, Ozil, so much skill with his left foot but his presence has been more frustrating than uplifting... in many respects his failure has been directly related to the failure of this club to provide him with the necessary players up front, minus Sanchez of course, and unless something drastic happens very soon his legacy will be largely a negative one (much like Wenger's)
But I suspect when the time
comes Wenger would still
find a way to cling on — perhaps through cloning or have his
brain implanted into an indestructible cyborg like Darth Vader — Darth Wenger, no wait Daft Wenger...
* Announcement of the rule
came just days before a study, presented to the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine meeting in San Francisco,
found that making sure that football helmets fit properly, and that those with air bladder linings are properly inflated, may be two of the simplest but most effective ways to minimize the risk of concussion and catastrophic
brain injury in the sport.
As a result, Dr. Meehan argues that «the term mild traumatic
brain injury should not be used interchangeably with concussion,» as suggested by the authors of a 2010 Canadian study, 2 which
found that how a
brain injury was labeled made a difference when it
came to treatment, and suggested that, to encourage full reporting of head injuries in sports and to allow adequate management and recovery time, MTBI be used in its place.
Scientific research from the Center for Integrative
Brain Research at Seattle Children's Hospital found that there is a link between tech rewiring a young child's brain, which comes with its own set of pros and
Brain Research at Seattle Children's Hospital
found that there is a link between tech rewiring a young child's
brain, which comes with its own set of pros and
brain, which
comes with its own set of pros and cons.
Yes, Omalu
found CTE in Webster's
brain while personally funded his quest, but the film's lack of placing Omalu on the shoulders of those who
came before him, leave one feeling that the film is telling less than the truth.
Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the
brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also
finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These
findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the
brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37
His resignation
comes hours after an independent investigation
found that while there was no evidence of a hostile work environment in the
Brain and Cognitive Sciences department, there was inappropriate behavior by Professor Florian Jaeger.
The
finding supports the «Bayesian
brain» theory, which sees the
brain as making predictions about the world which it updates when new information
comes in.
Scientists are starting to learn what is going on in the human
brain during these complex cognitive feats, and some of the
findings are
coming from unexpected sources.
Sometimes, neurologist Anne Louise Oaklander has
found, an itch
comes straight out of your
brain.
Raising further doubt, a team led by Douglas Galasko, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of California, San Diego, twice tried to
find BMAA in Chamorros and North Americans who died of
brain disease — and both times
came up empty - handed, though using a different method of chemical identification than the one employed by Cox and the Miami team.
Using electroencephalogram (EEG) imaging, Singh and his team
found that as the
brain is first processing touch, it just detects differences among the physical sensations
coming in.
Previous imaging studies have
found that in PTSD sufferers, parts of the
brain involved in memory, fear, and mood control are smaller compared with the
brains of people who
come through their trauma more - or-less unscathed.
Cover Story: The Second
Coming of Freud Page 54, by Kat McGowan At odds for decades, disparate fields of
brain study — objective neuroscience and subjective psychoanalysis — are
finding common ground.
And sitting at a table in the building's first - floor restaurant, the Café Synapse, is the neuroscientist who has
come closer than anyone ever thought possible to
finding the place where memories are written in the
brain.
In other words, the researchers have
found where our «sense of direction»
comes from in the
brain and worked out a way to measure it using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Sohee Park and her colleagues at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, wanted to
find out what was different about the
brains of people who are good at «divergent thinking» — creativity characterised by
coming up with novel ideas.
High - stakes lawsuits, including ones filed by former players against the NFL, have added to the pressure to
come up with methods for diagnosing and tracking the disorder in living people, but such efforts have just crossed the starting line, researchers said last week at a traumatic
brain injury conference in Washington, D.C. Only in the past month or so have they arrived at a consensus about what CTE looks like in postmortem
brain tissue,
findings presented this week in Washington, D.C., at the American Academy of Neurology meeting.
«There may be so much internal communication that the
brain becomes preoccupied with itself, less able to process information
coming in from the outside world,» he says, noting that studies have
found that people with depression have heightened connectivity among
brain networks involved in paying attention, monitoring internal and external cues, remembering the past, and controlling emotions.
«This study shows that the solutions that the
brain finds for dealing with imperfect information often match optimal solutions that engineers have
come up with for similar problems, like your phone's GPS.»
imagine By Jonah Lehrer Inspiration may seem as if it
comes out of nowhere, but researchers have
found that certain
brain regions signal they have arrived at a eureka moment a full eight seconds before that feeling hits.
The
findings are some of the first to
come from a U.S. Department of Defense - funded
brain imaging grant to Saint Louis University to learn more about the nature of traumatic
brain injury (TBI) in veterans and civilians.
«Our
findings reveal that we have two distinct
brain circuits that
come into action under a moral situation: one of them punishes, the other one donates,» highlights Oliveira - Souza.
The
finding comes from a method of visualising
brain connections, although it doesn't give an idea of how the differences initially arose.
Co-author Marina Bedny, an assistant professor of psychological and
brain sciences, says the
findings here, taken together with earlier results, suggest the
brain as a whole could be extremely adaptable, almost like a computer that — depending on data
coming in — could reconfigure to handle almost limitless types of tasks.
Their
findings may turn out to be important when it
comes to research into cerebral cancer, since it is known that components of the Hippo signaling pathway, such as neurofibromin 2, are involved in the generation of
brain tumors.
The
findings suggest the human
brain is more receptive to the message that intelligence
comes from the environment, regardless of whether it's true.
These
findings provide important clues about the strategies and division of labor among different parts of the
brain when it
comes to using the working memory.
This could explain why previous studies have
found varying results when it
comes to which areas of the
brain are affected in autism.
Scientists have
come to this conclusion after
finding that smokers who suffered a stroke in the insular cortex were far more likely to quit smoking and experience fewer and less severe withdrawal symptoms than those with strokes in other parts of the
brain.
These
findings may correlate with disrupted
brain development, but direct evidence for a link between Zika virus and microcephaly is more likely to
come from clinical studies, the researchers say.
The latest negative
findings mentioned by Time
come out of a $ 24 - million research project published in the International Journal of Epidemiology («
Brain Tumour Risk in Relation to Mobile Telephone Use»).
Sabunciyan has
found that an unexpectedly large amount of the RNA produced in the
brain — about 5 percent —
comes from seemingly «junk» DNA, which includes endogenous retroviruses.
Based on the new
findings, Raghanti believes it was our chemical signature that
came first, which then allowed our
brains to balloon.
When two areas of the
brain come into conflict, researchers have
found, an area known as the anterior cingulate cortex, or ACC, switches on to mediate between them.
The
findings come from post-mortems of patients who received grafts of
brain tissue from aborted fetuses during the 1990s.
A new study by French and UK researchers published in a leading journal this week suggests that should no cure be
found for dementia, then the biggest impact on reducing rates of this progressive
brain destroying disease is likely to
come from eliminating diabetes and depression and boosting education, as well as encouraging people to eat more fruit and vegetables.
The
findings with glioblastoma
came out of Emory researchersâ $ ™ work on progesterone as therapy for traumatic
brain injury and more recently, stroke.
The two researchers racked their
brains to
come up with materials that might explain the new spectroscopic feature, and then tested everything from sodium chloride to Drano in Hand's lab at JPL, where he tries to simulate the environments
found on various icy worlds.
«But on the flip side, we
find that the
brain does not undertake this rebalancing when impacts
come too close together.»
Supporting evidence for our
findings comes from studies reporting on decreased default mode functional connectivity in combination with studies reporting on degenerative
brain abnormalities in the cingulum bundle.
The real question here is, how do we
find true satisfaction in dating, mating, love, and sex in this modern world when we have more access to technology and more pornography but still haven't
come to a deep understanding of our own
brains or sexuality?