Sentences with phrase «brain connections known»

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In contrast, when a person feels the attributes of something that piques their interest but doesn't take it all the way to connection, the brain region known as the putamen lights up.

And I'm waiting for the day when a prayer from the cell goes through... you know, a direct connection with God Also, I've been reading your Z - theory... interesting, but I have to reread it a few times to be able to wrap my brain around it.

I didn't know the connection until later when I found out what CIO does to the brain when I had my first baby.

If your son seems stuck in concrete mode, is not quite catching on in social settings, or is missing too much in class, give these tips a try and know that they will help to boost vital brain connections.

In order for those connections (known as synapses) to be strong in the brain, they need a protective coating of myelin.

Now we know it is just brain science: children learn (grow, feel safe, thrive) best when they feel connection — or as Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs taught us, «a sense of belonging and significance».

«We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain — her whole brain — that develop skills that lead to better relationships, better mental health, and more meaningful lives.

Their function has not yet been investigated in detail; however, in the brains of Alzheimer's patients these connections are known to degenerate early in the progress of the disease.

A network of interacting brain regions known as the default mode network (DMN) was found to have stronger connections in adults and children with a high risk of depression compared to those with a low risk.

«In paraplegic patients, the connection between the brain and limbs is no longer functional.

Brains of teenage girls exposed to high levels of family stress when they were toddlers showed reduced connections between the amygdala, which is also known for processing fear and emotions, and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an outer region responsible for emotional regulation.

Best known for his widely read books on the connection between the brain and the body — Descartes» Error, The Feeling of What Happens, and his latest, Looking for Spinoza — Damasio heads the department of neurology at the University of Iowa, where he has worked with his wife, Hanna Damasio, a neuroanatomist, for nearly 30 years.

When she graduated in 1969, she knew she wanted to explore the eye - brain connection further.

Zimmer: Yeah, so the neurons are growing in the child's brain and they are making more and more of these connections and then cutting them back, so you know, it's possible that they are cutting back these connections to produce a very efficient network.

Bees with a greater density of nerve connections (known as synaptic complexes) in a specific part of their brains had better memories and learned faster than bees with fewer connections in these areas.

Dr. Min Zhuo and his team at the University of Toronto have found the biological basis for this link in the connections between neurons in a brain region known as the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).

They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

Slumber is known to improve recall in creatures from fruit flies to humans, and the reigning theory among neuroscientists has been that the waves of brain activity during deep sleep reactivate neurons that were triggered during the day, strengthening neuronal connections and cementing them into solid memories.

An arm's or a leg's motor skills fail because, though the nerve cells in the limb are fine, there's no longer a connection between them and the brain.

«We have long hypothesized that VNS is making new connections in the brain, but nothing was known for sure,» Hays said.

Next, the resting participants underwent two scans with another fMRI method known as blood oxygen level — dependent, or BOLD, to track connections and apparent information flow between brain regions.

Neuroscientists know that the brain contains some 100 billion neurons and that the neurons are joined together via an estimated quadrillion connections.

A finding, that is of great importance for the future of especially paraplegic patients where the connection between the brain and limbs no longer functions.

«I knew about the evidence that said exercise was good for endurance and agility, but I really didn't make any connection with that and brain health.»

The early signs of Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease — a rare, incurable brain disorder best known for its connection to mad cow disease — are difficult to interpret.

Traditionally considered to play a role in motor control, the cerebellum is now known to be essential to emotion and cognition via its connections to the rest of the brain.

In a first - of - its - kind effort to illuminate the biochemical impact of trauma, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered a connection between the quantity of cannabinoid receptors in the human brain, known as CB1 receptors, and post-traumatic stress disorder, the chronic, disabling condition that can plague trauma victims with flashbacks, nightmares and emotional instability.

Researchers from the University of Wyoming and INRIA (France) led by Henok S. Mengistu simulated the evolution of computational brain models, known as artificial neural networks, both with and without a cost for network connections.

We know, for instance, quite precisely which receptors in the brain are responsible for changes in the functional connections between nerve cells, the synapses; we also know the rules, when synapses get stronger and when they get weaker.

The three scientists assembled small aggregates of nerve cells, known informally as «mini-brains,» and used them to study how specific groups of neurons in the brain find each other and establish connections.

The researchers, chiefly from the Broad Institute, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, found that a person's risk of schizophrenia is dramatically increased if they inherit variants of a gene important to «synaptic pruning» — the healthy reduction during adolescence of brain cell connections that are no longer needed.

Allen's lab investigates the molecular pathways that lead to connections between neurons, known as synapses, in the developing brain.

Andrew Huberman, PhD: We know a lot about the biology of healthy ganglion cells, both in terms of what those connections look like and how those cells signal information about the visual world to the brain, in effect, how they tell the brain what's out there in the visual world.

Significant connections are found between brain networks known to be implicated in the behavioral tasks involved.

Beside the known effects on brain pathology, Doxy also normalizes the expression of different pro-inflammatory markers in the mouse brain, which could be in connection to progressive brain atrophy.

Bach - y - Rita had spent much of the 1960s studying the physiology of eye movement at the Smith - Kettlewell Institute of Visual Sciences in San Francisco, and he later became known for helping promote the idea of neuroplasticity — the now widely accepted theory that the brain maintains the ability to adapt, rewire itself and form new connections between neurons throughout a person's life span.

The anterograde (forward) tracing results of retinal projections in the garden warbler demonstrated virtually identical connections between the eye and the brain as known from other lateral - eyed bird species [e.g. 15]--[18]: fibers either projected onto the contralateral optic tectum (part of the tectofugal system), to the nucleus of the basal optic root (part of the accessory pathway)(data not shown) or curved into the thalamus innervating the dorsal geniculate complex (Gld, for details, see Fig. 1C, 2A, D).

Your gastrointestinal system is known in the medical literature as your «second brain,» and gut - brain connection problems like leaky gut syndrome can affect your brain - hormone connection — leaving you with no sex drive and fatigue.

All the wellness news you need to know, including «noisy» knees, new research on falling asleep, and more evidence of the gut - brain connection.

There is a big connection between your digestive system, arthritis and brain fog, a condition known as leaky gut syndrome.

Scientists have long known that the adult brain is surprisingly plastic — we can strengthen synaptic connections through repetition, for example, to improve our memory.

Please try this for yourself... I have no idea who is the brain behind this product or care to know, I have no connection to the company, I have zero knowledge about where and how the product came about BUT TRUST ME IT WORKS.

There's a powerful connection in your body, known as the gut - brain axis, which affects things like your immune system, hormones, brain health, and sleep.

It is possible, yet not as widely studied at the moment, to combine and develop the known and unknown connections between the body and mind systems through the basic brain learning principle of pattern recognition.

I don't know where that connection comes from, but it was something that my brain wasn't giving me before.

We also know there is a strong connection between the health of the brain and the health of the gut.

We have long - known the importance of good digestion, but recent research is shedding light on the connection of the gut and optimal brain and immune function.

We think that we think with our brains and that all of the mental symptoms we experience are happening at the level of the brain, but because of this tight gut - brain connection, we know that's not true.

It is known as the enteric nervous system and this brain - gut connection should give you a strong and almost immediate indication of how you feel about something.

We know there's a connection between motor movement and brain development, yet traditional learning spaces often aren't designed for motor skill — development activities.