Sentences with phrase «brain differences between»

«Women have more active brains than men: Largest functional brain imaging study to date identifies specific brain differences between women and men, according to a new report in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.»

Not exact matches

This simple story illustrates the difference between how our brains see things subconsciously, and how we can notice these same things on a more conscious level.

The difference between the games that work and the ones that don't gives us information into how the brain changes in response to its environment.

The sessions draw heavily on brain science to shed light on the innate differences between men and women — and enable managers and colleagues to work «across» them.

As Dr. McGonigal presents various scientific studies that show differences in the brain functioning between meditators and non-meditators, she highlights how meditation practice benefits the practitioner in various ways such as higher pain thresholds and reduced depression.

A brain, it functions, and I know the difference between trying to prove God right, instead of trying to prove him wrong.

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

Not only that but anyone with an ouce of a brain knows there is a big difference between what is hear..

What is the difference between a spatially extended mind as large as a brain that can not be detected externally and a mind that is not spatially extended at all?

If I recall correctly, I think I have seen studies that show there are actually * physical * differences between the brains of believers and atheists.

(II) All kinds of brain operations alter the personality of a patient to some degree; many pharmaca, particularly lysergic acid, alter the brain functions to great extents; and the male and female sexual hormones cause the psychic differences between man and woman — injections of the opposite hormone can alter the sexual mentality to a high degree.

There is more of a difference between these two cases that your measly brain can comprehend.

Tell me, do you know the difference between fetal brain development and someone going brain dead?

That is to say my tribesmen know the difference between instinct, intelligence and intuition though they do not know it comes from different parts of the brain like Medula oblongata, cerebrum and cerebellum.

Hey, Turdy, did you manage to wrap your two brain cells around the difference between «gall» and «Gaul?»

Of course, I agree with this, but there's a difference between nurturing people to use their brains, and throwing them out to be bombarded to death.

These fictionalized, grandiose tales weren't real, and my tiny human brain couldn't — and still can't always — process the difference between truth and well, Hollywood.

It may take a few weeks for your baby's brain to know the difference between night and day.

Jeff Skeen of Full90 Sports talks about and the role of protective headgear in reducing the risk of concussion and the difference between concussions, which occur as a result of contact between a player's head and a hard object (another player's head, the ground or the goalpost), and the kinds of brain injuries which can occur as a result of repeated heading of a soccer ball.

Watch Dr. Daniel J. Siegel discuss the differences between a reactive state and a receptive state, or a Yes Brain state, in this video.

Although the above tips explained mainly on the differences between the brains of boys and girls, there will always be some overlap between the sexes.

Sometimes the difference between life, death, or brain damage is a matter of moments.

Studies on genes, brain structures and hormones have failed to identify a clear link between, on one hand, differences at birth between the sexes and, on the other, particular behaviour.

There are visible differences between the way someone's brain functions when they're actively addicted to cocaine or heroin, and a normal person.

The emerging field of cultural neuroscience reveals fascinating differences in brain function between cultures and environments.

Balls of brain tissue generated from stem cells are enabling us to understand the underlying differences between people who struggle to be sociable and those who have difficulty reining themselves in.

«This is such a critical brain area and we hadn't expected to find such strong differences between men and women's brains,» said Paul Macey, the study's lead author.

Most studies on differences in brain functions between men and women have looked at psychological performance.

However, apart from the structural differences, there are profound differences between the brain and a computer, especially in learning and information processing mechanisms.

Her research is part of growing evidence that has yielded an entirely new understanding of molecular differences reflected in the brain between men and women, and how outside forces can permanently imprint neurological circuitry in sex - based ways.

None perceived a difference between the two types of sweat, but the pre-exam sweat had a different effect on brain activity, lighting up areas that process social and emotional signals, as well as several areas thought to be involved in empathy (PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0005987).

The main problem is that it is extremely difficult to measure electrical activity deep inside the brain of a living person, and differences between the brains of living people and those of the animals and cadavers that previous studies have used are significant.

«There's a complex interplay between hormones, experience and epigenetic changes in response to life events,» says neuroscientist Cheryl Sisk, who studies sex differences in the brain at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

She and the researchers noticed differences in brain activity between the young and old.

Henry Roediger at Washington University in St. Louis, who studies false memories, says the brain can't tell the difference between real and false memories, making our fabricated memories seem authentic.

The study reveals that the brain entrains depending on the information in the signal — not on the differences between seeing and hearing.

None perceived a difference between the two types of sweat, but the pre-exam sweat had a different effect on brain activity, lighting up areas that process...

Using this technique, he can predict how the brain will sense differences in roughness between two objects.

Differences between laughing «systems» among mammals are reflected by cross-species structural differences in brain regions as well as in vocal arDifferences between laughing «systems» among mammals are reflected by cross-species structural differences in brain regions as well as in vocal ardifferences in brain regions as well as in vocal architecture.

The findings, published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide the strongest evidence to date in support of the notion that sex chromosomes acting on single cells play a role in differences between male and female brains.

«We may be able to improve outcomes in brain - injured soldiers and civilians,» he continues, «and reduce the length of their mandatory rest periods before returning to duty, making the difference between requiring only days rather than weeks or longer to recover.»

A number of smallish studies have seen differences in the brains of habitual weed smokers, including altered connectivity between the hemispheres, inefficient cognitive processing in adolescent users, and a smaller amygdala and hippocampus — structures involved in emotional regulation and memory, respectively.

So Martin and his colleagues computed the difference in brain activity between the two tasks.

When they measured the concentrations in the same area in chimp brains, the team found that the differences between chimps and normal humans were much greater for those nine than for the 12 metabolites not implicated in schizophrenia, suggesting that energy pathways implicated in schizophrenia were also altered by human evolution, the team reports this week in Genome Biology.

The in vitro model was used to extensively characterize the differences between neurons from different regions of the brain and to mimic the system's connectivity.

By examining the brains of bees trained to different tasks, the researchers found that the number of connections between nerve cells may hold the answer to questions about individual cognitive differences.

When a person looks at an object, for example, the brain immediately estimates its distance by analyzing the subtle differences between the two images on his retinas (computers programmed to do this require extreme memory and speed).

The researchers studied how active the reward circuitry of their brains was when anticipating and receiving money to learn whether there were differences between the two groups in the key brain regions.

University of California, Irvine - led researchers, however, have found that high - resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain can be used to show some of the underlying causes of differences in memory proficiency between older and younger adults.

In the rested condition, the brain region didn't show any difference between high - and low - reward conditions.