The numerous, more limited,
brain events occur in portions of the same region in which the unified human experience is taking place.
Not exact matches
The researchers were even able to identify where in the
brain the seizures started by tracking the waves of increased blood flow that
occur during such an
event, they report today in Science Translational Medicine.
Lifelong consequences of a
brain injury are triggered by a cascade of neurochemical
events in the seconds and minutes after the injury
occurs, say Kobrine and other doctors and neuroscientists.
Because IAPP aggregates are deposited in the periphery, the possibility that prion - like transmission
events may
occur is higher than in the neurodegenerative diseases, where the blood —
brain barrier restricts exposure to peripherally acquired protein seeds to the
brain.
Specifically, this reduced fuel usage is localized in regions of the
brain involved in memory processing and learning.10, 11,21,24 PET scans of people at high risk for developing AD show that this decline
occurs long before symptoms of AD are present, and seems to be the first step in a long chain of
events whose eventual end is overt AD.
Accumulation of 8 - oxoG in the AD
brain is an early
event,
occurring before the onset of dementia.»
But then after we have relatively complex life (by this I mean worms, for example) a whole series of additional evolutionary
events had to
occur to create a big
brained primate with appendages that can manipulate the environment to the extent humans do.
In fact, studies show that psychological traumas like discovering an affair have the capacity to affect
brain functioning long after the
event occurs.
Therapist Lisa Damour states, «The changes in your daughter's
brain and the
events that
occur around her are more likely to shape her mood than the hormonal shifts
occurring inside of her.»