Sentences with phrase «brain matter»

Just as doing curls increases muscle density in your biceps, practicing mindfulness increases the density of brain matter where it counts.

A recent study suggests damaged white brain matter, the brain's signal cables, may be responsible.

Before they transformed into monsters with a peculiar appetite for brain matter, zombies were once human beings.

What's more, surface - level brain matter appears to shrink in step with the duration of online addiction.

Aside from possibly brain matter every persons home has all forms of body fluids that home owners clean up regularly without concern.

Lucy Skaer's suspended whale skull — the show's big highlight — finds an echo in Roger Hiorns's installation, where bovine brain matter is turned into little pellets, and where a jet engine has been ground to dust and spread like a slick over the gallery floor.

In this world where brains matter more, where technologies shape our lives, where no - one is owed a living...

As if reduction in stress, increase in gray brain matter, general peace of mind, improved physical fitness and overall positive state of well - being...

A study from 2014 confirmed the link between pornography use and decreased brain matter in the areas of motivation and decision making, impaired impulse control and desensitization to sexual reward.

Until rather recently that meant a craniotomy — a conventional, day - long operation involving removing part of the patient's skull, cutting through healthy brain matter and physically taking out the problem tissue, followed by a weeklong hospital stay and a prolonged recovery period.

This is a blunt and graphic gore film, replete with close - ups of splattered brain matter and twitching severed limbs.

While Superman and Batman may be on a level playing field in a comic setting where brain matters as much as brawn, no one is ever going to believe that the Green Arrow can beat up Superman or Doomsday... like ever (sorry Arrow fans).

From the story: Natalie Morales: What did the doctors tell you at that point?Pam Dunlap: She just said it wasn't good.Doug Dunlap: She said brain matter was coming....

The optic nerve, technically considered brain matter, is the only part of the central nervous system that can be photographed directly.

Autopsy and scanning studies indicate that a healthy 69 - year - old like me has been shedding brain matter at a rate of 0.5 percent per year for a decade and probably longer.

How can this ghost, made out of some kind of metaphysical ectoplasm, influence brain matter without being detected?

Bin Laden's injuries apparently include a great wound on his forehead through which brain matter is visible and a large gaping hole where one of his eyes should be.

Initially a test cohort of 10 patients with MS and 10 patients with non-MS white brain matter lesions were scanned.

In particular, female - to - male gender reassignment resulted in local brain matter decrease within language processing regions, which may explain why verbal abilities are often stronger in women.»

Again, this doesn't mean the fusiform gyrus isn't important — irregularities there have been linked to a condition called face blindness, which prevents humans from recognizing individuals — but it could mean that the human ability boils down to more than just some unique brain matter we've evolved to carry.

Sometimes stroke causes changes in certain brain matter.

The problem is that the inflammation persists after the initial trauma, and the microglia continue to swarm, killing off more neurons and leading to a greater loss of brain matter over months, researchers say.

Preschoolers who exhibit symptoms of ADHD were found to have lesser brain matters in areas that control motor control, activity, and attention.

Many scientists believe that repeated blows to the head increase risks for developing CTE, leading to progressive loss of normal brain matter and an abnormal buildup of a protein called tau.

Especially when it's oozing brain matter, blood, slime or some mystery extraterrestrial fluid that inextricably likes to cuddle its pray's face.

(Brain matter fried on a stove like bacon gristle; in later drafts this element was removed at the request of New Line Cinema.)

Indeed the Fight Club cult that Norton sets up under the tutelage of his brutal disenfranchised alter ego / evil - twin, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), digresses into a flesh - chewing tombstone that gets dumped on the floor like so much bloody brain matter.

Brain Matters begins with a «mini-textbook» on brain anatomy and physiology, bringing the biology of the brain into context with teaching and learning.

None of the games puzzles are exactly taxing for the «ol brain matter, but everything is executed well enough that they remain highly enjoyable.

Players won't see any rolling heads or highly detailed chunks of brain matter flying on the screen whenever they score a headshot.

The experience is directed by the same brain matter that brought us Final Fantasy Brave Exvius and Brave Frontier.

Spectacularly tracking each fatal bullet fired in flight, the camera whips across the battlefield and into an internal view of the projectile's unfortunate target to show bones being broken, organs obliterated, faces imploded, and brain matter strewn far and wide over the African scrubland.

One electric blue painting is made from copper sulphate grown off brain tissue; another painting is daubed with animal brain matter; and a Toyota engine on the floor is filled with such material.

Magali Reus» Untitled, 2014, is a burnt pizza encapsulated in resin — entirely perplexing, in a good way, as is Roger Hiorns» work, also Untitled, 2014, which consists of a lump of concrete covered in calf brain matter.

How much has Exxon made in the last years and we still need to save our economy with your oily brain matter.

Bike - maker SE Racing and DC Shoes have melded their nostalgic brain matter to

She is also a graduate of the National Staff Development Council Academy, a member of the national Brain Matters Leadership Group, and is certified in conducting the MBTI personality inventory.

I have to tuck that away in the ole brain matter for future use.

«It's almost like a raisin shrinking down,» Stenehjem said, in describing the appearance of the damaged brain matter.

Roger Hiorns, whose sculptures have housed bovine brain matter and fungus - like accretions of beguiling, decaying blue crystals, cites BSE as a tipping point of a public crisis of confidence in the ruling elite.

As if reduction in stress, increase in gray brain matter, general peace of mind, improved physical fitness and overall positive state of well - being aren't enough, here are a few ways that yoga and meditation will make you really, really cool *.

That type of procedure is usually a day - long operation which involves removing part of the skull, cutting through healthy brain matter and physically removing the problem tissue, followed by a weeklong hospital stay and prolonged recovery period.

Brain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account the differing overall sizes of their brains — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did.