Sentences with phrase «brain of a larger system»

The iPhone comes in such a simple form that you could think of it as the core brain of a larger system.

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His goal is wildly ambitious — in large part because of how little is really understood about the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and spinal cord, and its healing mechanisms.

With the evolution of life, at a certain stage, came the development of animals with a nervous system, and eventually human beings with a large brain.

With all our knowledge, big brains, university degrees and amazing (to us) technology, consider than we dwell on a damp little planet, in an ordinary solar system, in the boonies of a very ordinary spiral galaxy which is composed of billions of stars, millions of which are much, much larger than our sun.

Large quantities of mercury are even more dangerous to the brain and nervous system of your growing developing child.

DHA, or docosahexaenoic acid, or omega - 3 fatty acids are involved in the construction of the brain and the central nervous system, and they make up a large part of the fat contained in the brain (25 - 35 %).

Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

That's when University of Virginia neuroscientist Jonathan Kipnis and his team discovered a hidden core of vessels — a previously unknown sewage system for draining cellular waste from the brain into the lymph system at large.

The number of veterans at risk is large: traumatic brain injury caused by explosive blasts is thought to afflict about 20 percent of the 2.3 million servicemen and women deployed in combat since 2001, according to a team of researchers from Boston University, New York Medical College and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System.

However, the brain has some self - repairing potential that accounts for the renewal of certain neuronal populations living in the dentate gyrus, a simple cortical region that is part of the larger functional brain system controlling learning and memory, the hippocampus.

Treatment with an investigational CAR T - cell therapy induced complete remission of a brain metastasis of the difficult - to - treat tumor diffuse large - B - cell lymphoma (DLBCL), which had become resistant to chemotherapy — the first report of a response to CAR T - cells in a central nervous system lymphoma.

This is consistent with findings, from a large literature of studies on depression and reward circuitry, that depression is characterized by less activity in the brain's reward system.

The oldest known drawing of the nervous system shows a large nose at the bottom, eyes on either side, and a hollow optic nerve that flows out of each one towards the back of the brain.

At the meeting, attendees discussed four broad goals for the proposed Observatory: expanding access to large scale electron microscopes; providing fabrication facilities for new, nanosized electrode systems; developing new optical and magnetic resonance brain activity imaging technologies; and finding new ways to analyze and store the staggering amount of data detailed brain studies can produce.

Shepard's project is in DARPA's Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program, part of the larger Federal - government - wide BRAIN Initiative.

Think of olfaction as a city center and the other sensory systems as sprawling suburbs, which grew as the brain evolved and eventually became larger than the old downtown.

First of all, these animals evolved large nervous systems, including large brains.

From that stage the evolution of nervous systems proceeds independently in many lines, including two that led to large brains of different design.

Stirman further refined the designs and incorporated them into an overall two - photon imaging system that allowed the researchers to scan much larger areas of the brain.

As a Ph.D. candidate in cognitive and neural systems at Boston University, he began developing large - scale models of the brain that could be used to understand neural mechanisms.

Twenty - four hours after the injection, the researchers saw large numbers of immune system white blood cells in tissue samples of the rodent brains near the site of injury of those mice injected with the cytokine IL - 1b, but not in the brain tissue of the control group of mice.

Machine - learning systems — and a subset, deep - learning systems, which simulate complex neural networks in the human brain — derive their own rules after combing through large amounts of data.

Similarly to other large - brained members of the crow family with complex social systems, magpies are capable of sophisticated mental feats, such as mirror self - recognition, retrieval of hidden objects and remembering where and when they have hoarded what food item.

Future work by the group will focus on testing the effectiveness of CAST training in a larger sample using neurophysiological measures to examine how the training affects brain systems.

The 2012 Kavli Prize laureates were selected for making fundamental contributions to our understanding of the outer solar system, the differences in material properties between nano - and larger scales, and how the brain receives and responds to sensations such as sight, sound and touch.

It investigates the human brain, from the functional organization of large scale cerebral systems to microscopic neurochemical processes.

This year's laureates were selected for making fundamental contributions to our understanding of the outer solar system, the differences in material properties at nano - and larger scales, and how the brain receives and responds to sensations such as sight, sound and touch.

Neuropeptides comprise a large class of signaling molecules which are secreted from neurons and transmit messages within the brain and across the nervous system.

Taking advantage of this characteristic, we are developing novel devices that mimic the functions of the human brain by constructing nano - systems consisting of large numbers of self - assembled atomic switches.

Garrison is interested in a large class of signaling molecules called neuropeptides which are secreted from neurons and transmit messages within the brain and across the nervous system.

Besides the obvious size difference — the human brain is about three times larger than the chimp brain — little has been known about how the human brain and the rest of the nervous system changed in our lineage over evolutionary time.

Theoretical and empirical work is beginning to reveal that autism is associated with a complex functional phenotype characterized by both hypo - and hyper - connectivity of large - scale brain systems.

Thus, the endocrine system is crucial for our survival and health, and, because many crucial hormones are secreted in the brain, and our brain activity and response to external stimuli can affect hormone release, your mind and your environment are very important to the health of the individual at large.

Caviar, and fish eggs at large, contain a unique blend of nutrients that are perfect for brain health: omega - 3 DHA fat (a must - have for the brain, most abundant in fish), choline (a B vitamin essential for memory), vitamins B6 and B12 (needed for a strong nervous system), iron (needed for healthy blood), brain - building protein, and even anti-aging vitamins.

Historically, we thought that not much happened in the large intestine, but recently, we have discovered that the bacteria in our gut contributes not only to healthy digestion, but also to our immune system, brain function and every other aspect of our metabolism.

It's your «second brain,» and in your 30 to 35 feet of alimentary canal, small intestines, and large intestine (colon), trillions of «probiotic» organisms are the crux of your immune system.

Our sense of smell (the olfactory system) is part of a larger system in our brain that also includes the centers of emotion (the amygdala) and the centers for associative learning (the hippocampus).

«A «deficiency» of polyunsaturated fatty acids leads to altered rates of cellular regeneration and differentiation, a larger brain at birth, improved function of the immune system, decreased inflammation, decreased mortality from endotoxin poisoining, lower susceptibility to lipid peroxidation, increased basal metabolic rate and respiration, increased thyroid function, later puberty and decreases other signs of estrogen dominance.

Even when the concept of organized hunting came along, it would appear that our hunter - gatherer ancestors relied more on superior tracking ability (using our highly evolved and exceptionally large brains) and walking (using our superior fat - burning systems), rather than on actually «chasing down» their prey.

In fact, it may be the largest determinant of how you feel, how your immune system works, how your thyroid is functioning, how you are sleeping, whether your brain is working at its best, and even your potential lifespan.

Like their larger counterpart, they are chock full of protein (which provides all of the essential amino acids your pooch needs to build and maintain a healthy body), Vitamin B12, and Omega - 3 fatty acids, which are important for brain, heart, and nervous system health.

The Natural Resources Defense Council flagged an unbroken quote from May 2002 Congressional testimony, where Holmstead recognized that «mercury is a potent toxin that causes permanent damage to the brain and nervous system,» that «mercury exposure comes through eating contaminated fish,» and that «power generation is now the largest uncontrolled source of mercury emissions.»

Building automation systems serve as the «brain» of large commercial buildings.

South of England Brain Injury Forum (SEABIF) Chairman, Ciaran McCabe, says that the latest findings by the Neurological Alliance show that neurology services continue to be under - resourced within the health and care system across large parts of the UK, including the South.

Most home automation systems require large central hubs to act as a brain in order to conduct that sort of automation.