Sentences with phrase «brain of animals»

English diets in the 17th century often included the cheek, tongue, and brain of animals, so it's not surprising to Owsley that the same parts of Jane's head would have been removed for consumption.

Looking inside the brains of animals exposed to chronic social defeat stress, the scientists observed hyperactive firing of neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a critical part of a reward circuit.

Their conclusion: on the whole, the brains of both animal groups have indeed very different structures.

Subsequent analyses of the brains of these animals revealed that the drug reduced the plaques and tangles in the hippocampus, which is known to play a key role in learning the water maze, but not in the amygdala, which figures importantly in the dark chamber test.

When we suppressed the ALS mutation in the brains of animals, onset of the disease was delayed, the animals lived longer, spinal motor neurons survived longer, and the neuromuscular junctions stayed healthy longer,» said Svendsen, the Kerry and Simone Vickar Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Regenerative Medicine.

Neuropeptides are small proteins in the brains of all animals that bind to receptor proteins and cause activity in cells.

The Duke team found that when pairs of monkeys interacted during a social task, the brains of both animals showed episodes of high synchronization, in which pools of neurons in each animal's motor cortex tended to fire at the same time.

The researchers now plan to test whether ebselen can protect the brains of animal models of stroke.

Now, a team of NIH - funded scientists has identified a potential drug that could grant the same resilience to the brains of ischemic stroke patients by mimicking the cellular changes that protect the brains of those animals.

We are now able to look into the brain of an animal and see how nerve cell connections are made or broken, and how that relates to learning or other adaptive changes.

The brain of any animal has to operate on multiple timescales at once.

«Brainbow,» a multi-color labeling system, is helping researchers study the brains of animals such as the mouse cell by cell.

In studies with animals, exercise, in the form of running wheels or treadmills, has been found to double or even triple the number of new neurons that appear afterward in the animals» hippocampus, a key area of the brain for learning and memory, compared to the brains of animals that remain sedentary.

There were far fewer new neurons in the brains of the animals that had completed high - intensity interval training.

Eating the brains of an animal was said to promote clear thinking and improved memory.

He acknowledges that it may seem counterintuitive that expending energy through exercise would increase feelings of energy and reduce fatigue, but he points out that previous studies have shown marked increases in the levels of energy - promoting and mood - enhancing neurotransmitters such as dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin in the brains of animals that are placed in regular exercise conditions.

The copper - dependent enzyme cytochrome oxidase, when low in the brains of animal models, is the suspected cause of suppressed myelin formation.

When pathologists examine the brains of these animals they find some of the same sort of changes found in Alzheimer's disease (beta - amyloid plaques).

I'm a fairly picky eater — meaning I rarely eat things like the liver, heart or brains of an animal — so when the first dish came to the table, I knew I had to throw my inhibitions to the wind.

A pair of elegant experiments delve deep into the brains of animals, while a pair of authors stir up a storm over their take on global warming.

Not exact matches

That stems in part from the presence in our brains of a well - developed frontal lobe, an evolutionary advantage we hold over the rest of the animal kingdom.

And, over time, those benefits could really add up: One animal study found that regular exercise actually reorganizes parts of the brain, making it less reactive to stress.

In fact, in animals, play helps the frontal lobe of the brain mature.

All the animals completed a series of cognitive tests at the start of the study and were injected with a substance that allows scientists to track changes in their brain structures.

Remember our brains are the products of millions of years of animal evolution prior to our more sentient abilities of the past 250,000 years.

The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism

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There are many forms of Jellyfish, and various other animals, that have no brain... by your thinking you can eat them.

Anyone can see the evolution of the brain from simpler animals to us... God didn't make it!

That's not quite right and in fact you miss one of the biggest differences in the human brain compared to other animals.

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.

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).

The dizzying advances in molecular biology blur the former distinctions between man, animal, plant and mineral; and the recent «reductions» of mind to brain are fruits of the methodological imperative to explain the animate and mental in terms of the inanimate and the unconscious.

The authors discuss the evolution of the human brain, the importance of language, and compare human intelligence to that found in other animals.

He has achieved fame by experiments in which, after removing the amygdalae from the brains of cats, he observed that the cats veered «helplessly from one inappropriate affect to another, boredom where there should be fear... sexual arousal where there was nothing that would stimulate an intact animal.»

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

We also know that other animals with brains that are structured similarly display similar forms of consciousness and self - awareness.

It needs to be stated first that human beings are highly complex psycho - physical organisms with literally thousands of energy events interacting with each other and with and under the dominance of an «organizing center of experience» (the brain), also present in animals with central nervous systems.

Jesus found mankind a rabble of clever animals with brains & hands; when he left us we were men.

There we learn that when Dr. Starling removed the amygdala from the brains of laboratory cats, he observed them «to veer helplessly from one inappropriate affect to another, boredom where there should be fear, cringing where there should be preening, sexual arousal where there was nothing that would stimulate an intact animal.»

I mean to assert that my conscious experience, the experience constitutive of me as a conscious ego, is the experience of the actual entities constitutive of the personally ordered regnant society which dominates my brain and my whole animal organism.

Humans clearly are set apart the rest of the animal kingdom if for nothing else due to the complexity of the human brain.

This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.

«He knew that a sense of God might have developed Without divine love having really enveloped A universe thoughtless in its part or its whole Until animal brains made for mind, heart, and soul.»

In a work recently completed, but not yet published, I have explained how the adaptability of animal bodily systems, especially the brain, which Meredith and Stein have remarkably demonstrated in respect of the senses in their The Merging of the Senses and which is seen in infant language - learning in a way discussed by Meltzoff, Butterworth and others, reaches a peak in the case of the human use of language so that it is solely semantic and communicational constraints which determine grammar and nothing universal in grammar is determined by neurology.

In vegetables and perhaps in very simple animals no such dominant occasion occurs, but in the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavior.

This emergence of human (and other animal) minds out of brains is not, furthermore, a unique type of emergence.

Wilson has dedicated his life to persuading us to think of ourselves as animals who, by dint of luck and natural selection, have evolved to possess highly complex brains.

According to the theory, the form of relatedness that characterizes unified, purposive functioning in human beings and lower animals should be manifested in their brain waves — perhaps in some kind of harmony that appears in the brain wave pattern.

An animal's brain waves can be directly manipulated by placing it in an electromagnetic field and modulating the electromagnetic waves within the range of the brain's natural rhythms.