Sentences with phrase «brain or body»

But when it comes to performing demanding tasks, whether with the brain or the body, computers are able to replicate our ends without replicating our means.»

No longer is the brain or body obsessed with finding and directing conscious thought to search for good fuel or the nutrients in key food choices.

In a new test of this cooking hypothesis, Herculano - Houzel and her graduate student, Karina Fonseca - Azevedo, now a neuroscientist at the National Institute of Translational Neuroscience in São Paulo, Brazil, decided to see if a diet of raw food inherently put limits on how large a primate's brain or body could grow.

She asks, does such early use alter a child's brain or body?

Because your birth experience is WORSE THAN MEANINGLESS compared to the health of your baby's brain or body!

Not exact matches

Whenever our bodies perceive danger our brains activate the «flight or fight» reflex.

As the brain puts all this data together, it compares the visual data with an internal image you have or mentally create about where your body should be, trying to get the two pictures to match up.

Eating at regular intervals, she says, makes the body more comfortable burning fat when it needs extra energy, rather than drawing from the easier - to - get - at glucose reserves in the muscles or the brain.

Recognize that your brain and your body often register information that is more accurate than an optimistic emotional reaction, or a negative reaction after a long hard day.

Whether it's natural or artificial, light is significant because it tells the brain that the day has begun and sends signals to the body to stop making melatonin, the hormone that helps regular sleep, says Winter.

This disease occurs when blood flow to a region of the brain is interrupted by either a clot or bleeding, depriving the body of oxygen and nutrients.

The brain and other organs feed on ketones, a type of organic substance formed by the breakdown of fatty acids in the diet or body fat.

notice that if the soul was not part of the flesh, and emotions and feeling were a part of it and not the body, they would not be affected by drugs or brain injury, but we know that they are.

Agree mankind brain is his computer and in order for this computer to work it requires all the other working physical systems and senses... this computer is programed as to when it should stop working naturally but man shortened the life of that time given by destroying their health or risking their physical body into physical harm...

I hope that several prominent neurologists without a stake in the situation will step forward and volunteer to examine Jahi — and not just for a day or two but over an extended period of time, to test her brain and body functions thoroughly and determine whether she does indeed respond to requests.

Our bodies are a precisely arranged set of organs that are run by our incomprehensible brain, sending out the proper hormone or signals at just the right time or when there is a need.

Even those who demand their own sartorial freedom from symbolism would not hire a defense lawyer who wore pajamas (which would serve the practical function of covering the body as well as a suit) to court, or submit to an operation by a brain surgeon who wore a Dracula sweatshirt in his consulting room.

«tiny body» LOL It's a bit of organic matter without even a brain or nervous system until a certain amount of time has passed.

It is the power I exercise over my brain, my whole nervous system, and indeed over my whole body, Of this power we may say, in a commonsense way and subject to later qualification, that I exercise it while acting; and that some neuron in my brain that fires in the course of the action, or some neural network through which a complex impulse passes, is subject to it.

If the Sun or the Moon were a tiny bit different, perhaps we wouldn't be here; but perhaps we would be - and possibly we would be even better, with sturdier bodies, larger, more active brains, better resistance to disease, etc..

Susie's body has surgically been given your brain with all its recollections; now tell me who you are — or whether you are at all.

The only way religious people are going to be convinced is for them to die and see for themselves — assuming that they will be able to do anything so complicated as form an opinion, perceive anything, or feel anything without a body and a brain for them to misuse.

You know, that living, bubbling thingy that almost defies direction and yet moves forward more like a body without a head... or a jellyfish without a seeming brain.

In Whitehead's philosophy the soul is a series of momentary events or actual occasions supported by the body (particularly the brain) and coordinating its activities.

If our mind did exist outside our physical bodies, then why would injury or disease to our brain, affect our thinking?

The brain guides the body, and is far more intimately connected to each person's «life or soul» than the «blood» is.

Thus there is a potential freedom amongst trillions of molecules making up the brain, or for that matter the whole body.)

@M1sf1ts I spent most of my adult life as a registered nurse with many of those years as a theatre nurse and I saw that whether a person was a saint or a sinner, gay or straight, black or white and even male ot female their heartsd all looked the same, their brains all looked the same and besides their reproductive system, their bodies looked the same: Believe it or not they all bleed the same.

it will make you wonder if there is a spirit beyond our bodies,,, or all of it is in the brain itself... I see how hard it is for stroke victims to return to their old self after the brain has been damaged... and I wondered sometimes if the person I knew was even in the body anymore... It is a question I do not have a firm answer for... but I like to think the spirit exists and just can not use the brain anymore... it is like a computer interface that is damaged and the body has failed to repair itself... Our brains can reroute data, or rebuild some damage..

Too much of a hormone, or not enough at the right time of development and a female brain develops in a male body.

It is true, as Hall points out, that for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent» within particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual relations» of individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or societies of individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of persons: the relations between occasions which constitute the human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to human experience.

For Whitehead, the «soul» is composed of a series of «presiding» or «dominant» occasions in our bodies; he supposes that these «dominant occasions» occur in or about the brain so as to receive from the brain a peculiarly - focussed «report» of bodily experience, not available to any other occasion.

Rose and her parents actually kidnap black people, hypnotize them, take out their brains and then sell their bodies to the highest white — or white - adjacent — bidder who intends to put their brains into black people's bodies.

My friend however disagreed with me, citing there are physical attributes that make us who we are (black, white, male, female, etc....) and by being transplanted into that body we take on those characteristics and thus the body holds a key piece of our «soul» or personality that effects any brain within.

It raises fat - burning, brain - fueling molecules in your body called ketones much more than coconut oil or another broad category of fat generically called medium chain triglycerides (MCTs).

SUGAR - FREE ENERGY: As soon as you consume Brain Octane, it is rapidly absorbed and changed into ketone bodies - providing instant energy to the brain without breaking down glucose from sugars or carbohydrBrain Octane, it is rapidly absorbed and changed into ketone bodies - providing instant energy to the brain without breaking down glucose from sugars or carbohydrbrain without breaking down glucose from sugars or carbohydrates.

Omega 3 fatty acids make up a large proportion of the structure of our brains and are essential for cognitive health, but not all can be synthesised or created by the body.

It is caused by a blow to the head OR body that results in the brain moving rapidly inside the skull and hitting the inside wall of the skull.

Part of the evidence supporting this belief comes from neuroscience and pediatrics, where recent research shows that harsh or unstable environments can create biological changes in the growing brains and bodies of infants and children.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

As parents gaze at their newborn; talk gently; use soft, higher - pitched voices; and are positive, warm, and encouraging, their brain's gray matter, or cell bodies, actually grow in the emotion and thought regions that support parenting behaviors.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: HB108 (2011) requires the governing body of each sport or recreational organization to develop guidelines and other pertinent information and forms to inform and educate youth athletes and their parents of the nature and risk of concussion and brain injury, including continuing to play after a suspected concussion or brain injury.

There may be a physical impairment that prevents your child from correctly forming words or there may be processing problem, which means that your child's internal communication system isn't able to effectively carry a message between the brain the body parts that are used to speak.

We really shouldn't overlook the fact that any time a body is no longer pregnant (regardless of whether the pregnancy ends via healthy childbirth or any other means), there are huge changes to hormones and brain chemistry that happen afterward.

Together, these vitamins will help your child's eyes, brain, skin, muscles and every other part of his or her body to develop properly over time.

«Taken together, these data add to the growing body of literature providing evidence that a season of play in a contact sport can show brain changes in the absence of concussion or clinical findings,» they wrote.

Nonetheless, the nervous system still responds by shutting off the thinking and planning part of the brain — the prefrontal cortex — in order to send blood to the body so we can fight or run away.

Cerebral palsy is a neurologic disorder treated at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston that is caused by an injury or disruption in the child's developing brain that can affect their body movement, cognition and posture.

That's the thing about the pill or IUD's — they are synthetic and interrupts the natural hormonal balance of our brains and body.

Placing a shunt or tube in the ventricles — The placement of a shunt in the brain allows our team to drain the spinal fluid that has built up in the ventricles and direct it to other parts of the body, alleviating the enlarged ventricles that have caused the condition.