Sentences with phrase «brain responses meant»

The study couldn't determine if those different brain responses meant fathers are somehow hard wired through genetics or evolution to treat sons differently than they treat daughters or if the fathers were conforming to societal norms relating to gender.

Not exact matches

I'm sorry, I don't mean to invalidate your experience, but more and more evidence is pointing to NDEs being the brain's response to dying, a physiological process but not a spiritual one.

That means that in that moment — that space between stimulus and response — you have a pre-rehearsed script for your brain to retrieve and apply.

This literally means that if a baby is upset and then subsequently experiences a gentle and loving response from their caregiver, the relevant neurons in their brain will all fire at once.

That might mean patients who suffer traumatic brain injury not only suffer from the physical damage of the blow to the head but also from the resulting inflammatory response, especially within the first 24 hours.

The team predicted that the fastest response to the click would be seen in those in whom the accumulation of neural noise had neared the threshold — meaning their brains were about to commit to a movement.

That means the canine brain responses were being triggered by something distant in space and time.

«The fly brain is not as plastic as the mammalian brain,» Kempermann said, meaning that neural wiring in mammals is much more flexible, changing in response to an individual's experiences.

«The new method provides a powerful means to predict brain responses to music, speech, and soundscapes across a variety of contexts,» says Dr. Vinoo Alluri.

Susan Brain, Professor of Pharmacology in the Cardiovascular Division at King's College London, said: «In response to cold weather the body seeks first and foremost to keep the core warm, which means retaining blood close to the centre and constricting blood supply to the skin.

Additionally the functional effects of DBS will be explored in several ways 1) we will look at changes in brain activation patterns in response to specific tasks by means of functional MRI 2) we will look at the striatal D2 binding using [123I] IBZM SPECT 3) we will look at neuropsychological functioning using cognitive tasks.

Those rats also had stronger nAChR responses, meaning their brains responded differently to the drugs.

Laughter signals to our brains that we're in a safe situation, which means we dial back our stress responses.

«This means the gut has the ability to process information about what is going on and put a response into action separate from the brain and central nervous system.»

Any type of stressor on the body is sending signals to the brain that things are not safe and this means sleep is not an appropriate response.

And this insulin secretion could be cephalic — a kind of Pavlovian response — which would mean that the brain is telling the pancreas to secrete insulin (via the vagus nerve).

«At this point, said [lead researcher] Purnell in a phone interview, it means nothing more than that the two substances did prompt different responses in the brain — that the brain did not respond to them identically.

This overactive immune response means that normal intestinal cells are destroyed by the immune system, nutrients are not absorbed properly, inflammation, digestive issues like diarrhea, constipation, brain fog, chronic fatigue, and many other symptoms will ensue.

This is because serotonin, in reality, is an innate stress hormone that triggers the «fight or flight» response in the brain, which is a natural, involuntary response meant to save us from mortal danger.

For my son, it simply means that his brain needs more time to process a response.

Perfetti then tested the adults on trained and untrained word meaning recognition while charting the brain response.

These types of works are often easier to access, to feel an emotional response to, because our brains can categorize them and open a channel within us about what they mean.

In terms of artificial intelligence, Assistant is generally smarter than Alexa and Siri because it is powered by the brains of Google search, meaning you can ask a broader array of questions and are more likely get a correct response.

When the brain has no way to label or otherwise discriminate among the various meanings it gives to events and behaviors, it tends to funnel all emotional response into the form of arousal that gives the most temporary power: anger.