Sentences with phrase «brain scientists describe»

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As Jill Boite Taylor describes it in her book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, the «alarm» lasts for 90 seconds and triggers a host of physical effects — rising blood pressure, tensed muscles and the release of adrenaline and other hormones.

The scientists describe that this protein triggers the death of brain stem cells.

After taking a close look at autopsiedhuman brains, scientists at the Buck Institute in Novato, California, foundthat those with Alzheimer's disease had about ten times as much cleavage inthe brain, a process that Dale Bredesen, Buck Institute founder andleader of the research group describes as «molecular scissors» cutting out the amyloid - beta protein.

Today, a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) led by Professor Partha Mitra describes a new mathematical model that combines large data sets to predict where different types of cells are located within the brain, based on their molecular identity.

Scientists of the Transfaculty Research Platform «Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences» (MCN) at the University of Basel and the Psychiatric University Clinics have now described a network of genes that controls fundamental properties of neurons and is related to working memory, brain activity and schizophrenia.

They are a typical feature of the brain's activity,» describes the scientist.

A group of scientists describe today in Nature their success at harnessing the ultimate instrument of remote control: the brain.

The platform, described in the journal PLOS One, could help scientists understand how brain cells connect and interact, combat brain disorders, determine how soldiers are affected by exposure to chemical and biological weapons and develop antidotes to counteract those effects.

«Key gene in early brain regeneration in planarians described by scientists.»

The research provides the first evidence for what scientists describe as the «cognitive buffer» hypothesis - the idea that having a large brain enables animals to have more flexible behaviours and survive environmental challenges.

That neural pathways from the mouth's receptors to the brain are beginning to be mapped; that beyond the key role of flavour in survival, flavour also allows us to imagine; that the appearance of food and the words describing a menu can modulate our perception; that satiation is not at odds with the desire to eat more when a person is presented with a new and distinct flavour... These are the some of the conclusions reached during «The sensory Logic of Gastronomic Brain» symposium where some twenty world - class scientists and chefs gathered between October 24 and 26 at the Basque Culinary Center (San Sebastbrain are beginning to be mapped; that beyond the key role of flavour in survival, flavour also allows us to imagine; that the appearance of food and the words describing a menu can modulate our perception; that satiation is not at odds with the desire to eat more when a person is presented with a new and distinct flavour... These are the some of the conclusions reached during «The sensory Logic of Gastronomic Brain» symposium where some twenty world - class scientists and chefs gathered between October 24 and 26 at the Basque Culinary Center (San SebastBrain» symposium where some twenty world - class scientists and chefs gathered between October 24 and 26 at the Basque Culinary Center (San Sebastian).

In a paper published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, the scientists describe important activities of BAG2 in cleaning up brain cells.

«By figuring out a way to get genes across the blood - brain barrier, we are able to deliver them throughout the adult brain with high efficiency,» says Ben Deverman, a senior research scientist at Caltech and lead author of a paper describing the work in the February 1 online publication of the journal Nature Biotechnology.

It has 12 chapters, each describing a «brain rule» — what scientists know for sure about how our brains work — and the implications it has for our everyday life.

The author, a writer in the new field of Mind, Brain, and Education science, describes how scientists have divided learning concepts about the brain into four categories: (1) well - established information; (2) information that is «probably so;» (3) intelligent speculation; and (4) neuromBrain, and Education science, describes how scientists have divided learning concepts about the brain into four categories: (1) well - established information; (2) information that is «probably so;» (3) intelligent speculation; and (4) neurombrain into four categories: (1) well - established information; (2) information that is «probably so;» (3) intelligent speculation; and (4) neuromyths.

Ask students to imagine that they are scientists, then have them write a paragraph describing the one experiment they would conduct on the brain.

A study has found that playing Starcraft can increase a player's «brain flexibility,» the ability to allocate the brain's resources under changing circumstances, which the scientists described as «a cornerstone of human intelligence.»

The more I talk to social scientists and psychologists about humanity's growing pains in its current population and appetite surge, the more it's clear that the «market failures» described by economists examining environmental issues derive from fundamental patterns of behavior rooted deep in the brain.