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What advice can brain scientists give politicians to help get their message across?

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One of the key ways cognitive scientists test your brain's processing power is through what's called a digit symbol coding test — they equate a number with a certain symbol, then give you a string of numbers and ask you to convert them to the correct symbols.

Who gives the scientist a brain?

@ steve, I could also get into some of the «higher brain functions» that lead scientists to better understand why we have compassion and such; however, I think that many people don't really give compassion or morals a lot of thought or care as to where they come from, they are simply a part of who we are as a species.

Scientists say giving birth may not cause baby brain but actually have the opposite effect and make women's brain work better

Scientists have long speculated that astrocytes, the cell type that controls many neuronal functions, give rise to neural stem cells in damaged brain tissue.

Together, these scans gave the scientists a picture of brain activity that was finely resolved in time and space.

Knowing what the master genes are could give scientists targets for new pharmaceuticals to treat brain diseases.

Before Novartis gave up on the drug, however, its scientists investigated which molecules it interacted with in the brain, hoping to learn the reasons for its neuroprotective effects.

Besides carefully mapping the participants» specific symptoms, the scientists also tested their cognitive abilities and measured levels of different proteins in their blood and CSF, a fluid that surrounds the brain and that thus gives a good indication of its chemistry.

A team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health found that a chemical routinely given to stroke patients undergoing brain scans can leak into their eyes, highlighting those areas and potentially providing insight into their strokes.

To find out, scientists gave volunteers a single dose of amphetamine, a drug that gets the dopamine flowing, and then looked at their brains.

Scientists have found that making a mistake can feel rewarding, though, if the brain is given the opportunity to learn from its mistakes and assess its options.

The research that came out of the few specimens of Einstein's brain that Harvey gave to actual scientists was sparse, and some of it turned out to be questionable.

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However, in their experiment with longer - lasting ongoing pain, the EEGs gave the scientists a different picture: in this case, emotional areas of the brain became active.

Now scientists say that by separating our heads from our bodies, the neck gave our brains a leg up in evolution.

The scientists were further able to demonstrate how the brain implements this placebo effect: although the subjects were given the same pain stimuli, the nerve cells in the second run triggered a different pattern of brain activity.

When the scientists recently gave mice a single dose of cocaine and looked for signs of autophagy in their brain cells, they detected autophagy - associated proteins and changes in vacuoles in adults and in mouse pups whose mothers had received cocaine while pregnant.

The findings give scientists a clue that may help unravel more insights into how schizophrenia takes hold of the brain, he says.

Now, Cardiff scientists have engineered a new duel «homing» agent which, when given to mice, inactivated the complement system in the brain, reduced inflammation and aided recovery.

«ENIGMA's scientists screen brain scans and genomes worldwide for factors that help or harm the brain — this crowd - sourcing and sheer wealth of data gives us the power to crack the brain's genetic code,» said Paul Thompson, Ph.D., Keck School of Medicine of USC professor and principal investigator of ENIGMA.

The scientist explained that since the vestibular system would be responsible for orienting the driver and giving him the sensation of moving forward as he accelerated in a car, a faulty vestibular system could send crossed signals to the brain during the motion.

By «giving scientists the tools they need to get a dynamic picture of the brain in action,» he said, the new initiative will help scientists find a cure for complex brain processes such as traumatic brain injury and Parkinson's, and create jobs that «we haven't even dreamt up yet.»

In the 30 years since scientists identified HIV as the cause of AIDS, the virus has proved unbeatable — hiding in the very immune cells that would kill it; reflexively and rapidly mutating; mysteriously persisting in the gut, kidneys, liver, and brain; subverting every vaccine (the best one so far has given only 30 percent protection); and roaring back to life almost the moment drugs are stopped.

The study gives cognitive scientists more tools to study the origins of emotion in the brain.

The appealing simplicity gives hope, he says, that the entire brain uses computational principles that scientists may eventually understand.

A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is giving researchers a first look at the early stages of brain development in patients with Fragile X syndrome, a disorder that causes mild to severe intellectual disability and is the most common genetic cause of autism spectrum disorder.

Scientists have homed in on the brain cells that give birds their astonishing ability to navigate

«Comparing human, chimpanzee and bonobo cells can give us clues to understand biological processes, such as infection, diseases, brain evolution, adaptation or genetic diversity,» says senior research associate Iñigo Narvaiza, who led the study with senior staff scientist Carol Marchetto at the Salk Institute in La Jolla.

By studying the brains of adult birds, scientists may discover the cells that give birth to different kinds of neurons and the growth factors that nurture them.

Patients were then given memory and other cognitive tests to measure brain function, allowing scientists to establish strong correlations between exercise, brain health, and cognition.

«Firstly, scientists have not fully understood how much information the teaching signals that drive learning in the brain provide about given sensory clues.

Edward Boyden, an associate professor of media arts and sciences, biological engineering, and brain and cognitive sciences, was one of five scientists honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, given for «transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life.»

Comparing how many neurons each hosted in their brains gave the scientists a better understanding of how different - sized brains are built.

Scientists reported Wednesday in the journal Nature that they have been able to implant a chip in Burkhart's brain that sends signals to an array of 130 electrodes embedded in a «sleeve» he wears on his arm that has given him the ability to move his hand with significant accuracy.

The scientists monitored the subjects» brain activity while navigating from memory versus when they simply followed the directions given to them by a satnav device.

Given these behaviors, scientists can try to study what specific parts of the brain go wrong in HD, ultimately leading to the symptoms of depression.

A recent interview with two Nobel Laureates gave him renewed hope for the future, however, especially when the scientists declared the 21st century as the century when scientists will finally understand the brain.

Over hundreds of years, scientists have learned much about the brain, including the countless methods through which information is transferred from neuron to neuron at a junction called a synapse, and how hundreds — even thousands — of neurons can function together to form a larger circuit responsible for any given activity.

The five - year grant will allow the scientists to further refine their design to combine electrical and optical recordings, which will give them the ability to visualize how brain regions and large groups of brain cells work together as the brain senses, learns, plans and executes actions.

Given the extent to which bacteria are now understood to influence human physiology, it is hardly surprising that scientists have turned their attention to how bacteria might affect the brain.»

«Debbie Hampton gives a behind the scenes look at the workings of the mind and brain, and draws from some of the leading scientists and teachers of our time.

In a new study, a group scientists gave volunteers a chapter of «Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone» to scan various regions of the brain for what happens there when reading.

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Now if neuro - scientists were claiming that a particular naturally biologically occurring chemical could drastically raise or lower brain function; but they only knew it because of computer models; and the computer models» prediction so far were garbage; and many of the neuro - scientists were caught lying and fudging data; and the chemical were necessary for normal brain function anyway; but they were arguing that we should reorder the world economy anyway by giving them control of the global food economy to limit the slight increase in ingestion that they claim is so dangerous....

This research gives scientists a better insight into how brain injury works.