Sentences with phrase «brain scientists think»

When it comes to nature versus nurture, brain scientists think both matter.

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Although you can access gamma brain waves during periods of extremely high functioning, it's the beta waves that scientists associate with everyday alertness, critical thinking, socialization, learning and cognitive processing.

Brain waves usually are monitored in hospitals or research labs, but I'm in a conference room at a company called Emotiv, where a few dozen scientists have developed the gear and software that quite literally read my mind, allowing me to play a sort of video game with nothing but sheer thought.

This is why a few scientists I spoke with think holding my daughter releases a lot of natural opioids in my brain; that'd explain why it feels so good and satisfying.

Long despised as a craft of the lazy and unproductive, spontaneous thought (including nostalgic trips down memory lane and fantasizing about the future) is now viewed by brain scientists as a critical aspect of healthy functioning.

Addyi, known to scientists as flibanserin, is thought to work by changing the balance of certain brain neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin.

just like I thought... silence from another big talking «scientist» The fact is the Bible can't be proven wrong, quit being brain washed by the devil, and be not faithless but believing!!

Unfortunately, your way of thinking has been proven to be detrimental over and over again by those Atheists with working brains (only 8 % of scientists claim to have a belief system in the super natural).

Bill, I feel sorry for you, you being a scientist and yet unable to create anything close to a human, or a constellation system, or a brain to think really logically with is amazing to me... if you want to believe that there was a big explosion somewhere in the universe beyond this world and that is how you came to be you can keep that theory but don't tell parents what to do with there children.

Under the guise of the scientific notion, I defy science to reproduce the human brain, create DNA that matches with another person, create a universe that has order, make humans with all the complexities all the same with identical DNA factors, and every human with the same finger prints as another, and when an atheistic scientist can do that, I will rethink my level of thoughts in regards to God.

@ 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.

The scientists then scanned the brains of their subjects while they thought about God and found that they used «similar parts» of their brains when thinking about their own and about God's beliefs, and a different part when thinking about other people's.

And, in recent and evolving research, scientists are charting a «global parental caregiving network» that gets shaped in a new parent's brain to bring about some of the very thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that Kelly and other new parents experience.

One is early childhood when the brain is malleable, so plastic... and the other is in adolescence that is because of a phenomenon which scientists call meta cognition which means thinking about thinking.

By combining a large number of neuron - imitating skyrmions, the thinking goes, scientists could create a computer that operates something like a brain.

«But scientists are studying whether the Parkinson's drug levodopa, which can ease movement symptoms, can also influence brain functions such as memory, quick thinking and learning.»

As someone whose brain has shriveled at least one time, maybe twice (scientists don't know if the brain keeps getting smaller with subsequent pregnancies), I find it fascinating to think about this remodeling.

Unfortunately, this study can't tell scientists if children's brains actually are maturing faster than we think they are.

Yet until she proved otherwise, few scientists thought MHCI or other so - called «immune molecules» were even present in a normally functioning brain.

Naturally, the idea that trauma could cause a brain to shrink could be completely wrong, the sort of chicken - and - egg mess that often trips up scientists just when they think they've found a clue.

After the seminar, Bolles let me pick his brain concerning what he thought scientists should look for when they consider a new job opportunity.

None of this work is without controversy, but an increasing number of scientists now think that our brains are wired for mystical experiences.

Because there's evidence that the words we hear and the words we recall or imagine trigger similar brain processes, the study, published online today in PLoS Biology, suggests scientists may one day be able to tune in to the words you're thinking — a potential boon for patients who are unable to speak due to Lou Gehrig's disease or other conditions.

Some scientists think the secret is in short electrochemical pulses exchanged between neurons — the language of the brain.

An international team of scientists, including one from the University of Colorado Denver and another from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, announced the discovery Thursday of a new species of hominin, a small creature with a tiny brain that opens the door to a new way of thinking about our ancient ancestors.

The brain of a female migraineur looks so unlike the brain of a male migraineur, asserts Harvard scientist Nasim Maleki, that we should think of migraines in men and women as «different diseases altogether.»

«This is the kind of study where you think «Yes, I can believe these results,»» because they fit well with what scientists know about fetal brain development, says cognitive scientist Karin Stromswold of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in New Jersey.

Some computer scientists think that by letting chips build themselves, the chips will turn out to be stunninglyefficient, complex, effective, and weird — kind of like our brains.

Long before scientists were studying the properties of neurons, artists had devised a series of techniques to «trick» the brain into thinking that a flat canvas was three - dimensional or that a series of brushstrokes was actually a still life.

Some scientists think that these bursts of brain activity help young brains form the right connections between regions.

«When we are learning new information, our brain has two different ways to remember the material for a short period of time, either by mentally rehearsing the sounds of the words or thinking about the meaning of the words,» says Dr. Jed Meltzer, lead author and neurorehabilitation scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute.

The scientists think the effect probably reflects the time it takes the brain to relax after being agitated by the phone's electrical field.

What scientists once thought was unremarkable cellular «noise» in neuron signaling has come to be viewed as important to overall system - wide functioning in the brain.

To believe in a supernatural god or universal spirit, people appear to suppress the brain network used for analytical thinking and engage the empathetic network, the scientists say.

It's when you're resting, say you're semi-dozing, you're kind of lying in your chair, you're kind of relaxed or even sleeping, once upon a time we had this idea, or scientists had this idea that the brain is pretty much inactive then, that you've shut off in effect your conscious thinking, then also your brain was not doing much.

Deciphering this so - called neural code — think of it as the brain's software — is the ultimate goal of many scientists tinkering with brain - machine interfaces.

As noted in the paper published in May in PLoS ONE, other scientists had previously found that divergent thinking, or the ability to «think outside the box,» involves the brain's dopamine communication system.

PARIS — The brain drain of French scientists to the United States might not be huge, but America lures some of the country's best researchers who may never come back, concludes a study carried out by the French think tank Institut Montaigne.

«At a time when «the gut» too often tends to prevail over the brain, within the political class as in the media, any call to think can only be salutary,» says François Burgat, a CNRS political scientist at the Institute for Research and Study on the Arab and Muslim World in Aix - en - Provence.

For almost a century, scientists have been studying brain waves to learn about mental health and the way we think.

In March 2002, the journal Nature detailed the work of scientists at Brown University in Rhode Island who implanted electrodes in the brains of monkeys that allowed the primates to move a computer cursor just by thinking about it.

I think we need all the brain power and willpower we can gather, and I'm encouraged when other scientists draw their attention to translating their findings to the clinic.»

The brain may interpret the information it receives from sensory neurons using a code more complicated than scientists previously thought, according to new research from the National Autonomous...

However, that isn't how Prothena scientists think PRX002 works: they believe, based on cell culture and in vivo studies, that PRX002 captures aggregated AS directly in the brain, preventing the uptake by neurons.

«Many scientists suspected that the virus had hidden away in her brain and something happened that meant that she subsequently developed meningitis, I don't think we really know what that trigger was.

Three Foundation researchers — Senior Research Scientists, James Sumowski, Ph.D., and Karen Nolan, Ph.D., as well as Assistant Director of Engineering Research Peter Barrance, Ph.D. — will be working with physicians and other clinical experts at Children's Specialized Hospital, where they will together investigate ways to improve mobility and cognition — thinking, learning and memory — in children with various challenges, including brain and spinal cord injuries.

Scientists working in computational psychiatry at Brown are thinking about how they can use their work modeling the brain to address psychiatric disease, such as depression.

Rockefeller University president Paul Nurse welcomed her arrival saying, «Cori Bargmann typifies the Rockefeller scientist: she is bold and highly original in her thinking and her approach to studying the brain and other components of the nervous system.»

Scientists thought for a long time that it could be detrimental if areas of one hemisphere of the brain took over work of the other, said David Bundy, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kansas Medical Center and the lead author of the paper.

Published in Neuron, scientists led by Gladstone associate investigator Anatol Kreitzer, PhD, discovered that dopamine depletion causes a miscommunication between the BG and another region called the thalamus, an area thought to relay sensory information to the brain.