Sentences with phrase «brain state during»

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«Re-entry», as Edelman states, «provides the critical means by which the activities of distributed multiple brain areas are linked, bound, and then dynamically altered in time during perceptual categorization.

In the doc - u-mentary, «Into the Unknown: Strange But True,» Dr. Fenwick describes the state of the brain during a NDE:

«Garcia - Falgueras and Swaab state in the abstract of their 2010 study, «The fetal brain develops during the intrauterine period in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge.

«Garcia - Falgueras and Swaab state in the abstract of their 2010 study, «The fe - tal brain develops during the intraut - erine period in the male direction through a direct action of tes - tosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hor - mone surge.

Noting that in most states football teams typically switch from limited contact levels during the preseason to two practices a day, at least one of which includes contact, they expressed concern that, based on their findings, «the brain may not be able to adjust quickly to this change, leaving players at increased risk for injury» at the beginning of the football season.

During baby's active state we will share how to engage baby in playful, brain building activities.

Even the most state of the art strollers can't provide the warmth that a mother's body does, her comforting smell, the varied movement, and the sensitive motherly responses that are so essential to her baby's healthy growth and development, especially during such a critical period when his brain is growing more than any period in his life.

I encourage motionless sleep because vibration or motion during sleep can force the brain to stay in a lighter sleep state and reduce the restorative power of sleep.

She inquired due to the circumstances involving the 2011 death of Frostburg State football player Derek Sheely, who died after suffering a brain injury during preseason practice.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Republicans with exploratory committees include Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, whose $ 33,790 in the third quarter brought his total to $ 195,941 (Boughton underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor during the quarter); State Sen. Toni Boucher of Wilton ($ 43,336 third quarter, $ 58,890 total) and Norwalk's Steve Obsitnik, who raised $ 63,696 in the third quarter and $ 265,363 to date.

HARTFORD — State Sen. Andrew Maynard, who suffered a traumatic brain injury during a fall 18 months ago, announced on Wednesday he will not seek a sixth term.

Researchers used health data gathered during recent personal interviews with the subjects, and also analyzed data from MRI scans showing the current state of the subjects» brain cortices.

«It has long been thought that the stress of a mother during her pregnancy may imprint on the brain of her developing child,» says Moriah Thomason of Wayne State University who is presenting this new work at the 25th meeting for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Boston today.

• During early and late states of infection, Zika RNA was detected in tissues, including the brain and male and female reproductive tissues.

To study brain network reconfiguration, the Rutgers scientists compared participants» resting - state networks to the networks active during language, reasoning, and memory tasks and computed how similar each task - related network was to the resting - state network.

During brain stimulation, 13 people with minimal consciousness and two people in a vegetative state showed signs of awareness that were observed neither before the stimulation nor after the sham treatment.

Therefore, during puberty the brain is in a highly vulnerable state for any kind of reward, and drug rewards in particular.

Using two data sets of functional MRI brain scans from more than 350 adult and child siblings during resting state, Fair and colleagues applied an innovative technique to characterize functional connectivity and machine learning to successfully identify siblings based on their connectotype.

To some neuroscientists, however, the phenomenon is of profound interest, and they are using lucid dreamers to explore some of the weirder aspects of the brain's behaviour during the dream state (see «Dream mysteries»).

We experience our most vivid dreams during REM sleep, a paradoxical state characterized by awake - like brain activity.

«The correlated brain regions gave us insight about which areas of the brain work together during an awake, resting state,» said Godwin, a Georgia Tech psychology Ph.D. candidate.

«Interestingly, research has suggested that these same brain patterns measured during these states are related to different cognitive abilities.»

One such possibility is suggested by first author of the study Laura D. Lewis, Ph.D. «This technique now gives us a method for obtaining much more detailed information about the complex brain activity that takes place during sleep, as well as other dynamic switches in brain states, such as when under anesthesia and during hallucinations.»

In the past several years, however, it has been shown that performing an fMRI scan of the brain during a «mind - wandering» state is just as valuable, «said Sina Aslan, Ph.D., President of Advance MRI and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas.

Last month, Ursula Voss of Bonn University in Germany and colleagues reported that even during lucid dreaming — a state in which some people claim to be able to control their dreams — some areas of the brain associated with intent stayed offline, while other areas associated with consciousness were active.

During the fMRI, participants were asked to do an empathetic processing task, which tapped into their ability to think about the emotional states of other people, while the fMRI measured their simultaneous brain activity.

Our investigations also open a new route for understanding how different physiological states of the body influence stem cells in the brain during health and disease, and opens new ways for thinking about therapy,» says Fiona Doetsch.

The scientists will continue to explore brain activity during sleep and awake states, as a means to understand the common and essential features of vertebrate brain function.

In the midst of one of these studies, they observed that brain activity recorded from resting lizards during the night oscillated regularly between two states.

And surely Φ was low during the frenzy of seizures, or the deep waves of unconscious sleep, because the repertoire of distinguishable brain states was bound to shrink.

In summary, the results of this study show the potential for functional MRI to bridge the dissociation that can occur between behavior that is readily observable during a standardized clinical assessment and the actual level of residual cognitive function after serious brain injury.14 - 16 Thus, among 23 patients who received a diagnosis of being in a vegetative state on admission, 4 were shown to be able to willfully modulate their brain activity through mental imagery; this fact is inconsistent with the behavioral diagnosis.

Our data reflects the level of efficient organization of the functional brain network during a resting state and not the efficiency of functional connectivity between brain regions during the performance of specific cognitive tasks that enter into the IQ score.

More recently, we showed that when we place people in brain scanners and ask them to do nothing, their brains are spontaneously activated in a highly organized manner during this resting state, which we later called a default mode of brain function.

«Dolphins have an unusual form of sleep, in which only one side of the brain goes to sleep at a time, and during this state they continue to swim and have some awareness,» he said.

Previous studies of resting state functional connectivity have demonstrated that the default - mode network (DMN) is negatively correlated with a set of brain regions commonly activated during goal - directed tasks.

Resting - state functional magnetic resonance imaging allows investigating whole - brain connectivity changes during pharmacological modulation of the level of consciousness.Low - frequency spontaneous blood oxygen level - dependent fluctuations were measured in 19 healthy volunteers during wakefulness, mild sedation, deep sedation with clinical unconsciousness, and subsequent recovery of consciousness.Propofol - induced decrease in consciousness linearly correlates with decreased corticocortical and thalamocortical connectivity in frontoparietal networks (i.e., default - and executive - control networks).

The default - mode network (DMN) is a set of specific brain regions whose activity, predominant in the resting - state, is attenuated during cognitively demanding, externally - cued tasks.

Here, we first introduce various quantification metrics based on the extension of co-activation pattern (CAP) analysis, a recently proposed point - process analysis that tracks state alternations at each individual time frame and relies on very few assumptions; then apply these proposed metrics to quantify changes of brain dynamics during a sustained 2 - back working memory (WM) task compared to rest.

Here we assess functional brain network organization of 23 of the world's most successful memory athletes and matched controls with fMRI during both task - free resting state baseline and active memory encoding.

Recently, fMRI researchers have begun to realize that the brain's intrinsic network patterns may undergo substantial changes during a single resting state (RS) scan.

In a typical fMRI data set acquired during resting - state, BOLD (blood - oxygen level - dependent) signals often exhibit strong correlations between distant brain areas despite a lack of external stimuli or a cognitive engagement [1]--[3].

For example, transgenic mice lacking dopamine, a key brain chemical for motor control, provide an integral animal model for studying the changes in brain dynamics during the induction and recovery from an induced Parkinsonian state.

The parts of the brain that are consistently under - stimulated in someone who is in a depressive state are even more than typically engaged during video game play.

During times of chronic stress, we stop converting glutamate into GABA efficiently which leaves our brains in a stimulated state.

During NREM your body enters a state of deep relaxation, while your brain is processing memories and getting some much needed R&R.

In Yoga Nidra, you will move out of Beta brain wave state - this is where we vibrate at during stress and most of every day living - into Alpha + Theta brain wave states.

Neuroscientist mapping the brain states accessed during meditation say that meditation slows the patterns called delta waves.

Some studies show it helps during excitable brain states, which could allow people to function better with elevated levels of other stimulants.

Based on a newly published systematic review of current research, WHO has reaffirmed its position that Zika virus infection during pregnancy is a cause of congenital brain abnormalities, including microcephaly, and refined its position on the relationship between Zika virus infection and Guillain - Barré syndrome, stating that Zika virus infection is a trigger of Guillain - Barré syndrome.