Sentences with phrase «brain states such»

Previous research has shown that eye movements in response to visual stimuli can serve as a biomarker for brain states such as fatigue or high mental concentration.

Not exact matches

This acclimation process gives the software a chance to record your brain waves and trains you to use them consistently before it throws a series of increasingly difficult challenges at you, such as reconstructing simply via thought a fallen bridge needed for a mystical journey while a fiery sky changes hue in response to your emotional state.

These newly implicated areas of the brain are generally associated with reward, and have been linked to the pleasurable feelings and motivational states associated with stimuli such as sex, cocaine, and good food.

So to label that «normal state» with a label such as «atheist», that then gets used as an epithet by the brain washed, seems pretty silly really.

This miserable worm, with such means of knowledge at his command as the Ten Commandments, racks his brains as to what to do in life's conflicting situations and lives in a state of discord and fear, only to earn condemnation at the end.

All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The Romantic lie in the brain Of the sensual man - in - the - street And the lie of Authority Those buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone...

But, although some of the specific experiences, such as pains, may be (at least virtually) determined by the brain (at least in what we usually consider «normal,» as distinct from «altered,» states of consciousness), others, such as thoughts and decisions, are not, but are based upon the mind's self - determination.

Or has the American collective brain atrophied to such a pathetic state where any idiot can be elected just by mentioning the word «abortion»?

«Interconnectedness» is another illusion that comes with altered brain states — probably over-firing of some empathy mirror neurons or some such thing.

He likens the effects to those from exercise, stating intermittent fasting could help protect your brain against degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

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.

Their opinion of us lowly citizens is that we don't have the brains to handle such things as coming up with a good idea to help our state run smoother.

Selected federal, state and administrative law judges have heard leading neuroscientists reflect on such topics as the neuroscience of violence and the brain, memory and lie detection, the adolescent brain, and states of consciousness.

Neuroscientists have long suspected that the network of neurons in our brains might be connected in such a way that they achieve a state of «self - organised criticality» (SOC), in which they are neither ordered nor random, but somewhere in between.

To maintain its foothold in large - scale, world - class research, Japan has launched its own Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in Eubrain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in Eubrain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in EuBrain Project (HBP) in EuBrain Project (HBP) in Europe.

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Brain scans of a 23 - year - old woman who, in a traffic accident, sustained head injuries so severe she met the clinical criteria for a vegetative state are forcing many doctors to reconsider what they know about such patients» awareness.

«Neural network models are brain - inspired models that are now state - of - the - art in many artificial intelligence applications, such as computer vision.»

«That means we can study such brain states in animal models like flies or mice without worrying about whether they have «feelings» or not.

Obama, he said, elevated the role of science and technology advisers throughout the executive branch, put in place plans to mitigate and prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change, set up health research initiatives to tackle such priorities as cancer and brain research, worked with international partners on scientific issues and used the White House as a platform from which to herald science and education, particularly for children.

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.»

The scientists suggest this same brain circuitry could be involved in integrating other motivational drive states such as thirst.

However, as chipmakers such as Intel continually shrink the size of their chips so they can act as the brains of increasingly smaller devices, they need new approaches to memory that combine the best assets of solid - state and hard - disk memory and keeps costs comparable, if not lower.

Cognitive dissonance is a better descriptor for an internal state, although we should remember that all such descriptions are inferences from behavior, language, brain scans, and so on, not direct observations of someone else's mind.

Gabrieli and his colleagues used functional MRI scanning to monitor the naturally fluctuating brain activity of 20 volunteers and investigate whether the brain enters such a learning state.

Some physicists have suggested that such experiments could test whether a superposition of two states could survive in a person's sensory system, and perhaps be perceived in the brain.

For example, the amygdala is activated by arousal and positive emotions as well, so the key to interpreting such scans is careful experimental design that allows comparison between brain states.

Our «inner brain» receives sensory information from the outer brain, integrates it with memories, internal states — such as hunger or arousal — and goals, then sends a plan of action back out to our muscles.

Raichle's observation of patterns of ongoing brain activity when the subject is in a resting state, or when the brain is not actively engaged in performing tasks such as recalling events or learning new words, has transformed the way the human brain is now being studied in health and disease.

Our Organ - Chips — such as lung, liver, intestine, and brain — accurately recreate human biology and disease states.

Others, biochemists, have been saying that it may be a toxic state that absorption of chemicals such as opioid, peptides, morphine like substances from the gut that you and I produce in our diet from milk and wheat, are actually getting access through that leaky gut into the developing brain.

In this study, we investigate three questions pertaining to this hypothesis: Does such a resting - state network exist in the human brain?

Such communities of nodes, also known as modules, have been identified in a number of brain network studies of resting - state fMRI [9]--[13], and although the number of nodes may substantially differ in these studies, the number of modules seems fairly comparable.

One of the first such studies (Dhond et al. study [57]-RRB- found that verum acupuncture, but not monofilament tapping increased resting state connectivity of the default mode network (DMN) to pain, affective and memory related regions of the brain.

It has beneficial effects on neurons, repairing them from damage induced by some states such as high blood sugar, and can also be used as a brain booster due to its effects at increasing alertness, mitochondrial capacity, and neuron activity.

The release of energy in this state is sufficient only for the functioning of the vital organs, such as the heart, lungs, brain and the rest of the nervous system, liver, kidneys, sex organs, muscles and skin.

Most treatments for depression and anxiety are based on the low - serotonin theory of depression, which roughly states that depression is due to decreased production of certain neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, in the brain.

Perry Renshaw, MD, PhD, director of the Brain Imaging Center at McLean Hospital and senior author stated, «The development of an inexpensive, widely available intervention such as yoga that has no side effects but is effective in alleviating the symptoms of disorders associated with low GABA levels has clear public health advantage.

The Journal stated that occupations such as college professors, doctors, musicians, architects, and pilots are mentally challenging and more likely to prevent cognitive decline than occupations that require less brain work.

A recent study from the journal behavioral brain research shows that regular, steady state cardio such as brisk walking or jogging resulted in higher blood levels of hormones that is associated with a strong memory.

As stated above, when improperly metabolized proteins (such as gluten or casein) are able to escape the gut lining into the bloodstream, they can cross the protective blood - brain barrier.

Some experts state that cinnamon can be used for curing various brain diseases such as Alzheimer or Parkinson.

According to neuroscientists like Eric Jensen, priming the brain for particular states of engagement — such as curiosity, intrigue, surprise, suspense, a bit of confusion, skepticism, and the feeling of safety — prepares the mind to learn.

One such example of false hopes that Jorgenson (2003) wrote about, and can be found in the research conducted by McCabe and Castel (2008), states that educators should be aware «that much of the brain based information in the field of education is developed and promoted by educational consultants, few of whom have credentials in the field of neuroscience.

Thanks to articles and documentaries such as Waiting for «Superman,» most of us have an image seared into our brain of a slew of know - nothing teachers, removed from the classroom after years of sleeping through class, sitting in state - funded «rubber rooms» while continuing to draw hefty salaries.

As Ed Week reported: «Californians Together, a research and advocacy group for the state's 1.6 million English - learners, is the brain trust behind this bill and catapulted the long - term ELL issue into the national spotlight a few years ago with its report showing that large numbers of such students were languishing in California's public schools.

The organization's website states that it «supports research studies conducted by university - associated social scientists and neuroscientists and develops evidence - based educational programs for children, such as MindUp, using cutting - edge scientific research on the brain and social emotional learning.»

Borrowing its title from the network of regions in the brain that become active when «an individual is not focused on the outside world but rather in a wakeful - resting state such as daydreaming, speculating, or contemplating the past», Default State Network playfully explores creative production through a variety of media, methods and sysstate such as daydreaming, speculating, or contemplating the past», Default State Network playfully explores creative production through a variety of media, methods and sysState Network playfully explores creative production through a variety of media, methods and systems.

His art has shown in numerous exhibitions across the United States, with works in institutions such as the Luo Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Bentley University, deCordova Museum, and the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

We know that in our current state of technology saturation, human brains tend to be exhausted from engaging in «hard fascination» — watching TV, computer screens, handheld devices, or other stimulating settings such as sporting events or amusement parks.