Sentences with phrase «brain system controlling»

However, the brain has some self - repairing potential that accounts for the renewal of certain neuronal populations living in the dentate gyrus, a simple cortical region that is part of the larger functional brain system controlling learning and memory, the hippocampus.

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«Chronic stress and overexposure to cortisol — which increases sugars in your bloodstream, alters your immune system responses, suppresses your digestive and reproductive systems, and communicates with that part of your brain that controls mood, motivation and fear — puts you at risk for mental health problems like anxiety and depression, and a whole host of physical health issues,» writes Levy.

Furthermore, we found that in people who intentionally mind wander, two main brain networks broadly overlap each other: the default - mode network, which is active when focusing on information from memory, and the fronto - parietal network, which stabilizes our focus and inhibits irrelevant stimuli as part of our cognitive control system.»

In vegetables and perhaps in very simple animals no such dominant occasion occurs, but in the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavior.

The link between depression and the immune system has been shown using positron emission tomography using a tracer for the translocator protein (TSPO) showing increased immune activation in the brains of patients with major depressive disorder compared with control subjects.

«The birth control pill jumps into this relay system midstream, delivering two key s e x hormones that trick the brain into thinking the body is already pregnant.

What all these have in common is that, without any central control, individual units (genes, cells neurons or workers) respond to simple, local information, in ways that allow the whole system (cells, brains, organisms or colonies) to function: the appropriate number of units performs each activity at the appropriate time.

Schore points out that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, a brain region in the right hemisphere, both has the most complex emotion and stress - regulating systems of any part in the brain and is also the center of Bowlby's attachment control system.

Animal studies show that low levels of BPA affect the hormones that control the development of the brain, the reproductive system, and the immune system.

«Once born, baby's hormonal control systems and brain synapses begin to permanently organize according to the human interactions she experiences.»

The brain develops rapidly throughout these weeks, while the nervous system has developed enough to control some function.

The limbic system — the emotion centre of the brain — gets flooded with emotion, while the prefrontal cortex — the rational, thinking part of the brain that governs impulse control — becomes deactivated.

Some autopsy data shows that infants of smokers have signs of established hypoxic - ischemic cellular injury in the brain and the heart which probably occurred in antenatal life, may have been caused by suboptimal placental function and may have been sub-clinical, but if the baby continues to be in a vulnerable environment exposed to post-natal passive smoking, this could affect autonomic nervous system function and lead to poor temperature control, and poor heart rate and respiration control.

«Having executive function in the brain is like having an air traffic control system at a busy airport to manage the arrivals and departures of dozens of planes on multiple runways,» is how the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University describes it.

The nervous system — meaning the brain, the spine and all the nerves that exit the spine to go to the rest of the body — it's your master control system.

So benefits to getting adjusted, we talked about nervous system experts — brain, spinal cord — that controls and coordinates everything that happens in the body.

And in normal human development, these right - brain features are able to control our brain's survival systems, which include stress response.

If left to accumulate, this «junk» can overwhelm nerve cells» quality control systems, triggering incurable brain disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's.

Our homeostatic system regulates our need for food and is controlled mainly in the hypothalamus (in the lower region of the brain).

The patients used brain - machine interfaces, including a virtual reality system that used their own brain activity to simulate full control of their legs.

«The day before his first attempt at using the intracortical BCI for controlling a computer cursor, I described to T5 that the system was going to be recording from a part of the brain that was responsible for coordinating hand and arm movement,» Brandman said.

Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

SISSA Trieste researcher, Moses Sokunbi, has reviewed the literature on feedback control systems and neurofeedback in order to provide some insights into how the basic principles of feedback control systems are the building blocks of the advanced brain - computer interfacing technique popularly dubbed «neurofeedback.»

If we can boost the immune system and allow microglia to do their job and control brain tumor stem cells, it would be like removing the seed from the soil — stopping the tumor growth before it starts to get out of control.»

It is based on the «self - regulation» of brain activations underpinned by the principles of feedback control systems.

He says the new results represent only a minor advance, but Miller counters that the new system uses more brain electrodes, allowing better control.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Seewiesen have now discovered that in zebra finches the song control system in the brain is also active during simple communication calls.

He says the new results represent only a minor advance, but Miller counters that the new system uses more brain electrodes than Moritz's — 100 rather than 12 — allowing better control.

The newly unmasked genes play a role in three distinctively different bodily functions, including systems that control inflammation and cholesterol and the regulation of how brain cells clean up toxic proteins.

Much of the current confusion in neuroscience research on fear stems from the conflation of two separate phenomena that are both labeled «fear»: behavioral and physiological fear responses elicited by threats, such as a snake or a mugger, and conscious feelings of fear, which occur in the same situation but are controlled by a different brain system.

In fact, officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which funded the roborat team, have suggested that cyborg soldiers could control weapons systems — or be controlled — via brain chips.

The system mimics the «homunculus model of mind» — the idea that there's a small human inside our brains controlling our actions, viewing the images we see and understanding them for us.

Previous brain - machine interface systems have made it possible for people to control robots, cursors, or prosthetics with conscious thought, but they often take a lot of effort and concentration, says José del R. Millán, a biomedical engineer at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, who develops brain - machine interface systems that don't need to be implanted into the brain.

The endocannabinoid system is located throughout the mammalian body, including the brain and all peripheral organs, and participates in the control of many physiological functions in the body, including food intake, energy balance, and reward.

The work was aimed at developing a system to help paralyzed people control external devices, such as a mouse pointer, with brain signals.

This noninvasive system for leg muscle stimulation is a promising method and is an advance of our current brain - controlled systems that use virtual reality or a robotic exoskeleton.»

«We were driven to assist disabled people, and our study shows that this brain control interface can easily and intuitively control an exoskeleton system — despite the highly challenging artefacts from the exoskeleton itself» concludes Muller.

Fresh insight emerges into the complex genetics that dictate how the nervous system wires itself for fine - motor control, which gives humans the dexterity for everything from brain surgery to texting

From a neurological perspective, when we experience a healthy sense of control, our prefrontal cortex (the executive functioning part of our brain) regulates the amygdala (a part of the brain's threat detection system that initiates the fight or flight response).

A new way to link artificial arms and hands to the nervous system could allow the brain to control prostheses as smoothly as if they were natural limbs

A brain - computer interface, also known as a brain - machine interface (BCI), is a system that allows a person to control a computer using only their thoughts.

McKenna points out that infants are susceptible both to colic and SIDS during the same narrow developmental window, between about six to 14 weeks — the time period during which the respiratory system is learning how to shift between voluntary and involuntary control of breathing that involves both the «thinking» part of the brain (the cortex) and the brain stem.

More savings will be achieved by simplifying ITER's control, data access and communications system — essentially the brain and senses of the reactor.

Using what are called brain — machine interfaces (BMIs)-- essentially cyborg connections between prosthetic devices and the nervous system — researchers for the first time were able to show that the process of learning to use a BMI - controlled device can trigger significant neurological recovery in patients with chronic spinal cord injuries.

According to Margeta, the control system discovered by her lab keeps the brain from wasting energy on protection when it's unnecessary.

Brain - machine interfaces (BMIs) are computational systems that allow subjects to use their brain signals to directly control the movements of artificial devices, such as robotic arms, exoskeletons or virtual avaBrain - machine interfaces (BMIs) are computational systems that allow subjects to use their brain signals to directly control the movements of artificial devices, such as robotic arms, exoskeletons or virtual avabrain signals to directly control the movements of artificial devices, such as robotic arms, exoskeletons or virtual avatars.

«Handedness and language are controlled by different genetic systems, but there is a weak relationship between the two because both functions originate on the left side of the brain,» he said.

As networked control systems have grown increasingly large and complex, system designers have moved away from having system devices — or «agents» — coordinate their activities through a single, centralized computer hub, or brain.

Our brains seem to have been designed to allow the fear system to take control in threatening situations and prevent our conscious awareness from reigning.

The octopus is suffused with nervousness; the body is not a separate thing that is controlled by the brain or nervous system.