Sleep deprivation (even just getting less than six hours a night) is a kind of chronic stress that impairs how the body and
brain use energy.
Not exact matches
Our
brains are wired to dwell on negative experiences, so why not put that mental
energy to
use?
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energy versus sugar.
Whenever a sweet substance touches the tongue, our
brains senses that this is food and it is time for our body to produce insulin to take that food and bring it into our cells for the
use of
energy.
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Energy Bar uses green tea extract for an energy boost and choline to support brain h
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energy boost and choline to support brain h
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The reason why is unknown, but it is believed that
brain recovery requires some degree of
energy expenditure, and if
energy is being
used elsewhere, such as with physical exertion, this may delay
brain recovery.
Agreed, Ramsey has the
energy to run around for 90 minutes, but what is the
use of
energy without a football
brain?
Resting conserves
energy so the body and
brain can
use it for recovery.
Using metaphors developed by FrameWorks and tested with audiences both in the United States and in Alberta, «How
Brains are Built» infuses core story concepts with
energy, accessibility, and high fidelity to the science.
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use various
Brain Integration Techniques to remove stress from circuits in the brain by using acupressure points, kinesiology, and healing en
Brain Integration Techniques to remove stress from circuits in the
brain by using acupressure points, kinesiology, and healing en
brain by
using acupressure points, kinesiology, and healing
energy.
Both galactose and glucose can also be
used by the
brain for
energy, and galactose in particular is critical for the production of galactolipids (cerebroside), which are essential for the baby's developing central nervous system.
Mature
brains use less
energy to tell sounds apart, she says.
Elevated levels of ghrelin signal the
brain that the body is
using energy and will soon need more fuel.
They found that the concentration of adenosine rises steadily during periods of alertness, when the
brain uses the most
energy, and drops during naps or deep sleep.
«When you deplete these reserves — whether through sleep deprivation, which alters how the
brain and body
use energy, or through pushing too hard on too many projects — the quality of your work plummets, along with the usual pleasure of working on something important, such as doing good science.»
Five years ago, Modha concluded that if the world's best engineers still hadn't figured out how to match the
brain's
energy efficiency and resourcefulness after decades of trying
using the old methods, perhaps they never would.
Modha is confident that his chips can be
used to build a cognitive computing system on the scale of a human
brain for only 100 times more power, making it 10 million times more
energy efficient than the computers of today.
Salk Institute scientists showed how an FDA - approved drug boosts the health of
brain cells by limiting their
energy use.
Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in
use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an
energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that
uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the
brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a
brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.
Thamara Perera, FRCS, of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, in the UK, and his colleagues
used microdialysis, a novel technique to study the differences in basic
energy metabolism between organs from DCD and
brain death donors.
The researchers
used imaging technology that tracks both
brain blood flow — as a measure of
energy use — and the organization and strength of connections within intrinsic neural networks.
During HIIT training, e.g. ketones and lactates are being formed which the
brain can
use as a source of
energy.
Under some conditions it can also be
used as an
energy substrate, so if the
brain needs a lot of
energy, it can
use some of the glutamine to power the cells.»
Even better than the real thing, the NIST synapse can fire much faster than the human
brain — 1 billion times per second, compared to a
brain cell's 50 times per second —
using just a whiff of
energy, about one ten - thousandth as much as a human synapse.
How else can our
brains achieve so much mind power without
using any more
energy, pound for pound, than the
brains of other animals?
«These are areas of the
brain where large populations of neurons are firing often, and this
uses up a lot of
energy, so it's not surprising that we see an altered metabolic profile with a massive expansion of blood vessels.»
PET is much less precise, but does a good job of showing where the
brain is
using sugar, the
energy source of living cells.
Plunges in
energy use could signal decline in
brain function, and the researchers decided to focus on the hippocampus, a part of the
brain known to be affected in Alzheimer's.
The newborn
brain principally
uses glucose for
energy and prolonged hypoglycemia has been associated with poor long - term neurodevelopment and neurocognition.
Laughlin and David Attwell at University College London estimate that neural signaling accounts for 80 percent of the
brain's
energy use, whereas keeping those neurons charged and ready to fire takes only 15 percent.
Well it goes down in the sense [that] it gets a little more focused as well; now know what's happening is this
brain dark
energy, which scientists call the
brain default mode network — and they
use the word default because when you're not doing anything else — this is background
brain activity that is constantly occurring is all about the
brain anticipating and predicting what'll happen next in the environment.
The cognitive demands of those relationships made bigger
brains the best
use of the extra fruit - derived
energy.
PET / CT scans reveal how much
energy their
brains are
using, and MRI shows which parts are damaged.
Antimatter at lower
energies is
used in Positron Emission Tomography (see this PET image of the
brain).
Further analysis found that mice possess NPGL, and its associated neuron network, in the exact same locations of the
brain as those regions already known to control appetite suppression and
energy use.
According to the model, an animal that bases its decisions only on its current
energy reserves can survive almost as long as one that
uses its
brain to calculate the best thing to do.
Circadian mechanisms influence metabolism — how our body
uses and stores
energy — blood pressure, body temperature, inflammation, and
brain function.
That would require quantifying how much
energy it takes to build and
use a web compared with the cost of performing the same operations with
brain tissue.
When I was an undergrad I learned about how much
energy the
brain used and how much computation it did with that
energy, and it was orders and orders of magnitude — six orders of magnitude or more — more efficient than a computer.
Without frataxin, tissues that
use the most
energy get hurt first: the
brain, heart and pancreas.»
A study
using mice found these high -
energy particles slice through the
brain.
This could be because the
use of
energy is compromised in the
brains of people with Huntington's and urea is produced as the damaged
brain tries to find alternative
energy sources.
A medical procedure, ECT
uses brief, low -
energy electrical pulses to stimulate nerve - cell activity in the area of the
brain that affects mood.
Different types of
brain tumours may
use strikingly similar approaches to generate and
use energy to survive in the
brain, according to a new study * published in PLOS ONE.
Research from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute suggests that 4 types of
brain tumours, and cancers that have spread to the
brain, all generate and
use energy with the same, specialised processes.
The grand challenge is to «[c] reate a new type of computer that can proactively interpret and learn from data, solve unfamiliar problems
using what it has learned, and operate with the
energy efficiency of the human
brain.»