And I've actually been studying these alpha
brain waves more and more and ways that you can amplify them.
Why is one set of
brain waves more right than another?
Dunk «Why is one set of
brain waves more right than another?»
Not exact matches
More important, the software's
brain -
wave - interpreting capabilities were improving by leaps and bounds.
More sensors connected to the child's head allow the algorithms to create an image of
brain waves that doctors can then study.
Now, my problem is whether the pattern of
brain waves as a whole could consist of
more inclusive occasions including lesser occasions.
As I noted before, each alternative has its own problems, and so this shortcoming of the
brain wave model originates in the
more general problem of time.
Although the work is done in the context of a
more general problem — the effect of environmental electromagnetic fields upon cellular functions — Adey is also concerned with the question of how
brain waves might play a role in normal
brain function.
Stress is known to induce the
brain's beta
wave activity, leading to a
more agitated state.
Publication of the Purdue study sent shock -
waves reverberating through the football world, with the findings cited by concussion experts calling on youth sports organizations to take
more aggressive action to minimize exposure to RHI, including sub-concussive blows, by changing the way contact and collision sports are played and practiced, and reducing the amount of
brain trauma a child incurs by limiting the number of hits they sustain in a sports season, over the course of a year, and during a career.
Additionally there is data to suggest that children who have gone through the STAR Center occupational therapy program demonstrate
brain wave activity that appears to look
more like that seen in typically developing children.
This process allows the
brain waves to synchronize (
brain wave entrainment) which provides our Hypno - mom and Birth Partners to enter hypnosis faster and attain a deeper state of hypnosis called «somnambulism», where Hypno - anesthesia is
more easily created and accessed.
In Labour, key binding decisions were crafted by consenting comrades in compositing cabals, the Liberals braved the perilous political fringes to challenge the timid and
brain - comatose, while the Tories orgied in flag -
waving Nuremberg Rally - induced hysteria — all no
more, drowned in the syrup sea of consensus.
But the researchers also found that when a student reported being
more engaged, the frequency of their
brain waves better matched the group.
Punctuating REM are interludes of slow -
wave sleep, a state in which
brain activity ebbs and the
waves become
more synchronized.
It takes about an hour to glue
more than a dozen sensors to a research subject about to undergo polysomnography, the technology designed to monitor
brain waves and other physiological variables used to characterize our time asleep.
After only getting half of a night's worth of sleep, the children showed
more slow -
wave activity towards the back regions of the
brain — the parieto - occipital areas.
Any attempt to apply coercion will result in
more brain wave disorganization, from stress if nothing else, and produce even worse computer performance.»
With a large number of electrode channels distributed across the scalp, this method also detects which
brain regions show
more slow -
wave activity than others.
And in turn, these sweet sounds seemed to have made the experimenter's
brain waves even
more similar to those of the babies.
Seeking a
more reliable measuring stick, some researchers have started measuring
brain waves.
RIDE THE
WAVES Compared with a mouse that received random brain stimulation (right), a mouse stimulated to produce more gamma waves (left) had less amyloid - beta (green) in its hippoca
WAVES Compared with a mouse that received random
brain stimulation (right), a mouse stimulated to produce
more gamma
waves (left) had less amyloid - beta (green) in its hippoca
waves (left) had less amyloid - beta (green) in its hippocampus.
But slower,
more goal - directed
waves, a mix of alpha and beta
waves, are deeper in the
brain.
Studies on people with electrodes implanted in their
brains suggest
brain waves, and their interactions, help enable emotion, language, vision and
more.
The spacing of several centimeters or
more creates a slight difference in the time it takes sound
waves to hit our ears, which the
brain processes perceptually so that we can always experience our settings in surround sound.
They also noted
more spikes in high - frequency
brain waves when the birds passed by familiar terrain than when they flew over a featureless stretch of water.
Vyssotski found that when the birds flew over landmarks, such as a familiar highway, high - frequency
brain waves suddenly got
more intense.
Mamelak and Rutishauser found that if a neuron's response to an image synchronizes with a type of
brain wave called a theta rhythm, the person is much
more likely to remember what was shown.
THEY GOT THE BEAT People's
brain waves sync up when watching live music, and the coordinated activity is tied to having
more fun.
Homing in on these revealing
brain waves allows the EPOC system to quickly deduce a player's emotional qualities and react to it by, for example, changing the music of a game in real - time to match the user's tension or throw in
more villains in case a player seemed to get bored of a certain world.
During slow -
wave sleep, the hippocampus — a region of the
brain that stores recent, episodic memories about discrete events — replays its files for the neocortex, home to
more permanent memories.
Those who woke during REM sleep and successfully recalled their dreams were
more likely to demonstrate a pattern of EEG oscillations called theta
waves in frontal and prefrontal cortex areas — the parts of the
brain where our most advanced thinking occurs.
This year DARPA started a project called the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System —
more catchily dubbed Luke's Binoculars (a reference to Luke Skywalker from Star Wars)-- that combines advanced optics with an EEG system that monitors
brain wave activity in the prefrontal cortex.
Without
more experiments, it's hard to say exactly what these particular types of
brain waves do for the growing
brain.
Nothing special, except the robot was being controlled from a clinic
more than 60 miles away — and not with a joystick or keyboard, but with the
brain waves of a paralyzed patient.
And the
more those
brain waves sync, the
more the pain goes away.
With neurofeedback, Leins says, «our ADHD subjects train their
brains to produce fewer theta
waves and thereby
more beta
waves.»
While Aszmann's approach uses a grafted muscle to relay signals from the
brain to a prosthesis, others are taking a
more direct route, reading
brain waves directly and using them to control the hand.
The
brain has
more trees than the jungle,
more streets than a great city, is
more plastic than the desert's sand,
more changeable than the
waves of the sea.
The researchers believe the TRN may help the
brain consolidate new memories by coordinating slow
waves between different parts of the
brain, allowing them to share information
more easily.
The scientists are currently studying similar
brain wave phenomena in larger and
more realistic neural circuits.
The
brain wave becomes
more active when a person sees something that holds a lot of emotional meaning.
During certain cognitive processes a category of
brain waves known as gamma oscillations (30 - 80 Hz) increases in prefrontal cortex, and when the scientists activated the PV cells at gamma frequencies the animals solved the task
more times.
Massage therapy has been linked to increased delta
waves in the
brain, which are connected to deeper,
more restful sleep.
On the other hand, a few moments of calm, ujjai inspired breathing can calm your
brain waves and allow you to move through your perceived fears with a
more confident, and serene, state.
The researchers saw something interesting in the
brain scans of short sleepers that they didn't see in the «normal» group: During their time in the MRI, their
brain waves exhibited patterns
more typically of sleep than of wakefulness.
The basic idea is that it trains your
brain to create Alpha
waves (responsible for «flow» state)
more effectively.
When scientists looked at the
brain waves of exercisers versus non-exercisers during the night, they found that those who work out experience
more slow
wave sleep.
While
more conclusive studies are necessary to understand precisely why this is so, researchers believe it's related to the
brain -
wave changes you undergo during yoga nidra [1].
Teaching people to generate alpha
brain waves, for example, can significantly reduce cortisol much
more than stimulating any adrenal reflex.