Brown University brain scientists didn't just study how recognition of familiarity and novelty arise in the mammalian brain, they actually took control, inducing rats to behave as if images they'd seen before were new, and images they had never seen were old.
Not exact matches
They may not qualify as
brain surgeons or rocket
scientists but they know how to execute plans, get things
done and beat Einstein to the punch.
Bill, I feel sorry for you, you being a
scientist and yet unable to create anything close to a human, or a constellation system, or a
brain to think really logically with is amazing to me... if you want to believe that there was a big explosion somewhere in the universe beyond this world and that is how you came to be you can keep that theory but don't tell parents what to
do with there children.
Under the guise of the scientific notion, I defy science to reproduce the human
brain, create DNA that matches with another person, create a universe that has order, make humans with all the complexities all the same with identical DNA factors, and every human with the same finger prints as another, and when an atheistic
scientist can
do that, I will rethink my level of thoughts in regards to God.
@ steve, I could also get into some of the «higher
brain functions» that lead
scientists to better understand why we have compassion and such; however, I think that many people don't really give compassion or morals a lot of thought or care as to where they come from, they are simply a part of who we are as a species.
no
scientist can prove or dis - approve heaven because it meant to be so, we don't even know how the
brain works properly and yet we try to figure out the great beyond
Scientists have scanned just a few hundred
brains on meditation
do date, which makes for a pretty small research sample.
These
scientist, and doctors, can not remake skin, bone, eyes,
brains, oval eggs, sperm, none of the sort, so they have no real answer to create a life other than how procreation works, where again what, and how is the very first man, or woman, animal, other creatures, either in the sea, or creeping on this earth was originally created from, as where
did they first come from?
I don't want to get hung up in the
brain at all, but you struck me as an agnostic
scientist so I've been writing to you as one.
Again, while I am not a
scientist or medical doctor, I don't necessarily agree, especially if the amount of what Bob Cantu calls «total
brain trauma» can be significantly reduced through a combination of limits on full - contact practices and / or hit counts, rule changes, and if we
do a better job of identifying concussive injury to get concussed players off the field (or ice, or field, or court, or pitch), and and hold kids out longer before they are allowed to return to play so the risk of reinjury is reduced as much as reasonably possible.
Of course,
scientists don't yet know if the addition of essential fatty acids in the formula has that same effect on the
brain as the natural essential fatty acids found in breast milk.
Scientists still don't know exactly why some babies die without explanation, but recent research points to the possibility of
brain stem abnormalities that prevent some babies from being able to rouse from sleep and gasp for air when their blood oxygen levels are too low.
In their latest piece of research, US
scientists have found that «baby
brain» doesn't exist and the condition is in fact «all in the mind» and a «stereotype».
One thing that jumps to mind is a series of studies
done by
scientists in Switzerland, who compared the
brain scans of parents to those of childless people.
More work has to be
done on humans as many of the results showed up in mice samples, however in studying the human
brains of women who had AD
scientists found significantly less male fetal tissue in their
brains as in the same of women who
did not have AD.
Scientists state that staying up too late actually prevents your
brain from
doing it's nightly cleaning.
Thirdly, most
scientists now agree that socialization
does impact on biology — as suggested by theories of epigenetic and
brain plasticity.
For another thing, all it takes is two working
brain cells to find out the basics of drug prohibition pros and cons - you don't need to be a political
scientist, OR an economist or sociologist.
«It's pretty obvious — you don't have to be a
brain surgeon, rocket
scientist or someone experienced in this area — the law is clear,» Grandeau told me.
Because of this different anatomy, many
scientists proposed that the bird DVR
does not correspond to the mammalian cortex but is instead analogous to another mammalian
brain structure called the amygdala.
The finding that fibrolamellar can spread to the
brain doesn't immediately add to
scientists» understanding of the biology of the disease, Simon says, but is nevertheless significant as it may offer immediate ways to improve treatment.
These findings hint that such synchronization lets signals flow easily between two
brains, though Leong says that much more research needs to be
done before
scientists understand synchronization's relevance to babies» communication and learning.
We currently
do not know how these genetic risk factors affect the chemistry of the
brain and cause specific symptoms, so it is not yet possible for
scientists to design drugs to relieve symptoms shown by people with a particular genetic variant.
Scientists still don't understand many of the most essential functions of the
brain, like memory or the fundamentals of
brain disease and treatment.
In other words, the importance of this work is in illuminating the fundamental workings of the
brain -
scientists can now splash away with their own self - generated electromagnetic waves and learn a great deal about how brainwaves respond and what they
do.
But
scientists can
do more with brainwaves than just listen in on the
brain at work - they can selectively control
brain function by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
But
scientists don't know precisely how the ear and
brain sense this mathematical difference.
But
scientists were stumped on how to best integrate the cell grafts into the
brain's complex circuitry, where they would be more targeted and
do the most good.
According to the
scientists, the study offers evidence neurons in the prefrontal cortex of the
brain start processing information in anticipation of where we are going to look before we ever
do it, suggesting that selective processing might be the mechanism for visual stability.
But programming computers to recognize objects is very technically challenging, especially since
scientists don't fully understand how our own
brains do it.
There's just one little hitch: Even if
scientists invented the perfect cure, they probably couldn't get it into the
brain to
do its work.
We also examine the movement of
scientists and ideas, and how «
brain circulation» is changing the way science is
done, how it is funded and the kinds of questions it addresses.
The word barrier sounds formidable, but
scientists didn't even know the blood -
brain barrier existed until they discovered it by accident just over a century ago.
In 1998, however, a team of American and Swedish
scientists announced their discovery that the human
brain does indeed generate them.
By
doing so, members of Gould's laboratory pinpointed
brain cells and regions important to anxiety regulation that may help
scientists better understand and treat human anxiety disorders, she said.
But the precuneus, a region in the cerebral cortex along the
brain's midline, isn't usually damaged by strokes or head injuries, so
scientists weren't sure what the region
did.
So far
scientists do not understand the underlying mechanisms, but if bird
brains share certain key circuits with humans, then
scientists may find answers by studying them.
At the start of the study, all the participants
did some Web searching while the
scientists monitored their
brain activity by functional magnetic resonance imaging.
As someone whose
brain has shriveled at least one time, maybe twice (
scientists don't know if the
brain keeps getting smaller with subsequent pregnancies), I find it fascinating to think about this remodeling.
Since neurons don't regenerate,
brain damage is often permanent — but
scientists would like to change that.
If some precise mix of, say, early
brain damage, social ineptitude, paranoia and fury over life's unfair twists cooks up mass killers,
scientists don't know the toxic recipe.
Reading Minds From the Outside To tap into the
brain activity of his subjects, Klaus - Robert Müller, a computer
scientist at the Technical University of Berlin,
does not need to get inside their heads.
Scientists don't know exactly why alcohol has such a strong effect on developing
brains.
Earlier animal studies have shown that A-beta can move into the
brain if it's injected into the bloodstream, but
scientists didn't know whether A-beta from the blood can be plentiful enough to form plaques in the
brain.
And as any
brain scientist will tell you, there's still a long way to go before understanding the
brain will get crossed off science's to -
do list.
If
scientists better understand how the
brain moves after an impact and what movement causes the most damage, Kurt said, «we can design better helmets, we can devise technologies that can
do onsite diagnostics, for example in football, and potentially make sideline decisions in real time,» all of which could improve outcomes for those who take a nasty hit to the head.
However,
scientists don't necessarily need or want to create a comprehensive replica of the human
brain in a dish, Panchision and others point out.
It's otherwise hard to say whether a
brain blob truly recapitulates the neural tissue that
scientists claim it
does.
«If you look at a set of lung cancer patients, like we
did in the paper, who develop
brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary lung cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine,
scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hospital.
In both cases the
scientists arrived at the same surprising results: The athletes»
brains were quieter, which means they devoted less
brain activity to these motor tasks than nonathletes
did.