Sentences with phrase «brains matter more»

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(Females have more white matter, the tissue that connects different parts of the brain while men have more grey matter, which handles information processing.)

How does this mysterious three - pound organ called the brain hold such sway over the matters of life, death, consciousness, perception, sleep and so much more?

Counting your blessings, studies show, strengthens your brain's ability to see the bright side going forward, making it easier to be even more grateful and happier in the future — no matter the challenges you face.

Grey matter is but a small fraction of brain matter, but most folks have about 48 ounces or more of the latter.

Bible thumpers are so mentally brain fractured that their brains are nothing more then scrambled matter, believing in those fairy stories of magic and, talking snakes and talking burning bushes.

One final comment: The assumption of protopsychic matter is no more revolutionary than our epistemological knowledge that all objects which we see have no color, because color only arises in sense cells and brain.

A matter more so of te heart, less of the brain!

As Christians, we must recognize that paradox is inherent to our tradition, that mysteries will always exist, and that faith is more often a matter of the heart than the brain.

Eyes are nothing more than a medium, such as a scanner, a medium for a processor to recognize matter already programmed in data base, in human case, the brain.

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

Some believe that the 90 % of our brain which we do not use is not simply empty matter in our skulls, but may have originally been the parts of our brain that communicated with the spiritual realm of the angels so that through them we could communicate with each other, with God, with the animals, with the plants, and even with the forces of nature (For more on this theology of angels, see «The Powers Trilogy» by Walter Wink.)

The amazing advances in molecular biology blur the traditional hierarchical distinctions between man, animal, plant and mineral; and the neurophysiological «explanation» of human consciousness in terms of the components and machinations of the brain even more dramatically illustrates how pure «matter» has assumed dominance in any attempt to make sense of our universe and its manifestations.

And the human brain is incomparably more complex in its organization than any other state of matter of which we are aware.

When it comes to matters of the heart, love has less to do with the heart and more to do with the brain.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

(For more on how parenting changes fathers» brains, I recommend the fun read, Do Fathers Matter?

DHA (Docosahexaenoic acid) normally accounts for more than one - third of the fatty acids in the retina of the eye as well as in the brain's gray matter.

Using resting - state MRI analysis on thousands of people's brains around the world, the research has found that the areas of the brain which are associated with learning and development show high levels of variability, meaning that they change their neural connections with other parts of the brain more frequently, over a matter of minutes or seconds.

When Jan Scholz and his colleagues at the University of Oxford looked at brain scans of new jugglers they found that the 24 young men and women had grown more white matter after six weeks of juggling training.

To make matters more challenging, Lappas decided at this early stage in the experiment to search for patterns not only in the auditory cortex but in other areas of the brain as well.

Patients showing gadolinium in the vitreous chamber at the later timepoint tended to be of older age, have a history of hypertension, and have more bright spots on their brain scans, called white matter hyperintensities, that are associated with brain aging and decreased cognitive function.

The upshot: the monkeys in the larger groups had more gray matter in brain areas linked to processing social information (the middle superior temporal sulcus, amygdala and rostral prefrontal cortex, two of which overlap with those reported on in the Proceedings B study).

The neocortex, the convoluted structure that covers much of the mammalian brain like a sheet and controls motor actions, language, and sensing, is more than just a tangle of gray and white matter.

The male brain, by contrast, is filled with more white matter, which consists of longer neuron fibers coated with a fatty myelin sheath that communicate with more distant regions of the brain.

For instance, a previous study discovered significant differences between male and female brains in four regions of white matter — and that female - to - male trans individuals who hadn't had sex reassignment surgery had white matter in these regions that more closely resembled a male brain.

He believes «it's just a matter of years before sensitivity is vastly improved,» leading to more detailed studies of brain development.

Non-spatially oriented brains have more grey matter in the left angular gyrus, an area associated with semantic and conceptual processing.

She said the studies show yoga practitioners have more gray matter than controls in multiple brain regions, including those involved in pain modulation.

It is not entirely clear why women lose gray matter during pregnancy, but Hoekzema thinks it may be because their brains are becoming more specialized in ways that will help them adapt to motherhood and respond to the needs of their babies.

Bad navigators, on the other hand, have more white matter — which connects gray matter areas with each other — in a brain area called the caudate nucleus.

«Neurons become increasingly more complex in their extensions and connections as the brain matures, and the maturational delays reported previously in animal models and human behavioral studies of iron deficiency would predict that lower iron intake would produce neurons in cortical gray matter that are structurally less complex and more immature.

Deaner says his findings support the hypothesis that absolute brain size matters more than brain size adjusted for body size.

No matter where the «brains» of plants might be located — if they exist at all, that is, since the idea remains controversial — plenty of behavioral studies show they are far more brainy than we tend to assume.

In areas of the brain previously linked to IQ, the star percussionists also had more white matter — the fatty material that sheathes connections between neurons and boosts signal speed — indicating a larger amount of neural hookups there.

Further, the wound would have been much more damaging had the bullet ricocheted off the inside of her skull or if it had remained lodged in her brain matter where it could «migrate around» and cause additional harm, Black says.

Different brain tissues impede the current in characteristic ways: blood, for instance, impedes less, and grey matter more.

«We now have white matter tracts that allows for faster, more effective communication from one region in the brain to another after injury.»

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If you're one of the 5 per cent of the population who has severe insomnia — trouble sleeping for more than a month — then your brain's white matter might be to blame.

Moreover, the brains of the successful subjects had more gray matter in a part of their auditory cortex implicated in pitch perception.

More specifically, the researchers have confirmed that physical fitness in children (especially aerobic capacity and motor ability) is associated with a greater volume of gray matter in several cortical and subcortical brain regions.

The Kavli Laureates received their awards for research that made it possible to look more deeply and clearly into the universe, to control matter on the nano scale, and to understand how the brain's nerve cells communicate.

Again, this doesn't mean the fusiform gyrus isn't important — irregularities there have been linked to a condition called face blindness, which prevents humans from recognizing individuals — but it could mean that the human ability boils down to more than just some unique brain matter we've evolved to carry.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

A comparison of Neanderthal and human brains has revealed it was a matter of allocation: Neanderthal brains focused more on vision and movement, leaving less room for cognition related to social networking.

The brain is vastly more complicated than any other organ, however, so it's not just a matter of zooming in further — although that's a big part of it.

During the tests, participants who had been meditating for an average of 5 years have more grey matter in their brain.

More hobbit fossils are needed to settle the matter; (2) Ralph Holloway (Columbia University) states that although the hobbit skull may not have microcephalic morphology (shape), it does seem to indicate other brain abnormalities; (3) another researcher states that the size sample in the study was too small.

Higher levels of lifestyle physical activity are associated with more gray matter in the brains of older adults, according to a Rush University Medical Center study published in the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.