Sentences with phrase «brains work compared»

Studying animals — for example, how they perceive time and the way they form memory — not only helps scientists learn more about animals, it helps them learn more about humans and how our brains work compared to animals.

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Compared to kidneys that stop working, shitting your brains out thanks to hours of sugary drinks and a sloshing gut seems like a quaint right of passage.

On a cognitive level, growing up in a chaotic and unstable environment — and experiencing the chronic elevated stress that such an environment produces — disrupts the development of a set of skills, controlled by the prefrontal cortex, known as executive functions: higher - order mental abilities that some researchers compare to a team of air - traffic controllers overseeing the working of the brain.

Being nice «The great complexity of human social interactions and the huge variation in what we find rewarding compared with other primates prompts questions about whether the anterior cingulate gyrus operates similarly in the human brain,» Matthew Apps and Narender Ramnani, who work on neuroimaging and human cognition at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, told Nature in an email.

After a two - week course of this multimodal regimen, males showed a dramatic increase in sensorimotor function (50 percent to 75 percent), working memory (decreases in path length to a platform: 375 cm to 300 cm) and a decrease in animals presenting with severe brain injury volumes (80 percent to 36 percent) compared to hypothermia and NAC treatment.

Krause worked out those couplings for each subject, and compared the scores with the information from their brain scan.

The training programs Johns Hopkins compared are not the commercial products available sold to consumers, but tools scientists rely on to test the brain's working memory.

Studies have also indicated various brain regions as playing a role in ASD, and that these areas may fluctuate in size compared with brains of kids without ASD, but the work is still inconclusive.

Lynch and Granger base their characterization on our current understanding of how the human brain works, describing in detail its physiology and structure and comparing it with the brains of other primates.

Working with Duke University neurobiologist Erich Jarvis, Mouritsen compared his birds» brains to Zebra Finches and Canaries, which don't migrate.

Recent studies have found elevated levels of this protein in post-mortem brain samples of patients with MS.. In this latest work, investigators compared the frequencies of «more active» and «less active» variants of the DNA sequences that control expression of the galanin gene between healthy controls and MS patients.

«Our previous work showed that compared to APOE3, the apolipoprotein produced by the APOE4 gene does not bind well to amyloid - beta and so does not clear the neurotoxin from the brain.»

The analysis revealed that while performing working memory tasks, the young patients with concussion had initial activation that was greater than normal, known as hyperactivation, compared to young controls in the right precuneus and right inferior parietal gyrus of the brain, whereas the older patients had hypoactivation (less than normal) compared to older controls in the right precuneus and right inferior frontal gyrus.

Working with Cohen and other scientists at the center, Greene decided to compare how the brain responds to different questions.

One of the great challenges for researchers studying the human brain is working out which areas of the brain are involved in specific activities, and this in itself poses a further challenge: how to measure activity in the brain whilst humans are behaving normally in a way that can be repeated and compared.

Scientists from Kessler Foundation and Rutgers University compared information flow in the brain in individuals with traumatic brain injury and healthy controls, using neuroimaging and a novel working memory task, CapMan, which measures both working memory capacity and the mental manipulation of information in working memory.

Here, we first introduce various quantification metrics based on the extension of co-activation pattern (CAP) analysis, a recently proposed point - process analysis that tracks state alternations at each individual time frame and relies on very few assumptions; then apply these proposed metrics to quantify changes of brain dynamics during a sustained 2 - back working memory (WM) task compared to rest.

Because I've been there and done that with IBS for years, and it sucks and I looked better or more ripped and had more muscle when I had the worse of my health issues compared to now, maybe a little less ripped just because I've been so busy I'm not working out as much, but my gut's better and my brain's working better.

The researchers also compared sugary ready - to - eat cereal to oatmeal and found oatmeal's nutritional advantage (more nourishing whole food meal) made it a better choice at improving brain power and encouraging better test scores.1 Additional stats show higher test grades and better school attendance in breakfast eaters than in non-breakfast eaters too.2 Bottom line: to excel in whatever we do, whether it be school, work, play or relationships, we need breakfast to be at the top of our mental game.

This is backed up by Helen Fisher's work who have compared brain scans of people who have fallen in love recently and people who claim to be madly in love even after decades of being together.