Sentences with phrase «called deep brain»

Since medical school, Schiff had believed that a technique called deep brain stimulation might help patients who have viable, networked cortical tissue but inconsistent awareness.

The technique used is called deep brain stimulation, and is already used to treat the tremors and movement problems of some people with severe Parkinson's disease.

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Deep in the dense part of the brain called the limbic system, the normally lithe network of rubbery - smooth tissue had become puffy and inflamed.

With deep learning, organizations can feed enormous quantities of data into so - called neural nets designed to loosely mimic the way the human brain understands information.

Deep in your brain lies a small almond - shaped structure called the Amygdala.

Lying deep beneath those noble, complex human qualities we call character, these scientists have found, is the mundane, mechanical interaction of specific chemicals in the brains and bodies of developing infants.

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.

Companies trawl the web to gather billions of images and use them to train an algorithm inspired by neurons in the brain, called a deep neural network.

But 53.4 % of Greeks who belong to the «brain drain» generation would return within 2 years if deep structural changes in the Greek establishment were enforced, according to a report from a Greek group called Brain brain drain» generation would return within 2 years if deep structural changes in the Greek establishment were enforced, according to a report from a Greek group called Brain Brain Gain.

As another crucial part of the new study on Internet addiction, the research team zeroed in on tissue deep in the brain called white matter, which links together its various regions.

BRAIN CANDY A new database offers a deep look at living human nerve cells, revealing elaborate branching structures and myriad shapes, such as in this neuron called a pyramidal cell (cell image, left and 3 - D computer reconstruction, right).

One example is that a particular kind of «deep sleep» called «slow -(brain)- wave - sleep» helps memory by taking pieces of a day's experiences, replaying them and strengthening them for better recollection.

Jonathan Miller, MD, a neurosurgeon, Director of Functional and Restorative Medicine at UH Case Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and colleagues, tested a potential alternative method, called the «Electric WADA,» with patients who received deep brain implants.

They use a special type of neural network called a «deep neural network» to do the processing — so named because its learning is performed through a deep layered structure inspired by the human brain.

Instead of the brain moving largely in unison, an area deep in the brain called the corpus callosum - which connects the left and right halves of the brain — shakes more rapidly than the surrounding areas, placing significant strain on those tissues.

More specifically, his work has shown that dopamine signalling in two connected brain regions involved in opiate - related memory processing, called the Basolateral Amygdala (BLA), a region deep within the brain, and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), located near the surface of the brain, is switched by opiate exposure.

A small, almond - shaped structure called the amygdala, located deep within the brain (yellow in image above), plays a key role, but exactly what it responds to is unclear.

The group performed non-invasive brain imaging in the first 80 college - aged participants of the DNS, showing them pictures of angry or fearful faces and watching the responses of a deep brain region called the amygdala, which helps shape our behavioral and biological responses to threat and stress.

Described in the January 7th issue of Neuron, the technique uses «deep,» highly sensitive whole - genome sequencing of single neurons and a new technology that identifies inserted bits of DNA caused by retrotransposons, one of several kinds of so - called somatic mutations that can arise as the brain develops.

Amygdalae Sometimes called the body's «emotional thermostat,» these two structures are deep in the brain, one on each side.

Light intensity is detected by special cells in the retina and this information is relayed to the internal body clock, located deep in a part of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

The BROADEN trial, which implanted metal electrodes deep in the brain in a region called area 25, failed early on to show a statistically significant effect on depression and was halted after just 90 participants were treated.

Like morphine and other narcotics, a painkiller called fentanyl disrupts nerve cells deep in the brain that register pain as well as other cells that govern breathing rhythm.

They strengthened the slow oscillations of neurons during so - called non-rapid-eye-movement rest, applying 0.517 milliampere at the 0.75 hertz frequency, which most closely mimics the brain's signal during such deep sleep.

So far, DARPA has released two calls for grant applications, with at least one more likely: The first, called SUBNETS (Systems - Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies), asks researchers to develop novel, wireless devices, such as deep brain stimulators, that can cure neurological disorders such as posttraumatic stress (PTS), major depression, and chronic pain.

To solve the knowledge problem, they used what are called deep neural networks — in this case two 13 - layer - deep networks that consist of millions of connections, akin to neural connections in the human brain.

The brain generates two distinct types of sleep — slow - wave sleep (SWS), known as deep sleep, and rapid eye movement (REM), also called dreaming sleep.

Already, researchers have developed devices such as deep brain stimulators for treating Parkinson's disease, cochlear implants for restoring minimal hearing in profoundly deaf people, and a computer interface called BrainGate that allows fully paralyzed individuals to accomplish simple tasks via a robotic arm.

The researchers, who published their work in Cell today (April 12), designed their a neural network, a program modeled after the brain, using an approach called deep learning, which uses data to recognize patterns, form rules, and apply those rules to new information.

2016 — Anne B. Young receives the sixth Leslie Gehry Brenner Prize for Innovation in Science for her pioneering research on the area deep in the brain called the basal ganglia which controls movement.

Deep learning has catapulted to the front page of the New York Times, formed the core of the so - called «Google brain», and achieved impressive results in vision, speech recognition, and elsewhere.

I feel like Brain Balance has the ability to really hone in on the deeper issues of the child and correct the imbalance, rather than just put a band aid or a brace or whatever you want to call it one making it more doable.

I feel like Brain Balance has the ability to really hone in on the deeper issues of the child and correct the imbalance, rather than just put a band aid or a brace or whatever you want to call it...

Hidden deep in the plant's bright yellow roots is an extraordinarily powerful compound called curcumin that has the unique ability to block an enzyme that causes inflammation, while combatting free radical damage to highly sensitive vital organs like your brain and heart.

One of the biggest places where testosterone affects both men and women is the cool little shape, a little cool shape that's just a shape of a seahorse deep inside the brain called the hippocampus.

2018-04-08 13:30 These «mind control» chips emit electronic pulses that alter brain chemistry in a process called «deep brain stimulation.»

These «mind control» chips emit electronic pulses that alter brain chemistry in a process called «deep brain stimulation.»

Buried deep in the brain's limbic system is an emotional switching station called the amygdala, and it is here that our human survival and emotional messages are subconsciously prioritized and learned.

This calls for a deeper understanding of how our brains develop and how they respond to adversity and trauma, and how building relationships and providing strategies that promote emotional regulation can positively affect students» emotional, physiological, and cognitive health.

His blog is called «Rewired: The Psychology of Technology,» and Monday he confronted the argument that nonlinear reading «is changing our brain and moving us away from deep thought into more shallow thinking.»

His blog is called «Rewired: The Psychology of Technology,» and he ultimately confronted a new argument against digital readers — that non-linear reading «is changing our brain and moving us away from deep thought into more shallow thinking»!

The secret is buried deep in a very old part of the brain, called the amygdala, long recognized as the seat of emotional reaction.

The same can not be said for another type of brain tumor called a glioma, which develops in a deeper and sometimes surgically inaccessible area of a cat's brain.

The highly - rated Strategy - RPG features bigger battles, more characters, harder bosses, a deep and compelling story, and brain - wasting strategy that come together in a way that made what many call one of the best Strategy RPG games ever made.