Sentences with phrase «complex brain changes»

In rodents, complex brain changes have been found in both males and females that become parents and care for their «pups».

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Understanding complex social problems (including resources and resistance to change) is best achieved by utilizing the group's total brain - power and experience in subcommittees with specific tasks.
«Explaining complex brain science in a clear - cut manner, Steinberg offers parents and educators practical advice, as well as innovative ideas about how society can better support its youth and adapt to the times... This is a convincing and eloquent call for change
• in rodents, complex neurobiological modifications (brain changes) have been found in both males and females that become parents and care for their «pups».
You can change the words in that sentence from «corporal punishment» to whatever your preferred method of discipline is and the sentence would still be true, because the brain and how it can do what it does is too complex to totally understand.
But there are few functions the brain must perform that are more complex or crucial to survival than recognizing when something has changed and then calling up all the disparate information needed to adapt appropriately.
«There's a complex interplay between hormones, experience and epigenetic changes in response to life events,» says neuroscientist Cheryl Sisk, who studies sex differences in the brain at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
«The retina is a very complex device, enabling our visual system to adjust to tremendous changes in light intensity,» says Thomas Serre, a neuroscientist at M.I.T.'s McGovern Institute for Brain Research's Center for Biological and Computational Learning.
Dysfunction in dopamine signaling profoundly changes the activity level of about 2,000 genes in the brain's prefrontal cortex and may be an underlying cause of certain complex neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, according to UC Irvine scientists.
According to Fotini Koutroumpa, lead author of the study and researcher at the UvA's Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), the results point to future research on the tiny but complex moth brain, which will shed light on how the diverse pheromone systems of the thousands of moth species has changed throughout evolution.
«The brain is incredibly complex, so it's reasonable to expect that introducing changes from a different evolutionary path might have negative consequences,» study lead author Corinne Simonti, a graduate student of human genetics at Vanderbilt University, said in a statement.»
«The findings of the study indicate that simple causal relationships between the evolution of brain size, tool use and tooth size are unlikely to hold true when considering the complex scenarios of hominin evolution and the extended time periods during which evolutionary change has occurred,» said Aida Gómez - Robles, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral scientist at GW's CASHP.
Romantic love involves a series of complex changes in the brain's reward system that make us crave the object of our affection
«The brain is incredibly complex, so it's reasonable to expect that introducing changes from a different evolutionary path might have negative consequences,» says Simonti.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence has always looked for an anomaly in the persistent cosmic background chatter — a change perhaps in the intensity of a signal that can be taken as a sign that a transmission might be a message to us earthlings from other intelligent beings.Each year, medical researchers who gather at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference search for something similar as they weigh reports of the complex biology of the human brain for some sign that a drug might actually change the relentless course of the disease.
The remarkably well - preserved fossil of an extinct arthropod shows that anatomically complex brains evolved earlier than previously thought and have changed little over the course of evolution.
William Calvin makes an excellent stab, however, at convincing us that abrupt climatic changes had a profound impact on human evolution, selecting for increased cooperation that required more complex brains.
Biocellion is being used to model a variety of biological system behaviors, such as biofilm formation and wrinkling, microbial growth dynamics in complex soil structure, brain tumor growth and invasion, formation of complex bacterial colonies, and changes in blood vessels and skin cells.
Relationships between functional and structural connectivity are complex, even in the neurotypical adult brain (Damoiseaux and Greicius, 2009), and these relationships undergo significant changes with development (Supekar et al., 2010; Uddin et al., 2011).
As with most complex neurological disorders, there are several changes in the brain that contribute to the development of FTD.
A 2016 study by researchers from the Buck Institute for Research on Ageing and the UCLA Easton Laboratories for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, showed that memory loss in Alzheimer's patients can be reversed, and improvement sustained, using a complex, 36 - point therapeutic personalized program that involves comprehensive changes in diet, brain stimulation, exercise, optimization of sleep, specific pharmaceuticals and vitamins, and multiple additional steps that affect brain chemistry.
The ancient, deep brain (as opposed to cortex) and body knows its constantly changing, biologically complex needs far better than «thinking» we do and if kept healthy, will only make the glucose that is necessary.
William Calvin makes an excellent stab, however, at convincing us that abrupt climatic changes had a profound impact on human evolution, selecting for increased cooperation that required more complex brains.
Brain injury can also change the complex internal functions of the body, such as regulating body temperature; blood pressure; bowel and bladder control.
«Because they can be changed dynamically, in the future it should be easy to vary them in real - time using a brain - computer interface, allowing the control of complex kinematics otherwise impossible to dominate with current approaches.»
[00:03:53] Well so there's a couple of things to kind of unpack in there so you are exactly right that we know that children who have been exposed to repeated complex trauma we do see changes in their ongoing brain development and brain chemistry and I am no neuroscientist however we know that for example the simple way to think about it is that those are kids who may have changes as you said in their stress response their reactivity so they may be kids who you know sort of fight or flight in sort of a simplistic way is changed so that they may react in an overexaggerated way or they may also have sort of an inappropriately low response to danger.
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