Sentences with phrase «controlling simple behaviors»

With these methods, we have been able to map the network components involved in controlling simple behaviors such as walking and turning.

Researchers use heated magnetic nanoparticles to manipulate nerve cells and control simple behavior in nematodes

Not exact matches

Putting the focus back on chastity might help us remember that repentance and redemption are always possible, as well as encourage us to view sexual behavior in a wider context of self - control, bodily respect, and patience, rather than as a simple prohibition against a particular physical action.»

In vegetables and perhaps in very simple animals no such dominant occasion occurs, but in the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavior.

Yet if you look at this another way, it means that you are in control of much of what your child will mimic, and instructing your child in gentle behavior is sometimes as simple as modeling it yourself.

The key to smart discipline is simple: Teach your child how to control her own behavior so you don't have to.

These include parent education to help parents better understand and engage with their child, behavior modification to improve behavior and achievement motivation, relaxation training and biofeedback to improve impulsivity and emotional control, simple cognitive exercises to improve executive functioning, social skills training to improve relationships with adults and peers and cognitive behavioral therapy to improve problem solving skills and build self - esteem.

The big email providers have started implementing their own internal controls, beyond the simple spam folder, on mass email sends that exhibit poor behavior — and remember, they get to define poor behavior, not us.

«But the nervous system in both nematode worms and humans is organized into small functional units called neural circuits, where neurons communicate with each other to control a simple outcome, such as behavior.»

Moreover, some behaviors such as simple reflexes and basic locomotion, can be executed under spinal cord control alone.

«There is a need for simple, engaging interventions that bring impulsive behavior under control in adolescents,» said Ghahremani.

The problem, however, when looking at simple correlations between social media use and STDs is that they fail to control for many other socioeconomic variables that can be related to sexual behavior and an increased risk of contracting an STD.

The evidence is complex and often inconclusive, and there are no simple or one - size - fits - all answers to client questions about if and when to neuter their male dogs.2 There also are justifications for neutering males other than direct individual health benefits, such as population control and managing undesirable behaviors.

We surmise that this improvement in both intervention and control conditions was because of learning effects from repeated observations of our brief and simple protocol (leading to changes in the control as well as the experimental conditions), and that the short length of the observations might have caused floor effects in our assessments of negative behaviors (thus limiting evidence of change).