Sentences with phrase «deeper brain connections»

Lifting the head, moving the eyes, scooting around, bringing things to the mouth and all of the other amazing things your baby is learning to do helps her discover her surroundings and make deeper brain connections.

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For instance, if our children are emotional or if we are emotional we look a certain way on the outside but what's going in the brain is connections, regulatory centers, and the deep limbic system and we use affect to describe the whole thing.

«If we get better at mapping the brain areas responsible, it will lead to more precision in the use of technologies that may repair these damaged connections, like deep brain stimulation.»

«Correct connections are crucial: Individualizing deep brain stimulation in patients with Parkinson's disease.»

Deep brain stimulation in mice also triggers the production of proteins that encourage neurons to form new connections.

To do those things, the program relies on «deep neural networks» — computer programs that mimic the connections of neurons in the brain and have the capacity to learn, as the team reports online today in Nature.

Their technique demonstrates some of the advances possible through deep learning — a form of machine learning that uses artificial neural networks to mimic the way the brain makes connections between pieces of information.

Studies have also shown changes in the blood flow in the brain, but none had looked at the two together, to determine whether the connection between the neck and deeper parts of the brain was causing whiplash symptoms.

Slumber is known to improve recall in creatures from fruit flies to humans, and the reigning theory among neuroscientists has been that the waves of brain activity during deep sleep reactivate neurons that were triggered during the day, strengthening neuronal connections and cementing them into solid memories.

Compared to controls, patients with depression had decreased fractional anisotropy (FA), a measure of the structural integrity of white matter connections, around an area near the deep gray matter of the brain that is strongly associated with the brain's reward circuit.

Since there's no clear physical connection between a father and his child — at least not like the one seen with mom and baby — researchers are starting to look deep in the brain for better clues to understand the power of this relationship.

His work suggests that deep - brain stimulation — whether electrical or optical — may be most effective when it targets not the neurons themselves but the connections between cells, thereby affecting the flow of activity between brain regions.

«We have developed a method that lets us reduce the sleep depth in a certain part of the brain and therefore prove the causal connection between deep sleep and learning efficiency,» says Reto Huber.

Today the big push is in «deep learning» — building artificial intelligence algorithms inspired by the brain's neural connections.

From these correlations, the investigators were able to create a map of connections from deep brain stimulation sites to the surface of the brain.

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.

Normally, neurons start life deep within the developing brain, migrate out to the surface and then make a network of connections with others, but Sandrine Humbert's group showed that those without huntingtin get stuck, never making it to where they need to go.

Research suggests that some of the brain regions responsible for forming and storing memory of past events, such as the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex, are the same ones responsible for spatial navigation, implying a deep connection between the two processes.

One of the precursors to Alzheimer's disease, which attacks the brain's nerve cells, is a loss of smell, so understanding this connection to olfactory nerve cells could perhaps serve as a diagnostic tool and perhaps unlock a deeper understanding of the degenerative disorder.

And while our brains are absolutely brilliant in their ability to help us find logic and make sense of things, they don't have a deeper connection to the world around us.

In this master class, Emily shares the deep connection between the gut and the brain and how addressing the gut can begin to alleviate the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders.

Studies like this one get us one step closer to understanding the deep connection between the gut, the brain, and sleep.

The Arts needs to be considered as a strategy «for forging deeper connections, engaging in more creative and complex thinking, as well as inspiring students to learn,» shares blogger at large Beth Holland (@brholland) from her summer reading, The Brain Targeted Teaching Model for 21st Century Schools by Dr. Mariale Hardiman, and In Assessment and the Learning Brain, by Hardiman and Whitman.

Marzano reinforced this finding, asserting that as students hear phonemes while seeing corresponding letters in the new words, the brain makes deeper connections leading to retention.

Deep in our brains, emotional connection is still interpreted as safety, and isolation or disconnection is interpreted as a threat to survival — a life or death situation!

In only 20 or so hours, we were able to show them how to move into the kind of secure bonds we all dream about and long for — the special, deep connection that our brain codes as crucial to survival.

Based on what we now know about human relationships (attachment theory), how the brain processes information (neuroscience), and the effect of nonjudgmental awareness (mindfulness), much of human suffering can be transformed into psychological growth, leading to personal resilience and a deep connection with others.

We'll explain and discuss techniques and rituals that activate the natural capacities of our brains for deep, wordless emotional and spiritual connection.