Sentences with phrase «different brain centers»

«In designing brains, nature has two parameters it can play with: the size and number of neurons and the distribution of neurons across different brain centers,» said Herculano - Houzel, «and in birds we find that nature has used both of them.»

Not exact matches

Only a special systemic order of atoms in certain molecules of different types of brain cells, steady activity of these cells and excitations coming from sensoric nerves and running to associative and motoric centers are the basis of the peculiarity of brain function.

The neuroscientists Stefan Schaffelhofer and Hansjörg Scherberger of the German Primate Center (DPZ) have studied how the brain controls the different grasping movements.

So John - Dylan Haynes at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, Germany, says the brain has an «abstract code» for different artistic styles, which could one day be used to classify art.

At the Liberty Science Center's Communication exhibit, visitors can explore the origins of human language, as well as how the brain responds to a range of words and sounds and how we bond using different modes of self - expression.

Raising further doubt, a team led by Douglas Galasko, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of California, San Diego, twice tried to find BMAA in Chamorros and North Americans who died of brain disease — and both times came up empty - handed, though using a different method of chemical identification than the one employed by Cox and the Miami team.

«Scientists identify specialized brain areas for feeding and egg - laying in hawkmoths: Activity in specific areas in the olfactory center of female Manduca sexta correlates directly with different behaviors.»

In 2011, Martijn van den Heuvel of the University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and his colleagues unveiled a map of the connections between different brain regions.

Different neuronal oscillations carry signals from the brain's command center, ready to direct the eyes to the next spot.

But what happens in the brain has been much less clear — it seems like all different sorts of touch information get jumbled together,» said Barth, who also is a member of the joint Carnegie Mellon / University of Pittsburgh Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC).

«As opposed to the normal process of gradually linking up different centers in the brain after a stimulus, chronic pain patients have conditions that predispose them to linking up in an abrupt, explosive manner,» says first author UnCheol Lee, Ph.D., a physicist and assistant professor of anesthesiology at Michigan Medicine.

Last year, Manuel Carreiras at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language in San Sebastián, Spain, found that the brains of adults who learned to read as adults were structurally different to those who could not read.

Surprisingly, methamphetamine addicts» brains were about 10 percent larger than normal brains, apparently due to inflammation of the brain's white matter — the nerve cells that link the different thinking centers of the organ.

A new study from the George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology (CASHP) found that whereas brain size evolved at different rates for different species, especially during the evolution of Homo, the genus that includes humans, chewing teeth tended to evolve at more similar rates.

Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and American University have shown that, like humans, mustached bats use the left and right sides of their brains to process different aspects of sounds.

Mathematicians from the University of Twente, together with researchers from the University Medical Center Utrecht, have shown that it is sensible to examine the interconnections between different brain regions closely, instead of searching for abnormal regions only.

There is probably a hot line from the vision center of the brain to the skin, says Ramachandran, to make these different textures in the skin to match the background.

«Although different types of brain stimulation are currently applied in different locations, we found that the targets used to treat the same disease are nodes in the same connected brain network,» says first author Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD, an investigator in the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and in the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at Bbrain stimulation are currently applied in different locations, we found that the targets used to treat the same disease are nodes in the same connected brain network,» says first author Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD, an investigator in the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and in the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at Bbrain network,» says first author Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD, an investigator in the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and in the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at BBrain Stimulation and in the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at BIDMC.

«This study gives a glimpse into the mechanism by which different mutations within the same gene can cause distinct defects in the brain, and may help to explain how they may contribute to different disorders,» says Guoping Feng, the James W. and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and the senior author of the sbrain, and may help to explain how they may contribute to different disorders,» says Guoping Feng, the James W. and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and the senior author of the sBrain Research, a member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and the senior author of the study.

Because stem cells have the ability to develop into many different cell types in the body, researchers at USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery & Brain Repair have focused on using stem cells to restore function lost through neurodegenerative disorders or injuries.

«The after - effects of concussions and more severe brain injuries can be very different and more detrimental to a developing child or adolescent brain than an adult brain,» said Dr. Lori Cook, study author and director of the Center for BrainHealth's pediatric brain injury programs.

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

WASHINGTON (April 27, 2015)-- Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and American University have shown that, like humans, mustached bats use the left and right sides of their brains to process different aspects of sounds.

In a new finding with implications to human learning, memory, and speech acquisition, researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have correlated the simple notes and more complex passages of a bird's song to activity in different areas of the brain.

Now a team of scientists, led by Mary Jo LaDu in the department of pathology at the University of Chicago Medical Center, has shown that the apoE - containing fat transporters found in brain cells are very different from the apoE particles found elsewhere in the body and contain most of their cholesterol in a different form.

His work seeks to identify how different kinds of stressful information reach the brain and to unravel the pathways and molecules involved in conveying this information to brain centers.

February 27, 2018 Scientists identify specialized brain areas for feeding and egg - laying in hawkmoths - Activity in specific areas in the olfactory center of female Manduca sexta correlates directly with different behaviors

Meditation enables us to move from higher frequency brain waves to lower frequency, which activates different centers in the brain.

The training required to excel at either end of the spectrum is only part of the reason; there's also the issue of body type, the fact that running and lifting tend to appeal to very different sorts of reward centers in the brain («I love that runner's high that kicks in around mile 20!»

Different foods are processed differently and have differing effects on the hunger hormone levels, feelings of hunger, and the metabolic centers of the brain (6, 7).

«It activates three different centers of the brain at the same time: language, hearing, and rhythmic motor control.

Video activates different centers in the brain, so it can help break up training content that's longer than a few minutes.

After about a decade in the French diplomatic service, he joined the OECD and founded there in 1999, within the Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) the project entitled «Brain Research and Learning Sciences,» which brought together experts from almost 50 different countries and is considered a seminal work in the field of educational neuroscience.

Results of brain research, much of it sponsored by the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), suggest that different parts of the brain working together are responsible for complex cognitive processes and that the communication between these brain centers is required for successful learning to occur.

Cough Suppressants or «Anti Tussives» are those medicines used to suppress or reduce cough by different means, such as by acting on the «cough center» in back of the brain.

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