Sentences with phrase «different brain wiring»

Knowing what I do now about LD — how it is the result of different brain wiring rather than a lack of intelligence — I tend to think many of those kids were probably pretty bright, and it breaks my heart to think of the kids I and others judged unfairly.

Not exact matches

And are the brains of innovative individuals structurally or functionally different from other people's — that is, are they larger than average, do their synapses operate differently, or is their wiring denser or perhaps more sparse but faster?

Since the brain consists of hundreds of different structures, it is easy to see that an understanding of just the wiring of the brain is still many years away.

White matter is the connective wiring that links different areas of the brain.

Korenberg was convinced that with Mills» approach of directly measuring the brain's electrical firing they could solve the puzzle of precisely which genes were responsible for building the brain wiring underlying the different reaction to human faces in Williams syndrome.

The map suggests how many cognitive computing chips should be allocated to the different regions of any artificial brain, and which other chips they should be wired to.

The study couldn't determine if those different brain responses meant fathers are somehow hard wired through genetics or evolution to treat sons differently than they treat daughters or if the fathers were conforming to societal norms relating to gender.

After removing the skullcap of patients, Penfield electrically tickled different spots of their brains with wires and asked them what they felt.

The answer may be that their brains simply don't work the same: Genes, culture, and personal experience have wired their moral circuitry in different patterns.

So she's working to unravel how small genetic changes can impact how the brain is wired — specifically, how different neurons talk to each other — and in turn influence how we think and communicate.

Among these achievements are the development of new techniques for classifying different types of neurons; automated methods for creating wiring diagrams of the connections between cells in the mammalian brain; new ways of recording and manipulating the electrical activity of hundreds, even thousands, of cells simultaneously; and, advanced microscopes that allow researchers to visualize the activity of all the cells in the brains of small animals.

«With the slightly different wiring of male and female brains, and what our fundamental roles have been over history, there is are slight physical and chemical differences in male and female brains,» she says.

There's different areas of psychotherapy that deal with these phenomena, and they term them different ways, but they can be called core beliefs, or certain mental schemas, so when our brain experiences very strong emotions, the amygdala wires those emotions down in implicit memories.

I am actually eating more fat the past few days and seeing more weight loss, very different than the results my brain is wired to expect.

Their brains are just wired differently so it will require a more intensive or different approach.»

There are a small population of students with brains that are wired differently or minds that are on a different developmental timetable than the mainstream student body.

Different brains are differently wired, Dr. Levine explains.

The accident may lead to brain injury, spinal wire accidents, and different critical injuries.