Sentences with phrase «driven by the brain»

In the past few years, discoveries about mind - body connections have overturned the long - held view of the body as a passive vehicle driven by the brain.

Even critics of the Insulin Hypothesis (like Stephan Guyenet) would agree with some of what Taubes is saying — it's just that they believe CICO is an important part of the equation, the over eating is driven by the brain and changes to the brain and the hormone of interest is leptin.

Not exact matches

Playing games impacts the brain positively by increasing motivation, improving memory, driving efficiency, and at even enhancing feelings of empathy among your team.

Enter brain fitness, a new healthy - living trend driven not only by the aging population but also by developments in technology and neuroscience.

This form of mental agility is compromised by our brain's natural default to the beliefs and assumptions, often unconscious, that drive much of our behavior.

Example being, the age of Earth... what do we do when our «god - given» brains are driven crazy by what the Bible says, and what we see as reality?

By this he meant that although inorganic matter was inevitably subject to entropy, (all the structure of peaks and valleys puddling out into a flat line of cosmic death) organic matter, life, had a reverse drive for higher and higher complexities, from the amoebae to the whale brain.

There are lots of «good» things that I fight for in this world, but the two that could be considered driven by my atheistic views are: 1) No childhood brain washing by religious people, which leads to adults who think it's a virtue to ignore facts (ie, faith).

i have been very affected by the control of the amygdala, so it is extra important that i call my fears and adrenalin release in to question... others may be less aware of how the brain works and leads them because they have not experienced the damaging effects of fight or flight quite so dibilitatingly... as i understand it, it drives us all to some degree.

Depression, love, niceness, politeness, aggression, basic drives, abstract thinking, judgment, patience, considered behavior, instincts, memories, language construction and comprehension, and every emotion, have turned out to have biochemical causes, not spiritual ones, and can all be radically affected by brain damage and brain surgery.

We then did a drive - by of Pizza Brain (a slice shop / pizza memorabilia museum that Tony helped open a few years ago; he's immortalized in a backyard mural)[Amiel: What, you're not going to mention the Last Supper — style oil painting of my friends and me that's hanging at 12 Steps Down?]

Early brain development, Schore explains, is not driven just by genetics.

Men, like the common Prairie Vole are driven to monogamy or away from it simply by their... brains.

This is because the 2 hormones that drive lactation, (Prolactin and Oxytocin) are produced by the pituitary gland in the brain and not the ovaries.

These milestones are driven by cognitive, motor, social and communication areas of the brain.

Your toddler's milestones are driven by the cognitive, motor, social and communication areas of the brain.

Newborns use only their brain stems and therefore are able to do only very basic things like sleep and eat; even their body movements are primarily driven by reflexes.

The sleep of young babies is biologically driven, firstly by feeding patterns and the limitations of brain development, and over time by an emerging circadian clock.

Apnea is usually caused by immaturity in the area of the brain that controls the drive to breathe.

We are now beginning to understand some facets of human emotionality, decision - making, morality, trauma and the drive for political power down to the cellular level, by observing changes in neurochemistry, neural pathways, and neuro - anatomical transformations in the brain.

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The study also discovered that microscopic spasms in capillaries occur, albeit with lower frequency, during normal brain function, too, suggesting that one problem caused by epilepsy is that seizures drive these vasospasms to abnormal levels.

The notorious party drug may act as an antidepressant by blocking neural bursts in a little - understood brain region that may drive depression

Flaherty was featured in a recent article in The New York Times and in a documentary film on depression among medical professionals produced by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), and she openly discussed a major depressive episode that eventually hospitalized her in her 2004 best - selling book, The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain.

I was also amazed by advances in nanotechnology, specifically robotics driven by impulses in the brain, how that's actually happening.

In the most famous example of cannibalism - related disease transmission, the Fore people of New Guinea were nearly driven to extinction as a result of their ritualized consumption of brains and other tissues cut from the bodies of their deceased kin — kin who had been infected by kuru, an incurable and highly transmissible neurological disease.

Researchers hypothesize that the technological leap was driven by a cognitive leap, an evolution in brain wiring.

Recent studies have demonstrated that falling in love — or the love a mother has for an infant, which is so powerful — is driven by these reward processes, and it actually engages the same [brain] circuit that gives priority of that behavior over anything else, just like in addiction.

A new study by University of Illinois researchers found that monounsaturated fatty acids — a class of nutrients found in olive oils, nuts and avocados — are linked to general intelligence, and that this relationship is driven by the correlation between MUFAs and the organization of the brain's attention network.

This increase might be driven in part by more inclusive definitions of concussion, a common form of traumatic brain injury that can come with headaches, confusion and memory trouble.

Aging is also associated with inflammation driven by microglia in specific regions of the brain, but it is unclear whether diet or lifestyle can influence this process.

«There are no other cognitive training programs, or «brain games», that have been demonstrated by published, peer - reviewed studies to enhance driving performance,» says Jerri Edwards of the University of South Florida in Tampa, a co-leader of the study.

These chemicals, called cytokines, drive the inflammation in the brain, attracting more immune cells, and causing the debilitating disease marked by loss of neurological function.

In a global culture increasingly driven by scientific and technological innovation, research in areas ranging from microbial genomes to the human brain will become ever more inextricably linked to public health, medicine, and industry.

If the trend is driven by midlife factors such as building «brain reserve» and maintaining heart health, as some experts suspect, this could lend credence to staying mentally engaged and taking cholesterol - lowering drugs as preventive measures.

However, Hannah's research goes above and beyond previous work by investigating the brain activity of drivers using the new driving simulator facility on University Park.

By decoding patterns in the part of the brain that orchestrates the movement of the lips, tongue, jaw and larynx, the mechanical mind reader — a speech prosthetic — will give these people a voice through a computer - driven speech synthesizer.

Most experts believe the dominant hand is a by - product of a genetically driven process of brain organization, which locates specific functions — like language — in one hemisphere of the brain or the other.

Their fierce hunger is driven by a malfunctioning hypothalamus, a region deep in the brain that governs hunger and growth.

Among others is the nucleus accumbens, famous for its role in the brain's reward system and in addiction, largely driven by the yin and yang of the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin.

As part of a drive to make England a safer place to give birth, the Department of Health has set a target of reducing the number of babies that incur brain injury during or soon after birth by 20 % by 2020 and to halve them by 2030.

So, driven by a desire to understand how the brain works in biological terms, he chose psychology instead and went on to a distinguished career studying fundamental questions in neuroscience.

In his latest book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Sacks focuses on unusual cases having to do with music's effects on the mind, such as a man who found relief from Tourette's syndrome by playing the drums, and another who was driven to the edge by an unwelcome and unending tune that cycled uncontrollably through his head.

He suspects that it is the combined insults from ß - amyloid and tau that drive the often - dramatic decline: Although the brain may be able compensate for the deficits caused by ß - amyloid, once tau starts to spread, «that pushes you over,» he says.

Steven Piantadosi and Celeste Kidd, assistant professors in brain and cognitive sciences, developed a novel evolutionary model in which the development of high levels of intelligence may be driven by the demands of raising offspring.

Behavioral outbursts, particularly those driven by agitation, are a common side effect of brain injury.

«The overall decrease in stroke was driven by men having fewer ischemic strokes, a type of stroke caused by a lack of blood flow to a specific area of the brain,» said Madsen.

Now, a team led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has found that astrocytes, which perform many indispensable functions in the brain, can take on a villainous character, destroying nerve cells and likely driving many neurodegenerative diseases.

In the article «Adolescence, Attention Allocation, and Driving Safety,» by Daniel Romer, PhD, et al, the authors explore the explanations behind why teens fail to pay attention, including brain immaturity and lack of driving expeDriving Safety,» by Daniel Romer, PhD, et al, the authors explore the explanations behind why teens fail to pay attention, including brain immaturity and lack of driving expedriving experience.

The supplement examines the issues surrounding distracted driving by teens, exploring developmental states and changes that are associated with adolescents» distractibility and their relation to driving, examining patterns of distraction among newly licensed adolescents as well as brain function, considering the potential role played by parental modeling of distracted behavior while driving, accounting for the role of technology and the influence of peer passengers and society norms, and investigating policy, legislation, and intervention.