Sentences with phrase «emerging understanding of the brain»

An emerging understanding of the brain's stress pathways points toward treatments for anxiety and depression beyond Valium and Prozac

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Feeling joy when thinking abstract thoughts about God — that might not be positvely or negatively selected for since it doesn't affect your kids, but there is emerging evidence that it is a side effect of the way our brain is wired to process information, which itself is a product of evolution and will require picking up that neuroscience text to understand.

At 9 a.m., Approximately 900 specialists from a variety of scientific, psychological, social service and educational communities will gather at The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts Hart Theatre to consider promising research on how, through understanding the emerging connections between trauma and the science of brain development, children can overcome the long - term consequences of extreme trauma and adversity.

The memorandum of understanding identified four areas in the life sciences where AAAS and the Cuban Academy of Sciences will seek opportunities for sustained cooperation: emerging infectious diseases, brain disorders, cancer, and antimicrobial drug resistance.

«An MRI might determine that the brain looks normal, but fast forward two years and the patient, who was married and successful, is suddenly unemployed, divorced, and miserable — without any awareness or understanding that new and lasting cognitive and emotional difficulties (including various degrees of amnesia, difficulty concentrating, depression, apathy, anxiety, and even a prominent personality change) emerged due to a car accident two years earlier.

«We still don't understand how the brain works» and artificial neural networks, Schürmann says, are likely to be an important part of that understanding when it emerges.

And as will be presented today at the 25th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), cognitive neuroscientists increasingly are using those emerging artificial networks to enhance their understanding of one of the most elusive intelligence systems, the human brain.

But now, thanks to advances in brain imaging techniques and improved understanding of numerical cognition in general, new insights into the disorder have begun to emerge.

«As we improve our understanding of brain mechanisms, new medication targets may emerge as well.»

«What this is leading to is not just collecting data from individual babies but also understanding and building a four - dimensional map of brain activity and how it should emerge in a normal baby.»

Deep - brain stimulation has emerged as a technique to treat neurologic and neuropsychiatric disorders, including Parkinson's disease, dystonia, depression, and obsessive — compulsive disorder.2 - 5 The nature of the stimulation - induced modification of the neural circuit that results in improvement in patients with these disorders is not completely understood.

As new tools emerge from the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies ® (BRAIN) Initiative, NIMH expects these tools to advance the understanding of the development, maintenance, and recovery from mental illneBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies ® (BRAIN) Initiative, NIMH expects these tools to advance the understanding of the development, maintenance, and recovery from mental illneBRAIN) Initiative, NIMH expects these tools to advance the understanding of the development, maintenance, and recovery from mental illnesses.

At the same time the idea of using these kinds of measurements to understand how the brain is organized was emerging, largely driven following Seymour Kety's work at the University of Pennsylvania and by David Ingvar at the University of Lund in Sweden and Niels Lassen at Bispebjerg Hospital in Denmark.

Robert Darnell's work identifying the target proteins for a group of rare brain disorders has led to an emerging understanding of the roles of RNA regulation, including the discovery that neurons make a unique set of RNA - binding proteins.

In the longer term, new treatments for devastating brain diseases are likely to emerge from a deeper understanding of brain circuits.

There has been exciting research on this topic emerging in the scientific community since 2005, and the more we learn about the role of insulin in the brain, the more we understand how significantly insulin resistance contributes to the development of Alzheimer's disease.

At Harvard, in the 1970s, long before MRIs could give a precise view of brain activity, Rose became fascinated by the emerging science of psychophysiology, based partly on trying to understand electrical activity in the brain through skin conduction tests.

Focused on clinical advances emerging from a new understanding of the brain, its unique approach combines evidence - based interventions with compassionate family engagement.

And he'd be proud of IDA's success at engaging researchers and providing a platform for researchers and practitioners to conduct, aggregate and share critical knowledge about brain - based disorders and emerging neuroscientific perspectives that impact our understanding of teaching and learning.

In Why God Won't Go Away, Newberg and d'Aquili document their pioneering explorations in the field of neurotheology, an emerging discipline dedicated to understanding the complex relationship between spirituality and the brain.

Guide an amorphous organism across brain - twisting obstacles, overcome swarms of bizarre mutated creatures, and understand the true nature of the devastation from which you emerged.

Emerging scientific investigation is improving our understanding of the causal biological pathways for these robust associations.46 Early childhood trauma, including physical abuse, leads to the production of stress hormones, such as cortisol and adrenaline that are normally protective, but with severe or persistent trauma can become toxic.47, 48 These stress hormones regulate neural circuits that are important in modulating an individual's response to stress, and over time, are associated with structural and functional changes in the brain and other organs.

I emerged with my B.A. (Bugger All) in hand, but more importantly, I emerged from the process with a heightened understanding of human nature, both from a theroretical perspective as well as from an experiential perspective regarding the «indoctrination», as I describe it, of students» brains by some profs. who were hell - bent on creating new disciples of their own personal theoretically defined world views (sans any offsetting real life experience outside of the hallowed halls of academia).