Sentences with phrase «firing brain neurons»

Vital Biological Functions: We prioritize basic daily survival with assorted homeostatic mechanisms that require substantial energy — firing brain neurons, digesting food, breathing air.

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A new habit also forces your brain to find the best way to get things done as the neurons in your brain need to fire differently.

If I observe you doing an action, the neurons in my brain responsible for that action will fire.

Brain waves are electrical pulses that fire between masses of neurons, allowing those neurons to communicate with each other.

The chemical tells individual neurons to fire off a signal or not, influencing other brain signals and pathways, and essentially serves as a traffic cop of motivation, emotion, and social behavior.

They say that drinking coke really ignites the creative functions in their brain by getting their neurons firing at 100 %.

It is real to me because the firing of neurons in my brain stem are interpreted as real sensory data by my brain.

Patterns in beasts» acts are the sole witness to a design by irony inspired: when scientists mapped how the neurons fired in the cortex of the brain when learning, on - screen a melody was coldly burning.

It doesn't really require much faith to believe that at all... because since my brain operates via chemistry, once my neurons stop firing, I have no reason to expect that I'd continue to live in any way.

He begins by noting that groups of neurons firing simultaneously produce complex interrelated patterns of brain waves within the electromagnetic field which is the brain itself.

But if our conceptualising depends on a material representation of a thing (say a neuron - firing sequence in the brain) it simply can not be universal knowledge.

It is the power I exercise over my brain, my whole nervous system, and indeed over my whole body, Of this power we may say, in a commonsense way and subject to later qualification, that I exercise it while acting; and that some neuron in my brain that fires in the course of the action, or some neural network through which a complex impulse passes, is subject to it.

God and spirituality are feelings created by the bio-chemical firing of neurons and connections within your brain and don't exist in objective reality.

On a scientific level, she would have known well enough that as she looked at her baby, a whole bunch of neurons firing on overdrive in her brain would be producing a set of chemical reactions and hormones, and that those would be contributing to the emotional urge to protect and care for her newborn son with every ounce of her being.

We can compare the diverse tasks performed by a colony to the many proteins generated by gene transcription, to various cell types of a developing embryo, or to the firing patterns of neurons in the brain.

It is considered an inhibitory neurotransmitter, which means it regulates brain and nerve cell activity by inhibiting the number of neurons firing in the brain.

It has nothing to do with how the neurons fire in your brain after a concussion \ concussive blow.

Research has revealed that when your child watches an action performed by someone, neurons are fired in their brains.

This literally means that if a baby is upset and then subsequently experiences a gentle and loving response from their caregiver, the relevant neurons in their brain will all fire at once.

With sounds, music, and lights, a child will be stimulated causing the neurons in the brain to fire off as they associate more objects in their newly developing world.

Looking inside the brains of animals exposed to chronic social defeat stress, the scientists observed hyperactive firing of neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a critical part of a reward circuit.

These brain - teasers actually help keep neurons firing clearly and quickly.

Brain rhythms arise when large groups of neurons fire together.

When the researchers gave the mice a drug called lamotrigine, often prescribed for bipolar disorder, the animals» brain activity mimicked that of their resilient counterparts: The neurons in the already hyperactive VTA started firing even more intensely, followed by a lull and abatement of depression symptoms.

Neurons in the brain fire in sync to music.

But the brain waves bind together all the neurons in a circuit with every crest, pushing the neurons so close to their firing point that they're primed to respond to just the slightest extra stimulus.

In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cells.

Fox replies: It has been estimated that only 1 to 15 percent of neurons in the human brain are firing at any given instant.

This study was conducted in samples taken from rat brains, but sleep is thought to induce backward firing in human neurons, too.

During seizures, neurons fire too rapidly, flooding the brain with neurotransmitters.

«The moment I first dropped an electrode into a slice of brain and heard all these neurons firing away like a thunderstorm, I was hooked,» Miller recalls.

Neurons that fire in response to horizontal and vertical movements had already been found in the retinas of mammals, but the only cells known to be sensitive to approaching objects were in the brain.

APP makes the protein A-beta, which can form clumps in the brain, blocking neurons from firing.

Many neuroscientists had long believed that the only way to extract data from the brain specific enough to control an external device was to penetrate the cortex and sink electrodes into the gray matter, where the electrodes could record the firing of individual neurons.

Electromagnetic coils are positioned near a patient's skull to deliver brief pulses of magnetic fields; these induce electric currents inside the head, which cause neurons to fire in brain regions associated with mood.

For example, suppose you accept that God steps in every so often to fix the outcome of a quantum event in the brain — manipulating the motion of electrons to cause a neuron to fire, perhaps, influencing your decision on whether to become a priest or a scientist.

Like ECOG, EEG relies on brain signals picked up by an array of electrodes that are sensitive to the subtle voltage oscillations caused by the firing of groups of neurons.

When an individual is not concentrating on a complex task, neurons in that part of the brain fire sporadically, constituting what Minzenberg calls the exploration mode.

The fear conditioning experiments, done with live rats, showed that individual neurons in the amygdala, the emotional hub of the brain, that were initially capable of telling apart safe from dangerous stimuli can start firing indiscriminately — causing the rat to become fearful of non-threatening stimuli.

Data from electrodes implanted into their brains showed that neurons in the impaired rats fired less often in the presence of odors.

The team identifies where neurons are firing by injecting the brain with dyes or using genetically engineered proteins that bind to calcium molecules.

When the scientists shined light on a rat's eye, or stimulated brain regions involved in vision, neurons in the implanted organoid fired.

Stanford University researchers studying how the brain controls movement in people with paralysis, related to their diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's disease, have found that groups of neurons work together, firing in complex rhythms to signal muscles about when and where to move.

Electrodes were implanted in the part of Idoya's brain that controls leg movement; these devices recorded the activity of 250 to 300 neurons that fired when her ankles, knees, hip joints, and feet moved or were about to move.

Ramsey's brain is already changing as his neurons learn to fire in specific ways that better control the synthesizer.

Previously, researchers had two theories about how neurons in the motor cortex might control movement: One was that these neurons fired in patterns that represent more abstract commands, such as «move your arm to the right,» and then neurons in different brain areas would translate those instructions to guide the muscle contractions that make the arm move; the other was that the motor cortex neurons would actually send directions to the arm muscles, telling them how to contract.

To do so, researchers will need to find non-invasive ways to record the firing of individual neurons, because all current methods involve opening the skull and, often, sticking electrodes into brain tissue.

The researchers used a technique called magnetoencephalography, which detects the firing of neurons as changes in the brain's magnetic field, to monitor the responses of the auditory cortex to the tones.

Examining the post-mortem brains of 20 people, Covington and colleagues found less messenger RNA for two genes present in the mPFCs of depressed people, indicating neurons fired less often there when they were alive.

When a critical mass of neurons fire in concert, the input is perceived by the cognitive regions of the brain.