Sentences with phrase «for tiny brains»

Maybe it's not enough for your tiny brains.

The PS Plus discount for Tiny Brains was posted in error and has been removed.

Not exact matches

I've been chuckling about this for the last half hour as I regurgitate it in my tiny brain.

For instance, motion pictures of living brain cells taken through a microscope reveal tiny microglial cells that look like spiders and climb the trunks and branches of neurons cleaning up debris and performing who knows what other functions.

They're like tiny spa trips for my brain.

Spirulina is often promoted for healthy eyes, hair, skin, and even brain health because it can help improve mood, digestive health, heart health, it alkalizes the blood, and it's a great natural detoxifier that you can sneak into smoothies and smoothie bowls in tiny small amounts to get the benefits that it offers.

The consistent bedtime routine in my house is not just for the boys» health — though I do feel it's important to give their tiny brains the right amount of sleep for their age — it's also for me and my husband.

Babies are tiny creatures that for the most part drink milk from their mothers» breasts, but from the look of any set of new parents, it sure seems more like babies survive by eating their parents» brains.

Being «gutless» and «giving in'to your baby's cries, as your instincts are urging, could be helping him develop the optimum chance of wiring his tiny brain to manage stress — for life!

I found that «How babies Think ``, «Brain Rules for Baby» and «The Wonder Weeks» were all great resources that provide insight into your babies growing mind and helps to keep you in their teeny tiny shoes in these first all important years.

The Salk team therefore took human brain organoids that had been growing in lab dishes for 31 to 50 days and implanted them into mouse brains (more than 200 so far) from which they had removed a tiny bit of tissue to make room.

In an unlikely marriage of quantum physics and neuroscience, tiny particles called quantum dots have been used to control brain cells for the first time.

A «Trojan horse» treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, which involves using tiny nanoparticles of gold to kill tumour cells, has been successfully tested by scientists.

Using tiny electrodes, they monitored the response of brain cells responsible for movement.

The transparency made it possible for them to identify peripheral nerves — tiny bundles of nerves that are poorly understood — and to map the spread of viruses across the mouse's blood - brain barrier, which they did by marking the virus with a fluorescent agent, injecting it into the mouse's tail and watching it spread into the brain.

If certain areas of the brain that process visual information are activated — by a blow to the head, for example — tiny stars of light appear.

Merging man and machine The spectacular successes of brain implants in primates has paved the way for new human trials, including one at Brown University, where neuroscientist John Donoghue is moving ahead with BrainGate, a minuscule array of tiny, spikelike electrodes implanted in the motor cortex.

In their findings, reported in Nature Physics, the researchers describe a method they developed for growing tiny «brains on chips» from human cells that enabled them to track the physical and biological mechanisms underlying the wrinkling process.

With these tiny wobbles, the brain can compress memories of time from several seconds down to hundredths of a second — a small enough package to store for later retrieval.

The tiny addition of a chemical mark atop a gene that is well known for its involvement in clinical depression and posttraumatic stress disorder can affect the way a person's brain responds to threats, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

The creation of neural dust at Berkeley, led by Maharbiz and Jose Carmena, a Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, has opened the door for wireless communication to the brain and peripheral nervous system through tiny implantable devices inside the body that are powered by ultrasound.

Hearts are promising organs for the new technology because introducing nanoparticles into the wide - open spaces of the organ's atria and ventricles presents less of a challenge than incorporating the tiny magnets all throughout more solid structures like brains or livers, according to Kelvin Brockbank of Clemson University and Tissue Testing LLC, one of the authors of the paper who spoke to reporters during a 28 February teleconference.

According to Fotini Koutroumpa, lead author of the study and researcher at the UvA's Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), the results point to future research on the tiny but complex moth brain, which will shed light on how the diverse pheromone systems of the thousands of moth species has changed throughout evolution.

«If we are successful, the tiny size and massive scale of this device could provide the opportunity for transformational interfaces to the brain, including direct interfaces to the visual cortex that would allow patients who have lost their sight to discriminate complex patterns at unprecedented resolutions.

There is a clear connection between Clara Moskowitz's article about an investigation of whether space and time could be made of tiny informational building blocks [«Tangled Up in Spacetime»] and Juergen A. Knoblich's article on growing part of the developing human brain in the lab for research [«Lab - Built Brains»].

For example, it could be used to image neurons in living mice by combining the Raman scattering technique with existing methods in which tiny windows are implanted in the brains and spinal cords of laboratory animals.

Although H. naledi's cranium is shaped like that of H. erectus, its brain size is that of an earlier australopith, and tiny for its 5 - foot - tall body.

Tiny «brains» that include parts of the cortex, hippocampus and even retinas, have been made for the first time using stem cells.

The findings suggest that the lethal power of the virus — known for infecting and killing cells in the brains of fetuses, causing babies to be born with tiny, misshapen heads — could be directed at malignant cells in the brain.

«It is the best source of fresh human brain tissue available at the moment,» says Jucker, who plans to scrutinize it carefully under the microscope for anything that might resemble tiny clumps or seeds of amyloid - β.

When the researchers recalibrated the display screen, though, they could see tiny blobs of neural action in brain regions specialized for speech.

Now, for the first time, a team of scientists led by Professor Simon Schultz and Dr Luca Annecchino at Imperial College London has developed a robot and computer programme that can guide tiny measuring devices called micropipettes to specific neurons in the brains of live mice and record electrical currents, all without human intervention.

The best electrodes for recording brain activity, meanwhile, can pick up only a tiny portion of the chatter in the brain because engineers can implant only a few dozen electrodes in a single person.

Karin Nordström's group from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and Flinders University, Australia, and Shannon Olsson's team from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India, have long been interested in how insects, with their «teeny - tiny» brains can recognize objects such as flowers.

Indrani Ganguly - Fitzgerald of the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego and her colleagues chose fruit flies for two reasons: they are known to sleep and the size and richness of their tiny brains depend on youthful experience.

Also speaking at the event are Dr. Ken Lacovara (Insights from the biggest dinosaur skeleton ever found), Dr. Roy Hamilton (Enhancing human mental performance with noninvasive brain stimulation), Dr. George Brainard (Better lighting for better sleep in space), Denise Wong (Tiny bio-robots for microscale medicine and engineering), Dr. Melinda Keefe (The chemistry of art conservation), and Dr. Michel Barsoum (Molding conductive «clay» into the next generation of batteries)

A three - minute film about a tiny molecule that lights up brain tumors so neurosurgeons can better distinguish cancer from normal tissue has a chance for its own moment in the spotlight in the Sundance Film Festival in January.

That cylinder in the middle of the image is the tiny, cubic millimeter - sized chunk of mouse neocortex studied as a test case for nanoscale brain imaging technology

That cylinder in the middle of the image is the tiny, cubic millimeter - sized chunk of mouse neocortex studied as a test case for nanoscale brain imaging technology (Credit: Harvard University)

But imagine for a moment if we could build a complete wiring diagram of a human brain — to map in detail every one of the hundred trillion or so synapses and roughly hundred billion neurons together with all the tiniest supporting mechanisms.

I encourage you to read the entire article and take note of the following: the side - effects seen with medications over the years and the fact that doctors «don't know the consequences and potential side effects of taking tiny doses of ketamine over and over again»; «she tried nearly everything» (you'll read this in all the articles advocating for ketamine but unfortunately they are only referring to medications); the ketamine effects are temporary and cost $ 15,000 per year (and are not covered by insurance); and ketamine «is thought to stimulate an opioid receptor in the brain» and is already known to be addictive.

After battling tears through a series of straightforward health and lifestyle - related questions and a brief physical examination, the doctor gave me information on a nearby lab and instructed me to make appointments for a Polysomnogram and Multiple Sleep Latency Test or MSLT, the most effective methods for diagnosing narcolepsy while simultaneously ruling out other more common disorders like insomnia and sleep apnea.While I slept, what seemed like tons of tiny electrodes monitored my brain waves, eye movement, heart rate and muscle activity.

The team's scans revealed a tiny area of the brain called the ventral tegmental area (or VTA for short) lighting up when the study's participants were shown a photo of their beloved.

Hotline Miami's top - down 2D world was a perfect fit for my tiny little brain.

In the film, we follow street puppeteer Craig (John Cusack, looking like a small, humming pile of hair) as he confronts the economic viability of his chosen occupation by getting an admin job on the 7 1/2 floor of a building that also happens to hide a tiny door which leads, if one crawls through cobwebs and puddles, to the inside of John Malkovich's head, wherein for 15 minutes the brain tourist can vicariously live through famous actor John Malkovich's eyes before getting spit up into a ditch off the New Jersey Turnpike.

I've sold over a million books and make far more money than a hack like you, so let's chalk one up for the good guys... and please find another subject to put words together about or are you simply limited in what your tiny brain can come up with?

That's why NASA has been developing tiny satellites that have Android phones for brains.

This means that when you rub his tummy, you are actually stroking his tiny belly hairs as well, thus providing a specific type of stimulation in his brain, which makes it enjoyable for Fido.

Do you really think she'd go rescue a mutt from the pound when she could just go spend way too much money for a puppy at a pet store after taxing her little tiny brain thinking about it for 30 whole minutes?

During this period, their brains are like tiny sponges — soaking up everything they experience and filing it away for the future.