Sentences with phrase «for brain researchers»

That tool and the influence rankings for brain researchers will debut at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, California, on 12 November.

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In one of the experiments, the researchers primed some of the participants for feelings of either power or powerlessness by assigning them to roles as bosses or employees in a face - to - face mock task of solving brain - teasers.

Researchers compare this strange localized sleep to that of dolphins, who are able to rest underwater while some part of their brain stays active enough to remind them to surface for air every so often.

In the study researchers selected guppies for large and small brain sizes.

After taking samples and conducting brain scans, the researchers found that 41 percent of mothers of babies with microcephaly tested positive for Zika infection in blood or cerebrospinal fluid samples, compared with none of those whose babies did not have microcephaly.

Understanding these brain wave basics, researchers from New York University found that rhythm serves as a type of «carrier signal» for information, with brain waves actually synchronizing to the tempo of sounds around you, including music.

While the reason for this isn't entirely clear, the researchers suggested it could have to do with the social isolation that comes from losing your hearing and how that affects the brain when it's not able to work at processing sound.

Allowing your brain to freely associate disparate ideas, many researchers believe, facilitates this «eureka» moment, which perhaps helps explain why Newton stumbled upon the rule of gravity while resting under an apple tree, and why, anecdotally, the modern - day shower seems particularly conducive for runaway breakthrough moments.

Researchers at Accera, in Broomfield, Colorado, believe that in some forms of impairment, brain cells are actually starving for glucose, the basic food of cells.

During a key experiment in the 1990s, for example, researchers damaged the neocortex of female hamsters after birth but spared deeper brain structures.

For future studies, they suggested, researchers should test the performance of doped chess players given a much longer time limit, so the study could isolate the positive effects of brain drugs.

These shifts prime mom's brain for significant changes and, as researchers are increasingly discovering, dads too.

While the results can't conclusively prove that all those second screens are causing the changes to the brain (differences in brain structure could also lead people to be more likely to multitask), the researchers suggest that the results should nonetheless serve as a red flag for fans of multiple devices while further studies are carried out to test causality.

According to a study completed by researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, that is exactly how our brains are wired to work.

To detect cerebral palsy in infants, researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed a motorized robot for children to wear, tracking brain activity and muscle coordination using artificial intelligence.

Though some neuroscientists have suggested that internet addiction can alter the brain in ways similar to alcohol and drug addictions, researchers have yet to provide similar data for smartphone addiction.

A version of the speed training program developed for this trial is now commercially available through the brain fitness company Posit Science, but the researchers are working on making other types of training available as well.

While it has shown promise for some types of tumors and become standard of care for others, researchers are just beginning to explore how different immunotherapy technologies can be applied to brain cancer.

Researchers at the University of California Berkeley recently unveiled a new experimental device for editing brain activity.

In the last year, the technology long used by researchers to measure brain activity has become affordable enough for some toy makers to incorporate it into their toys and video games.

As Fred Wolf of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self - Organization further explains, that «extraordinarily high deletion rate came as a huge surprise,» and it effectively means that information is lost in the brain as quickly as it can be delivered — something the researchers say has «fundamental consequences for our understanding of the neural code of the cerebral cortex.»

The mysteries of the brain may be virtually endless, but a team of researchers from two institutes in Göttingen, Germany now claim to have an answer for at least one question that has remained a puzzle: just how fast does the brain forget information?

Researchers can identify the parts of the brain responsible for these emotions and measure synaptic activity corresponding to them.

for the man that says prayer is for the weak Harvard medical school researchers show prayer absolutely changes brain waves, much like running.

The brain activity for these two tasks is sufficiently differentfor the researchers to be able easily to distinguish the responses in the functional - magnetic - resonance (fMRI) images of the patients» brains.

Rooted in attachment theory, Attachment Parenting has been studied extensively for over 60 years by psychology and child development researchers, and more recently, by researchers studying the brain.

While researchers continue to look for the concussion «holy grail» in the form of specific impact thresholds above which concussions are highly likely and / or the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season that substantially increase the risk of long term brain injury, impact sensor technology is available right now to do what we can to reduce total brain trauma by using impact data to identify kids who need more coaching so they can learn how to tackle and block without using their helmets.

Researchers found that by age 2, babies who had been breastfed exclusively for at least three months had enhanced development in key parts of the brain compared to children who were fed formula exclusively or who were fed a combination of formula and breastmilk.

Society isn't happy with single moms; according to a 2011 Pew Research Center study, nearly seven out of 10 said the trend toward single mothers was bad for society (although writer Tracy Mayor in Brain, Child magazine calls out the actual question asked by Pew researchers — how people felt about «more single women deciding to have children without a male partner to help raise them,» not whether they think single mothers per se are bad for society.

More praise for the yummy stuff resulted from brain researcher Todd Parrish of Northwestern University in 2009, when he examined functional magnetic resonance images of gum chewers and found increased activity in areas of the brain associated with memory and emotional responses.

Many researchers still suspect that whether light sleep is vital for the normal development of the brain in all young mammals and infants.

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For a time, researchers theorized that attention disorders were caused by minor head injuries or damage to the brain.

The results of at least two recent studies, however, suggest that reductions in full - contact practices can be accompished safely without putting players at additional risk, while researchers continue looking for the head trauma «holy grail»: a threshold - whether it is number of hits per week, over the course of the season, of a certain force, or to a certain part of the helmet (e.g. facemask, top of the head) above which players are at an unacceptably high risk of permanent brain injury.

The researchers hope to uncover barometers that physicians can rely on to determine what, exactly, is occurring inside the brain after a concussion, and how long the recovery process can be expected to take for different groups of athletes.

Commenting at the time on the 2010 Purdue study for Sports Illustrated [20][15], Randall Benson, a neurologist at Wayne State University in Detroit, speculated that the Purdue researchers may have taken what amounted to a «real - time snapshot» of the early stages of the corrosive creep that wears away at the frontal lobe, a part of the brain involved in navigating social situations.

«For the first time, we have found that a sample of randomly assigned young adults showed less activation in certain frontal brain regions following a week of playing violent video games at home,» said one researcher.

Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on the brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication.

A study by Luby and other WUSM researchers showed that a mother's love had a physical effect on the size of her child's hippocampus — the area of the brain responsible for memory.

Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on the underlying brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication.

Researchers are looking at delays or abnormalities in brain development of nerve cells that are responsible for heart and lung function.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Attachment Parenting International (API) analyzes and disseminates the work of researchers in psychology, child development, and brain science who have studied and applied the behaviors and outcomes of attachment theory for more than 60 years.

Harvard researchers Michael Commons and Patrice Miller say that when children are left to cry for long intervals, their little brains are flooded with a harmful hormone called cortisol.

Researchers pinpoint an area in the drosophila brain that can trick hungry insects into believing they are full, offering hope for new weight - loss remedies in humans

Inspired by flatworm memory experiments from the 1950s, researchers are on the hunt for the elusive engram — the physical mark that a memory leaves on the brain — Laura Sanders reported in «Somewhere in the brain is a storage device for memories» (SN: 2/3/18, p. 22).

The researchers detected this SMN long noncoding RNA, or lnc - RNA (pronounced «link RNA») for short, in human embryonic kidney cells, brain cell samples and neurons derived from the stem cells of healthy people and those with spinal muscular atrophy type I and II.

For more consistent results, the researchers only recruited women, and the participants completed surveys to see if there were any other factors at work that could affect brain structure, such as depression or level of formal education.

The researchers then found that these same genes carry an additional risk for a phenomenon called spreading depolarization, a slowly - progressing, temporary electrical blackout of a region in the brain.

Most recently, he noted, researchers reported in Science that sleep functions as a kind of «sewer system» for the brain, at least in mice, by flushing beta - amyloid, which is known to accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.