Sentences with phrase «from other parts of the brain»

«This strengthens evidence that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex integrates information from other parts of the brain to determine punishment and shows a clear neural dissociation between punishment decisions and moral responsibility judgements.»

The cortex was where the sensory information — in this case, the sound of the tone — was integrated into conscious awareness, alongside other sensory data transmitted from other parts of the brain.

But while evidence like this gave researchers an idea of the SCN's importance, they hadn't completely teased its role apart from that of the body's other clocks, or from other parts of the brain.

More and more evidence from other parts of the brain suggest that a molecule called ATP is part of the signaling mechanism where damaged neurons tell the glia that they are in distress.

Not exact matches

Or does it pull in contributions from other parts of the cerebral cortex and even from areas that are involved in emotional behavior, like the amygdala, which lies deep in the brain's core?

Furthermore, we found that in people who intentionally mind wander, two main brain networks broadly overlap each other: the default - mode network, which is active when focusing on information from memory, and the fronto - parietal network, which stabilizes our focus and inhibits irrelevant stimuli as part of our cognitive control system.»

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

Since the presiding occasion of the regnant society «wanders from part to part of the brain, dissociated from the physical material atoms» (PR 167), the other enduring objects which constitute it as an «inter-section» must be historic routes of occasions within the «nonsocial» nexus which supports the regnant society.

I think if mainstream advice were to prevent injury to women from vaginal birth and to prevent brain injury and other birth injuries to newborns, then yes, a higher c - section rate might be part of that.

Other babies are born with problems in the part of their brain that controls breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, and waking from sleep.

Saxena's findings are corroborated by a recent study from the University of Iowa, involving a group of people who had suffered lesions in various parts of their brains as a result of strokes or other neurological diseases.

The team focused on the primary auditory cortex, which is the first cortical region to receive auditory signals from the ears via other parts of the brain, and the nonprimary auditory cortex, which plays a more sophisticated role in processing those stimuli.

Axons sprout from neurons and then migrate to specific parts of the developing brain where they interact with other neurons to form neural networks.

Perhaps the big advance will spring from physicists» quest for a theory of everything; from studies of «emergent» phenomena with many moving parts, such as ecologies and economies; from advances in computers and mathematics; from nanotechnology, biotechnology, and other applied sciences; or from investigations of how brains make minds.

Memory waves It is well established that sleep strengthens newly formed memories, and slow brain waves are thought to enhance the transfer of information from the hippocampus, a brain structure that is crucial to memory formation, to other parts of the brain for long - term storage.

«Alzheimer's disease might be a «whole body» problem: Amyloid - beta can travel, cancer - like, to brain from other parts of body.»

By studying other parts of the brain in both humans and monkeys, however, a team from Johns Hopkins University has now concluded that last - minute decision - making is a lot more complicated than previously known, involving complex neural coordination among multiple brain areas.

The Nakano lab is also working on brain metastases, tumors that spread into the brain from other parts of the body.

To the naked eye, no part of the brain's surface looks terribly different from any other part.

But one by one, the pair ruled out all other explanations — that the pattern was an artefact from their electronic equipment, for example — and then they began to understand how this part of the brain was working.

Scientists have long known that schooling fish observe and learn from each other's failures and successes, behaviors that stimulate neural development, especially in the part of the brain responsible for memory and learning.

Participants are recruited from retirement communities and subsidized housing facilities in and around Chicago to participate in annual clinical evaluations and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and to donate their brains and other parts of their bodies for research after their deaths.

At the same time, we are trying to find out where the serotonin might originate from in other parts of the brain.

• Keeping abnormal proteins from building up and potentially shutting down major organs (heart, liver and nervous system, to name a few) • Protecting the brain's functions of learning and memory against neurotransmitter toxicity • Activating or increasing the activity of proteins that promote the initial growth, maintenance and survival of brain neurons • Enhancing the movement of proteins, lipids and other cell parts through the cytoplasm of cell bodies.

The microglia then «summon» peripheral immune cells from other parts of the body, and these cells proceed to attack the protective myelin sheaths that surround the axons — or nerve fibers — in the brain.

The evolution of vision in vertebrates is an important theme in the history of animal life, however, aside from the calcified lenses of fossilised arthropods, other parts of the visual system are not usually preserved in the fossil record because the soft tissue of the eye and brain decays rapidly days after death.

«By interrupting a seizure at the time of its onset, we can prevent it from developing and spreading to other parts of the brain.»

The anterograde (forward) tracing results of retinal projections in the garden warbler demonstrated virtually identical connections between the eye and the brain as known from other lateral - eyed bird species [e.g. 15]--[18]: fibers either projected onto the contralateral optic tectum (part of the tectofugal system), to the nucleus of the basal optic root (part of the accessory pathway)(data not shown) or curved into the thalamus innervating the dorsal geniculate complex (Gld, for details, see Fig. 1C, 2A, D).

I know tiredness seems like part of the package when you're a mom, but if you live a healthy lifestyle and still suffer from chronic fatigue, brain fog, irritability, headaches, and other unpleasant symptoms, toxic metals could be the hidden culprit.

What we eat is digested and broken down into the building blocks that build and repair the brain, and improves the transfer of information from the neurotransmitters in the brain to the other parts of the body.

Exposure to light stimulates a nerve pathway from the eye to parts of the brain that control hormones, body temperature and other functions that play a role in making us feel sleepy or wide - awake.

Your body still needs some glucose or sugar to function like parts of your brain and blood but I never seen this point before it is a good point I need to look more into it but as I'm aware it doesn't say eat no carbs and some of those carbs is still good to come from good vegetables such as sweet potato and such and some of it from good sugar such as fruit but I do know some people have seen an improvement in their thyroid function those who have thyroid problems since eating this way but perhaps it can be a trigger for those long term eaters who see other problems arising in the metabolism and thyroid conditions but most of them are founded to be not avoiding certain sensitive trigger foods which has helped others when avoided

This is because in the presence of nicotine, choline can only protect parts of the fetal brain from damage while actually worsening the damage done by nicotine in other parts.

While one part of your brain is resting from all the learning you've done for the day, the other part is actively dreaming, allowing you to retain what you have learned for the day while resting your body.

For those who have suffered from an injury, extra zinc will keep brain function strong, because the body naturally diverts zinc to the other parts of the body for healing purposes.

But this week on Hidden Brain, we explore the other side of our nature: the part of us that wants to see the rich and powerful fall from grace.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

For example, bursts of brain activity from the somatosensory cortex are followed milliseconds later by bursts of electrical activity in the hippocampus, amygdala, and then the other parts of the limbic system.

Along with its brain - the valve control body - and about a zillion other parts, including gears, a pump, bands and clutches, an automatic transmission has a torque converter that connects and disconnects the power of the engine from the wheels so that you don't have to.

Individual members of groups were asked to start exploring the named abilities in such way that they will retrieve the parts of their body, for example in that group there just the brain, in other group there just the ears, there just the tongue, inside that group there just the hands, there just only the legs, but there were even such groups where they were making the presence of the body from the navel downside or just from the navel upside, there just the body of the left or right arm leg.

Coccidioidomycosis commonly spreads from the lungs to other parts of the body, including bones, eyes, heart, testicles, skin, brain, spinal cord, and spleen, liver or kidney.

Roundworm eggs hatch in the human intestinal tract, and from there, travel to other parts of the body, including the eyes and brain.

The reasons for this may be lesions in the prefrontal cortex, problems in the neurotransmitters that carry signals through the brain or lesions in other parts of the brain that receive signals from the prefrontal cortex.

The part of the brain which handles emotion and belief has few input connections from the thinking, rational part of the brain, but a great many connections going back the other way.

Since your spine controls much of the communication from your brain to the other parts of your body, the loss of that system can compromise other parts of the body and its functions over time as well, adding to your initial injuries:

The primary function of the spinal cord is to transmit signals from the brain to other parts of the body.

This part of our brain is what distinguishes us from other animals and allows us to transcend our animal instincts, but it is by no means always in charge.

One final example is the prefrontal cortex, which is thought to play an important role in regulating behavior by suppressing impulses and emotions arising from the amygdala and other parts of the limbic system.50 — 52 In animal studies, exposure to chronic stress or glucocorticoids alters the synaptic connectivity within the prefrontal cortex, 52,53 and this may limit the ability of the prefrontal cortex to (1) suppress the impulsivity and aggression of the limbic system, and (2) execute adaptive responses (rather than maladaptive responses) to stress.54 — 56 Stress - induced changes in brain structure parallel the well - described impact of significant childhood adversity on a variety of brain functions, including the modulation of physiologic responses (hyper - responsive or chronically active stress response), learning (impaired memory), and the regulation of behavior (the ability to execute adaptive vs maladaptive responses to stress).3, 39,57

Each need originates from nerve - based circuits in the brain that connect electrochemical signals, meaning nerve cells transmit messages to each other until specific parts of your body receive the information needed to perform the behavior to get your need met.