Sentences with phrase «generated by our brain»

They are all generated by the brain.

Magnetoencelphalography, or MEG, is a technique that measures the tiny magnetic fields generated by brain activity.

University of Wisconsin researchers are in the vanguard of exploring the uncharted frontier that neuroscientist Richard Davidson has dubbed affective neuroscience — the study of how emotion is generated by the brain.

$ 20 million for the National Science Foundation (NSF), to support research into the development of nanoscale probes that can record the activity of neural networks; information processing technology that can handle the flood of data generated by BRAIN research; and better understanding of the neural representation of thoughts, emotions, actions, and memories

We were arguing about the information in a camera, and you saw that, if the camera is large enough, it can be as much or more than the information generated by a brain.

18 healthy volunteers were monitored by using EEG to measure the electrical activity generated by their brains» neurons (the signalling cells) while simultaneously recording fMRI measurements.

If you could look at the wave patterns being generated by the brain, you would see a change from the rapid beta waves of daytime to slower alpha waves.

Not exact matches

For years, scientists have believed that the same sections of the brain are used by every person to generate emotions like a smile or frown; they fall into a rigid pattern.

Subjects rated «inspirational» by their employees generate high levels of coherence in the right frontal part of the brain, which is responsible for interpersonal communication and social relationships.

Only the series of dominant occasions known as the soul is a separate society, i.e., a set of personally ordered occasions which provide continuity in time for the patterns already generated in large part by nexus of living occasions within the field of activity proper to the brain.

But in the production of consciousness by the brain, the terms are heterogeneous natures altogether; and as far as our understanding goes, it is as great a miracle as if we said, Thought is «spontaneously generated,» or «created out of nothing.»

How this metamorphosis takes place; how a force existing as motion, heat, or light can become a mode of consciousness; how it is possible for aerial vibrations to generate the sensation we call sound, or for the forces liberated by chemical changes in the brain to give rise to emotion, — these are mysteries which it is impossible to fathom.

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.

Today's frantic new media systems can generate huge waves of alarmist communications which invade countries and alarm the citizens about two main issues that bypass the logical part of the brain: racial threat and sex... both topics are used by media to command human attention because they bypass conscious brain structures to ensure a fast response, the same as a deja vu is seen before it is noticed, so to speak.

Panksepp saw that human emotions and emotional problems could be explored by studying other mammals — how their brains generated emotions akin to the anger, sadness and joy that humans describe, what neurons and neural circuits were involved.

Then, Feng recognized a novel opportunity to directly measure whether tDCS generates EFs in deep brain areas among patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, who are often treated by implanting DBS electrodes.

To answer these questions, a team of MUSC investigators led by stroke neurologist and physician - scientist Wayne Feng, M.D., MS, attempted something that has never before been tried — they directly measured tDCS - generated EFs in vivo using deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes that were already implanted in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Electrical signals between neurons generate electric fields that radiate out of brain tissue as electrical waves that can be picked up by electrodes touching a person's scalp.

We already knew that the brain is constantly adapting throughout our lives, for example by generating new neurons well into adulthood.

«By taking the brain signals generated when Bill attempts to move, and using them to control the stimulation of his arm and hand, he was able to perform personal functions that were important to him,» said Bolu Ajiboye, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and lead study author.

When it reaches the brain, Zika virus infects neuronal stem cells, which will generate fewer neurons, and by inducing chronic stress in the endoplasmic reticulum, it promotes apoptosis, i.e. the early death of these neuronal cells.

In nerve cells, opening ion channels is a crucial step in generating action potentials — the signals by which the cells communicate in the brain.

They charted the small changes in voltage generated by the areas of the brain responding to these stimuli, a process known as event - related potentials (ERPs).

Understanding how the brain generates these neural codes can lead to the development of state - of - the - art neural prosthetic devices, more closely imitating the neural coding patterns normally used by the brain.

These researchers say they have demonstrated that exposure to a single blast equivalent to that generated by a typical improvised explosive device (IED) can result in CTE and long - term brain impairments that accompany the disease.

The visual stimulus has been created by a cognitive brain pattern generated by the rat.

Scientists are studying how oscillations generated by nerve cells affect brain function.

The researchers hypothesize that by generating a stress - induced analgesic response in periaqueductal gray matter, the Wim Hof Method may promote the spontaneous release of opioids and cannabinoids in the brain.

For example, neural excitation is thought to induce form constants, the dynamic patterns I saw when I closed my eyes under the influence of peyote; these are also generated by migraines, epileptic seizures, and other brain disorders.

Zheng, together with Leah Boyer, then a researcher in Gage's lab and now director of Salk's Stem Cell Core, generated diseased neurons by taking skin cells from patients with Leigh syndrome, reprogramming them into stem cells in culture and then coaxing them to develop into brain cells in a dish.

Our brains generate the same reward signals when we conquer any challenge, big or small, so I take on smaller challenges outside of work.2 My daily physical workouts are diverse — running, yoga, Pilates, strength training — and I progress by focusing on today's form and peak performance.

A key problem has been separating these precise brain signals from those associated with other brain activity, and the highly artificial signals generated by the exoskeleton.

Apparently these things are not generated by neurons but arise from the brain's physical structure and wiring.

This decision appears to be generated by a very small number of excitatory neurons that use acetylcholine as their neurotransmitter located in three brain regions.

By mapping how the brain generates and processes emotions, they hope to discover ways people might use the power of their own minds to overcome the crippling impact of fear or depression, and maybe even improve their physical health as well.

The earlier models were not as clinically relevant because the infections were generated by injecting the virus directly into the brain.

The left cortex seems to falter in mustering and maintaining positive feelings in response to outside stimuli as well as in dampening the outpouring of negative feelings in response to negative stimuli that are generated by another part of the brain: the amygdala.

The team of international scientists had discovered that by activating Nurr1, a class of proteins found in the brain, it protects the brain's ability to generate dopamine neurons.

Although the scientists can't assume hospitalization is directly causing suicide, they say their work backs up a hot theory that inflammation — one of the body's main defenses against infection — influences depression by generating a chemical that interferes with brain signaling.

In a separate experiment, researchers in the United States and Austria used a prion protein generated by E. coli to infect hamsters with a transmissible brain disease.

Researchers led by biochemist Laszlo Prokai of the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth were studying the production of estrogen in the body when they realized that one estrogen - generating pathway was only active in the brain.

Another idea, put forward by Susan Greenfield at the University of Oxford, suggests that consciousness is generated by interactions between groups of brain cells.

The sensation of pain in your hand is actually an addition to the many other experiences that are generated by the same region of your brain.

First introduced by researchers in 1950, corollary discharge is a split - second message sent to the brain that allows animals — including rats, crickets, humans and more — to recognize and filter out sensations generated from their own actions.

The experiments were consistent in supporting the idea that sensations arising from twitches are not filtered: And without the filtering provided by corollary discharge, the sensations generated by twitching limbs are free to activate the brain and teach the newborn brain about the structure and function of the limbs.

The researchers believe episodes of ICS were generated by the simultaneous activation of mirror - neurons in both the passenger's and observer's brains.

The most vital components of cognition, Freeman believes, are the electrical and magnetic fields, generated by synaptic currents, that constantly ripple through the brain.

Researchers have hitherto assumed that information supplied by the sense of sight was transmitted almost in its entirety from its entry point to higher brain areas, across which visual sensation is generated.

Sylvia's scans showed that her musical hallucinations seemed to be generated by a network of higher brain regions, including those that process melodies and sequences of tones, and areas involved in imagery and memory.

«By showing that fructose in the brain is not simply due to dietary consumption of fructose, we've shown fructose can be generated from any sugar you eat,» said Hwang.