Sentences with phrase «greater than the brain»

What's more, the changes Cha and his colleagues saw were «much greater than the brain changes or abnormalities associated with psychiatric disorders that we usually observe in children or adults,» he said.

Not exact matches

As behavioral psychologist Susan Weinschenk explained on her blog recently (via a great personal story, of course), by putting us in their protagonists» shoes, stories manage to engage more of the brain than straight recitations of facts or dry arguments, leading to more arousal and interest.

A mechanical «substrate» is more durable than a brain, its software is more easily modified, and advanced computers can network with greater speed and ease.

It seems reasonable, therefore, to suggest that the mutation for greater brain power than is biologically meaningful was not selected naturally.

Our brains want to creat God, because it promises something more than death — our greatest fear.

To continue a bit with the end of that last idea: so if a group of people are on the scene of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

The Virginia planter and Fire - Eater Edmund Ruffin, who in 1865 blew his brains out rather than live under Yankee rule, called Toussaint Louverture «the only truly great man yet known of the negro race.»

There is a great book written by 2 NON christians on the emotional roller coaster of «hooking» up Our brain has more to do with it than anything.

(So that when you read a news story, for instance, you might also get a composite assessment value that was assigned directly from other readers without them ever having to express such assessment via speaking, writing, etc. if a group of people are on the scene of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.)

Anyone with more than 2 brain cells and / or an IQ greater than 10 rejects sky daddies.

There is no evidence that any man's intellect on earth today is equal to Aristotle's, nor do we know with any surety that the brain capacity of mankind as a whole is greater now than it was in the Ice Age.

We've all heard more than once that starting the day with a healthy breakfast is great for the brain and the belly.

In the midfield, (including RWB & LWB) we have a whole bunch of tweeners... none offer the full package, none make sense in our manager's current favourite formation, except for Sead on the left and Ox on the right, and all of them have never shown any consistency for more than a heartbeat... Sead, who I'm including in this category because of our present formation, looks like a positive addition, minus his occasional brain farts, but I would rather see what he could do in a back 4 before making my mind up... Ox, who has never played better, which isn't saying much considering his largely underwhelming play in previous seasons, seems to have found a home in this new formation; unfortunately, can we really expect this oft - injured player to handle the taxing duties that come with said position over the long haul, not to mention, it looks like he has no intention of staying... Ramsey has relied on the empathy that stems from his gruesome injury years ago and the excitement that was generated a few years back when he finally seemed to put in altogether, but on the whole he has been a big disappointment (neither he nor the Ox have scored enough to warrant a regular spot)... Wiltshire should be put on a weekly contract then played until he suffers his first injury, if and when that occurs he should be shipped - out and no one should very be allowed to say his name on club grounds ever again... Elnehy & Coq are average players who couldn't make any of the top 7 teams currently in the EPL... both have showed some great energy on the pitch, but neither are top quality and no good team can afford to have that many average players on their bench playing the same position, especially with Coq's injury history / discipline concerns and Elheny's headless chicken tendencies... as for Xhaka, his tenure here so far has been incredibly underwhelming... we know he has some skills to provide the long ball but his defensive work is piss poor and he gives the ball away too cheaply and far too often... finally, the enigma himself, Ozil, so much skill with his left foot but his presence has been more frustrating than uplifting... in many respects his failure has been directly related to the failure of this club to provide him with the necessary players up front, minus Sanchez of course, and unless something drastic happens very soon his legacy will be largely a negative one (much like Wenger's)

Players do have a brain afterall and what Wenger does is encourage them to use it rather than just instruct them like most other managers do, now when it all comes together, we go a whole season unbeaten, when it fails, we go a decade without a trophy all in it is why a large number of former Wenger students and players have gone on to greater things within and beyond football, Even Guardiola took a chunk of his coaching badges under Wenger even after playing under Fergie just before hanging up his boots, Viera went on to a senior role at Man.

AH OK a thumbs down because some dick obviously thinks they know better than Martin Keown, one of the more intelligent and articulated pundits on TV, with a great footballing brain.

BRAIN VS. BRAWN Sirs: Far from merely defending the college athletes from the usual accusations of intellectual idiocy (EDITORIAL, June 27), you seem to swing to the other extreme by implying that the athlete is possessed of even greater intellectual acumen than his nonathletic contemporaries.

If u want the great husband forever than tell him whats going on as us men focus on providing and a brain believes a fight is nothing and forgive and forget.

They also found that newborns spend a greater part of their time in REM sleep than at any other time in life and that this is highly related to their development of their brain & sensory system (vision, hearing, touch, smell, etc).

«Although intrauterine experiences can exert influence on the infant's subsequent development, the experiences it has during the ten months or so after birth are of greater experience... a continuing symbiotic relation between mother and child designed to endure an unbroken continuum until the infant's brain weight has more than doubled.»

Only a persistent body temperature greater than 44 °C (110 °F) can cause brain damage.

A recent study from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that preemies who received more breast milk in their first 28 days of life had greater brain development at their intended due date and were more cognitively advanced at age seven than babies who did not receive as much or any breast milk.

The breastfeeding mothers surveyed for the study showed greater responses to their infant's cry in brain regions related to caregiving behavior and empathy than mothers who relied upon formula as the baby's main food source.

Mothers who breastfeed have been found to report lower levels of perceived stress and negative mood, higher levels of maternal attachment, and tend to perceive their infants more positively than mothers who formula - feed.9, 19 - 21 There is evidence to suggest that breastfeeding mothers may also spend more time in emotional care and be more sensitive to infant emotional distress cues than bottle - feeding mothers.22, 23 Relatedly, a small fMRI study of 17 mothers in the first postpartum month, found that breastfeeding mothers showed greater activation in brain areas involved in empathy and bonding than formula - feeding mothers when listening to their own infant's cry.24 These brain areas included the superior frontal gyrus, insula, precuneus, striatum and amygdala.

Although the potential long - term benefits of DHA are still being explored, biochemical data indicate that breast - fed infants accumulate DHA in the brain until ≥ 12 mo of age and at a greater rate than do infants fed formula without DHA (8,9).

In December 2017, writing in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Yankeelov and collaborators at UT Austin and Technical University of Munich, showed that they can predict how brain tumors (gliomas) will grow and respond to X-ray radiation therapy with much greater accuracy than previous models.

Although she acknowledges that the relationship between intelligence and neuron count has not yet been firmly established, Herculano - Houzel and her colleagues argue that avian brains with the same or greater forebrain neuron counts than primates with much larger brains can potentially provide the birds with much higher «cognitive power» per pound than mammals.

But on the whole, Sonntag says, his psychology training has been a far greater asset than a handicap, especially in recent years as he has stepped up his work on brain aging.

But her immune response was 10 times greater than that of Giese, Caicedo says, causing her brain to swell.

Chen agrees: He said his experiment «carries much less risk of creating animals with greater «brain power» than normal» because the human organoid goes into «a specific region of already developed brain.»

The discovery, which shows that the brain has a far greater ability to adapt and respond to changes than previously believed, could have significant implications on epilepsy, movement disorders, and psychiatric and neurodegenerative disease.

Other factors may also be important in birds, which show a greater difference in brain size than bats.

The nationally representative survey of more than 4,700 U.S. adults centered on public views about: gene editing that might give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implantation of brain chips that potentially could give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information, and transfusions of synthetic blood that might give people much greater speed, strength and stamina.

«The self - expansion activities yielded significantly greater activation in a major reward region of the brain, which is associated with addictive behaviors, than did non-expanding conditions.

She has found that people who are pining after a lost love have greater brain activity in the ventral pallidum, involved in attachment, than people who were happily in love.

With the new chips as linchpin, Modha has envisioned a novel computing paradigm, one far more powerful than anything that exists today, modeled on the same magical entity that allowed an impoverished laborer from Mumbai to ascend to one of the great citadels of technological innovation: the human brain.

The brain data revealed that the infant cries reduced attention to the task and triggered greater cognitive conflict processing than the infant laughs.

The mice received doses that were proportionally a thousand times greater than that given to people, along with a toxin that makes the blood - brain barrier leaky.

The dynamic range that our eyes and our brains offer is much greater than a computer algorithm,» said Anupreeta More, a project researcher at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) at the University of Tokyo and a co-principal investigator for Space Warps.

If so, the brain's total computational power could be many orders of magnitude greater than some believe.

The fish facing off with their own reflections showed greater activity in an area of the brain tied to fear and negative emotional learning, which suggests they find themselves scarier than any real rival.

Bees with a greater density of nerve connections (known as synaptic complexes) in a specific part of their brains had better memories and learned faster than bees with fewer connections in these areas.

When they measured the concentrations in the same area in chimp brains, the team found that the differences between chimps and normal humans were much greater for those nine than for the 12 metabolites not implicated in schizophrenia, suggesting that energy pathways implicated in schizophrenia were also altered by human evolution, the team reports this week in Genome Biology.

But the cat - owning women were no more likely to develop brain cancer than their cat - free counterparts, despite their presumably greater risk of exposure to T. gondii, the team reports online today in Biology Letters.

Fathers of daughters had greater responses to their daughters» happy facial expressions in areas of the brain important for visual processing, reward, emotion regulation, and face processing than fathers of sons.

«It's already known that DCX affects the ability of neurons to migrate, but we can now show that DCX plays a much greater, broader part in brain development than that,» says Dr Falk.

In social emotions, the differences in brain activity between people are greater than in basic emotions.

The EEGs also allowed the researchers to show that male brains have greater electrical activity associated with the GABA (gamma - amino butyric acid) neurotransmission than do female brains.

Higher fit older adults also had greater activation than young adults in some brain regions, suggesting that fitness may also serve a compensatory role in age - related memory and brain decline.

Preemies who received a greater number of positive early touches, such as breastfeeding, skin - to - skin cuddles and massage, had stronger brain responses to the puffs than preemies who received fewer.