Sentences with phrase «history of the human brain»

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery.

I find it very concerning that mainstream medicine and modern psychology pay so little attention the evolutionary history of the human brain.

Not exact matches

the author of Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray (Ballantine Books, 1994) can tell us precisely what happens in the human brain when we fall madly in love.

2) As to Neanderthal they did not have the brain capacity (Steve Olson, Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002), to wonder, thus not the first Adam 3) Nicodemus went to Jesus in the dark of night and Jesus said «I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe so how can you believe when I speak of heavenly things».

«The widespread media attention to these reports,» writes lead author Hal Wortzel «appears to have primed the public to accept highly reductionist formulations regarding the neuropathological bases of neuropsychiatric illness and complete human behaviors among persons with remote histories of [brain trauma].»

In The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable (MIT Press, 2016; 272 pages), neuroscientist Suzana Herculano - Houzel unravels what really sets the human brain apart from that of other primates, tracing our evolutionary history and describing her efforts to tally our individual neuHuman Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable (MIT Press, 2016; 272 pages), neuroscientist Suzana Herculano - Houzel unravels what really sets the human brain apart from that of other primates, tracing our evolutionary history and describing her efforts to tally our individual neuBrain Became Remarkable (MIT Press, 2016; 272 pages), neuroscientist Suzana Herculano - Houzel unravels what really sets the human brain apart from that of other primates, tracing our evolutionary history and describing her efforts to tally our individual neuhuman brain apart from that of other primates, tracing our evolutionary history and describing her efforts to tally our individual neubrain apart from that of other primates, tracing our evolutionary history and describing her efforts to tally our individual neurons.

«I see this line of research as looking at the capacity of the human brain to come up with innovations that ultimately changed the course of human history,» she said.

After a concussion, a person can be left with disturbed sleep, memory deficits and other cognitive problems for years, but a new study led by Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that despite these abnormalities, sleep still helps them to overcome memory deficits, and the benefit is Frontier in Human Neurosciequivalent to that seen in individuals without a history of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as concussion.

The preamble read as follows: «This symposium demonstrates that many avian species, despite brain architectures that lack much cortical structure and evolutionary histories and that differ so greatly from those of humans, equal and sometimes surpass humans with respect to various cognitive tasks.»

«Similarly worrisome is a recent report of increased incidence of Parkinson's diseases among individuals with a past history of methamphetamine abuse [compared with] the general population,» she says, adding that meth abuse can be «neurotoxic to the human brain.»

So with techniques normally used for studying prehistoric humans, researchers created a 3D image of Descartes's brain (above) by scanning the impression it left on the inside of his skull, which has been kept for almost 200 years now in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

Estimates reveal that their brains were comparable in size to those of some of the world's first known humans, australopithecines, as well as those of today's gorillas, Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, who did not directly work on the project, told Discovery News.

Metabolic acceleration and the evolution of human brain size and life history.

Fifty - Second James Arthur Lecture on «The Evolution of the Human Brain,» (American Museum of Natural History 1983).

For most of human history we have lived with natural light and it plays a significant role in the function of the body and brain.

If there's one part of the human anatomy that has confounded the most gifted of minds throughout history, it's the brain.

The untold history, the knowledge of the ages long gone, lost civilizations, the occult, the hidden powers of the human brain, the supernatural... — this all is of great interest to me.

I'd watch it for Dara's Irish accent alone, but it's also a wonderful history of human exploration of the brain.

According to Michael Thaut in his book Rhythm, Music, and the Brain, «Throughout human history, music has been considered a form of communication.

There is mind boggling title on economics, one on human evolution, another on the brain, plus the history title of the Russian revolution and a book about Greek and Roman political ideas.

I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it's the best weapon against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and fracking and every other evil in the world, and every bit as necessary for reaching our human potential as oxygen is for continued function of the brain.

Observing the medical histories of various neurological syndromes is like observing the fascinating nerve cells of the human brain in action, while they construct what we so proudly call the Human Conscioushuman brain in action, while they construct what we so proudly call the Human ConsciousHuman Consciousness.