Sentences with phrase «how big the brain»

The researchers tinkered with the voltage in cell membranes of developing African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) and found that electric charge plays a role in how big the brain grows and what kind of tissue developing cells grow into.

Sam Wang, a Princeton University neuroscientist, calculated how big our brain would be if it were built with thick axons.

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TechnologyAdvice.com compiled research on how games impact the brain, and it looks like the easiest way to increase productivity is not providing more vacation, bigger paychecks, or improved benefits.

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Dazeinfo had a chance to catch up with Mukund and pick his brains to understand why many Indian startups are not able to make it to the global platform, how Big Data plays a vital role in startup growth and despite of seeing so much potential in Big Data, why are Indian startups not prioritizing the consumption of data?

I love the closing sentence of 1Cor 12, ultimately the opening phrase of Chapter 13...» but I'll show you the MOST excellent way» Doesn't matter how meticulously things are organised or how many «big» brains set up the way things are to be... the most excellent way is Love!

Bill, I feel sorry for you, you being a scientist and yet unable to create anything close to a human, or a constellation system, or a brain to think really logically with is amazing to me... if you want to believe that there was a big explosion somewhere in the universe beyond this world and that is how you came to be you can keep that theory but don't tell parents what to do with there children.

People often say our brains are so big because of how evolved we are, but I say our brains are so big because we messed it all up and now we need the space to sort it all out.

In thinking about how I felt like a big, fat loser when I missed one of my devotional times or ate a second cookie, I was struck with how much self - condemnation was swirling around my brain.

Human's benefit from a big brain and we can ponder our lives beyond how do we live, reproduce and die!

I wonder whether some guys here watch other EPL matches apart from Arsenal to see how many chances other teams create in a match.U will rant about Giroud who is not helping the team either but even with a big name like Cavani, Arsenal will still struggle.And bragging about a midfield that is failing to make those through passes and beat defenders also shows a little football brain.

Pack a note inside your child's lunch reminding her how much you love her, and ask her to try her best to eat up her healthy lunch so that she can be big and strong and power her brain to learn and have fun in school.

So how do you go about making your baby's brain bigger?

But I think I took a couple of things away: One was really that in infancy... attachment - promoting behavior — that helping him manage stress the way that those mother rats helped their pups manage stress — was a hugely important thing, and that was going to make a big difference in terms of how his brain develops, how his stress response system develops, and that that was going to help him a lot going forward.

As NASCAR began the 2014 season with the sport's biggest race, the Daytona 500, one of the questions to ask is how many of these drivers will suffer a concussion during the course of the year, how many of them will have it properly diagnosed and fully recover before they get behind the wheel, and what will be the long - term effects of these brain injuries?

In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Mirror in which he gives a candid personal insight into the PM and his prospects, he says: «He is a serious man with a big brain who has got very strong ideas about how people want to live their lives and how government should support them.»

TINY body, big problem: minuscule spiders need fairly sophisticated brains to weave their webs, but how do you cram that circuitry into such an itsy bitsy body?

Their goal was to see what has the biggest impact on how bilingual brains process sounds from their second language: proficiency, socioeducational status or how old they were when they learned their new language.

One of your biggest discoveries was how addiction affects the D2 receptor, the protein that determines how sensitive individuals are to the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, a chemical in the brain associated with feelings of reward and pleasure.

Mathematicians investigating one of science's great questions — how to unite the physics of the very big with that of the very small — have discovered that when the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior.

That is necessary if the organoids are to grow bigger, probably the only way they can mimic fully grown brains and show how disorders such as autism, epilepsy, and schizophrenia unfold.

Before neuroscience could tackle its biggest question — how the brain transforms chemical reactions and electrical pulses into cognition — it had to wrestle with the tiny.

The people who will solve the riddles of the brain, what consciousness is, how life first blossomed from inert, lifeless matter — they are hunting the big game now, the kind of problems that turn discoverers into heroes, into legends.

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.

«Something that would be very useful for the brain is to have information not just about whether there was an error but how big the error was — whether the Purkinje cell needs to make a minor or major adjustment,» Medina said.

One of the biggest questions in the field of neuroscience is how the brain rewires itself in response to changing behavioral conditions — an ability known as plasticity.

Although the enhanced growth doesn't prove anything about how the infants will do later on, «we know from other studies that bigger is better» when it comes to brain development in this region, Lahav says.

But in hopes of drafting better wiring diagrams of the brain, European and U.S. governments in 2013 made big commitments toward studying how nerve cells link up and synchronize.

Hustvedt: The big question for brain research has been, how does all this get put together?

The discovery sheds light on how bigger human brains might have evolved

«These subtle messages seem to have a big impact, and now we can see they have an immediate impact on how the brain handles information about performance,» Schroder said.

But how do we manage to build such big brains?

This study is really the first of its kind and provides a big step forwards in our understanding of how training can alter the functioning of brain networks.

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The researchers also received detailed instructions on how to grapple with a major technical challenge: Electrodes in patients» brains often detect pulses from two or more nearby neurons at the same time, which may show up in the computer as one big signal.

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Using props and examples from the fossil record, the scientists showed how the very adaptations that have made humans so successful — such as upright walking and our big, complex brains — have been the result of constant remodeling of an ancient ape body plan that was originally used for life in the trees.

Paleoanthropologist Robert Martin of The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, agrees that the new paper does «provide the first evidence that metabolic limitations» from a raw food diet impose a limit on how big a primate's brain — or body — can grow.

One of Freeman's big projects is working with collaborators to study how nerve cells in the brains of mice respond to touch.

In the wild, other apes can't evolve bigger brains unless they reduce their body sizes because they can't get past the limit of how many calories they can consume in 7 hours to 8 hours of feeding per day.

He adds that the mechanism could help explain how New World monkeys, with their small, smooth brains, could have evolved from an ancestor with a bigger and more folded brain.

Some regions are slightly bigger on one side than on the other, and these differences translate into imbalances in how the human brain works.

«You have to be a little humble and realize there are many experts around you that have more hazard - specific competence, so knowing how to borrow their brain is part of the bigger picture.»

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In this book, Dean Falk explains how the study of those ancient brains — or at least, the impressions they left in the skulls they occupied — may help to provide an answer to one of the biggest questions: where did we come from?

One of the many big puzzles left in neurology is working out which parts of the brain are connected — and how the networks function.

More broadly, Van Meir says that the finding adds to understanding about BAI1's dual function in the brain and how vasculostatin (big or small) might be used in anticancer therapy.

«It really highlights that just a small difference in the regulatory regions of human DNA — even ones that don't really make a gene, per se, but help to control genes — can have a big impact on how the brain is built, and ultimately how it functions,» she said.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

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