Sentences with phrase «how deep brain»

These findings could potentially make several important contributions to our understanding of how deep brain stimulation (DBS) using theta bursts can modulate episodic memory formation.

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So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

I for one won't mind him retiring at Arsenal or being a coach, because despite his lack of pace and his limited ability his football brain is really up there with the best, knows how to read the game and is a true defender that likes to sit deep and soak in the pressure.

Through her own personal life experience, in combination with several years of intense training with Dr. Stephanie Mines (http://tara-approach.org), Jeanice has come to a deep understanding of how early overwhelming experiences can influence one's health and personality throughout life and can cause a variety of disorders later in life including, but not limited to, repetitive relationship problems, chronic health issues, drug and alcohol addiction, uncontrollable violence and criminal behavior, chemical imbalances in the brain, fertility issues, severe depression, and an inability to lead a joyful, healthy life.

Drawing on stunning new findings in neurobiology and attachment research, they explain how interpersonal relationships directly impact the development of the brain, and offer parents a step - by - step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories, which will help them raise compassionate and resilient children.

Armed with a deeper understanding of brain development and the impact on a child's behavior who has had a tough start in life, parents can better explore how to best help their child heal.

Now a gene that causes such disorders has been found, and it may help unravel a deeper mystery: how it is that the left side of our brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa.

«While previous studies at McLean and elsewhere have focused on the behavioral symptoms produced by such immune activation, this study goes deeper, going to the cellular level to show how the brain's neural circuits are affected.»

Elizabeth Elliott wondered if Alzheimer's disease might affect how memories are stored deep in the brain.

The team also measured how this deep sleep activity correlated with the myelin content of the brain — a cornerstone of brain development.

By claiming that he could pry information from the brain without drilling deep inside it — information that could allow a subject to move a computer cursor, play computer games, and even move a prosthetic limb — Schalk was taking on «a very strong existing dogma in the field that the only way to know about how the brain works is by recording individual neurons,» Schmeisser vividly recalls of that day.

A community of «tele - immersion» researchers suspect a deeper answer: Maybe there is something about how our brains are fine - tuned to perceive other people that video telecommunications have simply not picked up.

The finding has already led to a better understanding of how to deploy deep - brain electrodes.

Donato's prize - winning essay, «Assembling the brain from deep within,» highlights how his results have important implications in degenerative brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

«What we discovered in our preclinical work is evidence of how groups of neurons coordinate and cooperate with each other in a very particular way that gives us deeper insight into how the brain is controlling the arm,» Shenoy said.

However, measuring how the biological clock works is not easy in humans given that the «machinery» is located within the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the hypothalamus, deep within the brain.

Using electroencephalograms (EEG) that measure brain activity, they recorded how deep and how long each participant's nightly sleep was in a controlled, laboratory setting.

«This research gives us deeper insights into how people make decisions relevant to law, and particularly how different parts of the brain contribute to decisions about crime and punishment.

Moreover, these neural network models can predict to some extent how a neuron deep in the brain will respond to any image.»

Researchers have developed a method to measure how the brain responds to electrical stimulation and use the response to maximize efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- a therapy that has been successfully used to treat advanced stages of Parkinson's disease.

The study looked at how safe deep brain stimulation was for patients with anorexia, and how it affected their BMI, mood, anxiety and wellbeing.

And at a local restaurant on a recent summer evening, they are still deep into a back - and - forth about how their own brains know where they are and will guide them home.

Here, cells in different layers of the visual cortex show up as brilliant pink, yellow, and blue, depending on how deep they are in the brain (the colors are artificial).

Furthermore, it represents a more biologically realistic way of how real brains could do deep learning.

In a study published December 5th in eLife, CIFAR Fellow Blake Richards and his colleagues unveiled an algorithm that simulates how deep learning could work in our brains.

In the early 2000s, Richards and Lillicrap took a course with Hinton at the University of Toronto and were convinced deep learning models were capturing «something real» about how human brains work.

Richards says future research should model different brain cells and examine how they could interact together to achieve deep learning.

Similar techniques might one day help us get a deeper understanding of how our own brains work.

He has turned his simplifying eye toward two deep, tangled and very ambitious challenges: He wants to understand how the brain works.

An inquiry into the roots of human amnesia has shown how deep structures in the brain may interact with perceptual pathways in outer brain layers to transform sensory stimuli into memories

It is an extension of TAMER that uses deep learning — a class of machine learning algorithms that are loosely inspired by the brain to provide a robot the ability to learn how to perform tasks by viewing video streams in a short amount of time with a human trainer.

Second, the lab is studying how early life stress impacts both the transcriptome in stress - related brain regions using deep - sequencing methods and the addictive potential of the prescription opioid oxycodone using the drug self - administration paradigm, in male and female rats.

By recording neuronal activity in the input and output layers of the olfactory bulb, as well as feedback from olfactory cortical areas and neuromodulatory signals, Albeanu and his team aim to understand computations the bulb performs and how this information is decoded deeper in the brain.

It isn't too different from how electroshock therapy works to counter certain mental illnesses and how deep - brain stimulation smooths motion disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

Using this device, which consists of several tubes contained within a needle about as thin as a human hair, the researchers can deliver one or more drugs deep within the brain, with very precise control over how much drug is given and where it goes.

«By discovering how the removal of RGS4 affects brain circuitry at the molecular level, we gained a deeper understanding of the protein's role — both normally and in Parkinson's disease,» said Dr. Lerner.

The real question here is, how do we find true satisfaction in dating, mating, love, and sex in this modern world when we have more access to technology and more pornography but still haven't come to a deep understanding of our own brains or sexuality?

Although how it works is not understood, hypnosis may bring about physiological changes in the body such as decreased heart rate, blood pressure, and alpha wave brain patterns, similar to meditation and other types of deep relaxation.

In this master class, Emily shares the deep connection between the gut and the brain and how addressing the gut can begin to alleviate the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders.

It also goes deeper into Dr. Perlmutter's work on brain health and provides a wide range of strategies, recipes, meal plans, and smart advice on how you can improve every aspect of your life with the principles of Grain Bbrain health and provides a wide range of strategies, recipes, meal plans, and smart advice on how you can improve every aspect of your life with the principles of Grain BrainBrain.

Get acquainted with this and you'll see how altering your brain - waves can instantly transport you into a magical state of deep relaxation.

I read up on the origins of this type of mind altering technology — how studies at the Menninger Clinic back in the 1970s determined the brain wave patterns of deep meditation, and how a researcher at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York discovered a property of the brain that allowed these same brain wave patterns to be induced using sound...

Find out how important it is to have a balance of having the perfect amount of fitness, movement and activity and using your brain to get a deeper quality sleep, as well as know the right balance of foods to eat to help achieve that restful night sleep.

To help us keep track of how much of her own brain she's «colonizing,» Besson puts the percentage in big, bold letters on the screen, and he regularly cuts to a speculative lecture by a neuroscientist (Morgan Freeman), from whom we learn that more cells don't just mean deeper thoughts.

But a deeper understanding of how education shapes the brain could give us new insights into what and how children can most successfully learn.

That's not how it worked in the one - room schoolhouses of yesteryear, and it's oblivious to the many ways that children differ from each other, the ways their modes and rates of learning differ, how widely their starting achievement levels differ, and how their interests, brains, and outside circumstances often cause them to learn different subjects at unequal speeds — and to move faster and slower, deeper or shallower, at different points in their lives, even at different points within a «school year.»

This calls for a deeper understanding of how our brains develop and how they respond to adversity and trauma, and how building relationships and providing strategies that promote emotional regulation can positively affect students» emotional, physiological, and cognitive health.

The Science of Teaching and School Leadership Academy is a five - day deep dive into Mind, Brain, Education science and how this research can inform, validate, and transform teaching and learning.

Myths and fairy tales have always fascinated me, perhaps because they're a pre-Freud peek into how the human brain works — what frightens us, what awes us and what we desire deep in our hearts.

I've rolled my eyes at a lot of lame brain ideas coming from the characters mouths, how suggestively pumping a gun puts water back in it, and the whole point of getting saturated in levels with knee - deep water that you are running and rolling through, but time in combat is thoroughly enjoyable.