Sentences with phrase «human brains seem»

And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.

Not exact matches

When it comes to medical treatment, the brain and central nervous system remain the darkest, most forbidding frontiers in the human body — and yet our knowledge of how the brain and mind actually work seems to be growing by leaps each year.

It seems that a specific region of the human brain is set aside for religion.

Having to decide where the line is in the merger of the human brain and augmented reality devices may seem like a far - off concern.

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

Since both deny any causal role for human experience, locating all causality in the material brain, they seem to be continuations of epiphenomenalism under different labels.

Modern psychosomatic medicine has made some progress in analyzing along these lines; for example, it seems quite possible that the emotional tone of my soul may directly alter the patterns of physical feeling in my stomach.4 Still, we should not suppose too quickly that the aims of a human personality have any very effective direct influence on the molecules of body cells, other than those in the brain.

The disruption of prenatal cellular activity in zebra fish, which share 80 percent of their genes with humans and are considered a good model for studying human brain development, seemed to result in hyperactivity, according to the Canadian study, which was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

It's an evolutionary mystery how humans and other primates found the energy to support their large brains, but now it seems sacrificing some muscle might have helped

«It seems the serotonin helps respond to the rhythmic movement of the worm in different ways, similar to how serotonin is thought to drive arousal in the human brain,» said Collins.

Specifically, rodents genetically modified to express human amyloid precursor protein (hAPP), which can lead to the debilitating plaques that form in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, seem to struggle to find the hidden platform relative to their healthy peers.

[Attila Andics et al., Voice - Sensitive Regions in the Dog and Human Brain Are Revealed by Comparative fMRI] Seems that thousands of years of domestication have made our furry friends sensitive to the same vocal cues we are.

The normal mice's brain plaques seemed to be built from human A-beta protein, and the only source of that was the blood of the mutated partner mouse.

By getting down to synaptic levels in the brain — even if only in mice — the researchers seem to have taken a step toward explaining why omega - 3 trials in humans have shown some success in treating mood disorders.

Early humans seem to have eaten a wide variety of vegetables and nuts, alongside delicacies such as elephant brain and fish

There seemed to be two periods of interbreeding between modern and ancient humans (such as Neanderthals, perhaps Denisovans, and other large - brained hominid cousins).

«An acquired or manifest deficiency of protein synthesis, required for permanent re-structuring of synapses in the brain, seemed an intriguing speculation, and one we hope there might be further human research into.

He emerged in 1994 from the windowless bowels of the Arizona hospital where he still works as an anesthesiologist to put forward what seemed — at the time — some of the more outlandish ideas about the human brain.

Feelings of empathy may seem subtle and personal, but this study, which used stories of human hardship to inspire feelings of empathic care and distress, found that the brain patterns associated with these feelings are consistent and predictable across individuals.

It seems unbelievable, but on average Neanderthals actually had larger brains than modern humans.

Handedness in people is so hard to figure out in part because it seems so deeply rooted in our brains — and in the very peculiarities that seem to make us human.

Given the outward differences, it seems reasonable to expect to find fundamental differences in the portions of the genome that determine chimp and human brains — reasonable, at least, to a brainocentric neurobiologist like me.

Although meat eating helped to shape the evolution of human brains, behavior and toolmaking, our early ancestors seem to have been better scavengers than hunters

The findings also lend support to claims that the small brain of the human ancestor Homo floresiensis, whose 18,000 - year - old skull was discovered on a remote Indonesian island in 2003, isn't as remarkable as it might seem.

Human brains naturally shrink with age, but previous research has shown that this seems to happen more quickly in obese people.

Interestingly enough, this tendency does not seem to be due entirely to the fact that a CPU, instead of an ordinary human brain, controls the robot.

Scientists at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig seem to have discovered an important part of the explanation: Music influences our perception of touch.

A new study examines scouts» brains and finds that novelty - seeking in humans and bees seems to be based on some of the same genes.

«HARE5 seems to promote the ability to create more neurons and increase brain size, which allows human brain development to take advantage of that,» Silver said.

The approximate age of 65 years seems to be the magic number when TMEM106B becomes «a limiting factor or a bottleneck in the process through which the human brain copes with aging,» Rhinn said.

«At first sight, a connection between the climate and the human brain may seem far - fetched.

Recently, Gladstone Senior Investigator Yadong Huang, MD, PhD, found that a drug used for years to treat heart failure also seems to reverse signs of Alzheimer's disease in both human and mouse brains.

That scale makes it a somewhat controversial point in science, because it seems like an impossible feat to map an entire human brain at the cellular level.

It seems safe to say that because of its small brain size (510 cc), no creationist would want to classify ER 1813 as human.

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The microscopic Caenorhabditis elegans worm may seem like an odd source of insight into human brain development.

That's because the human brain is incredibly adept at storing material, but it's also very efficient at filtering out and rejecting information that doesn't seem relevant.

Wolf's fear seems to be a valid one, considering the development of the human brain over time to reach the capacity we now have for the written word.

Canine compulsive disorder seems to bear at least some resemblance to obsessive - compulsive disorder in humans; in fact, a recent university study has found that both conditions are associated with similar brain structure anomalies.

As always, humans seemed to be long on stereotypes and short on science.Let's all use our big brains here.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the latest commonly misrepresented statistic, much like the «humans only use 10 % of their brain» BS.

Metzinger argues that our daily perception of the world seems effortless, as a result of how the human brain produces a form of interface, a virtual reality to allow the experience of tactile objects, colors and duration.

Recent findings in systems neuroscience seem to imply that the human brain itself creates — in a kind of controlled hallucination — the «reality» within which it thinks it exists.

«At first sight, a connection between the climate and the human brain may seem far - fetched.

Pigeons can discriminate the abstract concepts of space and time — and seem to use a different region of the brain than humans and primates to do so.

When it comes to understanding the human brain, Kentucky, it seems that the more we know, the more we realize we don't know.

Unlike many clinical approaches, it derives from an apparently robust scientific theory of human development and seems compatible with findings from neuroscience about the way the brain processes emotion.

This highly evolved ability, which seems so quintessentially human, in large part springs from the part of our brain we share in common with snakes, lizards, and frogs.