Sentences with phrase «in human brain function»

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)-- also known as omega - 3 fatty acids — play a crucial role in human brain function, as well as normal growth and development, with research showing that they can also reduce inflammation in addition to helping lower the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.

Bassem Hassan (VIB / KU Leuven): «Since we show that APP and APPL show similar activities in cultured cells, we suspect that APP in the human brain functions in the same manner as APPL in the brain of fruit flies.

Not exact matches

Today's AI systems do their best to emulate the functioning of the human brain's neural networks, but they do this in a very limited way.

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?

In these circumstances it made sense to many to say that a human being actually dies when brain activity ends, because only that activity makes possible the body's ability to function as an integrated whole.

No doubt it is true, scientifically speaking, that no distinct center of superhuman consciousness has yet appeared on earth (at least in the living world) for which it may be claimed or predicted that one day it will exercise a centralizing function, in relation to associated human thought, similar to the role of the individual «I» in relation to the cells of the brain.

According to the theory, the form of relatedness that characterizes unified, purposive functioning in human beings and lower animals should be manifested in their brain waves — perhaps in some kind of harmony that appears in the brain wave pattern.

The more we're able to explain human behavior in terms of molecular genetics or brain activity or biological function — absent a Creator — then the more questions I have about what I believe, and why.

At the summit of material animal evolution is a proto - human, but the next stage of complexity in brain function would be out of kilter with the natural environment since it is now too powerful to be subject to the ULCD from the material environment alone.

They'd come up with some stomach - churning idea that no demon could have thought of in a thousand years, some dark and mindless unpleasantness that only a fully - functioning human brain could conceive, then shout «The Devil Made Me Do It» and get the sympathy of the court when the whole point was that the Devil hardly ever made anyone do anything.

In 2007, researchers published the first randomized, controlled study of the effect of being raised in an orphanage; that study, and subsequent research on the same sample of Romanian orphans, found that compared with babies placed with a foster family, those who were sent to institutions had lower IQs, slower physical growth, problems with human attachment and differences in functioning in brain areas related to emotional developmenIn 2007, researchers published the first randomized, controlled study of the effect of being raised in an orphanage; that study, and subsequent research on the same sample of Romanian orphans, found that compared with babies placed with a foster family, those who were sent to institutions had lower IQs, slower physical growth, problems with human attachment and differences in functioning in brain areas related to emotional developmenin an orphanage; that study, and subsequent research on the same sample of Romanian orphans, found that compared with babies placed with a foster family, those who were sent to institutions had lower IQs, slower physical growth, problems with human attachment and differences in functioning in brain areas related to emotional developmenin functioning in brain areas related to emotional developmenin brain areas related to emotional development.

and If I feel abandoned, I released so much toxic in my brain I am not able to function and grow up as a happy human being.

Adam Sutter holds a degree in Neuroscience, with an emphasis on the interrelationship between food, nutritional supplements, and the optimal development and functioning of the human brain.

Although much of the cellular and sub-cellular functions of the human brain remain unknown, the insights we currently have paint a more nuanced understanding of human nature, which in turn helps shape our understanding of politics, IR theory, and global order.

The feat raises hopes that similar techniques might restore nerve - cell function not only in the human eye, but also in the spine and brain.

«By studying how education changes the brain, we can find out how this uniquely human experience induces change in both brain structure and function — something we can not do with animal models.»

That success represents a dilemma for neuroscience, said bioethicist Hank Greely of Stanford University: «When you make a chimera with human cells in its brain, the closer the resulting brain is to human» in structure and function and «the greater the ethical and public concern.»

«We still don't know very much about how individual cells in the brain coordinate the activity of higher - level function that defines us as humans,» he says.

He says, «These techniques give us the ability to look in on the intact, functioning human brain — in some cases in very noninvasive ways.»

Using young rhesus monkeys in our model of anxious temperament is critical as brain structure and function in non-human primates closely resembles that of humans.»

By employing movies it was possible to investigate the function of the human brain in experimental conditions that are close to natural.

Published in Molecular Neurobiology, the study led by Dr Elodie Siney under the supervision of Dr Sandrine Willaime - Morawek, Lecturer in Stem Cells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cells.

The 2009 book The Playful Brain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functBrain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functbrain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functions.

In fact, he insists that a fully functioning model of a human brain can be built within a decade.

Along the way, the hope is that the project will transform the technology of neuroscience — in the same way that the Human Genome Project (HGP) helped take genome - sequencing from pipe dream to everyday reality — and ultimately revolutionise our understanding of brain function.

The $ 30 million Human Connectome Project will trace the main neural pathways that link the roughly 500 major regions in the brain, illuminating how biological circuitry underlies our mental functions.

The human brain may be the most complex piece of organized matter in the known universe, but Allen Institute researchers have begun to unravel the genetic code underlying its function.

Subplate neurons form the first connections in the developing cerebral cortex — the outer part of the mammalian brain that controls perception, memory and, in humans, higher functions such as language and abstract reasoning.

But, as Haley notes, it also reveals an important adaptive cognitive function in the human brain.

Prions, whose normal function is unclear, are the likely cause of mad cow disease and similar brain disorders in animals and humans.

Using a technique called nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the researchers measured the concentrations of 21 metabolites key to nerve function in the brains of 10 deceased schizophrenia patients and 12 normal human controls.

These results are the first implication that Lef1 functions in the hypothalamus to mediate behavior, knowledge that could prove useful for diagnosing and treating human brain disorders.

If you look at the anatomy, the structure, the function, there's nothing in the universe that's more beautiful, that's more complex, than the human brain.»

Neuroscientists, medical scientists, computer scientists, physicists, and mathematicians in Europe are working hand in hand to simulate the entire human brain on high - performance computers of the next generation in order to better understand how it functions.

During development, subplate neurons are among the first neurons to form in the cerebral cortex — the outer part of the mammalian brain that controls perception, memory and, in humans, higher functions such as language and abstract reasoning.

Fried realized that medical procedures like this one presented a rare scientific opportunity: Patients being examined for neurosurgery allow researchers to investigate the human brain in action, exploring the functions of different regions in precise detail and in real time.

One of the greatest thinkers in physics says the human brain — and the universe itself — must function according to some theory we haven't yet discovered.

Because mirror neuron activity is thought to be a very basic part of brain function — and it can be seen in many animals besides humans — the new finding supports the notion that our brain is predisposed to distinguish «us versus them.»

The goal of the study was to explore whether fecal microbiota from human IBS patients with diarrhea has the ability to influence gut and brain function in recipient mice.

In August, scientists at Tufts University unveiled a new 3 - D human brain «doughnut» model that accurately imitates brain function and injury response.

Their end goal is to identify specific populations of neurons in the fruit fly brain that are necessary for emotion primitives — and whether these functions are conserved in higher organisms, such as mice or even humans.

Because this function is unique to the human brain, you can study it only with tools that work in humans.

Already used in humans to treat depression and epilepsy, VNS is a well - documented technique for fine - tuning brain function.

In the future, he says, memristors could serve as artificial synapses in computers that function like human brainIn the future, he says, memristors could serve as artificial synapses in computers that function like human brainin computers that function like human brains.

In May, researchers at Hewlett - Packard (HP) unveiled their long - anticipated «memristor,» [subscription required] a device only a few nanometers wide that could revolutionize computer memory and help researchers build a machine that functions like a human brain.

«This study show that the largest leftward asymmetry of the brain is not a marker of the leftward lateralization of language functions in humans,» summarizes the researcher.

Humans are considered uniquely susceptible to Alzheimer's disease, potentially due to genetic differences, changes in brain structure and function during evolution, and an increased lifespan.

If the new mechanism also operates in the human brain and can be potentiated, this could become of clinical importance not only for stroke patients, but also for replacing neurons which have died, thus restoring function in patients with other disorders such as Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease,» says Olle Lindvall, Senior Professor of Neurology.

Though their purpose and function are still largely unknown, mirror neurons in the brain are believed by some neuroscientists to be central to how humans relate to each other.

«Brain function: First look at how astrocytes function in humans.»