Sentences with phrase «lacked frontal lobes»

Neither one liked this, but their mother — then an older, second - career education major who knew these things (I have learned, by the way, to emphasize «second - career» over «older»)-- was now in a position to explain to them the dangers of making important decisions without her advice, since their brains still lacked frontal lobes.

Not exact matches

When Thompson's team looked at brain scans of 206 healthy people aged 70 to 80, they found that those with at least one copy of the FTO variant had 8 per cent less volume in their frontal lobes and 12 per cent less in the occipital lobes, compared with their counterparts lacking the variant.

The animals lack a layer of neurons considered essential to information processing, and many parts of their brains — especially the frontal lobe, the site of higher cognition in people — looked underdeveloped.

«The distractibility and lack of organization are partially due to an underdeveloped frontal lobe [in the brain],» says principal Dr. Ann Richardson.

And meditations designed for farmers do not work for us, we lose our freaking mind, primarily because the brain of the hunter is really reversed, for the lack of a better way of explaining it, meaning that we have a, you know, the back of our brains is the occipital lobe, or where eyesight is, and hunters are primarily eyesight focused, and we use our eyes as the primary means of going through the world, which allows our frontal lobe to do something that, it is really quite remarkable, is we can attend to a greater number of variables at the same time.