Sentences with phrase «large brains which»

Fully mature humans have large brains which take a long time to grow to their full size when compared to those of dogs.

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Several large studies have also linked folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy with decreased rates of neural - tube defects, which are serious and life - threatening defects of a baby's brain, spine, or spinal cord.

The book contended a «large draught of salad oil» would «float upon the wine which you shall drink, and suppress the spirits from ascending into the brain.»

His goal is wildly ambitious — in large part because of how little is really understood about the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and spinal cord, and its healing mechanisms.

Only the series of dominant occasions known as the soul is a separate society, i.e., a set of personally ordered occasions which provide continuity in time for the patterns already generated in large part by nexus of living occasions within the field of activity proper to the brain.

We know too that the memory, without which man could have no sense of continuity, is dependent upon the storage capacity of the unbelievably large number of brain cells, so that to the lay mind the brain is as close to an electronic computer as anything could be.

It must be as large as those regions of the brain from which it receives data and over which it exerts an influence.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

And just as (to use a very coarse figure) the stubs remain in a check - book whenever a check is used, to register the transaction, so these impressions on the transcendent self might constitute so many vouchers of the finite experiences of which the brain had been the mediator; and ultimately they might form that collection within the larger self of memories of our earthly passage, which is all that, since Locke's day, the continuance of our personal identity beyond the grave has by psychology been recognized to mean.

If our finite personality here below, the objectors say, be due to the transmission through the brain of portions of a preëxisting larger consciousness, all that can remain after the brain expires is the larger consciousness itself as such, with which we should thenceforth be perforce reconfounded, the only means of our existence infinite personal form having ceased.

With all our knowledge, big brains, university degrees and amazing (to us) technology, consider than we dwell on a damp little planet, in an ordinary solar system, in the boonies of a very ordinary spiral galaxy which is composed of billions of stars, millions of which are much, much larger than our sun.

From NOVA Next Feb 22, 2017 Key Brain Regions Found To Be Smaller in People With ADHD In the largest study of its kind, research shows people with ADHD have smaller brain regions — including the amygdala, which is responsible for regulating emotBrain Regions Found To Be Smaller in People With ADHD In the largest study of its kind, research shows people with ADHD have smaller brain regions — including the amygdala, which is responsible for regulating emotbrain regions — including the amygdala, which is responsible for regulating emotions.

The placenta secretes a large amount of corticotrophin - releasing hormone (a stress reducing hormone) in the third trimester, and may trigger the hypothalamus in the brain, which normally secretes the hormone, to stop producing it.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

Babies generally double their birth weight by about six months of age, and their brains grow very rapidly, both of which require a large intake of calories.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Too much weight gain can lead to a large baby and a difficult delivery, which can be risky for a new baby's brain.

DHA is important for the developing brain, which accumulates large amounts of it during the first two years of life.

LeVay achieved fame in the 1990s for publishing a study, often called «the gay brain» report, which revealed that the third Interstitial Nucleus of the Anterior Hypothalamus in heterosexual men was twice as large as the one found in gay men's brains.

Among the questions that this study raises are whether the surprisingly large number of neurons in bird brains comes at a correspondingly large energetic cost, and whether the small neurons in bird brains are a response to selection for small body size due to flight, or possibly the ancestral way of adding neurons to the brain — from which mammals, not birds, may have diverged.

The device is an improved version of a clinical tool called an electrode grid, which is a plastic or silicone - based grid of electrodes that is placed directly on the surface of the brain during surgery to monitor the activity of large groups of neurons.

With a large number of electrode channels distributed across the scalp, this method also detects which brain regions show more slow - wave activity than others.

The upshot: the monkeys in the larger groups had more gray matter in brain areas linked to processing social information (the middle superior temporal sulcus, amygdala and rostral prefrontal cortex, two of which overlap with those reported on in the Proceedings B study).

The brain activity within the brainstem of these older adults demonstrated abnormally large speech sound processing within seven to 10 milliseconds of the signal hitting the ear, which could be a sign of greater communication problems in the future.

The cognitive impairments — which affected a large subset, but far from all, of the animals — appear to be linked to protein changes in the brain, the scientists say.

Instead of a small number of large, powerful processors working continuously, the brain contains billions of relatively slow, small processors — its neurons — which consume power only when activated.

The strength of the paper, he says, is that the large number of animals involved provide a good sample of the different ways in which chimp brains age.

Bin Laden's injuries apparently include a great wound on his forehead through which brain matter is visible and a large gaping hole where one of his eyes should be.

The authors systematically analyzed a large number of flies in which different patches of neurons lacked dati, and were able to map the rejection behavior to three distinct regions in the brain, two of which had never been previously associated with mating behavior.

Specifically, the researchers found that they had a thickening of the cortex in a part of the brain known as the temporal occipital region, which comprises a large network of structures involved in reading.

Treatment with an investigational CAR T - cell therapy induced complete remission of a brain metastasis of the difficult - to - treat tumor diffuse large - B - cell lymphoma (DLBCL), which had become resistant to chemotherapy — the first report of a response to CAR T - cells in a central nervous system lymphoma.

Dendritic cells are too large to pass through the blood - brain barrier, which is one reason they have to be cultured with brain tumor cells outside the body, then injected back into the patient's skin as a vaccine.

According to the researchers, this is the first large - scale study employing epigenome - wide association (EWAS) studies — which look at chromosomal make - up and changes — in relation to the brain and Alzheimer's disease.

A powerful X-ray tomography scanner allowed the researchers to image particularly thick sections of the brains of mice, which afforded them views into intact neural areas much larger than are customary in microscope imaging.

But even more interesting was the space allocated to two huge olfactory bulbs, which were almost as large as the rest of Sue's brain.

Yet penetrating the blood — brain barrier, which prevents microbes, toxins and large molecules from entering the brain, has proved hugely challenging.

To go further, the pair started combining their electrode recordings of individual neurons with readings from an intracranial EEG, which measures overall electrical activity in a larger area of the brain.

The program is a departure from Allen's previous approach to science funding, which has largely focused on amassing large, descriptive data sets, such as the Mouse Brain Atlas at the Allen Institute.

These studies are hampered by large natural variation from person to person, which makes it hard to align brain scans to reveal key differences in specific structures.

The petrified specimen comes from a large plant eater such as Iguanodon, which lived about 133 million years ago, and whose brain was pickled in mud after it died

It seemed the volunteers had a much larger range of potential brain states that were available to them, which may be the biophysical counterpart of «mind expansion» reported by users of psychedelic drugs.

The team, which reported its findings online earlier this month in Palaeontology, found that the brain's optic lobes were particularly large; so were the cerebellum, which controls motor functions, and the olfactory region, where odors are processed.

Bargmann and Yuste have been integral to planning the BRAIN Initiative launched by President Barack Obama in the spring of 2013, which, along with the European Human Brain Project, started the new push for large - scale neuroscience initiatBRAIN Initiative launched by President Barack Obama in the spring of 2013, which, along with the European Human Brain Project, started the new push for large - scale neuroscience initiatBrain Project, started the new push for large - scale neuroscience initiatives.

Think of olfaction as a city center and the other sensory systems as sprawling suburbs, which grew as the brain evolved and eventually became larger than the old downtown.

The size of the brain's ventricles — cerebrospinal fluid - filled spaces deep within the brain — became progressively larger during the course of treatment, and changes were also seen within the subventricular zone, one of two structures in which new brain cells are generated in adults.

Wilson says the team next plans to investigate if lithium chloride can blunt other forms of neurological damage, such as that resulting from trauma and stroke, both of which can kill large groups of brain cells.

In the trial, patients were evaluated at treatment centers between six and 16 hours after incurring strokes originating in either of two large arteries in the brain: the middle cerebral artery or the internal carotid artery, which together account for about 25 percent of all strokes and the majority of severely disabling strokes.

But in many ways, we're not like other apes: Our brains are at least three times larger, and we produce more babies in shorter intervals — both of which consume more energy.

Dr. Miller enumerated two factors that set this model apart from others: its use of a large data set based on the National Trauma Data Bank, and its use of isolated brain injury only, again which the NTDB enables because it is such a large data set.

After a large meal, fat cells churn out an appetite suppressant called leptin, which hits the brain's neurons and tickles other kinds of brain cells called astrocytes.