Sentences with phrase «life than a brain»

There are plenty of other sports, and though injury is possible in all of them, nothing is more threatening to a long and happy life than a brain injury.

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[2:17] What is your idea of an extraordinary life [2:43] You can be rich and happy, or rich and angry [3:08] It's about defining what life on your terms looks like [3:18] Nothing worse than an angry rich man or woman [3:24] We have a 2 billion - year old brain: focused on fight or flight, and survival [4:14] We don't appreciate enough.

Our bodies» patterns of life tell us that our brain can't focus longer than 90 minutes at a time without a 20 - 30 minute break in between.

A clump of cells with no brain, and no neural tube is no more «a human life» than cells from your skin layer, or a sperm cell with no change of fertilizing an egg.

The Virginia planter and Fire - Eater Edmund Ruffin, who in 1865 blew his brains out rather than live under Yankee rule, called Toussaint Louverture «the only truly great man yet known of the negro race.»

And some gay people feel that gay sex is wrong (and many have at some point in their lives), so they are clearly capable of taking a moral stand on the issue (without the physical components of their brains being any different than someone who makes a different choice).

So it seems to me that for those of us who call ourselves Christians, but who also have used the brain that God gave us to conclude that the planet is more than 6000 years old and that the actions of Noah and his family saved all the then living things — that we can retain faith in a God who would not joke around with Abraham just to test him.

The brain guides the body, and is far more intimately connected to each person's «life or soul» than the «blood» is.

God (or whatever power created this universe we live in) gave us a brain more complicated than any other creature on the planet to THINK for ourselves and to REASON.

These scientist, and doctors, can not remake skin, bone, eyes, brains, oval eggs, sperm, none of the sort, so they have no real answer to create a life other than how procreation works, where again what, and how is the very first man, or woman, animal, other creatures, either in the sea, or creeping on this earth was originally created from, as where did they first come from?

I find my life very meaningful and understanding the death means nothing more than no more brain function, I try to make every second I have meaningful for my here and now.

Isn't it amazing that our minds are so overdeveloped for our short - lived life on earth (as in, our brains «a mystery» can hold so much more information than it can ever gather in a 80 - 100 year lifespan?

Untimely infants who were breastfed only and kept warm through nonstop skin - to - skin contact have turned out to be youthful grown - ups with bigger brains, higher pay rates and less unpleasant lives than babies who got regular hatchery mind, as indicated by an investigation distributed for the current week.

His brains are in his feet and he earns more than you will in a life time, so where are your brains Bbrains are in his feet and he earns more than you will in a life time, so where are your brains Bbrains BrainsBrains.

As Taylor later realized, this brain injury was far more than a career - ending injury, rather, it was a life - changing event.

And the behaviors that parents are inclined to do naturally — like eye contact and face - to - face interaction, speaking in «motherese» (higher - pitched and slower than normal speech), and holding — are just the ones shown to grow the right - brain regions in the baby that influence emotional life and especially emotion regulation.

Plenty of live interaction from other people can actually make changes in the brain and make the child want to communicate or learn to communicate even more than they were able to.

How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life, stresses that while happiness is a mood rather than an inborn trait, certain aspects of your baby's natural temperament — whether she's optimistic or pessimistic, shy or bold — may play a part in determining how happy she becomes.

Where you've gone wrong is in claiming that home birth is no more risky to the baby's life and brain function than hospital birth is.

They also found that newborns spend a greater part of their time in REM sleep than at any other time in life and that this is highly related to their development of their brain & sensory system (vision, hearing, touch, smell, etc).

Permanent brain injuries to the extent that they may be confined to a wheelchair for life, might require feeding tubes because they can't take food orally, and will generally require constant care 24/7 for the rest of their natural lives (which will inevitably be shorter and more painful than they otherwise would have been).

And like the womb, it offers a protective and safe environment and a superb position to view the world, which is especially important considering that the brain is growing faster in early infancy than any other time in life.

Nature intended for babies to be with their mothers, especially at a time when their brains will grow more than any other time in their lives.

It can be hard to make the shift in your brain, but breastfeeding can affect your sex life in more than just an emotional or psychological sense; there are also some actual physical changes.

The science is clear that our brains grow faster between the ages of 0 and 3 than at any later point in our lives.

Our brains grow faster from birth to age three than at any other later point in our lives.

It takes me less than two minutes to make up a bottle which is a life saver when your baby is screaming with hunger at 3 am and you can't think straight (even your sleep deprived brain can press a couple of buttons and scoop out formula).

A recent study from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that preemies who received more breast milk in their first 28 days of life had greater brain development at their intended due date and were more cognitively advanced at age seven than babies who did not receive as much or any breast milk.

Even the most state of the art strollers can't provide the warmth that a mother's body does, her comforting smell, the varied movement, and the sensitive motherly responses that are so essential to her baby's healthy growth and development, especially during such a critical period when his brain is growing more than any period in his life.

But that doesn't mean that the brain is finished developing, because it is from birth to age 5 that more brain development will happen than in any other time of life.

Given that the mortality rate for black infants is more than twice that of white infants, more needs to be done to ensure that all women can give their babies the powerful life - saving, brain - boosting and health - giving benefits of breastfeeding.

If you are able to breastfeed your premature baby, there's some good news: According to a new study of 77 preterm infants in the NICU at St. Louis Children's Hospital, preemies who were fed mostly breast milk during the first month of life appear to have more robust brain growth than those who were not.

The fundamental principle behind Babies on Track is that the baby brain grows more in its earliest years «before 3 years old «than at any other time in human life.

Once your baby is born — and through the first two years of life — his brain develops more rapidly than it ever will again.

The problem with guys like Carl and Tom is that they've got more money and ego than brains, and at this stage of life they've figured out that getting old is no fun, so they've got to go out and show the world they've got what it takes, without Viagra.

His bill would limit its application to epilepsy, intractable skeletal muscular spasticity, traumatic brain injury, glaucoma, cachexia, wasting syndrome, Dravet syndrome, HIV / AIDS, Cancer, ALS, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Crohn's disease, and terminal illnesses if a patient has a prognosis of less than 12 months to live.

Although long - debated in California, the issue of physician - assisted death gained momentum after Brittany Maynard, a 29 - year - old Californian who was terminally ill, decided to move to Oregon in 2014 to end her life rather than suffer the pain and debilitation caused by brain cancer.

But how did the human brain get larger than that of our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, if almost all of our genes are the same?

Music may provide more than just a brief respite from life's stresses — it may help you to think with both sides of your brain at once

The mutation was discovered after comparing DNA from 152 Fore who had succumbed to the disease with DNA from more than 3000 living Fore, including almost 560 who ate brains (New England Journal of Medicine, vol 361, p 2056).

Approximately one in four venture dollars now invested in life science companies in the United States goes to companies focused on the brain and nervous system, which represents a more than threefold increase since 1999, according to the NeuroInsights report.

For a study published with Kuhnlein in 2002, Fediuk compared the vitamin C content of 100 - gram (3.55 - ounce) samples of foods eaten by Inuit women living in the Canadian Arctic: Raw caribou liver supplied almost 24 milligrams, seal brain close to 15 milligrams, and raw kelp more than 28 milligrams.

Our specialty is accustomed to more than its share of depressing outcomes, from lives cut short by brain tumors to minds devastated by head injury.

Conventional wisdom holds that language acquisition in adulthood can not rest on the same brain mechanisms used in processing a native languagethat is, a language learned later in life is processed in a fundamentally different and less automatic way than is a mother tongue.

But intelligence does matter to the tropical fish, as big - brained guppies outwit predators to live longer than slower witted peers.

Comparing video footage of their stay with their brain activity (see video, above) revealed that the neurons remained virtually silent for most of the time, bursting into life only when the volunteers talked about numbers or numerical concepts such as «more than» or «less than».

But it also leads to other problems, Jasanoff notes: Society views broken brains as harder to fix than moral flaws, making life even more challenging for individuals already struggling with mental illness.

Archer's new embryo lived only a few days, but made it longer than other embryos, developing the precursor to a spine and brain.

Although they are no larger than house cats, tamarins have brains that are surprisingly big for their size and a family life organized like our own.

I'm keen to find out the precise sequence of changes to OLs and myelin during learning and whether these changes are needed more in some parts of the brain than others, which might shed light on some of the mysteries still surrounding how the brain adapts and learns throughout life.»