Sentences with phrase «little brain at»

In a lab near Deisseroth's office, Tye inserted a fiber - optic cable into a mouse's little brain at just the right spot, leaving enough slack for the animal to run around.

Not exact matches

When behavior is successful our cells become finely tuned to what the animal was learning at the time while a failure shows little change in the brain or improvement in the monkey's behavior.

So are there any snacks that are good for your brain but also easy to eat at your desk on the fly with little or no cooking required and no offensive odors?

I was like, «You know, the people at ExxonMobil don't think like this, that they should say everything that comes into their tiny little brain.»

This time around he was a little more subdued than he has been in the past on the topic of bitcoin, for instance, but seized the opportunity to point out that the US tax rate had historically stayed at 40 % while it had fallen to 20 % elsewhere, driving «brains and capital» overseas.

«When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.»

@SMH I'll assume you're being at least a little serious when you say that neurologists haven't figured out anything about the human brain.

I asked a simple question and look at the mayhem in your answers, you fellows are going mad trying to answer the question for which you will NEVER know the answer... NONONO you can't answer the question please do not tax your little brains.

Not to metion we still have the «missing link» issue where at one point (based on evolution) the human brain advanced very quickly with very little time for evolution to take place.

At the same time, the wondrous capabilities of the human brain, which far exceed in complexity all other created things, suggest to him that a little anthropocentrism is not such a bad thing: «Part of our glory,» he muses, «is that we can imagine that we are not the most remarkable creatures in the entire universe.»

start using your brain Nii rather than what you have been told about a myth... you have no evidence and never will have... start looking at folks as human beings with potential rather than sinners and devils... its just a little childish.

But at some point, a little chocolate seed in my food brain started to sprout and now I find myself craving it from time to time.

I've been looking for the answer but «am a Pooh Bear of very little brain» at the moment.

The moment you know that little boys» brains simply have different priorities: 8 - year old son (T): «Those look like fun,» pointing at the bag of red lentils.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

It seems funny, too, to discover that every American in the deepest little synapse in his brain considers himself a natural at hunting and fishing, a genetic Pete Maravich of the outback, wherever that is.

have been reading all posts and it seems all arsenal fans want run run run with little football brain chamberlain stay at arsenal... instead of you guys to be praying he gets off our wage bills....

The well - publicized lawsuits by former players against the N.F.L., the suicide of Junior Seau, a «Chicken Little - sky is falling» mentality by some prominent concussion experts and former athletes, some of whom suggest that the sport is simply too dangerous to be played at all at the youth level, and continuing research on the short - and long - term effects of concussion on cognitive function and brain health, have created a pretty toxic environment for the sport.

I had been feeling badly about my not - as - ecstatic pet ownershipness and had the crisis of conscience that my brain was saying, «well life is easier with one less litter box» while my heart was screaming at my husband to «get out there and find our little baby kitty right this d ** n minute or I will throw you out with him you SOB who opened the garage door.»

While the bulk of brain development occurs before the teenage years — at least in terms of volume — there's one section that's still in progress as your little one becomes an almost - adult: the prefrontal cortex.

At first, almost every sight, sound, and smell is a new one — every interaction with the non-uterine world presents a new challenge to that tiny little brain.

This position helps your little one stretch each side of her torso and neck, balance strength on the front side of the body and back side of the body (flexor and extensor muscle groups) and bring hands together at the middle of the body (called the midline), which is awesome for brain development.

So with the newborn I had no clue it is just all left off my brain as to how to do a latch correctly and all that so that was a little surprising with having a second one but I kind of [inaudible] goals out the window with my second because I knew I had gone three years at that point was my first that it was just like you know I would just nurse as long as she wants to nurse and you know whatever happens, happens, I'm fine and we joked because my second was much more independent we joked that she would've wean more sooner than her older sister which almost happened because my oldest nurse for almost 5 years.

Their little lungs are not quite mature enough to support them in the outside world at this stage, and their brain is changing appearance wise, taking on the grooves and ridges that make it look the same as an adults».

Teeny Greeny offers hour - long, in - person consultations at either location, where you can handle a variety diaper brands and styles with your hot little hands while picking our brains with every question that's been plaguing you from the get - go.

Because your brain can be a little fuzzy late at night, we've created a list you can keep by you during those late sessions.

But now I can rest assured that my little angel will be taking naps at school that DO benefit her brain!

Children's brains have adapted to modern times though so instead of sabre - tooth tigers it is now monsters which haunt our young children at night since these are the threatening figures that our little ones are exposed to in books and television shows.

My sleep - deprived mama brain didn't quite remember the graceful little motion my midwife had done, so I found a YouTube tutorial of another mom of a new baby (who looked way more put together than I did at that point) and started engaging in a little trial - and - error.

Charles Walcott, a neurobiologist at Cornell University, says he's «always a little suspicious» of electrical brain activity studies, because it can be difficult to tease out what's sleep and what isn't.

Three recent papers authored by Dr. Peter Nelson and others at the University of Kentucky Sanders - Brown Center on Aging, explore the neuropathology behind a little - understood brain disease, hippocampal sclerosis (known to scientists and clinicians as HS - AGING).

«The brain lives just a little bit in the past,» says David Eagleman, a neurobiologist at the University of Texas at Houston.

With little hope for Giese's survival, Rodney Willoughby, an infectious disease specialist at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, induced a coma to protect her brain from viral attack, giving Giese's immune system time to rev up to combat the virus.

They detected little or no MHCI expression in some areas of the brain, but they found it in several other places, including the visual cortex while the ocular dominance columns were forming, and in the hippocampus — an area of the brain associated with learning and memory — at all ages.

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

Some may be «clumped,» affecting just one gyrus [fold] of the brain, disrupting just a little part of the cortex at a time.»

«When researchers use video games as a tool for cognitive enhancement, they assume that game performance relies on specific cognitive / brain function, yet there is a little evidence that establishes such a connection,» explained lead investigator Chandramallika Basak, PhD, Assistant Professor at The Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas at Dallas.

The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»

The brain's ability to automatically trigger greater focus was first demonstrated in 2011, and little is understood about how it handles this process, said senior author Tobias Egner, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke.

Although the amygdala's importance in face recognition and emotional assessment is well - known, little is understood about how these processes work, but research led by investigators at Cedars - Sinai and the California Institute of Technology has found that at least some of the brain cells that specialize in recognizing emotions may represent judgments based on the viewer's preconceptions rather than the true emotion being expressed.

Although none of these alternatives to rate codes has been proven yet, so little is known about how the brain processes information that «it's difficult to rule out any coding scheme at this time,» argues neuroscientist Christof Koch of Caltech.

To do so, they utilise what amounts to a «nursery» for baby neurons, a little clump at the base of the brain dubbed the niche.

The little computer challenges that the draft candidates had to solve measure some of the brain's most crucial functions, such as its ability to hold several pieces of information at once.

A second simulation, with 1 billion neurons, ran a little faster — but still only at one - eighty - third of normal brain speed.

Even if it were possible, mainstream neuroscientists say, reengineering the brain at the level of detail envisioned by Markram would tell us nothing about cognition, memory or emotion — just as copying the hardware in a computer, atom by atom, would tell us little about the complex software running on it.

There is a finely graded inverse association between age and cognitive performance, 3 4 5 but the age at which cognitive decline becomes evident at the population level remains the subject of debate.5 6 7 A recent review of the literature concluded that there was little evidence of cognitive decline before the age of 60.8 This point of view, however, is not universally accepted.5 6 Clinicopathological studies show good correlation between neuropathology and the severity of cognitive decline, 9 10 11 and neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, the hallmarks of pathology, are known to be present in the brains of young adults.12 13 Emerging consensus on the long gestation period of dementia14 15 also suggests that adults aged under 60 are likely to experience age related cognitive decline.

I was fascinated by how much of the brain was devoted to this most central of our sensory capabilities, and at that point we knew little about how the whole system worked.

That's why Leo Pozuelo, MD, associate director of the Bakken Heart - Brain Institute at the Cleveland Clinic suggests that cardiac patients ask themselves two important questions: Over the past two weeks, have you felt little interest or pleasure in doing things?

People who have these irregular blood - vessel connections are at increased risk of a fatal brain bleed, blood clot, or stroke — often with little or no warning beforehand.

Now that I'm back to racing (a little), it's even harder to tame my brain into keeping my volume at the right spot, not overdoing it.