Sentences with phrase «little brain cells»

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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.

Oh, you're not??? Oh well, guess we'll remain here... now run along you little bigoted troll and take your other personalities with you...no - one (not even people in your own country) wish to hear from your un-medicated schizophrenic one - celled brain!

Anybody with a working brain cell knows that a president has little if any control over the economy.

Especially during active sleep, key neuronal (brain cell) connections are made — the brain literally lays down the tracks for everything it learns, and it also prunes away little - used connections.

Until now, microglia have been dismissed as simple immune cells that do little more than protect brain cells from damage and tidy up in the aftermath of disease.

Despite all they have learned in the past century, neuroscientists have made little headway in figuring out exactly how brain cells process information.

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.

Glioblastomas in lab dishes and mouse brains are fakes, little Potemkin villages that everyone thought were faithful replicas of human glioblastomas but which, lacking tumor stem cells, were nothing of the kind.

When they found a good candidate that could deliver genes to rat brain cancer cells, they filled the nanoparticles with DNA encoding an enzyme, herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase (HSVtk), which turns a compound with little effect into a potent therapy that kills brain cancer cells.

But the same brain cells showed little or no response to other objects, such as images of vegetables, radios or nonfacial body parts.

MADISON, WISCONSIN — Larger bodies may come with larger brains, but size means little when it comes to how much DNA an organism can pack in each cell.

«This is an early stage trial, but we are encouraged by the fact that the cells got into the brain, proliferated, and reduced the level of antigen with very little toxicity to the patients,» O'Rourke said.

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.

Whereas place cells in a rat brain may change their firing rates if their environment is altered even a little — for example by changing the colour of the walls — those of grid cells remain robustly unchanged.

Little is known about these enterochromaffin cells, which produce 90 per cent of the body's serotonin — a chemical mostly known for regulating mood, appetite and sleep in the brain.

It has to do with their brains, specifically the number of neurons in their cerebral cortex: the «little gray cells» associated with thinking, planning and complex behavior — all considered hallmarks of intelligence.

Eventually the paintings emerge, but the little bubbles, as we call them, are stimulating specific types of retinal ganglion cells in very specific ways, which is necessary, we know from other studies, to encourage their ongoing health by transmitting electrical signals down their axons to the brain.

By adding the proper nutrients, the researchers could not only spur these stem cells to grow into brain cells — done for more than a decade — but to form little balls.

Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Chancellors Building, 49 Little France Crescent, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, UK; Roslin Cells Ltd (1), Head office, Nine Edinburgh Bioquarter, 9 Little France Rd, Edinburgh EH16 4UX, UK; EBiSC banking facility, Babraham Research Campus, B260 Meditrina, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK.

With calories, aka fuel, trapped in your fat cells, there's too little glucose and too few lipids circulating in the bloodstream to power your brain and muscles.

This has been proven in human cells in vitro — Aβ reduces the binding of insulin to its receptor in a dose - dependent manner.28 Insulin levels are already reduced in the brain of AD patients, and now there is something interfering with the proper binding of what little insulin is present.

This hormone blocks the movement across brain cells, the little arms, the dendrites wither and move back into the cell body.

(Naturalhealth365) Even if the wireless industry would like you to ignore this truth: it looks like very little cell phone use — per month — can cause a big increase in the risk of brain cancer.

When the gene is overactive (as it seems to be in some people with OCD), too much serotonin is taken out between cells, leaving too little for the brain to use.

But the price was right and they were final sale so I did what I had to do: set up shop in our garage this past weekend, spray painted them a glossy white, lost ten million brain cells in the process, and tied a navy tassel around the drawer pull as a little finishing touch.

Had too much brain cells for little things.

If there is too much excitatory activity or too little inhibitory activity the balance may allow the overall effect of many neurons (electrical brain cells) to go above the seizure threshold and a seizure occurs.

Generally healthy little terriers, Cairns can occasionally be prone to skin allergies, cataracts and other eye diseases, heart defects, thyroid problems, globoid cell leukodystrophy (a degenerative brain disease), von Willebrand's disease (a bleeding disorder), epilepsy, and joint problems like luxating patellas (kneecaps that slip out of place) and Legg - Perthes (a hip disease).

Choose one of free Brain Teasers games out of dozens of high quality games, you want to exercise those little grey cells?

When reared on this, there's little question: by the time a youngster makes it to the museum, if ever, and sets his eyes on Velazquez's Las Meninas — I mean his eyes — it is highly doubtful he or she will have the necessary brain cells to see abundantly what that astounding work can hold out beyond the shallowness that the pixel dimensions their computer screen, mind you, a substantial improvement over offset reproduction, currently has.»

(There are dogs out there, as well, but that is not the point,) And understanding science for laypeople (such as myself) requires hard work, a willingness to push the brain cells a little bit.