We know that conscious control of behavior is often over-ridden by emotion from
lower brain centers in what's called the limbic system.
Sound affects us on a myriad of levels, from
lower brain centers to the higher brain centers.
Summary: In a finding with implications to human speech acquisition, University of Chicago researchers have shown how a bird's brain controls singing and demonstrated for the first time that structures higher up in the brain directly control the more abstract information, while the component bits are managed by
lower brain centers.
The researchers were able to show for the first time that structures higher up in the brain's chain of command directly control the more abstract information, while the component bits are managed by
lower brain centers.
Not exact matches
I see these people as tapping into the
brain's spirituality
center for the positive effects, e.g.
lower blood pressure,
lower cortisol levels, and maybe a bit of endorphin release.
According to the University of Maryland Medical
Center polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)-- also known as omega - 3 fatty acids — play a crucial role in human
brain function, as well as normal growth and development, with research showing that they can also reduce inflammation in addition to helping
lower the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.
Dude has a decent footballing
brain, but is clueless as to how to best use his
low center of gravity to compensate for his lack of pace.
When in a stressful situation, these
lower centers of the baby's / toddlers
brain go into a primal survival response commonly known as fight / flight / freeze.
«The major advancement of this new tool is the ability to use a
low - cost and accessible imaging method such as EEG to depict deeply located
brain activity,» said both senior author Dr. Talma Hendler of Tel - Aviv University in Israel and The Sagol Brain Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and first author Jackob Keynan, a PhD student in Hendler's laboratory, in an email to Biological Psychi
brain activity,» said both senior author Dr. Talma Hendler of Tel - Aviv University in Israel and The Sagol
Brain Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and first author Jackob Keynan, a PhD student in Hendler's laboratory, in an email to Biological Psychi
Brain Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical
Center, and first author Jackob Keynan, a PhD student in Hendler's laboratory, in an email to Biological Psychiatry.
And serotonin levels in their
brains» visual
centers were 62 %
lower than in healthy shrimp.
«Our study shows that both higher levels of HDL — good — and
lower levels of LDL — bad — cholesterol in the bloodstream are associated with
lower levels of amyloid plaque deposits in the
brain,» said Bruce Reed, lead study author and associate director of the UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease
Center.
In 2010 biologist Valerie Hu of the George Washington University Medical
Center and her colleagues found that
brains of people with autism have
low levels of a protein produced by a gene called retinoic acid — related orphan receptor - alpha (RORA).
Autistic children exhibited similar activity in their
brains» movement
centers, but function in the mirror - neuron
centers was conspicuously
low.
A new study authored by Marc Schieber, M.D., Ph.D., and Kevin Mazurek, Ph.D. with the University of Rochester Medical
Center Department of Neurology and the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, which appears in the journal Neuron, shows that very
low levels of electrical stimulation delivered directly to an area of the
brain responsible for motor function can instruct an appropriate response or action, essentially replacing the signals we would normally receive from the parts of the
brain that process what we hear, see, and feel.
«Their concentration becomes
lower every time cells divide,» says Peter van Zijl, Ph.D., founding director of the Kirby Research
Center for Functional
Brain Imaging, «so our ability to see them diminishes..
Humans with Alzheimer's disease and mice genetically engineered to simulate the disease have abnormally
low levels of an enzyme called EphB2 in memory
centers of the
brain.
Meditation enables us to move from higher frequency
brain waves to
lower frequency, which activates different
centers in the
brain.
The oxygen will soothe your amygdala (
brain's stress
center) and
lower your cortisol levels (stress hormone).
Perry Renshaw, MD, PhD, director of the
Brain Imaging
Center at McLean Hospital and senior author stated, «The development of an inexpensive, widely available intervention such as yoga that has no side effects but is effective in alleviating the symptoms of disorders associated with
low GABA levels has clear public health advantage.
Researchers have found that BDNF levels decline progressively with age.10 Lommatzsch, M., et al. «The Impact of Age, Weight and Gender on BDNF Levels in Human Platelets and Plasma,» Neurobiology of Aging 26 (2005):... continue At the same time that BDNF levels decrease, the volume of the hippocampus (primary
center for emotion and memory) also decreases.11 Erickson, K.L., et al. «
Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor is Associated with Age - Related Decline in Hippocampal Volume, Journal of Neuroscience 30,... continue In fact, in some neurological diseases, such as Huntington's and Alzheimer's disease, BDNF levels are
low or deficient.12 Laske, C., et al. «Decreased
Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) and B - Thromboglobulin Blood Levels in Alzheimer's Disease,» Journal of... continue
The adrenal hormone cortisol raises blood sugar when it drops too
low, which, when it happens repeatedly, exhausts the adrenal glands, as well as the
brain's control
center over these functions.
When you grow the «spiritual
center» of your
brain, you
lower anxiety and depression, enhance social awareness and empathy, and think more clearly.
He or she is reacting from
lower -
brain and emotional
centers and needs options to recharge and begin again:
Mindfulness - based meditation is able to strengthen executive function in the upper
brain region to better «down - regulate» the
lower amygdata fear
center.