Sentences with phrase «many mysteries of the brain»

The mysteries of the brain may be virtually endless, but a team of researchers from two institutes in Göttingen, Germany now claim to have an answer for at least one question that has remained a puzzle: just how fast does the brain forget information?

Just when you thought science had left Sigmund Freud in the dust, the hybrid field of neuropsychoanalysis is showing us that Freud's theories could still resolve many mysteries of the brain.

But at least it recognized that the real mystery of the brain was an existential one.

Neuropsychologist Mark Solms, here in his office in Cape Town, South Africa, says Freud's ideas may resolve many mysteries of the brain.

He counters that mysteries of brain circuitry will be resolved as the project moves forward over the years.

How can a simulation crack the mystery of the brain?

I think that cracking them is going to change a lot of things about the mystery of the brain.

Scientists copy nature's most complex organ in the hope of solving the mysteries of brain disorders, from autism to Alzheimer's

Boyden, who codirects that center, says traditional neuroscience graduate programs typically focus on hypothesis - driven research — asking and answering «profound, deep mysteries of the brain.»

He added, «We expect the development of applications to solve the mysteries of the brain and the development of brain - machine interfaces.»

It is a big idea that could help unravel mysteries of brain development and evolution, and help link neurological and psychiatric disorders to abnormalities in brain structure.

However, even the little amount that neuroscientists know about it is fascinating but even they acknowledge that many mysteries of the brain may never be unraveled.

A bold and outrageous explorer in the world of neurological experimentation, Dr. Jekyll seeks to solve the mysteries of the brain that turn ordinary people into madmen.

As the staff of The Cube attempt to unravel the mysteries of the brain, Black hides from them the fact that she is bipolar.

Diane Ackerman typically takes as her subjects some of the more beautiful, mesmerizing, and sigh - inducing things on this earth, training her poet's pen on the magic of our five senses (A Natural History of the Senses), the mysteries of the brain (An Alchemy of Mind, 2004), the majesty of her garden (Cultivating Delight, 2001), the ecstasy and transcendence of play, (Deep Play, 1999), the activates of animals (The Moon By Whale Light, 1991), and romantic love (A Natural History of Love, 1990).

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It's his job to meet with toy inventors who hope to sell their ideas to the company; he has demonstrated an uncanny ability to tap into one of the world's great mysteries: what makes an eight - year - old's brain tick.

He said that the latest study (Professor Jordan Grafman, from the US National Inst - itute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda,) suggests the brain is inherently sensitive to believing in almost anything if there are grounds for doing so, but when there is a mystery about something, the same neural machinery is co-opted in the formulation of religious belief.

Be proud to be a human, use that amazingly complex brain of yours to figure out all of the mysteries of the universe and stop thinking without being honest and critical of your ideas.

To those of you on this thread, who, with your 3 pound brain, HS or College degree, 15 - 40 year lifespan to this point, and literally dozens of books and articles and discussions over beer and pretzels, have the mystery of thousands of years and millions of people figured out — Bravo!

As Christians, we must recognize that paradox is inherent to our tradition, that mysteries will always exist, and that faith is more often a matter of the heart than the brain.

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How this metamorphosis takes place; how a force existing as motion, heat, or light can become a mode of consciousness; how it is possible for aerial vibrations to generate the sensation we call sound, or for the forces liberated by chemical changes in the brain to give rise to emotion, — these are mysteries which it is impossible to fathom.

We with our creature minds do not know the mind of God [it is a mystery... a mystery in that we know God has a mind but that we are unable to describe it or understand it because our brains are limited while His is Infinite].

The mystery of God is thus not a riddle or a conundrum, not a brain - straining puzzle; it is the one reality that prompts an endless delectation of mind no less than heart and soul.

Nor did we need to have brains that could reflect upon the world leading some to spend their lives contemplating the mysteries of the universe, others to beatific visions and yet others to found great religious movements.

Confidence, brains, a sharp wit, a flirtatious demeanor — all of those go much farther in creating allure, mystery and, yes, sexiness (think Helen Mirren).

Hitler's ascent to power took place thanks to this wave of emotional frustration over Germany's position in the world.The advent of neuroscience has slowly revealed new potential avenues to understand and decrypt the mysteries of the human brain, which is the seat of our emotions and our morality.

Herculano - Houzel hopes that the results of the study and the questions it raises will stimulate other neuroscientists to begin exploring the mysteries of the avian brain, especially how their behavior compares to that of mammals of similar numbers of neurons or brain size.

The brain commands tomes dedicated to its mysteries, while the eye is held to be a masterpiece of evolutionary ingenuity.

Now a gene that causes such disorders has been found, and it may help unravel a deeper mystery: how it is that the left side of our brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa.

But it's a mystery how cancer cells get past the «blood - brain barrier», which prevents the passage of most cells.

«It's fair to say that a large fraction of the brain's functional activity is unaccounted for,» notes Raichle, who's hoping fMRI can help unlock this mystery.

The 18th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience will highlight this mystery as neuroscientists from around the world gather to discuss their work on how the brain develops in the womb and throughout childhood.

Metastatic melanoma is the deadliest of the skin cancers and the mechanisms that govern early metastatic growth and interactions of metastatic cells with the brain microenvironment remain shrouded in mystery.

Why we sleep is one of the biggest mysteries in biology, though the clues lie in the brain

Should a doctor at any point take a cross section of my brain, she will find patches of scarring and dead tissue, souvenirs of the time I pursued the mystery of magnetism across the 11 - dimensional badlands of string theory.

At this point, Cox had a fresh mystery on his hands: How did BMAA find its way into the brains of Alzheimer's victims so far from Guam?

«We know that our brains change over time, but fully understanding how we make and recall memories as we age has been a mystery,» said Renante Rondina, a University of Toronto and Rotman graduate student in the Department of Psychology and lead author of the study.

The rate and extent of damage to the spinal cord and brain following spinal cord injury have long been a mystery.

Until the last few decades, the frontal lobes of the brain were shrouded in mystery and erroneously thought of as nonessential for normal function — hence the frequent use of lobotomies in the early 20th century to treat psychiatric disorders.

UNDERSTANDING EXACTLY how the brain encodes and stores memories is one of the central, unsolved mysteries in neuroscience.

That day Black decided to leave the mystery of consciousness alone for a while and to apply himself instead to doing some earthly good for the human brain.

The findings, presented on November 14 at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting in Washington DC, only deepen the mystery of how ketamine, which has powerful mood - lifting properties, interacts with the brain.

Neurologists had suspected that a component of the «ascending arousal system» could be found in this part of the brain for more than 100 years, but the precise location had been a mystery.

This supports a recent proposal that such cells may be the master control switches of domestication, explaining why domestic animals share common traits, such as smaller brains and certain pigmentation patterns — a mystery first noted by Charles Darwin.

Although why, exactly, excessive brain growth is related to autism remains a mystery, the new work helps to confirm that signs of the disorder appear early — knowledge that could lead to detection and treatments, such as behavior therapy, at a younger age.

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.»

He hopes his initial foray will spur future investigations into the mysteries of the canine brain, such as whether dogs have empathy.

To some neuroscientists, however, the phenomenon is of profound interest, and they are using lucid dreamers to explore some of the weirder aspects of the brain's behaviour during the dream state (see «Dream mysteries»).

It is famous for robbing Lou Gehrig of his life and Stephen Hawking of his mobility and voice, but just how amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) destroys motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord remains a mystery.