Sentences with phrase «n't brain differences»

Their findings provide more evidence for the argument that gender differences aren't brain differences but the result of variations in the ways boys and girls are treated.

Not exact matches

The difference between the games that work and the ones that don't gives us information into how the brain changes in response to its environment.
While the results can't conclusively prove that all those second screens are causing the changes to the brain (differences in brain structure could also lead people to be more likely to multitask), the researchers suggest that the results should nonetheless serve as a red flag for fans of multiple devices while further studies are carried out to test causality.
Science has no magic pill they aren't even sure why some people develope the illness under dissection of the brain of those diagnosed ill there are no differences in the brain.
That's not quite right and in fact you miss one of the biggest differences in the human brain compared to other animals.
Not only that but anyone with an ouce of a brain knows there is a big difference between what is hear..
What is the difference between a spatially extended mind as large as a brain that can not be detected externally and a mind that is not spatially extended at all?
Brain research shows the brains of men and women are organized differently, and these gender - related but not always gender - specific differences could be construed as suggesting new stereotypes, another «dichotomy.»
Panexperientialists certainly can not affirm this maxim in the sense in which it is intended by materialists, namely, that any difference in the mind's experience would depend upon a difference in the brain but not vice-versa.
That is to say my tribesmen know the difference between instinct, intelligence and intuition though they do not know it comes from different parts of the brain like Medula oblongata, cerebrum and cerebellum.
These fictionalized, grandiose tales weren't real, and my tiny human brain couldn't — and still can't always — process the difference between truth and well, Hollywood.
What a good comment to Andrew Elder, hope all fans can open their brains and see the differences, Ozil ever been criticized for everything, the stats will never lie the boy contribute alot to the team why is he playing for German squard if he is not good enough?
As a result, Dr. Meehan argues that «the term mild traumatic brain injury should not be used interchangeably with concussion,» as suggested by the authors of a 2010 Canadian study, 2 which found that how a brain injury was labeled made a difference when it came to treatment, and suggested that, to encourage full reporting of head injuries in sports and to allow adequate management and recovery time, MTBI be used in its place.
However, the difference in brain tissue isn't permanent and as children with the gene grow up, the tissue thickens and their ADHD symptoms improve.
So, the difference in this method's effect on the brain comes in when parents are reassuring their child that they're still there while not letting them rely on the parent to fall asleep.
They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.
For the baby, instrumental delivery can increase the short - term risks of bruising, facial injury, displacement of the skull bones, and cephalohematoma (blood clot under the scalp).24 The risk of intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding inside the brain) was increased in one study by more than four times for babies born by forceps compared to spontaneous birth, 25 although two studies showed no detectable developmental differences for forceps - born children at five years old.26, 27 Another study showed that when women with an epidural had a forceps delivery, the force used by the clinician to deliver the baby was almost twice the force used when an epidural was not in place.28
At this time is it not understood why an alternative delivery which cause such differences in brain functions.
The study also found that mothers who were breastfeeding were more responsive on a brain level than mothers who were formula feeding; that's not to say that they were «better» mothers, but only that there were slight hormonal differences, perhaps necessary for milk production and regulation.
The differences were seen in areas of the brain associated not only with disgust, but also with memory retrieval, attention, pain, and innate «gut responses.»
This approach allowed researchers to look for differences in the brain that are not a consequence of the depression itself, since the disorder had not yet manifested in most of the individuals.
In particular, the study, published Jan. 6 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, revealed differences in the white matter of patients» brains and in the cerebellum, an area of the brain not previously linked with the disorder.
«This is such a critical brain area and we hadn't expected to find such strong differences between men and women's brains,» said Paul Macey, the study's lead author.
But scientists don't know precisely how the ear and brain sense this mathematical difference.
The finding that these neurons are present in the brains of male but not female flies indicates that this sex difference in aggressive behavior is genetically based.
Also surprising was that while male and female brains did not differ in cell counts in cortical regions, the study identified 11 subcortical areas with gender - specific differences.
Henry Roediger at Washington University in St. Louis, who studies false memories, says the brain can't tell the difference between real and false memories, making our fabricated memories seem authentic.
Men's and women's brains really are not the same, neuroscientist Lise Eliot argues — but most of those differences are learned, not inborn.
The study reveals that the brain entrains depending on the information in the signal — not on the differences between seeing and hearing.
«The fetal brain is not just a small adult brain, and these subplate neurons are the major difference.
People who can't recognise faces have massive differences in how their brains are connected, which could be identified early in life to help kids circumvent the disorder
We've shown that the patients can improve in nine weeks — and that this leads to structural differences in their brains,» says Kristoffer NT Månsson.
«When we can run around all day long with a miniature MRI scanning apparatus strapped to our head, which could happen in the not too distant future, then we'll be able to see real sex differences in the brain
While Aβ is made in all human brains as they age, differences in the rate at which it is produced and eliminated from the brain and in how it affects neurons, means that not everyone develops dementia.
When they measured the concentrations in the same area in chimp brains, the team found that the differences between chimps and normal humans were much greater for those nine than for the 12 metabolites not implicated in schizophrenia, suggesting that energy pathways implicated in schizophrenia were also altered by human evolution, the team reports this week in Genome Biology.
«We didn't see sex differences in how well volunteers performed, but men and women used their brains differently to get the same results,» says Jill Goldstein, a professor of psychiatry and medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Brain regions that responded equally to both tasks yielded a difference of zero, while those that responded strongly to one task and not the other showed a high value.
In contrast, the researchers did not find age - related differences in another area of the brain connected to memory, the posteromedial entorhinal cortex.
This study did not explore possible reasons for these differences in brain anatomy.
In the rested condition, the brain region didn't show any difference between high - and low - reward conditions.
Previous studies have also shown brain anatomy differences associated with income, but did not link those differences to academic achievement.
For instance, a previous study discovered significant differences between male and female brains in four regions of white matter — and that female - to - male trans individuals who hadn't had sex reassignment surgery had white matter in these regions that more closely resembled a male brain.
So pinpointing these differences in visual areas might reveal important details about processing in brain regions related to social functioning and language, which are not as well understood.
The study found that occasional users who subsequently increased their drug use compared with those who did not, showed brain structural differences when they started using drugs.
The massive analysis of human, chimpanzee, and monkey tissue published Nov. 23 in the journal Science shows that the human brain is not only a larger version of the ancestral primate brain but also one filled with distinct and surprising differences.
He was convinced that mental illness had its roots in the brain but couldn't find any consistent differences between the brains of healthy and mentally ill individuals.
For treatment, that knowledge could make a huge impact: not only should researchers be better about testing potential migraine drugs on men and women separately, Maleki says, but they may be able to design new treatments based on these brain differences — giving both sexes a better chance at relief.
Even these trained eyes don't recognize a difference between male and female brain rhythms.
Weirdly, men's brains don't show this difference.
«While it's clear that sex differences in varenicline efficacy exist, we don't yet know why varenicline is particularly effective for women,» McKee said, adding that sex differences in the nicotine receptor system in the brain may be a key factor.
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