Sentences with phrase «nervous system thinks»

When your nervous system thinks, «time to scratch the nose,» it is not performed via muscle - by - muscle activation.

Not exact matches

Busy, boisterous open layouts can place extra stress on the nervous systems of introverts, preventing them from focusing or thinking creatively.

Consciousness arises, he thinks, only when experience attains to a certain complexity, a complexity that probably requires a central nervous system.

Gates's new book, The Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System, cashes in on McLuhan's romantic, quasi-theological vision of humankind's power to overcome space and time.

Whereas in the case of the individual brain thought emerges from a system of non-thinking nervous fibers, in the case of the collective brain each separate unit is in itself an autonomous center of reflection.

Consider this for our nervous system, and following this our thoughts, our ideas, our memories.

Thus, I conclude, and I think justly, that entities without central nervous systems do not possess any power of self - determination of the type Griffin envisions.

Mental activity, presence - to - self, increases ever so slowly along the evolutionary axis of increasing physical complexity — in particular of the central nervous system — until, voila, we are thinking subjects.

It also appears that humanity is not able to control our thought processes to any great degree, and erratic thinking can have a great many different causes and effects... and the various biochemical actions / reactions of our central nervous systems are not exactly «set in stone», so when you have a situation like this one, it is only good sense to call for rationality in what we do and in what others do.

Driving along a familiar road with little traffic, I can hand control over to the «automatic pilot» in my nervous system and think about eternity.

It has been thought that blueberries contain potential benefits for brain and nervous system health.

A final thought: Babies are born in a very immature physical state, with nervous systems and brains and bodies that have a long way to go — 25 years, really — until they reach maturity.

Speaking of grip strength, one interesting piece of information to consider if you've consumed (or are thinking about consuming) alcohol: besides the more obvious signs and symptoms of fetal alcohol exposure, poor hand grip strength is one common central nervous system abnormality.

It is easier to get a sense of implicit memory if we think about riding a bicycle: When we get on a bicycle, we don't consciously remember learning to contract this muscle, or to lean in that direction; rather, what we learned during childhood is implicitly written into our nervous system and muscles, and that memory comes alive as a set of lived reactions.

Nonetheless, the nervous system still responds by shutting off the thinking and planning part of the brain — the prefrontal cortex — in order to send blood to the body so we can fight or run away.

When your baby is 4 weeks old you can think about introducing massage and yoga to help to stimulate your baby's nervous system, support her digestive system and deeper your bond.

SSRIs actually work better in adults than kids, because I think there's a shift in the nervous system in adolescence.

The government wants a mechanistic way of describing how something hits the central nervous system and then affects mood and thought, but there's no way of documenting that without resorting to talk of «brain» and «mind», and even if there was, plenty of substances we don't want to target - like taurine, nutmeg or incense - would be covered by it too.

I think I'm more relieved now than anything else — my nervous system was starting to short out a couple of weeks ago.

Without a central nervous system, there is no capacity for thought, and while defining the term «human» is not an easy task, I think we can all agree that thought is a basic pre-condition.

Implicit in my assertion that computers will eventually be capable of the same kind of perception, cognition and thought as humans is the idea that a sufciently advanced and sophisticated articial system — for example, an electronic one — can be made and programmed to do the same thing as the human nervous system, including the brain.

As California Institute of Technology neuroscientist Christof Koch noted in narrating the wiring diagram of the entire nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans, we are clueless in understanding how this simple roundworm «thinks,» much less in explicating (and reproducing in a computer) a human mind billions of times more complex.

It is indeed ironic, as Fields describes, that we have long ignored the glial functions of thought processes, thinking of them as merely support for the nervous system, in a manner similar to the ancient Greeks thinking the brain was simply an organ for cooling the blood.

«It used to be thought that the immune system and the nervous system were worlds apart,» says John Bienenstock of McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.

Still, there remains one stark difference between his invention and the real human limb: Herr's prosthesis does not connect to the central nervous system, so the wearer can not move it just by thinking.

And on the basic research front, says William Snider, a neuroscientist at the Center for the Study of Nervous System Injury at Washington University in St. Louis, the results «are really going to broaden people's thinking about the functions of Bcl - 2 and its family members.»

Combinations of the two strike a counterbalance critical to the function of the nervous system, with inhibitory cells sculpting «noise» from excitatory cells into the arrangements behind thought and memory.

For example, some cases of multiple sclerosis are thought to result from autoimmune activity in response to an infection in the central nervous system and cerebrospinal fluid.

The key issue seems to be when the peripheral nervous system joins up with the cerebral cortex, the region of the brain responsible for higher thought processes such as memory, attention, thought, awareness and language.

24 to 25 weeks: Peripheral nervous system connects with the cortex, the brain region responsible for higher thought processes.

MS is thought to be an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord).

The analyses of genetic link to BMI indicate that the central nervous system has a role in obesity susceptibility, including a pathway that responds to changes in feeding and fasting and that is thought to be targeted by an FDA - approved weight - loss drug.

We thought that LPA could be involved in linking these metabolic syndromes with dysfunctions of the nervous system» explains Professor Moreno.

«When we started this work, very few people were thinking about how the nervous system and gut bacteria interact,» said Eisen, who is a member of the UO's Institute of Neuroscience.

Think of the army of cellular agents, including white blood cells and platelets, that jump into action over a mere paper cut — rebuilding the tissue, warding off infection, and alerting the rest of the body to the wound through the A-delta fibers of the nervous system, which are involved in the transmission of acute pain sensations.

Until now, however, these circulating cytokines were not thought to be able to cross the blood brain barrier, the highly - selective membrane that controls the transfer of materials between circulating blood and the central nervous system (CNS) fluids.

Gradinaru also thinks the method is a good candidate for targeting areas other than the brain, such as the peripheral nervous system.

Once thought only to attack neurons, immune cells turn out to be vital for central nervous system function.

The magnetite particles are thought to act like microscopic compass needles, relaying information to the nervous system by straining or twisting receptors in cells as they attempt to align with the Earth's magnetic field.

«Our ability to think and memorize information arises from our nervous systems,» said Binghamton University Distinguished Professor of Psychology Ralph Miller.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is among the most common neurological diseases in young adults, affecting 350 000 individuals in the United States and 2 million worldwide.1 Prevailing thought is that MS is an autoimmune disorder whereby an unknown agent or agents triggers a T cell — mediated inflammatory attack, causing demyelination of central nervous system tissue.2

«We used to think that the nervous system, once severed, would not regenerate,» she told Science News.

He thinks that thousands of people around the country, some of them in nursing homes, have potentially treatable autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system.

Chalfie concludes: «The nervous system that we thought we knew actually works through all these hormone systems.

The resulting astrocytes differed in expression of multiple proteins thought to either promote or inhibit central nervous system homeostasis and regeneration.

Rockefeller University president Paul Nurse welcomed her arrival saying, «Cori Bargmann typifies the Rockefeller scientist: she is bold and highly original in her thinking and her approach to studying the brain and other components of the nervous system.»

It is thought to be the center of emotion, memory and the involuntary nervous system.

More than half of the approximately 25,000 genes in the mouse genome are thought to be involved in development and function of the nervous system [1, 2], but only 30 % of genes have any function assigned to them [3].

Also you need to think of your nervous system.

As Steve Gagne goes on to say in his book, «Food affects the quality of your blood, which in turn affects your nervous system, which affects your brain — the organ that manifests thinking and records your reality.»