Sentences with phrase «neurologists think»

Some neurologists think that what may go on in the savant may be a relative preservation and heightening of primitive perceptual and computational powers in the right hemisphere — powers of a sort that are normally inhibited with the development of abstract intelligence and language.

The technology not only gives «sight» to the blind, but also challenges the way neurologists think the brain is organized.

«In the past,» Devanand says, «most neurologists thought, «Maybe there's something there statistically in a paper, but it's a bit flaky.»»

She is starting physical therapy however her neurologist thinks her inability to ambulate is psychosomatic.

(my neurologist thought I was making it up) Since going gluten free I've no longer needed allergy medication.

Not exact matches

«Stress causes the brain intake systems to send information into the Reactive brain (automatic - fight, flight, freeze) and prevents information flow through to the Reflective higher thinking, conscious brain (prefrontal cortex) where long - term memory is constructed,» explains neurologist Judy Willis on Psychology Today.

My being a jerk does not change the fact that I can think circles around you and am in med school learning to be a neurologist.

My 12 yr old and I are both starting on the keto diet - her neurologist recommended we try it for her chronic migraine and I have a lot of weight to lose so I thought I'd do it with her to make it easier for her.

In 1950, Turing published «Computing Machinery and Intelligence,» written largely in response, not to fellow mathematicians but to neurologist Geoffrey Jefferson, who in 1949 famously declared, «Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain.»

Antonio Damasio, a neurologist and neuroscientist now at the University of Southern California, began thinking seriously about emotions after meeting a patient named Elliot.

Chris Chafe: I am working with neurologist Josef Parvizi on what we think is the first — certainly the cheapest — device that turns brainwaves into both music and a powerful medical tool.

Neurologists had presented case studies of «acalculic» patients such as CG from the early twentieth century onwards, if not before, but «people hadn't thought a lot about the specific brain areas involved in calculation», says Butterworth.

«Here were my uncles, both of them neurologists, and they couldn't do a damn thing for her,» Shatz recalls thinking.

A neurologist who named and described prions won a Nobel Prize in 1997, and many experts think the story is settled.

«The bottom line is that this study is thought - provoking but shouldn't cause alarm,» says neurologist John Collinge of University College London.

«I really worry about this study — I think it's flawed,» says Peter Snyder, a neurologist who studies ageing at Brown University's Alpert Medical School in Providence, R.I. Snyder agrees that data supporting the efficacy of brain training are sparse.

Nice try by neurologist Peter Ulric Tse to argue for the existence of free will, but unless everything we think we know is wrong, we live in a causally determined universe (8 June, p 28).

Brain researchers need to think through these issues, agreed the ethicists and neurologists attending the NIH meeting, especially given the growing funding available for DBS research.

«It's an extremely simple and boring task — it doesn't involve any kind of thinking,» says neurologist Fredrik Ullén of Karolinska Institute.

But when the neurologist came by a few minutes later and agreed with the diagnosis, she began to have second thoughts about her initial impression.

In the 1980s, neurologists at Harvard thought they had the answer.

Neurologist and synesthete researcher Richard Cytowic thinks synesthesia is a window into how ordinary brains work.

When he found he could no longer think five moves ahead, he was sure something was seriously wrong and arranged to meet neurologist Nick Fox at University College London's Institute of Neurology.

«In the short term, I think some people would want to know and some wouldn't,» says Tracy Young - Pearse, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School.

«What ReNeuron has done to create this cell line is ambitious and well thought out,» adds neurologist Sean Savitz of Harvard Medical School.

When Studer started medical school in the late 1980s at the University of Bern, he thought he would become a neurologist, or maybe a neurosurgeon.

So, you might think that he always wanted to be a neurosurgeon, or a neurologist, or some sort of doctor, but in fact, he did not.

Neurologist and Researcher Dr. Zoe Arvanitakis was one of the scientists to take part in the study, and she commented that» Both large and small vessel diseases have effects on dementia and thinking abilities, independently of one another, and independently of the common causes of dementia such as Alzheimer's pathology and strokes.»

From my perspective as a neurologist, T2D is thought to actually double a person's risk for the development of Alzheimer's disease.

I've been seeing a Neurologist and having all kinds of MRI»S because he thinks I have M.S. My G.P. is very much into nutrition and has recommended this site.

My 12 yr old and I are both starting on the keto diet - her neurologist recommended we try it for her chronic migraine and I have a lot of weight to lose so I thought I'd do it with her to make it easier for her.

This blog is an avenue to share my thoughts about neurology, but I hope it becomes a place for Neurologists to discuss and explore everything Neurology.

(You know the sort...» you immediately surrender title in fee simple to every thought that passes through your head beginning six weeks before you sign this agreement and ending when your state of brain death is confirmed by three qualified neurologists of our choosing and hired at your estate's expense, and if you cease doing business with us, we reserve the right to enjoin you from ever working in your field again in any country with a functioning judicial system»... that kind of thing.)

However I think finding a neurologist to do this without having done a MRI might be impossible (due to misdiagnosis??)

Hi Karen, I haven't personally run into a problem like your dog is having, but I think your veterinarian is smart to suggest you get an exam from a neurologist.

I saw a neurologist yesterday and he thinks he can remove most of it which would give her another 2 - 3 years.

As neurologists, we harp on localizing the lesion (i.e. C1 - C5, T3 - L3, left prosencephalon, etc.) and if you can't localize the lesion because you're only finding poorly localized back pain, think, «What about the joints?»

This blog is an avenue to share my thoughts about neurology, but I hope it becomes a place for Neurologists to discuss and explore everything Neurology.

Your family doctor, or the doctor you see in a hospital emergency room (depending on where you go to receive immediate medical care after the accident) will examine you and refer you to a neurologist if they think this is necessary.

This blog is an avenue to share my thoughts about neurology, but I hope it becomes a place for Neurologists to discuss and explore everything Neurology.

Neurologists and motivational speakers say that you simply can not stop thinking about the elephant in the room when told to stop thinking about the elephant in the room.