Sentences with phrase «neuron by neuron»

Branch by branch (neuron by neuron) we create new knowledge... similar to how a young tree sapling turns into a 40 - foot tall tree.

In this study, we employed a method called optical pulse - labeling, or OPL, which allowed us to see how the mutant huntingtin ravaged the brain over time — neuron by neuron.»

Chalmers pondered the best way to guarantee the survival of your identity: «Gradual uploading is the way to go, neuron by neuron, staying conscious throughout.»

If you peel me away, neuron by neuron, you'll find other me, millions of me, each lacking some part, but all conscious to some extent.

Studying these functions in nonhuman animals has given us the most detail about how neurons get put together to do complex functions because we can really look, neuron by neuron, at how vision gets put together, how motor control gets put together.

So say a group of leading scientists who propose to track the activity of the entire brain, neuron by neuron, millisecond by millisecond.

Not exact matches

Mirror neurons pick up on and are affected by the moods of those around us.

By collecting sequencing information about cells in the gut, for example, Kallyope can better figure out how they're connected to neurons in the brain in a series of circuits.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of London has revealed some interesting information about neurons in the male brain.

They say that drinking coke really ignites the creative functions in their brain by getting their neurons firing at 100 %.

It is real to me because the firing of neurons in my brain stem are interpreted as real sensory data by my brain.

Patterns in beasts» acts are the sole witness to a design by irony inspired: when scientists mapped how the neurons fired in the cortex of the brain when learning, on - screen a melody was coldly burning.

So Steven... you are saying that people affected by Asperger's Syndrome — whose mirror neurons are largely of fully disabled — are beyond redemption?

Researchers have determined that Konzo is a motor neuron disease caused by the toxic effects of cassava consumption.

I personally think it is probably something to do with the geometry of our neurons that are greatly affected by our childhood beliefs.

He begins by noting that groups of neurons firing simultaneously produce complex interrelated patterns of brain waves within the electromagnetic field which is the brain itself.

lb, I think even neurons are way too big to be influenced by qtm interference, (their electrons etc, on the other hand...).

@ upside down bucky ball, I recently read about the possibility of our conscienceness being a result of the EM field emited by our neurons as opposed to existeng within the nueron itself.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

Meaning and morality are illusions caused by neurons and hormones.

We have mirror neurons in our brain that help us to learn — when we learn to tie our shoelaces by watching someone else, mirror neurons are at work.

We also have mirror neurons in our brain that help us to learn — when we learn to tie our shoelaces by watching someone else, that is those mirror neurons at work.

Years of scientific research have shown, however, that this panorama is a construction, enabled by multiple systems of neurons specialized for visual processing.

What is it about our stories that should be taken seriously by those who advance theories of moral behavior as a product of evolution, or those who regard consciousness and selfhood as congeries of computational patterns constructed by neurons?

If we compare the power I exercise by way of sound waves upon your ears (power, sense 1) with the power that I, in action, exercise upon some neuron that fires or is inhibited from firing during the action (power, sense 2), we see a marked difference.

By the same token, the firing of the neuron or the coursing of impulses through a neural complex does not support the agent's thought and speech by expending physical energy on them, although of course it does expend physical energy on other neurons and neuronal complexes and hence does exercise causal power on theBy the same token, the firing of the neuron or the coursing of impulses through a neural complex does not support the agent's thought and speech by expending physical energy on them, although of course it does expend physical energy on other neurons and neuronal complexes and hence does exercise causal power on theby expending physical energy on them, although of course it does expend physical energy on other neurons and neuronal complexes and hence does exercise causal power on them.

Thus it is possible that a single neuron might be interdependent in the mode of ontic power with a macroscopic feature of action (e.g., conscious understanding) simultaneous with it and also make a contribution by way of its causal power to a later neural occurrence in some other part of the brain.

Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines by Steve Talbott O'Reilly, 281 pages, $ 22.99 As Francis Crick (he of Watson and Crick) put it, «You're nothing but a pack of neurons.»

What this really means is that you are merely an illusion generated by the firing of neurons.

No atheist with half a neuron takes the position that morality is unique to and defined by the individual.

God and spirituality are feelings created by the bio-chemical firing of neurons and connections within your brain and don't exist in objective reality.

A similar judgment is tendered by William Seager, who points out that if the psychological is supervenient upon the physical, it is so in a way that is crucially different from the way in which liquidity is supervenient upon certain molecular states, because we have no idea as to why the joint activity of insentient neurons should give rise to consciousness (MC 179).

Another physiologist would find that these were controlled by a chain of neurons from the brain connected by synapses.

We know from cases of brain damage and the effects of psychoactive drugs, that our experiences are caused by physical chemistry acting on our physical neurons in our brains.

We can compare the diverse tasks performed by a colony to the many proteins generated by gene transcription, to various cell types of a developing embryo, or to the firing patterns of neurons in the brain.

I recently visited a laboratory in which the activities of individual neurons were being monitored by transducing the neural impulses to pulses of sound.

It is considered an inhibitory neurotransmitter, which means it regulates brain and nerve cell activity by inhibiting the number of neurons firing in the brain.

A Canadian study published this year around the same time titled «Coconut oil protects cortical neurons from amyloid beta toxicity by enhancing signaling of cell survival pathways» observed that coconut oil and its medium chain fatty acids (MCFAs) protect against amyloid beta (Aβ) induced neurotoxicity in primary rat cortical neurons.

The findings, published by Cell Press in the March 8 issue of the journal Neuron, may help to explain why young children often struggle to control selfish impulses, even when they know better, and could impact educational strategies designed to promote successful social behavior.

Chen Gu and colleagues at The Ohio State University discovered that they could induce the formation of axonal varicosities in hippocampal neurons grown in the lab by «puffing» them with bursts of liquid from a small pipette.

By using a method like Pick Up, Put Down neurons link together into circuits controlling learning, memory, and social behavior, according to Science News, and in turn, the method affects where neurons end up and the connections they form.

His or her newly - formed neurons and connections are the reason your baby - to - be may be able to discern your voice from others by now.

Research has revealed that when your child watches an action performed by someone, neurons are fired in their brains.

When this series of events occur repeatedly, the particular neurons are then linked together by connections, called synapses.

The most recent study report described in these same regions decreased tissue levels of 5 - HT and tryptophan hydroxylase, the synthesizing enzyme for serotonin, and no evidence of excessive serotonin degradation as assessed by levels of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid (the main metabolite of serotonin) or ratios of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid to serotonin.30 A recent article described a significant association between a decrease in medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity and specific SIDS risk factors, including tobacco smoking.40 These data confirm results from earlier studies in humans39, 41 and are also consistent with studies in piglets that revealed that postnatal exposure to nicotine decreases medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity.42 Animal studies have revealed that serotonergic neurons located in the medullary raphe and adjacent paragigantocellularis lateralis play important roles in many autonomic functions including the control of respiration, blood pressure, heart rate, thermoregulation, sleep and arousal, and upper airway patency.

fMRI experiments have shown that our attitudes towards those we perceive as out - groups are affected by the so - called «mirror neurons» (normally responsible for mimicry and empathy), which are «switched off», leading us to resist emotional connections.

With Theresa May's campaign visits being described by one journalist this week as «familiar neuron crushing dullness», we shouldn't have been expecting too much excitement from the Conservative Party manifesto.

«Neurons react to a stimulus by depolarizing, which is how the cells talk to each other,» Mishra says.

To do this, the neurons need to make new proteins — a process that is thought to be controlled by hundreds of genes.

The team cemented its finding by noting the mice's neurons» ability to undergo long - term potentiation — a type of response to stimulation, which has been implicated in learning processes — after gene function was restored.