Sentences with phrase «of brain breaks»

One is Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy (Krabbe's disease), a brain disorder where the white matter of the brain breaks down.

Use a refocusing technique or cue to signal the end of a Brain Break and to assist students in transitioning to the next task.

I think having to different projects on the go can give the writing part of the brain a break.

We are players who think, but also thinkers who play so you can find a wealth of how t0 guides, game tips and tricks, and video game reviews on the site for a bit of a brain break.

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Such clots, in turn, can break off and get stuck in the narrow blood vessels of the brain, causing a stroke.

At the very least, your people will get a brain break from the doldrums of work.

It's pretty clear, he argues that if you can't fairly rapidly achieve mass consumer pricing, your EON (Economy of Now) business on its best days will be a niche nicety for the folks with more money than time or brains and never break out of that box.

So when the province of Ontario was looking for someone to head an interdisciplinary research centre aimed at breaking down barriers in brain science, Stuss was a natural pick.

The science is incontrovertible: exercise is just as good for your brain as it is for the rest of your body, and just like your heart and your lungs, your brain will work better if you regularly break a sweat.

Like the use of «break» instead of «brake»... «the lord giveth, and the lord taketh» they must have meant your brains!!

Our bodies» patterns of life tell us that our brain can't focus longer than 90 minutes at a time without a 20 - 30 minute break in between.

Everything in the universe, including our own brains, is built up on this principle of control and direction, and Nature can not break its own fundamental law without the whole process of the universe being undermined and coming to grief.

If human brains are like body's cells, there is a natural point of specialization, in which new systems break away and form similar but slightly different branches, as cells in a body become fingers, feet, hands, etc..

Jeremy Wiles, who directed a film series that helps men break free from porn, had the opportunity to interview several brain experts in the making of the Conquer Series.

Ted Roberts, host of the Conquer Series, a video series to help men break free from porn, explains how those addicted to pornography can start to find help through learning about the brain.

You were born without that part of your brain or you broke it from drinking.

My mouth is hanging open by the end of every episode: I've cried, I've laughed, I've had my brain broken.

What fascinates me is in the article they quote him as saying: «I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail,» «There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.»

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

Why, as the white radiance comes through the dome, with all sorts of staining and distortion imprinted on it by the glass, or as the air now comes through my glottis determined and limited in its force and quality of its vibrations by the peculiarities of those vocal chords which form its gate of egress and shape it into my personal voice, even so the genuine matter of reality, the life of souls as it is in its fullness, will break through our several brains into this world in all sorts of restricted forms, and with all the imperfections and queernesses that characterize our finite individualities here below.

Dr. J. A. Hadfield, one of the most distinguished psychologists of my generation, in an essay on The Mind and the Brain argues on a scientific basis «that in the course of evolution the mind shows an ever - increasing tendency to free itself from physical control and, breaking loose from its bonds, to assert its independence and live a life undetermined except by the laws of its own nature.»

I was doing some kitchen cabinet rearranging (for higher efficiency of course... my Type A brain is stupid sometimes) during my winter break from school a couple weeks back, and I totally came across my spiralizer.

My brain is a couple months ahead and I'm so ready for summer, so I'm going to break out a couple summer vegetable recipes now instead of waiting.

Rick was kind enough to take a break from his busy schedule to let us pick his brain about working on one of the coolest food shows in production today.

This ended up being completely worth it since it broke commentator / perpetually terrified risk - phobe Rod Gilmore's brain for the remainder of the game.

Fast forward ten years into the future... it's your lunch break, so naturally to pass the time you have a scroll through Twitter (now implanted into your brain, or eyes, or something) and one of those @FootyBanter accounts that are still going strong (they've replaced all newspapers in fact) has tweeted a list: «Remember these teenage wonderkids?

«The injuries started popping up when the C405 aluminum alloy came out as the bat standard in 1996 — brain damage, broken jaws, teeth knocked out,» says Bill Thurston, rules editor of the NCAA baseball rules committee for the last 15 years.

5 rounds of punishment can take years off a career, Max is known for an Iron like chin and I don't want to see a rise star get mauled (POTENTIALLY IM NOT SAYING ITS FOR SURE) for 5 rounds only to have his chin «broken» and ultimately have his career path change, that type of beating is a lot of wear and tear on a chin / brain

Seattle's largest network, PEPS.org, uses Zero to Five as part of the weekly curriculum, in a «brain development break.»

The rear facing position is safest because, if you are hit from behind and your child is facing forward, the severity of whip lash can be brain damaging, now if there legs hang over the seat, and they are rear facing they have the risk of breaking a leg, but there brain and stem will still be intact.

Rather than pushing, if you can talk to your child and find out the parts that are hard or scary for your child, then you can brain storm how to break down the challenge to smaller steps, or clear up a misperception of the consequences of that step, and in so doing, turn what was frightening into an opportunity for mastery and success.

Another study of degu rats discovered that babies» brains developed normally if the father rat stayed in the nest, but broke down at the level of synapses — in areas of the brain that influence decision - making and emotions — when the father was removed.

I'm inching closer to the borders of insanity and my brain could use a much - needed break.

But it also means there's none of the mind - melding brain - fog of ecstatic sleeplessness overlayed by the irrational fear that a bird is going to fly in through the window and take the baby hostage *, along with the never - ending ride on the hair - raising postnatal emotional rollercoaster, with happy joy followed with the deep panic that you have no idea what you're doing and are going to break them and why am I crying again?!.

Or pick from this huge list of quick brain - break games.

It is a formula consisting of DHA, proteins that break down simply to make digestion easier, and choline to promote healthy eye and brain development during baby's first year.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Because smart is such a vague term, I broke the brain - boosting benefits of motherhood down into five attributes in the book: perception, efficiency, resiliency, motivation, and emotional intelligence.

Daytime sleep is, of course, good for infants and all — it helps their brains develop, among other things — but it's really essential for parents, as it gives us those (albeit way too short) refueling breaks we need so we can tackle the rest of the day's stinky diapers, screechy tantrums, and whiny demands.

Is not the slugging of the enemy's best men so as to close their eyes, strain their hips, break their noses, and concuss their brains, and thus compel them to withdraw from the field, exactly the pugilist's policy?»

The area of the brain that signals when you're awake or asleep breaks down in people with Alzheimer's.

The Brain Builders series breaks down developmental milestones month by month to create a series of monthly toys specifically tailored to help your infant achieve cognitive and physical skills within their first year through fun, interactive and connected play.

He has been in and out of a coma, broke 50 + bones and now has some brain damage.

Because a teen's brain is seeking this new stimulation and can't always put the breaks on a bad idea, a friend's suggestion to «have fun» by painting graffiti on the high school is tempting, regardless of the consequences.

A couple of bird brains broke into barn housing chickens confiscated in a massive raid on upstate cockfighting ring this week and tried to bust the roosters out of the joint — only to find themselves behind bars.

The insula, an area of the brain largely ignored by researchers, may hold the key to breaking harmful addictions

This breaks down to $ 300 million for the Cancer Moonshot; $ 86 million for the BRAIN Initiative; $ 100 million for the Precision Medicine Initiative's «All of Us» program; and $ 10 million for Regenerative Medicine.

In other words, Tsai says, the memories are not actually lost, rather neuronal damage breaks many of the retrieval pathways in the brain.

Among those already using the program with his students is Gerald Smith, who teaches conceptual physics and advanced chemistry at Bishop McNamara High School in Washington and plans to attend the march.Students who completed the print - out activity sheet illustrated how headphones work through physics — among the examples Smith intends to post to Twitter after spring break, the week after the March for Science «The kids definitely like to probe their brains a lot in terms of seeing science in real life, not just something far - reaching for geniuses to dobut as something that we exist in every day,» said Smith.

The research team simplified this data using voxel - based morphometry, or VBM — a technique that breaks the brain into 3 - D pixels and permits rigorous statistical comparison of brain tissue density among people.