Sentences with phrase «of brain»

Brain injuries damage regions of the brain and this damage can extend post-injury.

Most days I truly believe that «the path is all math,» but then there are situations that come up that remind me that not every financial decision can be mathematically optimized by the intellect of the brain, sometimes its okay to make decisions instinctively guided by the heart.

The surveyed organisations spoke of a brain drain to the big internet giants.

In short, startup marketers must tap into the «Story Button» part of the brain; an idea coined by advertising agency Innocean, and neuroscientist Paul Zak.

It's an easy way to bring in the next week without sacrificing any of the brain power I need to serve my clients Monday — Friday.

Among other functions, it is part of the brain's reflexive system and it is good at quickly generating emotions like fear and anger when we're presented with new, out of place, or scary stimuli.

The amygdala also links directly to areas of the brain that prime our fight or flight response: breathing rate, heart rate, the release of corticosterone (a stress hormone), and the release of norepinephrine for alertness & arousal.

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science.

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Lots of old people in Japan now do brain training exercises to ward of Alzhiemer's disease and other degeneration of the brain.

Protecting a digital coin and its mining process from being hacked and misused is costly as well as a matter of brain investment.

This may be especially true if the area being treated is near parts of the brain that control sight, motor skills or speech.

For many patients, the idea of brain surgery can be scary.

Glioblastoma remains one of the most difficult types of brain tumors to treat successfully.

In 2004, she also began translating neuroeconomics — the new science of the brain and risk — into investing and trading profits at banks, hedge funds and proprietary trading firms.

This ad shows the iPad 2 user looking at stock options, investment portfolios, and even images of the brain... a far cry from someone taking video of their family, or rocking out to a killer iTunes library.

The rational side of my brain does the math and is baffled by its incredibly fast ascent.

Prosecutors cleared the cops, saying the man died of a brain disorder.

An autopsy ruled he died of a brain disorder.

Whatever the case, on April 19th, after the removal and storing of the brain, Harvey went about asking for permission retroactively from Einstein's son, Hans Albert Einstein.

Oddly enough, no one had ever examined a connection between this part of the brain and procrastination, says Laura Rabin of Brooklyn College.

These newly implicated areas of the brain are generally associated with reward, and have been linked to the pleasurable feelings and motivational states associated with stimuli such as sex, cocaine, and good food.

Insomnia Caffeine inhibits the activity of a neurotransmitter called Adenosine, which is one of your brain's natural tranquilizers.

The amygdala is part of the brain system involved with processing emotions.

Every time you multitask you aren't just harming your performance in the moment; you may very well be damaging an area of your brain that's critical to your future success at work.

02:30 — Aims to reduce the boring and repetitive nature of brain rehabilitation programs through VR, with sensory feedback and electrical stimulation.

Yet since 1985, there have been only four FDA - approved drugs to treat the more than 120 different types of brain tumors, according to the National Brain Tumor Society.

Intentional daydreaming is linked to a thicker cortex (a good thing) in certain key areas of the brain, new research finds.

«Most of our brain is wired for processing visual information,» says Barry.

In fact, in animals, play helps the frontal lobe of the brain mature.

Stories involved different parts of our brain, so they're easier to remember and less threatening than cold, hard facts.

More sensors connected to the child's head allow the algorithms to create an image of brain waves that doctors can then study.

«You can tell them what is good for them, but that's appealing to the rational part of their brain.

Small victories build new androgen receptors in the areas of the brain responsible for reward and motivation.

After scribbling furiously in a notebook, I came up with a short list of criteria that captured the process that was already happening in the recesses of my brain.

What it is: «C2 Montréal is an immersive three - day event that appeals as much to the left half of your brain as it does to the right through a vast array of non-traditional experiences.

As we burn through mental capacity, the activity in the part of the brain involved in self - control decreases, triggering us to make poor calls.

At the end of a session, the Muse app tells you how well you performed and displays a graph of your brain's activity.

«The lesson would be that the perfect stock portfolio would always be accumulating the world and buying one lottery ticket a year to satisfy the part of the brain that needs the excitement.»

Not only are naps beneficial for consolidating memories and helping you remember new information, they're also useful in helping you avoid burnout, since research shows burnout is a signal that you can't take in more information in this part of your brain until you've had a chance to sleep.

The second is norepinephrine, which affects parts of the brain that control a person's attention and response to things in the environment, which could help direct a person's attention to a sexual partner.

That might be because, according to a study from the University of Pennsylvania, women tend to have more connections between the hemispheres of their brain, encouraging intuitive and analytical thought, whereas men tend to develop one - sided brain connections, encouraging quick perception and corresponding action.

And this isn't the only evidence of the brain's role in developing strength.

The researchers also performed MRIs on all the participants and found that compared with the low - flavanol group, the 900 mg - a-day flavanol drinkers showed more activity in the dentate gyrus (an area of the brain located in the hippocampus and linked to the formation of new memories).

The research release explains that «sleep spindles,» a particular kind of brain activity that occurs in sleep, may help us tag and then recall important information.

Her memory and ability to think were largely unimpaired, which is atypical of brain injury patients.

It helps signals move faster around the neural network, and in two important areas of the brain, the frontal and temporal lobes, myelin levels increase with age, peaking on average around age 50 and in some people continuing to rise into their 60s.

Many of the spiritual aspects of ayahuasca are correlated with increased processing in the emotional centers of the brain.

Computers might be assembled out of brain cells.

At U of T and elsewhere, labs are running brain - fitness training experiments, hoping to teach focus and the use of more of the brain.