Sentences with phrase «of brain centers»

Complications such as pneumonia, gastrointestinal issues, as well as urinary tract issues due to the destruction of brain centers controlling these organs.

It turns out that the structure and function of brain centers responsible for learning and memory in a wide range of invertebrate species may possibly share the same fundamental characteristics, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology and performed by University of Arizona neuroscientists Nicholas Strausfeld, Regents» Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, part of the UA's School of Mind, Brain and Behavior, and Gabriella Wolff.

«When an old use of a brain center no longer is relevant, it gets hijacked for something new.

Contreras - Vidal is also site director of the BRAIN Center (Building Reliable Advances and Innovation in Neurotechnology), a National Science Foundation Industry / University Cooperative Research Center.

Not exact matches

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Yes, it's known that most higher brain functions (such as perception, memory, and intelligence) are centered in the cerebral cortex, that 0.1 - inch - thick infolding of neuron - rich gray matter overlaying both the right and the left hemispheres that would cover some 1.5 square feet if it were laid out like a tablecloth.

During a high stakes conversation, you are often operating out of the part of your brain called the amygdala — the fight or flight center — which is not conducive to a calm exchange or constructive outcome.

Last year The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center began clinical trials on the efficacy of SuperBetter to treat traumatic brain injuries, and the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center greenlighted a randomized controlled user study of the game to treat depression.

«Listening to music and singing together has been shown in several studies to directly impact neuro - chemicals in the brain, many of which play a role in closeness and connection,» explains a recent Greater Good Science Center round - up of research on the subject.

It becomes important in adolescence when a flood of hormones changes the reward centers in the brain and causes lording it over others to suddenly become much more pleasurable.

Technology has the ability to stimulate the reward centers of the brain.

«If you just memorize a long list of words, it doesn't stick in your brain,» says Orlando Kelm, associate director of business language education at UT's Center for International Business Education and Research.

As you discover and practice new emotional intelligence skills, the billions of microscopic neurons lining the road between the rational and emotional centers of your brain branch off small «arms» (much like a tree) to reach out to the other cells.

Studies have revealed that when a person feels appreciated and recognized, the brain releases dopamine, the hormone that is responsible for controlling the reward and pleasure center of the brain.

She addressed attendees at the first - ever Fortune Brainstorm Health conference on Tuesday during a plenary session with Dr. Roberta Diaz Brinton, director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences and University of Southern California Professor David Agus.

«Beyond giving us so much data to explore, being able to show that depression is a brain disease, that there is biology associated with it, I think that's really critical,» Roy Perlis, the director of the Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics at Massachusetts General Hospital, told Business Insider in 2016.

Emotional intelligence requires effective communication between the rational and emotional centers of the brain.

When the participants were well rested, the reward centers of their brains didn't react nearly as much to the junk food photos as when they were lacking sleep, suggesting that we're subconsciously more attracted to fatty foods when we're tired and need energy.

The center of the cord is gray matter — essentially an extension of the brain, like a tail — that is sheathed in fibrous white matter, with long, thin nerve fibers called axons shooting out at intervals to wire every part of the body.

If one then asks the machine to make us happy, the computer might then simply implant electrodes into the pleasure centers of our brains.

Every reward gives you a boost to the pleasure centers of the brain that reinforce the behavior and keep you going further down the rabbit hole.

Setting over-reaching goals, or too many goals at once, can be counterproductive for those seeking to harness the power of the brain's reward center.

As a business leader, you will always be at the center of the problem, so you'll need to trick your brain into thinking you have more distance than you do.

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

Angelika Dimoka, director of the Center for Neural Decision Making at Temple University, conducted a study that measured people's brain activity while they addressed increasingly complex problems (i.e., noise).

Detailed distributional analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation and the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center is still forthcoming, but Ernie Tedeschi, a private sector economist and veteran of the Obama Treasury Department, crunched some numbers using Tax Brain, an open source tax model from the right - leaning American Enterprise Institute's Open Source Policy Center.

Dr. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist and founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has been studying the effects of positive emotions, such as compassion and kindness, on the brain since the 1990s.

But only 25 percent actually have the required donor identification papers that would allow a physician to take a needed organ in the event of a documented brain death, said Marita Völker - Albert, spokesperson for the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA), a government agency that is promoting organ donation.

The new Zappos.com head office is spurring the revival of downtown Las Vegas, co-anchored by the Gehry - designed Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, the World Market Center and the new Smith Center for the Performing Arts.

And this long journey from our intellect / mind / brain to the center of our soul is a lifetime one.

It needs to be stated first that human beings are highly complex psycho - physical organisms with literally thousands of energy events interacting with each other and with and under the dominance of an «organizing center of experience» (the brain), also present in animals with central nervous systems.

It is not until the 20th century that science uncovered that this part of the brain is the part that is the center of decision to control man's actions of truthfulness, lying, right, wrong, balance or perversion.

Tell us, so we can close all these expensive universities and other centers of learning, and just kneel and pray to god to deliver knowledge to our brains via AngelMail.

lmfao it just doesn't work logically, but then again you never have delved into the logic center of your brain have you extremeist?

«We're talking about decoding those words, the ones you already decided to share, by sending them to the speech center of your brain.»

Only a special systemic order of atoms in certain molecules of different types of brain cells, steady activity of these cells and excitations coming from sensoric nerves and running to associative and motoric centers are the basis of the peculiarity of brain function.

I see these people as tapping into the brain's spirituality center for the positive effects, e.g. lower blood pressure, lower cortisol levels, and maybe a bit of endorphin release.

I will ask you to explain the marvel of the human brain and how it is the commnd center of the entire body, is this a naturally occuring phenomenon?

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.

Some of the original songs Williams wrote for the band were inspired by journal entries he'd written in the Shepherd Center, a spinal cord and brain injury rehabilitation facility.

No doubt it is true, scientifically speaking, that no distinct center of superhuman consciousness has yet appeared on earth (at least in the living world) for which it may be claimed or predicted that one day it will exercise a centralizing function, in relation to associated human thought, similar to the role of the individual «I» in relation to the cells of the brain.

Like a heavenly body that heats as it contracts, such, and in a twofold respect, is the Noosphere: first in intensity, the degree in which its tension and psychic temperature are heightened by the coming together and mutual stimulation of thinking centers throughout its extent; and also quantitatively through the growing number of people able to use their brains because they are freed from the need to labor with their hands.

Each can be made a center of attention and recognized by sense - objects (muscle and brain tissue have color, shape, etc.).

One sign of that is increased funding from the National Institutes of Health, which has helped establish new contemplative science research centers at Stanford University, Emory University, and the University of Wisconsin, where the world's first brain imaging lab with a meditation room next door is now under construction.

Both halves are extensions of subcortical, sensory relay centers; the neocortex or new brain is an outgrowth of the old brain.

This isn't the first study dedicated to this subject, but it is «one of the largest studies to date in living retired NFL players» and the «first to demonstrate significant objective evidence for traumatic brain injury in these former players,» study author Francis X. Conidi of the Florida Center for Headache and Sports Neurology and Florida State University College of Medicine said in a statement.

It is for this reason that utopian thinking led some of its modern promoters, such as Arthur Koestler and Carl Sagan, to propose ways of «improving» human beings by biological manipulation such as surgical removal of certain centers in the brain or by genetic engineering to remove «bad» genes.

We know from research that television bypasses the cognitive centers of the brain and goes directly into the centers of feeling.

As hard as it is to accept, as crazy as it may sound to the logical, reasoning centers of our brains, it is selfish of us to place concerns of safety for ourselves and our loved ones above God's greater purposes.

The ringing sounds like it is coming from the center of my brain.