Sentences with phrase «of brain in your head»

We use those obvious questions as stepping - stones toward what we hope is a much more nuanced view of the modern neuroscientific understanding of how the three or so pounds of brain in your head can give rise to the complexities of the human experience.

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And Baidu snatched up Ng, a former head of the Stanford AI Lab, who had helped launch and lead the deep - learning - focused Google Brain project in 2010.

Pop Up Start Up gives 12 entrepreneurs a head - start through the expertise and guidance provided by some of the best business and retail brains in the UK.

While we're programmed to retain information that seems relevant and which we can tie to other facts and sensations we're already storing in our heads, if a piece of data, like a name, is context-less and random there's less for the brain to latch on to.

One favourite trick was to show the players videos with some not particularly subtle messages, such as The Wizard of Oz (to let them know they were lacking brains, courage and heart) or the Talking Heads» «Once in a Lifetime» (to make them cherish the moment).

The condition, in which infants are born with abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains, is estimated to cost $ 10 million over the lifetime of one child.

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.

They're there, in our heads; but an aged hippocampus, the part of the brain chiefly responsible for the processing of memories, struggles with random requests for names and facts that lack associative properties.

And in Canada, InteraXon is at the head of the pack when it comes to developing innovative applications for the brain - computer interface technology.

But that chip inside the head could soon vanish as scientists say we are poised to gain a much greater understanding of the brain, and, in turn, technologies that empower brain computer interfaces.

Thanks to the work of several dogged journalists, and despite the NFL's best efforts to subvert the truth, we now know that repeated blows to the head experienced in the normal course of football play can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of brain damage resulting in early onset dementia and severe (and, in the worst cases, suicidal) depression.

Now, if we have a soul or spirit, does it reside physically in our head and have to submit to the operations of the brain?

«Isn't the simplest touch of a child's arm on the face more important, isn't the good meal, the brush against a thigh, a hand held during a movie, a swim in the sea, aren't those things of equal importance as the sands of time come rushing down on our heads burying ambition and love, good and evil, breath, blood, brains, waste, memory, alike in the oblivion?»

The politician who was shot in the head, had a clean wound that did nt penetrate areas of the brain that involve breathing.

Most visual processing occurs in the back of the brain, which is why we see «stars» when we receive a blow to the back of the head.

My counterview proposes that we think of the region of the soul in its relation to the regions of both the brain cells, and the occasions in the interstices of the brain as White - head thinks of the cell in its relation to the molecules and empty spaces within it.

It is in our head, it is in our brain, that we contain the knowledge of what Christ has done for us.

I'd leave the head normal size (or even larger due to the number of swollen egos one encounters in the Christian world) but have a hatch of some sort for easy removal of the brain or an off switch or something.

Dreams in our head are the same way... they are kind of the brain's waiting area for you.

Why not keep our heads in the sand with the uniformity of not knowing the real truth that science does not have explanations for that verify the Bible so we can be brain washed into uniformity.

Anderson sustained multiple gunshot wounds, including one to the head, in last week's shooting in Aurora, Colorado, but survived in part because of a brain abnormality that wasn't even aware she had.

I have one son who almost died of a traumatic head injury and had emergency brain surgery in 2007 and is 100 % fine now.

According to Professor Mark Mattson, head of neuroscience at the US National Institute on Ageing: «Suddenly dropping your food intake dramatically — cutting it by at least half for a day or so — triggers protective processes in the brain.»

One board lists (in Spanish, I've translated for you): short loin, rib set, brisket, navel plate, rib plate, short ribs, eye round, outside flat, knuckle, rump cap, eye of rump, top sirloin, tri-tip, strip loin, tenderloin, skirt (thick and thin), flank steak, inside skirt, Spencer roll, rib eye roll, chuck roll, neck, shoulder clod, blade oyster, chuck tender, shin shank, heel muscle, thick skirt, tongue, cheek meat, tail, liver, kidney, heart, sweetbreads, brains, tripe, honey comb, spleen, tendons, head meat, lips, even those old favorites: intestines.

When Wlshire is fit he is head and shoulders ahead of Ramsey in terms of vision and football brain.

As for Tagliabue, his waving off of the concussion issue in the»90s, and the league's turning a blind eye to head injuries for much of his tenure, no doubt damaged his candidacy for joining in Canton the very men at risk for long - term impacts of brain trauma due to the sport.

It is caused by a blow to the head OR body that results in the brain moving rapidly inside the skull and hitting the inside wall of the skull.

Despite recent media attention on concussions and other brain trauma, the majority of football injuries occur in the lower extremities, with injuries to the knees reported to be as high as 36.5 percent, followed by up to 18.8 percent for ankle injuries, up to 13.3 percent for shoulder injuries, 11.8 percent for head injuries and 7.2 percent for neck injuries.

After reading David Epstein's essay about Junior Seau and brain trauma (SCORECARD), I was left wondering if players and coaches are paying attention to the growing research that suggests that the combination of big - impact hits and constant smaller hits to the head play a major part in the trauma to a player's brain?

I'd also like to add, and this is no laughing matter, that members of the public get brain damage and have never headed a ball in their life

Dr. Julian Bailes, head of neurosurgery at the NorthShore University Health System in Chicago, told a Toronto news conference Wednesday the human brain is tethered but floating in about seven millimetres of cerebral spinal fluid.

In the two - plus years since he fell, hit his head, got emergency brain surgery, almost died and miraculously recouped, I have a lot of time to reflect back -LSB-...]

Ultimately, we learned that, when Sarah's head snapped back in her fall, the whiplash caused a tear (dissection) of her vertebral artery, which cut off the blood to her brain, causing her to go into cardiac arrest and resulting in irreversible brain damage.

Unfortunately, there has been during this same period, and especially in the last five to ten years, a substantial increase in the number of reported cases of second impact syndrome (SIS), which occurs when an athlete who sustains head trauma, i.e. a traumatic brain injury - often a concussion or worse injury, such as a cerebral contusion (bruised brain)- sustains a second head injury before signs of the initial injury have cleared.

«The identification of a potentially injurious impact or series of impacts via real - time monitoring of head impact exposure in athletes may [not only] facilitate the early recognition and management of brain injury in helmeted sports,» argues Richard M. Greenwald, PhD of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, lead author of an editorial in the March 2012 Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, [6] but «permit early intervention, potentially in advance of an injury, rather than simply as a management tool postinjury.»

Give your children an unforgettable experience — snorkel or scuba dive the crystal - clear, warm waters of the Florida Keys to view the only living coral reef in the continental U.S. Head to John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park and the adjacent Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, where kids can see brain corals and sea fans up - close and swim with rays, turtles and tropical fish.

A recent article in The Players» Tribune shows us that even famous NBA players can be affected by anxiety and panic attacks; Kevin Love perfectly describes what it was like the first time he had one (during a game in November): «It's hard to describe, but everything was spinning, like my brain was trying to climb out of my head.

«The identification of a potentially injurious impact or series of impacts via real - time monitoring of head impact exposure in athletes may [not only] facilitate the early recognition and management of brain injury in helmeted sports,» argues Richard M. Greenwald, PhD of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, in an editorial in the March 2012 Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, [12] but «permit early intervention, potentially in advance of an injury, rather than simply as a management tool postinjury.»

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

«Play provides an opportunity to build strength in muscles and understanding in the brain of how to interpret a child's environment,» says Amy Baez, a pediatric occupational therapist, author and founder of Playapy, «Babies learn from play through simple activities like moving their eyes, to holding their arms up, to holding a bottle, to lifting their heads up off the floor.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB 200 (2011) requires the Department of Health and the Department of Education to develop and post on their website guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students participating in or desiring to participate in an athletic activity, their parents and coaches, about the nature and risk of concussion and traumatic brain injury.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 167.765 requires the department of health and senior services to work with various organizations (outlined in the statute) to promulgate rules which develop guidelines, pertinent information, and forms to educate coaches, youth athletes, and their parents and guardians of the nature and risk of concussion and brain injury including continuing to play after concussion or brain injury.

This started being common and become law when forceps deliveries were very common, to help prevent bleeding in the brain because of the extra trauma to the baby's head.

Lastly, at the end of this film, Christopher Plummer was experimenting with a brain - scanning technology on two subjects and placed them in a room with a wired device on their heads.

Jeff Skeen of Full90 Sports talks about and the role of protective headgear in reducing the risk of concussion and the difference between concussions, which occur as a result of contact between a player's head and a hard object (another player's head, the ground or the goalpost), and the kinds of brain injuries which can occur as a result of repeated heading of a soccer ball.

In the two - plus years since he fell, hit his head, got emergency brain surgery, almost died and miraculously recouped, I have a lot of time to reflect back on my dad as a father.

Purposeful «heading» of a soccer ball does not appear to result in either short - or long - term brain damages, says two studies, one from 2010 and another from 2012, but experts still think reducing the risk of potential injury from heading the soccer ball is a good idea.

As a result, Dr. Meehan argues that «the term mild traumatic brain injury should not be used interchangeably with concussion,» as suggested by the authors of a 2010 Canadian study, 2 which found that how a brain injury was labeled made a difference when it came to treatment, and suggested that, to encourage full reporting of head injuries in sports and to allow adequate management and recovery time, MTBI be used in its place.

* Update: A 2012 study in the journal Neurology by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (2) also found no link between intentional heading and acute brain damage (e.g. concussion), but said that it was at least theoretically possible that it could represent a form of repetitive subthreshold mild brain injury over time and could be the cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

One sobering quote I just couldn't get out of my head was from Dr. Mariana Chilton, Ph.D., an associate professor of public health at Drexel University and director of Witnesses to Hunger, who said: This recession will be permanently inscribed in the bodies and the brains of children growing up today.