Sentences with phrase «of brain matter»

The disappearance of brain matter about climate change is tracking with the increase in consequences.

Susan Anderson wrote: «The disappearance of brain matter about climate change is tracking with the increase in consequences.»

Viewing Hiorns» canvases, our numb digits slowly warming, we might interpret the washes of brain matter as an allusion to both the blinking out of consciousness at the moment of death, and to incidences of Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in abattoir workers exposed to bovine cerebral tissue — an effacement of the self by the violence of Capital.

Players won't see any rolling heads or highly detailed chunks of brain matter flying on the screen whenever they score a headshot.

Raiders of the North Sea is a superb little game that looks beautiful on the table and, at least for me, sits in that Goldilocks zone between being easy to learn, fun to play yet still needing some burning of the brain matter that makes it an outstanding choice for a fun night with friends and a few beers.

From its gorgeous visuals to its painstaking design to its abundant generosity, it shows once and for all that «hardcore gaming» is about style, flair and good, old - fashioned challenge - not how many pixels of brain matter you can spray across the screen.

Mindset is instrumental to healing, since our thoughts influence our tendency towards inflammation, our propensity to develop pathology, the density of our brain matter, and our attainment of allostasis — the adaptive activation of neural, neuroendocrine and neuroendocrine - immune mechanisms to maintain stability in the face of stressful challenges (McEwen, 1998).

Fats make up about 60 % of our brain matter, they build our glands, and they're our hearts favorite food; I could go on and on, but you get the picture?

As I tried to show in the preceding part, we also know something about the structure and function of that part of brain matter to which psychic phenomena correspond.

Grey matter is but a small fraction of brain matter, but most folks have about 48 ounces or more of the latter.

Not exact matches

The truth of the matter is that our brains, from a fundamental development perspective, actually can't do it, which is why we become so distracted.

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.

(Females have more white matter, the tissue that connects different parts of the brain while men have more grey matter, which handles information processing.)

How does this mysterious three - pound organ called the brain hold such sway over the matters of life, death, consciousness, perception, sleep and so much more?

With all of the intelligent changes Panda and Penguin brought to the table, it was only a matter of time before one of Google's big brained developers found a way to «smarten» search engines up enough to take a question and look at the context rather than seeing the words within the query as separate entities.

Writing in the journal Neuron, the scientists found that reading increased the quality of white matter, the brain tissue that carries signals between areas of gray matter, where information is processed.

Your brain is very, very full of business - related matters — and there's not much space left for anything else.

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.

It's not a matter of trying hard, but trying consistently over the long term — conditioning your brain to enter that dream state without resistance.

The researchers then used brain imaging to measure the functionality of peoples» white matter and had them take a series of cognitive tests designed to measure how sharp they were.

According to a new scientific study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, subjects who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in gray - matter density in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress.

No matter what kind of content you create in your business or to promote your business, it's normal, when faced with a blank page, for your brain to try to pull a Sergeant Schultz from the old comedy, Hogan's Heroes;

While it's unclear how much of one's brain is wired for entrepreneurship at birth, we know that both nature and nurture matter.

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

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In fact, for a computer to access the entirety of the information it contains takes a very long time, whereas a human brain can access anything in a matter of a seconds because of that non-dual approach to storage and processing.

So our brain is matter too, made of energy particles?

If the brain as a matter of course loses plasticity early in life, then the proper counsel for seriously disabled stroke victims is resignation.

Science can't account for this type of consciousness merely from the interaction of physical matter in the brain.

«tiny body» LOL It's a bit of organic matter without even a brain or nervous system until a certain amount of time has passed.

And it has never made sense to me no matter how many times I've tried to squeeze my logical square brain into the vacuous round hole of literal, fundamentalist bible interpretation.

That is, no matter what new ideas, experiences, or beliefs come our way, we can still hold onto our narrow beliefs in another quadrant of our brain where it can still control our lives and liberties.

We are surrounded by words, and often throwaway words that don't matter — our brains filled with buzzwords and jargon, all jumbled like the back of the coat closet.

A study from 2014 confirmed the link between pornography use and decreased brain matter in the areas of motivation and decision making, impaired impulse control and desensitization to sexual reward.

We can keep a brain - dead baby alive while harvesting its organs for transplant; we can annihilate a country's population in a matter of hours, or we can airlift it food.

consciousness is present in all matter, just like gravity it is inherent and innate to everything produced after the big bang, only its level of existence varies with evolution, highest is that of living things, at the top is us humans because of the biological nature of our existence we evolve fastest and our brains has attained the highest level of complexity

I shall argue here that though the temptation to reduce life and mind to «matter» is quite understandable today given the amazing advances of molecular biology and brain science, it is, nevertheless, a temptation that must be avoided in the name of simple logic.

I love the closing sentence of 1Cor 12, ultimately the opening phrase of Chapter 13...» but I'll show you the MOST excellent way» Doesn't matter how meticulously things are organised or how many «big» brains set up the way things are to be... the most excellent way is Love!

If your brain is merely a minuscule portion and intermediate result of a guideless process of self - existing particles that just happened to unpack themselves from an unexplained singularity and arrange themselves into various integrated systems of matter and life of increasing complexity over billions of years, which will ultimately disorganize and dissipate into nothingness, why should any value be attached to your thoughts, or to your existence?

You said, «As a matter of fact, I have grown up after I advanced in worldly knowledge and USED my brain.»

It doesn't really matter what colour you are... nobody cares but you... and as for your brain... that's a real can of worms... where do you people come from

The proof that the growing co-extension of our soul and the world, through the consciousness of our relationship with all things, is not simply a matter of logic or idealisation, but is part of an organic process, the natural outcome of the impulse which caused the germination of life and the growth of the brain — the proof is that it expresses itself in a specific evolution of the moral value of our actions (that is to say, by the modification of what is most living within us).

Bible thumpers are so mentally brain fractured that their brains are nothing more then scrambled matter, believing in those fairy stories of magic and, talking snakes and talking burning bushes.

the stink of his cockroach brain comes thru, no matter how many names he tries to hide behind...

We can't see it, obviously, but doctors identify it when they spot an excess of gray matter in a certain area of the brain.

No matter how hard you pray or how strong your faith — there is no way to make changes, affect anything outside of your brain.

«Either way nature is never enough To explain mind in matter as brain's thinking stuff, Without the great Mind making ever so gentle Suggestions to entities all of whom are quite mental.

One final comment: The assumption of protopsychic matter is no more revolutionary than our epistemological knowledge that all objects which we see have no color, because color only arises in sense cells and brain.

In any opinion the identification of physiological brain processes and mental processes inevitably leads to the consequence that all matter must have a protopsychic nature, a prestage of consciousness in its most general sense.

A matter more so of te heart, less of the brain!