Sentences with phrase «of events in my brain»

For example, I am never aware of events in my brain, and yet these have an immediate bearing upon the content of experience.

Although we can not identify in experience the prehensions of events in the brain, we do discover in our experience a vague but indubitable awareness of our bodies as causally effective in our experience.

It proves to be an integration of the influence of past personal experience with that of events in the brain and, largely through them, of events in the rest of the body and the wider world.

We are not conscious of our prehensions of the events in our brain.

For the study, investigators performed continuous patient monitoring following Do Not Resuscitate — Comfort Care orders in patients with devastating brain injury to investigate the mechanisms and timing of events in the brain and the circulation during the dying process.

Although some triggers have been identified, the chain of events in the brain resulting in migraine is not completely understood.

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The patient died of cerebral edema (brain swelling)-- a deadly adverse event that also afflicted Kite competitor Juno Therapeutics» rival drug in the space, which it was then forced to abandon.

I've come to Moscow to attend the third annual Open Innovations Forum, an extravagant two - day event that is designed to bring startups, traditional industry, government, and the public together to cultivate growth in Russia's tech community and stanch the brain drain that sends a large part of Russia's ample engineering and programming talent in search of work elsewhere.

Our aging brains similarly show wear in the realm of episodic memory, the part of brain function that handles recollections of recent events, like the last few chapters of the book you put down yesterday, or what you had for breakfast.

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.

In terms of possible physiological triggers, life - endangering events such as falling and a sudden drop of oxygen to the brain are thought to be potential causes - something which would correlate with a previous study which found that 1 in 5 people who'd suffered a heart attack and were resuscitated had reported a near - death experiencIn terms of possible physiological triggers, life - endangering events such as falling and a sudden drop of oxygen to the brain are thought to be potential causes - something which would correlate with a previous study which found that 1 in 5 people who'd suffered a heart attack and were resuscitated had reported a near - death experiencin 5 people who'd suffered a heart attack and were resuscitated had reported a near - death experience.

Even if there is direct recall of experiences in the noncontiguous past, those past experiences are also mediated to us through intervening events in both the brain and unconscious personal experience; for every experience takes some account of the entire past.

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.

To continue a bit with the end of that last idea: so if a group of people are on the scene of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.

We have seen that Cobb found it necessary to reject Whitehead's view in favor of a theory of regional inclusion if mind events are to interact with broad areas of the brain.

(2) Our second difficulty is that Whitehead's denial of the regional inclusion of small events by large events seems to exclude the possibility that the pattern of brain waves as a whole identifies mind - events that include the subordinate electromagnetic occurrences in the waves themselves.

At this point, however, the chain of bodily events is at an end, and we must consider the relation of the numerous cellular events in the brain to our conscious visual experience.

In the introduction, we saw how sensuous experience of the external environment (in the mode of presentational immediacy) arises out of physical prehensions by the soul (in the mode of causal efficacy) of contiguous events within the braiIn the introduction, we saw how sensuous experience of the external environment (in the mode of presentational immediacy) arises out of physical prehensions by the soul (in the mode of causal efficacy) of contiguous events within the braiin the mode of presentational immediacy) arises out of physical prehensions by the soul (in the mode of causal efficacy) of contiguous events within the braiin the mode of causal efficacy) of contiguous events within the brain.

In Whitehead's philosophy the soul is a series of momentary events or actual occasions supported by the body (particularly the brain) and coordinating its activities.

(b) The clutter of prehensions and enactments is unimaginable since a vast number of events intervene between the termini a quo and ad quem of perception, viz., events in the physical and physiological media between the perceptual object, sense organ, and percipient event in the brain.

This does not mean that there are not other events, in the brain, for example, that contribute to the dependent origination of human experience.

Or is it merely the product of brain events, with no more role in running the operations of the cerebellum than steam has in causing heat in a teakettle?

The numerous, more limited, brain events occur in portions of the same region in which the unified human experience is taking place.

(So that when you read a news story, for instance, you might also get a composite assessment value that was assigned directly from other readers without them ever having to express such assessment via speaking, writing, etc. if a group of people are on the scene of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.)

The events in the nerves leading to the brain succeeded the events in the eye and were in turn followed by the events in the brain and finally by the impact upon the conscious human occasion of experience.

The only immediate source for that patch of green must be the events that took place in the eye and in the brain.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

Those who approach matters strictly in terms of standard scientific habits of mind have to explain what they find purely in terms of physical events in the brain.

What happens in subjective experience has no effect on the physical events in the brain, and one moment of such human experience has no effect on successor moments.

Cheerleading is one of the highest risk sporting events for direct catastrophic injuries that can result in permanent brain injury, paralysis or death, with cheerleading accounting for an astounding 66 percent of all catastrophic injuries in high school female athletes over the past 25 years.

Another possibility, according to the AAP, is that babies who die of SIDS have an anomaly in the brain stem or a lag in development which causes them not to rouse in the event of «life - threatening challenges during sleep.»

Moreover, in the event of an accident, the chance of brain or spinal injury is minimal.

Dr. Perry's research includes: the effects of prenatal drug exposure on brain development, the neurobiology of human neuropsychiatric disorders, the neurophysiology of traumatic life events, and long - term cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social and physiological effects of neglect and trauma in children, adolescents and adults.

The NOCSAE action to move forward the development of a more comprehensive helmet standard was taken on the heels of new NOCSAE - funded research which identified brain tissue response from a concussive event and the development of a new method to test helmets which replicates some of the rotational forces involved in a concussion.

Events in our surroundings activate these neuromodular systems and perfuse different regions of the brain, influencing how information is processed.

A neurologist with the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Dr. Nura Alkali, has opined that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris» struggle during his «infamous» speech at an event in Kano could be as a result of «brain block».

Speakers at this event addressed the development of the adolescent brain, the diseases and learning difficulties that seem to correlate with adolescence, and the policy initiatives undertaken by the federal government in response.

Only in the most severe cases, Hyman said, might a brain - altering event be clearly seen as the cause of behavioral changes.

The tDCS group also showed a higher indication of Event Related Desynchronisation, a well - established neurophysiological observation that when we move one of our hands or imagine the movement, the amplitude of certain EEG frequencies in the opposite hemisphere of the brain decreases.

«Infant brains must be able to track auditory events in a predictive manner to make sense of music,» she explains, and many complex things are going on in their brains to make that possible.

In this Brain paper, Drs. Kucewicz and Berry, and colleagues focused their study on four areas of the brain known to support memory for facts and events that can be consciously recaBrain paper, Drs. Kucewicz and Berry, and colleagues focused their study on four areas of the brain known to support memory for facts and events that can be consciously recabrain known to support memory for facts and events that can be consciously recalled.

Apparently, NPAS4 accounts for some addiction - related learning and memory processes in the brain, but not all of them, meaning that HDAC5 must be regulating additional genes that reduce relapse events.

In this case, they focused on what happens in certain parts of the brain when subjects were shown a face — the face being the evenIn this case, they focused on what happens in certain parts of the brain when subjects were shown a face — the face being the evenin certain parts of the brain when subjects were shown a face — the face being the event.

For example, suppose you accept that God steps in every so often to fix the outcome of a quantum event in the brain — manipulating the motion of electrons to cause a neuron to fire, perhaps, influencing your decision on whether to become a priest or a scientist.

The potential for mind - boosting drugs and technologies has increased stunningly over the past decade as neuroscientists have unlocked the secrets of neuronal circuits, neurotransmitters, and specific molecular events triggering brain functions in three interconnected cognitive domains — attention, memory, and creativity.

It makes sense out of the complex stream of events flowing into the brain; it places mental contents into appropriate sequences and hierarchies; and it plays a critical role in planning our future actions.

It was a measurable brain event and reflected an actual reduction in the experience of pain.

And is it possible that these stressful events, the rape or the shock therapy or both, actually caused structural changes in the brains of his grandmother or mother that might be passed down to him?

They charted the small changes in voltage generated by the areas of the brain responding to these stimuli, a process known as event - related potentials (ERPs).

Indeed, Buckholtz and colleagues report that activation in the amygdala correlates with punishment judgments, consistent with the role of this brain region in the representation of arousing emotional events.