Last month in Letang v. Hertz Canada Myers J., invoking Hryniak, delivered a caustic attack on delay and the Toronto «motions culture» (see my post here — «
Old Brain Thinking»).
The judge described expectations of perfect discovery and entitlement to adjournments to take a «romp» through backup financial documents, as «
old brain thinking».
In my defense, I was about 8 years old and my 8 year
old brain thought he was the best simply because he was the starting QB for my Seahawks!
Not exact matches
«It's really frightening to me to
think of all the wasted
brain power, talent and leadership these young people represent around the world,» says Barbara Bush, the 31 - year -
old daughter of George W. Bush and CEO of Global Health Corps, which pairs young fellows and leaders to different organizations.
Some
think his
older brother Tamerlan, who died during the police chase days after the bombing, was the
brains behind the operation.
With intentional practice, actively choosing to replace
old thoughts with new ones will make the
brain build new highways and our automatic
thought patterns become healthier with time.
Fluffy the Gerbil of Doom... Oh, because he is 97 years
old, he can't
think for himself and express his own opinons???? There are LOTS of people that age that still have a
brain.
it will make you wonder if there is a spirit beyond our bodies,,, or all of it is in the
brain itself... I see how hard it is for stroke victims to return to their
old self after the
brain has been damaged... and I wondered sometimes if the person I knew was even in the body anymore... It is a question I do not have a firm answer for... but I like to
think the spirit exists and just can not use the
brain anymore... it is like a computer interface that is damaged and the body has failed to repair itself... Our
brains can reroute data, or rebuild some damage..
So you'd
think, with about ten years of daily cooking experience under my belt, that I'd have known this wasn't a smart endeavor to take on with a six week
old baby — and a six week
old Mommy
brain.
I'd have to take the
old brain and
think on it.
HIS
BRAIN IS TOO
OLD TO
THINK NOW.
Maybe my
brain is a little bit less than 21 years
old, but I
think that's what makes me feel good.»
Some people are still dreaming
thinking the
Old brain will do something...
Whatever the case, it was a classic example of
thinking with a 17 - year -
old brain.»
The younger one is just a year
old, and since his very first days, my wife and I have spent a lot of time
thinking and talking (and occasionally worrying) about the research on stress and its effect on early
brain development.
ALICIA: Well, I actually had a cousin who, I
think, her baby, it was actually my aunt, that's right, it was my aunt who her baby was six months
old and he did have
brain cancer and so I, having that in my family personally and seeing how that affected their situation and then knowing just, you know, very recently, how much the comfort breastfeeding can be for my little girl, I know it's got to be, I can't even imagine the kind of emotions that she's got going through but again being able to have that physical, direct help that she, she can give to her baby and having that comfort and that bonding even though that they're going through this really really difficult situation.
So to clarify, at 10 months
old a baby has no capacity for high - order
thinking, only able to engage their hindbrain (the part where the «fight or flight» response comes from) and their limbic system (the part of the
brain responsible for emotions).
In the Cardiovascular Health Study in the USA, 3,660 people aged 65 and
older underwent
brain scans to detect so called silent
brain infarcts, or small lesions in the
brain that can cause loss of
thinking skills, dementia and stroke.
Meanwhile, the central question of how the monotonous electrochemistry of my
brain might «translate» into my 59 - year -
old self with its lifetime of
thoughts, feelings and experiences now appears to me irresoluble.
«But data now shows we lose less than previously
thought, that in fact, our
brains are capable of neurogenesis both in adulthood and even into
older age.»
«The complexity of
brain activity is
thought to decrease over the years: a young adult
brain is more complex than an
older adult
brain.
Headline:
Old Brains Can Learn New Tricks: Study Shows
Older People Use Different Areas Of The
Brain To Perform Same «
Thinking Task» As Young Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991021094811.htm Source: Science Daily / University of Toronto
Think of olfaction as a city center and the other sensory systems as sprawling suburbs, which grew as the
brain evolved and eventually became larger than the
old downtown.
I mean, it is as I
think everybody in this audience knows the
old dogma used to be that adult humans, like all adult mammals, we didn't generate new
brain cells.
Using an array of hair - thin electrodes implanted in his
brain, a 25 - year -
old quadriplegic man was able to operate a computer, open and close a prosthetic hand, and manipulate a robotic arm just by
thinking about it, according to a new study.
Complex
brains evolved much earlier than previously
thought, as evidenced by a 520 - million - year -
old fossilized arthropod with remarkably well - preserved
brain structures.
Boldrini and colleagues
think that the deterioration of the
brain in
old age could be attributed to this smaller pool or neural stem cells, reduced connectivity among cells within the hippocampus and decline in blood vessels.
«After his experiments demonstrated improvements in memory and «rejuvenation» in the
brain in
old mice with young blood, we
thought to try a small, phase one trial, in patients.»
Often chalked up to a «normal part of getting
older,» symptoms of
brain fog include mild confusion, forgetfulness and / or the inability to
think clearly.
Narcolepsy is, I recently realized, a little like being a two year
old in terms of sleep needs; every few hours, my
brain needs to shut down and recover, or I become sleepy, grumpy, and can't
think clearly.
No doubt it is not an easy job to bring creativity in
old designs, it requires a lot of
thinking and stuff but seriously what's the matter with our designer's
brains?
I am a Professional SSBBW who is an
old - school, new age, right
brain thinking computer geek who loves almost anything to do with art!
I'm a single dad my son is 23 and I stepdaughter and 2 beautiful grandson a 1 is 3 and litter one is 5 months
old life is something that is I like that we watse my mom died we
thought she one
brain cacer life and sad I luck that my didn't 2ant to care or brother and I was lucky enough to...
Well, I mean, it's like in the real world, so if I
thought about it I should have just been able to solve them normally, but my
brain was so used to the
old Zelda games I would say how weird it was, and ask why it was like that.
We've known for a long time that the
brains of 13 - to 21 - year -
olds undergo bizarre changes.2 I remember waking up one morning at the age of 15 and suddenly caring so much about my pants and shoes that I was paralyzed at the
thought of wearing my usual sock and sandals combo.
According to Prensky, one of the more radical consequences of this technology - rich environment is a hypothesized change in the
brain structure that means young people
think, use and process information [2] in different ways compared to
older generations, the digital immigrants.
The primary way to avoid trading with the «
old» more primitive fight or flight
brain structures, and make sure that you trade with the «new» objective
thinking frontal lobe part of the
brain, is to make 100 % certain you plan out your trade before you enter it.
In fact, money talks SO loud that it penetrates through our advanced logical -
thinking brain components and goes straight to our more primitive «fight or flight» components and stimulates them like an
old man on an over-dose of Viagra.
Discuss your cat's odd behaviors with your veterinarian to see if they
think your cat could benefit from some
brain support as they get
older.
When someone says, «My 14 year
old dog died of a
brain tumor and I fed him X Brand Chicken Jerky» I don't
think we can say that the chicken jerky was the culprit.
So that's in my
brain when I
think about art history or context: I remember seeing that as a 20 - year -
old and
thinking, «Oh, wow.
When I was in college, one type of question was sure to cause a student's
brain to freeze faster than an
old Windows 95 computer: «What do you
think...» I had a professor who asked that question quite often, and the students hated him.
That said, there's still the fact that some of our fellow passengers seem to have a «surplus» capacity to do
brain work, as if during some adaptation the
old think - pudding overshot the needful and built some underused capacity.
I
think it would be more prudent for
older lawyers to have a
brain scan before you rush out and by a tablet.
Much like the need for 8 - glasses of water a day, waiting an hour after eating to swim, or humans using 10 % of their
brains, I
think these beliefs about local jury consultants are mostly stubborn
old wives» tales.
By not letting the critical
thinking parts of our
brains atrophy, we can fend off disease and the natural effects of
old age that afflict many members of
older generations.
Brain - Based therapies update
old thoughts about self and clear problematic memories quite rapidly.
I use cutting edge tools rooted in
brain science that rewire neural connections in the
brain to help people to no longer be held back by
old patterns, negative
thoughts, and self - doubt.
Staying involved with your child results in better
thinking and
brain development among young children, and improved performance in schools among
older children.
In therapy we discover not only what
old wounds make us vulnerable to misinterpretation and reactive behaviors, but also how to self regulate and use our mind, body and spirit to make intentional choices and respond from the front
brain vs. the amygdala, better yet integrating cognition and affect,
thought and emotion.»