Sentences with phrase «on brain activity as»

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In fact, we almost can't help sharing our thoughts and feelings: Research also shows that talking about ourselves, whether in person or on social media, triggers the same pleasure sensation in the brain as does money or food — self disclosure causes increased activity in brain regions associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even sex.

Examining such a machine through its table, or as it is operating on its table, would be like examining only the electronic activity of a running computer, or of an operating brain, and trying to decide what the computer is accomplishing or the brain is thinking.

Birthing practices that isolate women from their innate capacity to birth can interfere with these behaviours because women then focus on breastfeeding as a left brained activity when actually research has shown us it is more of a right brained activity (Smilie 2008).

Brain Quest also makes flashcard games for children as young as 2 and has games based on activities, such as bath time, bed time, reading and other themes.

«Cognitive activities such as watching television, listening to music, using the computer, text messaging, playing video games, concentrating in the classroom, and completing academic assignments can place additional neurometabolic demand on the brain because they all require mental exertion.

As the time interval between the two increases, the word suddenly pops into consciousness — accompanied by characteristic activity on a brain scan.

None perceived a difference between the two types of sweat, but the pre-exam sweat had a different effect on brain activity, lighting up areas that process social and emotional signals, as well as several areas thought to be involved in empathy (PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0005987).

Specializing in research on modafinil, Minzenberg has captured the drug in action through functional MRI (fMRI) scans, which map brain activity through changes in blood flow and oxygenation as subjects engage in particular mental processes.

For example, knowing the precise brain activity involved could shed light on disorders in which body awareness is disrupted, such as schizophrenia, and help with the development of prosthetic limbs that are more easily incorporated into body image.

The Brain Activity Map project launched recently by President Obama — and funded to the tune of $ 100 million in the US budget announcement earlier this month — highlights the need for research that focuses both on how individual neurons work and the ways that different regions of the brain work together as a Brain Activity Map project launched recently by President Obama — and funded to the tune of $ 100 million in the US budget announcement earlier this month — highlights the need for research that focuses both on how individual neurons work and the ways that different regions of the brain work together as a brain work together as a unit.

However, the conclusions pertaining to speech generally stem from studies that rely on indirect measurements of brain activity, raising questions about characterizing speech as lateralized.

«From our data set, we had on average decreased brain activity and more diffuse brain activity — where more areas of the brain were needed to accomplish the task because the usual areas weren't as efficient.»

Brain activity in unborn children has been hard to study, and neonatologists have been forced to rely on indirect measures — such as heart rate — for clues to neural activity.

A computer algorithm processed the monkey's brain activity, homing in on patterns of neurons firing as it learned to do the task.

Researchers at Brown University and the Georgia Institute of Technology used neuroimaging and a brain wave — tracking approach called polysomnography to record activity in four brain networks in 11 individuals as they slept on two nights about a week apart.

[Visiting Google] this summer opened my eyes to what it would mean if, instead of thinking of biomarkers as something we measure in blood or in a brain scan, we also include things we can measure on a smartphone: your activity level, your sleep, your social activity, and your cognitive performance.

A scent's location on the map also predicts the brain activity caused by getting a whiff: previous research in a variety of animals such as fruit flies, honeybees, mice, rats and tadpoles showed that neighboring odors cause similar patterns of neuron activity.

The researchers were able to zero in on the Broca's area as well as related brain circuitry specifically linked to speech, using regional cerebral blood flow as a measure of brain activity, since blood flow is typically coupled with neural activity.

In a 2012 paper in Neuron, based on meetings organized by the Oxnard, California - based Kavli Foundation, Yuste and colleagues laid out a plan to progress gradually from mapping the brain activity of simple model organisms such as the fruit fly to charting the brains of creatures that contain roughly 1 million neurons, such as the Etruscan shrew.

«Our goal in the project was to close the gap in knowledge that exists on role of serotonin in the brain cortex, particularly as it concerns brain circuitry, its electrical activity and function,» said Roberto Fernández Galán, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Answering this question requires classifying neuronal activity patterns recorded from the brain, based on a number of statistical, dynamical and anatomical features and correlating them with observable behaviours, such as the presence or absence of rapid eye movements.

«In this study, a new «source analysis» method was used for the first time to measure functional networks in the infant brain: with the help of a computer model, the measured EEG signals were interpreted as activity in the infant cortex, which enabled the evaluation of the functional networking of neurons in a very versatile manner on the cortical level,» says Sampsa Vanhatalo, a professor in clinical neurophysiology and the head of the study.

Eden is also carrying on longitudinal studies, comparing brain images from children as they grow and gain reading proficiency, aiming to determine how brain activity changes with advancing skill (Nature Neuroscience, 2003; 6:767 - 773).

They then recorded an electroencephalogram, or EEG — a reading of the brain's electrical activity — as the subjects watched acronyms flash on a computer screen.

«That may be because when the brain is focused on processing new information — such as taking part in an unfamiliar activity with unfamiliar people in a new location — less «brain power» is available to focus on the family relationships,» said lead author Karen K. Melton, Ph.D., assistant professor of child and family studies in Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences.

When a patient with epilepsy experiences increased electrical activity in the brain, or seizures, this could be associated with an increase in a range of behaviors, such as hyper - sexuality, hypergraphia (an intense desire to write), hyper - morality and hyper - religiosity, explained Brick Johnstone, professor of health psychology at Missouri University and lead researcher on the study.

Rissman's team found that they could accurately predict the participants» subjective experiences of each face as novel or familiar based on the measured brain activity alone, and that the accuracy of the predictions was highest (95 percent) when the participants were most confident about their answer.

«Relatively still» means that the birds did perform head scans [28] and did occasionally move around on the perch in all cases together with minimal (< 5 mins / h) unspecific motor activity (flying around / jumping on / off the perch, as this would have led to motor - dependent activity in the brain).

In the 2007 - 2008 academic year, for instance, awards supported research on topics such as the imaging of brain regions involved in the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autism.

And it's also load - balanced in the sense that with brain imaging you can see the oxygenated blood being shunted between different parts of the brain on a time scale of a second or two as activity shifts — these are the «hot» spots.

Coincidentally, the US BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative (originally named BAM for brain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis bBRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative (originally named BAM for brain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis bBRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative (originally named BAM for brain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis bBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative (originally named BAM for brain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis bBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative (originally named BAM for brain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis bbrain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis bbrain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis blog),

«That may be because when the brain is focused on processing new information — such as taking part in an unfamiliar activity with unfamiliar people in a new location — less «brain power» is available to focus on the family relationships,» lead author Karen K. Melton, Ph.D., assistant professor of child and family studies, said in a press release.

This can be considered as proof that the neuronal system informs the brain, as well as having a regulatory effect on motoric activity.

Besides caffeine's boosting effect on CNS activity, there is also the combined impact of caffeine's metabolites theobromine, which improves nutrient and oxygen flow to your brain, theophylline which relaxes the muscles and improves heart rate efficiency and paraxanthine, which improves lipolysis, the process where fats are broken down to be used as an energy source.

It has beneficial effects on neurons, repairing them from damage induced by some states such as high blood sugar, and can also be used as a brain booster due to its effects at increasing alertness, mitochondrial capacity, and neuron activity.

It acts like the brakes in a car, to where it slows down and / or stops brain activity on an as - needed basis to help us function better.

The amount of energy you burn on a daily basis can be split into two main categories — the energy you use during physical activity and the energy you use to carry out basic functions such as breathing, keeping your heart beating and maintaining brain activity.

«This could manifest, behaviorally, via magnified antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity, reduction of intestinal permeability and the detrimental effects of LPS, improved glycemic control, positive influence on nutritional status (and therefore neurotransmission and neuropeptide production), direct production of GABA, and other bioactive chemicals, as well as a direct role in gut - to - brain communication via a beneficial shift in the intestinal microbiota itself.»

A side benefit of warming up is that your brain will become focused on your body and your physical activity as you go through the process.

Twenty - Five Activities to Keep Kids» Brains Active in the Hot Summer Sun As students set out on summer adventures, send their parents a much - needed «life preserver» — a list of 25 activities to share and enjoy with theirActivities to Keep Kids» Brains Active in the Hot Summer Sun As students set out on summer adventures, send their parents a much - needed «life preserver» — a list of 25 activities to share and enjoy with theiractivities to share and enjoy with their children.

For my next post, I will define some key phrases you should know about the «tween brain and follow a memorized fact as it travels from point A to point B. And in the third post, I will offer some advice on activities to embed knowledge more deeply into the fickle and easily distracted middle school noggin.

LiiNK is based on improved brain development as a result of physical activity and outdoor exposure throughout the day, and character development taught daily.

If a person sustains a traumatic brain injury and is unable to read for a long period of time and that was both a work and leisure activity, it is going to have a different impact on them than someone who did work with their hands and enjoyed watching TV as a prime leisure activity.

Hypoglycaemia damages the brain because brain activity relies on the circulating glucose as its main energy source.45 46 Thus, NSE decreased with increasing FBG (FBG < 6.0 mmol / L) in contrast to the positive association for FBG > 6.0 mmol / L.

The increasing popularity of neurofeedback is based on the growing evidence that a wide variety of psychological disorders can be understood as firing mistakes in the brain's electrical activity.

There were countless opportunities and activities at the conference to further my education, such as workshops on moral injury and traumatic brain injuries.

The present study provides a multilevel, multimethod assessment of the effects of early intervention, observed attachment security, and brain activity on institutionalized children's social skills, as rated by teachers during middle childhood.

The analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data focused on the variations in both local and interregional patterns of brain activity as a function of resistance to peer influence (RPI).