Sentences with phrase «only brain system»
Because declarative memory is the only brain system that supports such explicit learning, these strategies must depend on this system.
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Experiments so far with neural dust motes have only involved the peripheral nervous system, which serves the limbs and organs, and not the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
Unfortunately, your way of thinking has been proven to be detrimental over and over again by those Atheists with working brains (only 8 % of scientists claim to have a belief system in the super natural).
For example, the idea that the brain is a complex non-linear dynamic system is mentioned only fleetingly - leaving me with the feeling that we had missed an opportunity for a useful discussion (such as perhaps making a connection with the ideas advocated by Polkinghorne regarding the possibility of chaotic systems «amplifying» quantum level uncertainties up to the macro-level).
The brain, the nervous system, the glands, were here first, they say, and only as these physical structures developed did intellect, volition, character, emerge.
That requires that there be not only a concentration of information of the sort the nervous system offers in the brain but also memory.
Not only are bananas one of the 25 Best Foods for a Toned Body, they are also loaded in vitamin B6, which helps with brain and nervous system health.
Myelin plays a key role in the health and function not only of neurons but the brain and the rest of the nervous system, too.
Fish like salmon, trout, sardines, tuna and mussels are high in omega - 3 fatty acids which benefit the development of your baby's brain, eyes and nervous system and they contains only some trace of mercury.
Disordered stress reactivity can be established as a pattern for life not only in the brain with the stress response system (Bremmer et al, 1998), but also in the body through the vagus nerve, a nerve that affects functioning in multiple systems (e.g., digestion).
«Not only is the human brain not done growing until the child is five to seven years old, but the human immune system is not fully developed for five to seven years.»
Like touch, the vestibular system is precociously poised to transmit sensation that is not only very comforting for babies but also critical to their early brain development.»
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).
Not only is Cherub's immune system immature, but so are the lungs, intestines, brain, and general strength.
Among its five new scanners, CUBRIC boasts Europe's most powerful microstructural brain scanner, the Siemens 3 Tesla Connectome magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, a specially adapted MRI scanner of which there is only one other in the world, located at Harvard University in the United States.
The brain is a highly distributed system that uses distributed codes that can only be understood if you look at many cells at the same time.»
He says the new results represent only a minor advance, but Miller counters that the new system uses more brain electrodes, allowing better control.
However, not only do neural prosthetic devices suffer from immune - system rejection, but most are believed to eventually fail because of a mismatch between the soft brain tissue and the rigid devices.
The signs of CTE (which can only be diagnosed postmortem) in the brains of blast - exposed military veterans were indistinguishable from those found in the deceased athletes, according to the researchers, led by Lee Goldstein, an associate professor at Boston University School of Medicine (B.U.S.M.) and Boston University College of Engineering, and Ann McKee, a B.U.S.M. professor and director of the Neuropathology Service for the VA New England Healthcare System.
He says the new results represent only a minor advance, but Miller counters that the new system uses more brain electrodes than Moritz's — 100 rather than 12 — allowing better control.
The optic nerve, technically considered brain matter, is the only part of the central nervous system that can be photographed directly.
Modha is confident that his chips can be used to build a cognitive computing system on the scale of a human brain for only 100 times more power, making it 10 million times more energy efficient than the computers of today.
The great puzzle of memory's physical embodiment in the brain, Semon asserted, is that whereas an ordinary object reacts to a force only while that force acts upon it, the nervous system is somehow permanently altered and able to show a unique reaction to a long - ago stimulation years later.
The only surgery needed for Rezai and Bouton's neural bypass system is implantation of the microarray in the brain.
The motor system in the brain appears to be especially important: When someone not only hears vocabulary in a foreign language, but expresses it using gestures, they will be more likely to remember it.
Kenyon cells make up only about 4 % of the entire fly brain and are extremely sensitive to inputs triggered by odors, in which only two connections between neurons, called synapses, separate them from the receptor cells at the «front end» of the olfactory system.
A brain - computer interface, also known as a brain - machine interface (BCI), is a system that allows a person to control a computer using only their thoughts.
Implanted devices send targeted electrical stimulation to the nervous system to interfere with abnormal brain activity, and it is commonly assumed that neurons are the only important brain cells that need to be stimulated by these devices.
Therefore, starting an exercise program, regardless of one's age, can not only contribute to the more obvious physical health factors, but may also contribute to memory performance and brain function,» explained corresponding author Scott Hayes, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Neuroimaging Research for Veterans Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.
Only after each system had produced a sophisticated representation of the world did the brain combine their perceptions into one experience of reality, like a film editor adding a soundtrack to a movie.
7 SENSUAL WINDOWS ON THE WORLD The brain's pervasive, exhaustive mapping of the body covers not only what we usually regard as the body proper — the musculoskeletal system, the internal organs, the internal milieu — but also the body's spying outposts — the smell and taste mucosae, the tactile elements of the skin, the ears, the eyes.
Interestingly, these rats were still motivated to drink sugar water, indicating that the researchers had successfully targeted only alcohol - activated neurons, not the brain's overall reward system.
Prior to Gouaux's study, scientists had only a limited view of how those subtypes were arranged in the NMDA receptor complex and how they interacted to carry out specific functions within the brain and central nervous system.
The problem was that conventional two - photon microscopy systems could only look at approximately one square millimeter of brain tissue at a time.
He has suggested that such sensory crossover occurs normally in the limbic system, the most primitive, subconscious part of the brain, but only synesthetes, due to quirks in blood flow or some other anomaly, are aware of it.
In the basal ganglia — a complex system of neurons in the brain responsible for, among other things, procedural learning — Bottjer and Achiro were able to isolate two different types of neurons in young songbirds: ones that were activated only when the birds heard themselves singing, and others that were activated only when the birds heard the songs of adult birds that they were trying to imitate.
Although traveling bursts of voltage can carry signals across the brain quickly, those electrical spikes may not be the only — or even the main — way that information is carried in nervous systems.
The studies» results show that video games can be either detrimental or beneficial to the brain's spatial memory system depending not only on the navigation strategy players use but also on the video game genre they choose.
Until now, the area of the brain where these neurons are found, called the ventral tegmental area (VTA), had only been associated with the reward system — not stress from withdrawal.
The idea is that there are systems in the brain that help us by imitating only «internally» — they dampen the activity of mirror neurons when we simply watch, so that we can still have the sort of «inner imitation» that allows us to empathize with others, without any overt imitation.
This technique, known as «responsive neurostimulation» (RNS), has proved effective for epilepsy and an existing system has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating partial onset seizures (which affect only part of the brain).
So they then went on to study the genomes of a type of paediatric brain cancer characterised not only by a mutated polymerase — like in the tumours previously examined — but also by an inactivated repair system.
«A really interesting finding was when Matt (lead author of the study, Matthew Ulgherait) activated AMPK in the nervous system, he saw evidence of increased levels of autophagy in not only the brain, but also in the intestine,» adds Walker.
Via this system, the stroke specialists can not only view physical signs of a possible stroke in order to assess the patient's condition, but can speak to the patient, family members, nurses and attending physicians, as well as directly review CT scan images of the patient's brain.
Kessler is proud to be part of one only nine federally - designated Model Systems for the treatment and research of both spinal cord and brain injuries, a distinction shared with Kessler Foundation, and also leads the field in the care of individuals with stroke, neurologic diseases, amputation, orthopedic trauma, cancer and cardiac conditions.
Despite ceasing their compulsive drinking, the animals were still motivated to drink sugar water, which means that the researchers were successful at targeting only alcohol - activated neurons, and not the overall reward system of the brain.
About Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation is one of only eight federally designated Model Systems for the treatment and research of both traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury, a distinction shared with Kessler Foundation.
Largely because of the blood - brain barrier problem, scientists have had only limited success delivering AAVs and their genetic cargo to the central nervous system.
Thus, it acts in blood and immune system cells, not only the brain, and is involved in terminating the stress response after the end of a threat.
In the past, the virus usually only developed into brain disease in individuals with suppressed immune systems, such as AIDS patients and organ transplant recipients on immunosuppressant medications.