Sentences with phrase «other brain activity»

A key problem has been separating these precise brain signals from those associated with other brain activity, and the highly artificial signals generated by the exoskeleton.

Not exact matches

When asked to select the articles they'd share, activity in the brain regions associated with assessing value, self - related thinking, and, crucially, considering other people's perspective showed a flurry of activity.

We don't know how it is grounded in brain activity, nor whether it is an emergent capacity of the evolution of organisms at all, so we can't possibly know whether it is bound to emerge from the evolution of other physical systems.

Neuroscience, according to the dualists, merely correlatesmind - activity and brain - activity — it does not reduce one to the other.

Even more perfectly than the human soul with its field of activity can be said to overlap the field of activity proper to the brain and through the brain the other interrelated fields of activity within the human body, so God as the soul of the universe shares a common field of activity with the universe as an all - encompassing social totality.9

On the other hand, writing promotes brain activity thus enabling a person to become more educated.

In this case I agree with you that atheists and others with a heart of stone know only brain function and activity.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB 200 (2011) requires the Department of Health and the Department of Education to develop and post on their website guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students participating in or desiring to participate in an athletic activity, their parents and coaches, about the nature and risk of concussion and traumatic brain injury.

The policy requires removal from play for any student, as determined by a game official, coach from the student's team, certified athletic trainer, licensed physician, licensed physical therapist or other official designated by the student's school entity, exhibits signs or symptoms of a concussion or traumatic brain injury while participating in an athletic activity.

Left Brain Craft Brain has a recipe for Grinch play - dough and other Grinch - inspired crafts and activities.

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.

Losing sodium can affect brain activity, so early symptoms of water intoxication can include irritability, drowsiness and other mental changes.

They also found that in other regions of the brain associated with emotional regulation, brain activity actually decreased while listening to the criticism.

Focus on your breathing, try to remember poetry, listen to music or engage your brain in other mental activities.

When researchers looked at their brain activity during these times, they saw that one hemisphere of the brain had electrical patterns resembling nighttime sleep, whereas patterns from the other hemisphere indicated wakefulness.

According to his theory, the brain controlled our body's activities by pumping fluid from the ventricles through the nerves to other organs.

Adult neural stem cells in the hypothalamus — a brain region that regulates hunger, sleep, body temperature and other activities — appear to orchestrate the body's aging process, they found.

As they studied brain activity in the knockout mice, the researchers also found prominent changes in a receptor in the brain known as mGluR5 and other proteins that support the function of neurons and synapses, said co-lead author Xiaoming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate in Duke's department of pediatrics.

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

The hypothalamus, shown in red, is a region in the brain that regulates hunger, sleep, body temperature and other activities.

The algorithm could be trained to work with other types of brain activity, says Sachar Arnon, a member of the team at the Interdisciplinary Center.

Moreover, these women showed greater activity in the brain circuit that enables people to understand the emotions of others.

With a large number of electrode channels distributed across the scalp, this method also detects which brain regions show more slow - wave activity than others.

Other tests monitored the brain activity of patients performing cognitive tasks.

To discover why some people can sleep through noise while others awake at the faintest disruption, Jeffrey Ellenbogen and colleagues at Harvard Medical School used electrodes to monitor the brain activity of 12 people while they slept in a pitch - black, soundproof room.

The exact location of neural activity is far more difficult to discern via EEG than with many other, more invasive methods because the skull, scalp, and cerebral fluid surrounding the brain scatter its electric signals before they reach the electrodes.

At least one study suggests that in cluster headache sufferers this hypothalamus - adjoining region may differ not only in its electrical activity but also in its interactions with other parts of the brain.

Lionel Velly, an anesthesiologist at Mediterranean University in Marseille, France, ran an experiment in which he used the electrodes in the other direction, to record electrical activity in the brain.

fMRI scanners also allow Raichle and other researchers to study the brain's «dark energy» — baseline activities that are unrelated to external stimuli or the performance of overtly visible tasks, yet consume the vast majority of the brain's energy.

Working independently, Dulac and Anderson mapped patterns of brain activity in different brain regions while mice sniffed, ignored, fought, or mated with other mice.

«We can also see how other interventions such as gently stroking the baby changes pain - related brain activity or whether different experiences such as a vaginal birth or C - section alters pain sensitivity in the newborn infant.»

The activity of four transcription factors — proteins that regulate the expression of other genes — appears to distinguish the small proportion of glioblastoma cells responsible for the aggressiveness and treatment resistance of the deadly brain tumor.

Now, the researchers have visualized brain activity in awake mice as they interacted normally with mice and other stimuli.

But now, two studies that map brain activity in living mice reveal that social experiences can influence brain responses to other mice.

Yet researchers are still trying to understand how activity in this hypothalamus - adjacent area could conjure the condition — and to determine what other glitches in brain structure, metabolism or interactions contribute to sufferers» throbbing noggins.

«Our hope is that our findings will help other scientists and engineers more precisely capture the emotional states that underlie moods, brain activity and expressive signals, leading to improved psychiatric treatments, an understanding of the brain basis of emotion and technology responsive to our emotional needs,» he added.

«Even a moderate dose of psilocybin weakens the processing of negative stimuli by modifying amygdala activity in the limbic system as well as in other associated brain regions,» continues Krähenmann.

What is more, brain imaging studies have shown that people watching others yawning have more activity in parts of the brain associated with self - information processing.

But, interestingly, they found that angry sounds and angry speech both produced ongoing brain activity that lasted longer than either of the other emotions, suggesting that the brain pays special attention to the importance of anger signals.

When warned their breathing was about to be restricted, the most resilient participants — SEALs and adventure racers, among others — showed a burst of blood - flow activity in an area of the brain that registers sensations in the body, called the insular cortex.

«We think that this brain activity organization is letting neurons talk to neurons in other areas,» says Muller.

Among other things, the decade - long mission aims to develop new technologies for studying the electrical activity of the brain in action.

Researchers screened brains, along with other tissues, for antibacterial activity on the grounds that the brain is the most vital organ for locusts to protect.

The computer monitors slow cortical potential, a component of the brain's electrical activity; when the SCP is positive, a cursor travels from the bottom to the top of the screen; if neutral, it goes the other way.

Of the growing body of research concerning lifestyle and brain health, and also the possibility of reduced risk of Alzheimer's and other dementias, perhaps the strongest and most consistent evidence exists for regular physical activity.

Stevens and her colleagues manipulated mice to make one eye more active than the other, creating a disparity in activity between the two neural circuits linking the eyes to the brain.

As Columbia University neuroscientist Eric Kandel and others have shown, neurons respond to stimulation by altering their activity and connectivity, remodeling the architecture of the brain.

The UCLA researchers, led by David Eisenberg, director of the UCLA - Department of Energy Institute of Genomics and Proteomics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, report the first application of this technique in the search for molecular compounds that bind to and inhibit the activity of the amyloid - beta protein responsible for forming dangerous plaques in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's and other degenerative diseases.

Many people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other stress - related disorders show increased activity in the right hemisphere of the brain — and in emotional, nonverbal processing — and decreased activity in the left, according to neuroimaging studies.

The women's brains showed greater activity in the frontal cortex — the region that regulates emotions — during the premenstrual part of the cycle, but not other times.