Sentences with phrase «other brain centers»

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It becomes important in adolescence when a flood of hormones changes the reward centers in the brain and causes lording it over others to suddenly become much more pleasurable.

As you discover and practice new emotional intelligence skills, the billions of microscopic neurons lining the road between the rational and emotional centers of your brain branch off small «arms» (much like a tree) to reach out to the other cells.

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.

Tell us, so we can close all these expensive universities and other centers of learning, and just kneel and pray to god to deliver knowledge to our brains via AngelMail.

«For 80 percent of the common chemicals in everyday use in this country we know almost nothing about whether or not they can damage the brains of children, the immune system, the reproductive system, and the other developing organs,» said Dr. Phil Landrigan, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Today the concussion debate centers around the NFL and the numerous stories of players committing suicide or suffering form dementia and other brain - related illnesses.

When diagnosing and treating medical complications of more severe head injury, we sometimes consult with Tufts Medical Center radiologists and neurosurgeons.At the Concussion and Brain Injury Program, kids receive careful attention from a variety of specialists who understand the nuances of evaluating and treating concussions and other head injuries

Dr. Hirad Hedayat, Director of Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery at Vassar Brothers Medical Center, joins Medical Monday to discuss stroke, aneurysms and other vascular conditions of the brain.

Three recent papers authored by Dr. Peter Nelson and others at the University of Kentucky Sanders - Brown Center on Aging, explore the neuropathology behind a little - understood brain disease, hippocampal sclerosis (known to scientists and clinicians as HS - AGING).

Although the role of the visual cortex and other areas of the brain are being identified, and their functions clarified, it is not likely that there is a «truth» center in the brain or a «lying» center.

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.

«Every day, most of us take for granted that when we will to move, we can move any part of our body with precision and control in multiple directions and those with traumatic spinal cord injury or any other form of paralysis can not,» said Benjamin Walter, associate professor of Neurology at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Clinical PI of the Cleveland BrainGate2 trial and medical director of the Deep Brain Stimulation Program at UH Cleveland Medical Center.

The eye - tracking technology used in this study was originally developed by Dr. Samadani and colleagues at the Cohen Veterans Center to assess eye movement in veterans of the long Middle East conflicts suspected of suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI), concussion or other forms of brain injury.

Seeking additional insight into similar mechanisms at work in other centers of the brain, Donato and his team discovered that the signal to develop one area known to be involved in more abstract functions, including memory and navigation, originated from deep within the brain, in a specific population of neurons that kicks off the maturation of an entire neural network.

The cortex and its gateway, the thalamus — the quail egg — shaped structure in the center of the brain — on the other hand, are essential for consciousness, providing it with its elaborate content.

When he and a control subject, another sensation - seeking rock climber, viewed gruesome, high - arousal photographs during functional magnetic resonance imaging brain scans, Honnold's amygdala ─ the brain's fear center ─ showed zero activation while the other climber's lit up like a neon sign.

Neurons in the shell surrounding the established vocal centers of the parrot brain play a part in vocal learning and other complex motor behaviors, resolving controversies over the size of brain areas involved in song and speech imitation.

Rosenthal, a physician who treats non-athletes with concussions and other brain injuries at Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center, noted that concussions affect much more than just the ability to play sports.

Starting in 2010, Baraniuk and his colleagues at Georgetown's Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging put Kroot and 30 other sick veterans (plus 20 healthy subjects) through physical and cognitive tests and scanned their brains.

A team under Professor Scheffler, consisting of researchers from the Bonn University Hospital, the Life & Brain Center, The German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research, Tufts University Boston / Massachusetts, and other institutes in the USA, has now developed a new method that is expected to combat such complex brain tumors beBrain Center, The German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research, Tufts University Boston / Massachusetts, and other institutes in the USA, has now developed a new method that is expected to combat such complex brain tumors bebrain tumors better.

Other diagnostic features include the forward position of the gut opening in the brain and the arrangement of optic centers outside and inside the brain supplied by two pairs of eyes, just like in horseshoe crabs.

Among other things, researchers have found that the hippocampus is usually smaller in schizophrenics, whereas some of the ventricles (four cavities at the center of the brain that are filled with cerebrospinal fluid) are larger.

Because the brain is like every other tissue connected to the peripheral immune system through meningeal lymphatic vessels,» said Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, professor in the UVA Department of Neuroscience and director of UVA's Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (brain is like every other tissue connected to the peripheral immune system through meningeal lymphatic vessels,» said Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, professor in the UVA Department of Neuroscience and director of UVA's Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG).

Other support came from the National Institutes of Health, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Foundation, the Beatrice Menne Haggerty Center for Research on Brain Injury and Repair in Strokes, the Robert D. Rogers Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center, and the Craig H. Neilsen and Wings for Life foundations.

The process, which located a genetic site for the most common form of prostate cancer, has potential for developing precision therapy for other cancers, such as breast, brain and colorectal, say researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Seizures, strokes, neuromuscular disorders and encephalopathy (brain disease) are among the complications that often escape necessary investigation, «largely due to other ongoing systemic derangements requiring much attention,» report neurologists Rochelle Sweis, DO, Jorge Ortiz, MD, and José Biller, MD, of Loyola University Medical Center and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

In neurons of DIXDC1 mutant mice (center) the dendrites — neural antennae that receive input from other brain cells — have fewer of the dendritic spines (white with red arrows)-- the receiving half of most synaptic inputs — compared to dendrites in wild type mice (left).

The need for ongoing care for hearing - related issues was acknowledged in September 2014 when One Fund Boston, the charity created to accept and distribute donations to help those affected by the bombings, created the One Fund Center, which will serve patients who have had difficulties with tinnitus and other hearing - related problems; mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety; and traumatic brain injury and its associated symptoms such as headache, cognitive symptoms and balance difficulties.

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.

This study is also the first to demonstrate that this repurposed vision center in blind people is not just responding to new functions haphazardly; the region has become specialized and segmented by function, like any other part of the brain.

Similar studies could reveal how other foods and compounds, such as naturally - occurring hormones, impact the appetite - control centers in the brain.

Located near the center of the brain, the nucleus accumbens is connected, by intermingled populations of cells, to many other brain structures having roles in pleasure seeking and drug addiction.

While the Pentagon has yet to release hard numbers on brain - injured troops, citing security issues, brain - injury professionals express concern about the range of numbers reported from other military - related sources like the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs brain - injured troops, citing security issues, brain - injury professionals express concern about the range of numbers reported from other military - related sources like the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs brain - injury professionals express concern about the range of numbers reported from other military - related sources like the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Brain Injury Center, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Vilayanur Ramachandran, a behavioral neurologist and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California (UC), San Diego, advised spending as much as 20 % of grant money «on other exciting stuff as long as you tell them it's vaguely related.»

Action potentials, also known as nerve impulses, are electrical messages sent from our brains to other organs and muscles; for instance, nerves in the brain transmit action potentials through neural networks to direct our arm muscles to contract in order to call into action our hands to lift or hold an item, a primary research focus at the Columbia Motor Neuron Center, to which both the Zhang and Wichterle labs are affiliated.

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

Germany's other major neuropathology center, the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, also purged its World War II brain slides.

No command center keeps all other brain systems hopping to the instructions of a five - star general.

TAKING A HIT The memory center of the brain is smaller in college football players than in other men who don't play football or soccer, apparently due to head trauma, a study finds.

When the researchers looked at brain size, they found that for fighters who had increasing levels of tau over time, there was a 7 percent decline in the volume of their thalamus, which is located in the center of the brain and regulates sleep, consciousness, alertness, cognitive function and language while also sending sensory and movement signals to other portions of the brain.

«There is no proof of transmission from wild animals and plants to humans,» said lead author Claudio Soto, Ph.D., professor of neurology at UTHealth Medical School and director of the UTHealth George and Cynthia W. Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Brain Related Illnesses.

Working with Cohen and other scientists at the center, Greene decided to compare how the brain responds to different questions.

One, located in the cleft of the brain behind the center of the forehead, plays a crucial role in understanding what other people are thinking or feeling.

In 2009, Steven Goldman of the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York and his colleagues reported that human astrocytes are bigger, and have about 10 times as many fingerlike projections that contact other brain cells and blood vessels, than those of mice.

Mohr's liver, brain, lungs, and other tissues were «loaded with» the organism, which was not picked up in lab tests during her hospitalization, reported pathologist John Hart of the University of Chicago Medical Center.

«We discovered gene - related disruption of circuits that connect the autistic brain's layers and hemispheres to each other,» explained Geschwind, who is director of the UCLA Neurogenetics Program and the Center for Autism Research and Treatment and co-director of the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics at UCLA.

Our brains prioritize rewarding memories over others, and reinforce them by replaying them when we are at rest, according to new research from the University of California, Davis, Center for Neuroscience, published Feb. 11 in the journal Neuron.

Dr. Iavarone is currently establishing a cooperative study group, including CUMC and other brain tumor centers around the country, to conduct the trials of FGFR kinase inhibitors.

The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University Medical Center is a multidisciplinary group that has forged links between researchers and clinicians to uncover the causes of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other age - related brain diseases and discover ways to prevent and cure these diseBrain at Columbia University Medical Center is a multidisciplinary group that has forged links between researchers and clinicians to uncover the causes of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other age - related brain diseases and discover ways to prevent and cure these disebrain diseases and discover ways to prevent and cure these diseases.

Kessler Foundation Research Center focuses on improving function and quality of life for persons with injuries of the spinal cord and brain, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and other chronic neurological conditions.