Sentences with phrase «other brain states»

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Mirror neurons are built - in monitors in our brain that reflect other people's state of mind.

On the other side of the state, reports the Kansas City Star, a new company called the Brew Lab might be thought of as a «build - a-beer workshop,» in which customers can buy brewing equipment and supplies, and also try out ideas and pick the brains of pros at on - site brewing stations.

NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ORWELLIAN UNITED STATES CONGRESS (USSR # 2 which consists of lawyers or what are liars, physicians / doctors and family members of effected individuals who suffered some sort of brain desease etc.... lawyers, so crime per physicians OR WHAT IS HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION can get away with it) AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE SOOO BUSY WITH WHEN PLAYING / CLOWNING (acting) IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain)... NO DIFFERENT FROM ROMNEY WHOSE FATHER EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY SCREWED / BANKRUPT LIKE AMERICA TODAY (soon to be success based on deliberate sabotage which is nothing else than grand treason / betrayal with acts of genocide against targeted white population)!!!

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.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

But, although some of the specific experiences, such as pains, may be (at least virtually) determined by the brain (at least in what we usually consider «normal,» as distinct from «altered,» states of consciousness), others, such as thoughts and decisions, are not, but are based upon the mind's self - determination.

At the heart of the problem of consciousness, in other words, is the problem of qualia: to show how «brain processes, which are publicly observable, objective phenomena, could cause anything as peculiar as inner qualitative states of awareness or sentience, states which are in some sense «private» to the possessor of the state (MC 60).6 Searle thus prompts an even more basic question: whether it is possible to distinguish clearly and distinctly between private and public aspects of perception.

And the human brain is incomparably more complex in its organization than any other state of matter of which we are aware.

This is no different than some young people going to college and leaving their brains at the door and swallowing evolutionary theory and purposely rejecting the obvious of what creation clearly shows except this is leaving your brain at the door of theology school and accepting man's opinion over what is clearly stated in the holy scriptures, and then teaching others false doctrine.

«Our book is about what parents and other caregivers can do in their interactions with their kids that actually develop a more integrated brain that creates a receptive state for learning and keeping the inner spark of your child alive and well.»

When this occurs regularly, it actually rewires the baby's brain to become anxious, depressed, and / or to experience other unhealthy states.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

On Wednesday morning, on the day before the Mayor was to unveil his budget, advocates that included representatives from Alianza Dominicana, Children's Aid Society, the Children Arts and Sciences Workshop, ACDP, Fresh Youth Initiatives (FYI), Community League of the Heights (C.L.O.T.H.), the Police Athletic League (P.A.L.), and representatives from local New York City Councilmembers Ydanis Rodriguez and Robert Jackson, New York State Assemblymembers Guillermo Linares and Herman D. Farrell, among others, gathered in an early morning meeting to brain - storm about strategies to ward off the cuts.

Confirming the worst fears of many pregnant women in the United States and Latin America, U.S. health officials said there is no longer any doubt the Zika virus causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and other severe brain defects.

It goes to nonprofit groups that care for the about 130,000 New Yorkers with autism, brain injuries, Down syndrome and other disabilities, to help them keep pace with the state mandated increases in the state's minimum wage.

Earlier, the House gave final approval to a measure allowing veterans with other - than - honorable discharges attributable to post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury or military sexual trauma to access state benefits they're currently barred from.

It goes to nonprofit groups that care for the about 130,000 New Yorkers with autism, brain injuries, Down syndrome and other disabilities to help them keep pace with the state - mandated increases in the state's minimum wage.

Using resting - state MRI analysis on thousands of people's brains around the world, the research has found that the areas of the brain which are associated with learning and development show high levels of variability, meaning that they change their neural connections with other parts of the brain more frequently, over a matter of minutes or seconds.

While most blind adults develop a mature theory of mind, it wasn't clear whether they used the same parts of their brain as sighted people do to reason about the mental states of others.

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.

Excess fluoride, which may damage both brain and bone, is leaching out of granite and into Maine's drinking water — and potentially other New England states

Finally, the team used functional MRI scans of subjects» brains to show that contemplating God's beliefs activates the same brain areas as thinking about one's own views, while thoughts about other Americans» views activate a brain area used for inferring other people's mental states.

In the new study, published 9 January in Scientific Reports, developmental neuroscientist Moriah Thomason of Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and colleagues report a difference in how certain brain regions communicate with each other in fetuses that were later born prematurely compared with fetuses that were carried to term.

In other words, the Pzizz produces a gentle sluicing back and forth of one's brain waves, and a state of hypnosis ensues.

«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.

No one knows how many others in the same state are incorrectly labeled as vegetative or semicomatose and warehoused, doomed to a nightmare world where they exist in a body that feels but can not move, with a brain that is intact, hearing and seeing but unable to communicate a presence to others.

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.

In the near future, however, the observed association between the brain and closeness to forests would need to be confirmed in further studies and other cities, stated Ulman Lindenberger.

Of the 4,500 or so practicing neurosurgeons in the United States, only about 100 work routinely within the brain; the other 4,400 stay within the relatively safer, lower base camps of the neck and spine.

A Portland State University research team studying concussion has published an interactive diagram showing the many facets of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI)-- from sleep problems to mood disorders to the increased danger of dementia — and how they connect with and affect each other.

A Michigan State University researcher is challenging a widely held African belief that a spinal tap, a procedure safely used to treat other diseases, could suck the brain from the base of the skull and cause death in malaria patients.

«This is all part of looking at the state humor puts you and your brain in and how that affects other things you do,» Lewis says.

New studies — prompted by a renewed interest in potential applications of psychedelic drugs for understanding the brain or even treating some psychiatric diseases — suggest that far - reaching changes in brain connectivity contribute to the altered states of consciousness and other effects of an acid trip.

One such possibility is suggested by first author of the study Laura D. Lewis, Ph.D. «This technique now gives us a method for obtaining much more detailed information about the complex brain activity that takes place during sleep, as well as other dynamic switches in brain states, such as when under anesthesia and during hallucinations.»

The scientists suggest this same brain circuitry could be involved in integrating other motivational drive states such as thirst.

Moreover, the degree of «self - other - mergence» is associated with activity in a brain region previously implicated in theory of mind — the ability to understand the mental states of oneself and others.

Last month, Ursula Voss of Bonn University in Germany and colleagues reported that even during lucid dreaming — a state in which some people claim to be able to control their dreams — some areas of the brain associated with intent stayed offline, while other areas associated with consciousness were active.

During the fMRI, participants were asked to do an empathetic processing task, which tapped into their ability to think about the emotional states of other people, while the fMRI measured their simultaneous brain activity.

Genetics and specific brain regions are linked to sex differences in chimpanzees» scratching behavior, a common indicator of anxiety in humans and others primates, according to a research study led by Georgia State University that shows chimpanzees can be models of human mental illness.

Neurologists estimate that every year more than a million people suffer brain injuries in the United States alone — not just from football mishaps, but also from car crashes, falls down stairs, and many other kinds of accidents.

In addition to SMRs, other brain waves at different frequencies characterize certain mental states [see illustration on page 81].

When he scanned their brains, Blanke found that the test subjects produced the signature brain patterns seen in others reporting an out - of - body state.

An fMRI map of a resting state network that shows the connections between the sub-regions of the thalamus with other parts of the brain.

Electrodes implanted in the brain that electrically stimulate specific regions are now being tested as treatments for depression and other mental illnesses; conceivably this technology also could be used to induce mystical states.

But when you analyze your brain, you will find inside it a set of nerve cells that form a large complex: one that can distinguish among a large repertoire of states in a way that its parts can not; and one that does so maximally, more than any other set of nerve cells, more than the entire body, than any crowd of men, than the world itself.»

These neurons can switch between a «sleeping» state and a «waking» state depending on input they receive from neurons and other brain areas.

Though many other cells in the brain have been identified as playing a role in anxiety, the cells found in this study are the first known to represent the state of anxiety, regardless of the type of environment that provokes the emotion.

WHEN he found out that his old flame, Maureen, was in a vegetative state as a result of a brain haemorrhage, neuroscientist Adrian Owen started wondering whether she, and other people in a similar situation, might have some awareness.

New insights about the brain are changing the way the law handles cases related to adolescent decision making, the effects of drugs on the brain, memory and lie detection, and states of consciousness, among others.

In this study, we would like to further assess the connection between sleep - wake states, aging, and brain energy utilization and to determine how these factors influence Aβ as well as other proteins relevant to AD and neurodegeneration.