Sentences with phrase «other brain systems»

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

Some scientists believe the amygdala doesn't have its own discrete storage system for emotionally charged memories but rather marks memories created by other brain systems as being somehow emotionally significant.

Not exact matches

«When your brain is firing off these synapses of anger, you're weakening your immune system; you're raising your blood pressure, increasing your risk of heart disease, obesity and diabetes, and a plethora of other negative ailments,» he says.

To a great extent, it's just your limbic system injecting your brain with powerful neurotransmitters that make you feel good when you connect with others.

Social media and messaging fool the limbic system — the part of the brain responsible for survival and response to emotional stimuli — into rewarding us every time we connect with others online.

However, when the researchers damaged a more central brain region called the limbic system, which is the source of emotions and pleasure (among other things), the hamsters» maternal behaviors — like nest - building, picking up pups, and nursing — never developed.

Furthermore, we found that in people who intentionally mind wander, two main brain networks broadly overlap each other: the default - mode network, which is active when focusing on information from memory, and the fronto - parietal network, which stabilizes our focus and inhibits irrelevant stimuli as part of our cognitive control system.»

MEG TIRRELL, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: Since they were approved in 2014, drugs that stimulate the immune system have been giving new hope to patients with melanoma, kidney cancer, lymphoma and other cancers, including famously to President Jimmy Carter, who credited the drug called Keytruda with shrinking tumors that had spread to his brain.

Among other functions, it is part of the brain's reflexive system and it is good at quickly generating emotions like fear and anger when we're presented with new, out of place, or scary stimuli.

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.

Agree mankind brain is his computer and in order for this computer to work it requires all the other working physical systems and senses... this computer is programed as to when it should stop working naturally but man shortened the life of that time given by destroying their health or risking their physical body into physical harm...

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.

In a work recently completed, but not yet published, I have explained how the adaptability of animal bodily systems, especially the brain, which Meredith and Stein have remarkably demonstrated in respect of the senses in their The Merging of the Senses and which is seen in infant language - learning in a way discussed by Meltzoff, Butterworth and others, reaches a peak in the case of the human use of language so that it is solely semantic and communicational constraints which determine grammar and nothing universal in grammar is determined by neurology.

His comments on «scientific» views of consciousness are also timely because populist evolutionary biologists and «physicalist» philosophers of mind often portray the conscious mind, indeed the «self», as nothing other than the sum total of the chemical and biological parts of the brain and central nervous system.

Other sounds — some make sense, others don't — are simply intolerable for my brain and nervous system.

For that reason, if for no other, they will have developed differently, especially in their brains and nervous systems.

MSG is approximately 78 percent free glutamic acid, the same neurotransmitter that your brain, nervous system, eyes, pancreas, and other organs use to initiate certain processes in your body.

«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.

Breastmilk still contains factors that help the immune system to mature, and which help the brain, gut, and other organs to develop and mature.

They also found that newborns spend a greater part of their time in REM sleep than at any other time in life and that this is highly related to their development of their brain & sensory system (vision, hearing, touch, smell, etc).

The reason is that egg yolks are filled with choline, cholesterol and other brain - nourishing substances that are vital for the insulation of the nerves in the brain and entire central nervous system.

Other vital parts of the body such as the eyes, nervous system and even the brain will rely on fatty acids (the long chain ones) to develop properly.

It has DHA and iron to support a growing brain, and our Natural Defense ® Dual Prebiotics ® Blend, designed to help support your toddler's digestive system - along with 20 other nutrients.

Breastmilk still contains factors which help the immune system to mature, and which help the brain, gut, and other organs to develop and mature.

Because consistently elevated cortisol affects the way the baby's brain develops, the way he responds to stress in the future, his immune system, his risk of obesity and other areas of development.

They help with proper development of the immune system, skin, eyes, nervous system, brain and other organs.

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You can, as some chemists suggest, try to distinguish between «brain» and «mind», which probably speaks to a distinction between personal emotion and pharmacological causation better than any other system, but doing so turns judges into borderline philosophers.

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Despite an explosion of research on the use of brain scans and other tools of science to help better determine a person's guilt or innocence, experts at a AAAS - organized discussion said hopes that neuroscience might transform the legal system are unrealistic for now.

As doctors continue to monitor Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's condition, previous cases of brain injury resulting from bullets and other assaults can help explain what happens to the nervous system during major injuries — and how those rare recoveries are possible

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.

BRAIN POWER A new artificial intelligence system can learn how to navigate the shortest route on the London Underground based on other examples, instead of being programmed to do so like a traditional computer.

Johns Hopkins researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they are exposed in the womb to a maternal immune system kicked into high gear by a serious infection or other malady.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that immune system activation during pregnancy and right at birth can cause alterations in the brain's neural circuits during young adulthood that are consistent with behavioral symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

The scientists are not sure if the newly discovered pathways are connected or if they relate to a previously identified system that helps clear amyloid beta and other toxins out of the brain.

Until very recently, researchers in the modern era found no evidence of a lymphatic system in the brain, leaving some puzzled about how the brain drains waste, and others to conclude that brain is an exceptional organ.

Whereas some of the other types of visual prostheses propose stimulating different areas of the brain from the one Pezaris is targeting, another promising project known as the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is expanding its U.S. clinical trial into Europe.

Now we may finally see that, like other organs in the body, brain fluid can drain out through the lymphatic system,» said Dr. Reich.

«Understanding emotions expressed in spoken language, on the other hand, involves more recent brain systems that have evolved as human language developed.»

«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.

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

He believes the brain uses a kind of voting system: different brain areas weigh up the various attributes of apples, pears and plums, say, and compete with each other to have their preference chosen.

«Drugs like morphine hijack the body's natural painkilling mechanisms, such as those used by endorphins, but because they act within the central nervous system, they can affect other brain cells that use similar pathways, leading to side effects such as addiction or sleepiness,» says Professor Gamper.

The cocaine vaccine works the same way other vaccines do: by stimulating the immune system to produce antibodies that bind to a foreign entity, preventing it from entering the brain or otherwise interacting with the body's organs and tissues.

«Our research should stimulate renewed clinical interest in developing glucocorticoid therapies to treat blast - induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) and other disorders of the central nervous system,» Morrison says.

At the outset, Joel shared a popularly held assumption: just as sex differences nearly always produce two different reproductive systems, they would also produce two different forms of brains — one female, the other male.

Individual antennas in system transmit, in sequence, a weak microwave signals through the brain, while the other receiving antennas measure the reflected signals.

Although the primary visual cortex usually communicates mainly with other parts of the vision system, many other brain areas contributed to the processing of images in volunteers who received LSD.

«The challenge of brain simulation is that the nerve cells enter into a temporary relationship with other neurons depending on the task at hand,» says Prof. Dr. Markus Diesmann, director of Juelich's institute Computational and Systems Neuroscience (INM - 6).