Sentences with phrase «other parts of the brain as»

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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.»

The entities directly below the level of a person, the immediate constituents of a person, are the organs such as the brain and heart, and other large scale body parts, such as the arms and hands.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

Modern empiricism, on the other hand, which locates the possibilities of science in the brain (as if the brain and its patterns of order were not also in part a construction of the scientist's mind), precisely reverses this: the outside world known by the senses is alone the seat of what is — if anything is — universal, objective, real and certain.

If, e.g., as sometimes happens, the man, after a time, more or less, recovers the faculties of which the injury to his brain had deprived him, and that not in consequence of a renewal of the injured part, but in consequence of the inhibited functions being performed by the vicarious action of other parts, the easiest explanation certainly is that, after a time, consciousness constitutes the remaining parts into a mechanism capable of acting as a substitute for the lost parts.

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.

For example, dolphins as well as ducks sleep with only one half of their brain at a time, the other part of the brain is fully awake.

Since the presiding occasion of the regnant society «wanders from part to part of the brain, dissociated from the physical material atoms» (PR 167), the other enduring objects which constitute it as an «inter-section» must be historic routes of occasions within the «nonsocial» nexus which supports the regnant society.

Brain scans of perfumers have found that the olfactory parts of their brains actually grew more developed as they got older, not the other way around, as with most people.

I can't recall any other tips at the moment as I must have blocked that tired part of life out of my brain.

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.

The number of brain injuries occurring during or soon after birth will also be targeted as part of a new commitment by the government, in partnership with consultants, midwives and other experts across the country to make England one of the safest places to have a baby.

It is released in certain parts of the brain by rewarding experiences, such as achievement, food consumption, and other pleasures of life.

The mice behaved just like others of their kind, as far as scientists could tell, and they also looked the same — except for the human mini brain that had been implanted into each rodent's own cortex, made visible by a little clear cover replacing part of their skull.

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.

WHITE MAGIC Targeting parts of the brain's white matter, the tissue that connects different brain regions (shown), may be key to whether stimulating the brain with electricity will work as a treatment for memory problems and other ills.

«As certain areas of the brain become more variable, it seems to compensate in some ways for the other parts of the brain that are decreasing,» said Aaron Heller, an assistant professor in the Psychology Department and senior author of the paper.

As for cortical thinning, Dr. Zhao said that other research provides convincing evidence to support the theory that reduced cortical layer thickness in some brain regions may result in the decreased thickness of the frontal lobe, a large part of the brain that is involved in variety of functions, including emotion.

In fact, the authors report in Science this week that damage to that region is 136 times more likely to result in a «disruption of smoking addiction» — defined as the ability to quit easily without relapse — than injury to other parts of the brain.

Saxena's findings are corroborated by a recent study from the University of Iowa, involving a group of people who had suffered lesions in various parts of their brains as a result of strokes or other neurological diseases.

Dr. Massagué is particularly interested in the ability of tumor cells to hug blood vessels, as he suspects this behavior may be essential for the survival of metastatic cancer cells not only in the brain but also in other parts of the body where metastatic tumor growth can occur.

To take on that role in a machine, the core would have to connect to the other parts of the brain, diagrammed as a network at right.

Now that the location and identity of the wake - promoting neurons are precisely defined, the supramammillary region joins other parts of the brain known as being involved in keeping people awake, such as the nearby lateral hypothalamus, the upper brain stem and basal forebrain.

Researchers envision the e-dura being used in people with spinal cord injuries, as a brain implant and even to correct nerve damage in other parts of the body.

Inhibiting the same area of the brain with similar techniques increased the amount of time mice slept, especially non-REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, although sleep was not instant upon drug administration, as has been shown for other parts of the arousal system, Pedersen says.

Perhaps the big advance will spring from physicists» quest for a theory of everything; from studies of «emergent» phenomena with many moving parts, such as ecologies and economies; from advances in computers and mathematics; from nanotechnology, biotechnology, and other applied sciences; or from investigations of how brains make minds.

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

But the same brain cells showed little or no response to other objects, such as images of vegetables, radios or nonfacial body parts.

Neurons in the outer layers are connected to other parts of the cortex, which in humans play a role in higher - level brain processes such as self - awareness, language and problem - solving.

A furious debate ensued: the fossil discoverers classify the meter - tall hominin as part of a separate species that lived as recently as 12,000 years ago; others maintain it was a modern human who had microcephaly, in which the brain fails to reach normal size.

It looks as if music is riding the coattails of other parts of the brain that evolved for other functions.

It has billions of parts, many used to activate and silence genes — an arrangement that allows individual cells to specialize as brain cells, heart cells and some 200 other different cell types.

The group plans to study Arp2 / 3's role in different parts of the brain and the role it has in the mouse's other symptoms, such as sociability defects and cognitive abnormalities.

Almost twice as many patients with strokes in the insular cortex quit smoking compared to those with strokes in other parts of the brain — 70 percent vs. 37 percent.

The conversion of glucose to fructose in the brain, known as the polyol pathway, also occurs in other parts of the body.

The team is continuing to develop MRI atlases of the healthy brain across the lifespan as part of a project — Brain Imaging in Normal Subjects (BRAINS)-- which aims to detect brain damage in other diseases such as schizophrenia and preterm bbrain across the lifespan as part of a project — Brain Imaging in Normal Subjects (BRAINS)-- which aims to detect brain damage in other diseases such as schizophrenia and preterm bBrain Imaging in Normal Subjects (BRAINS)-- which aims to detect brain damage in other diseases such as schizophrenia and preterm bbrain damage in other diseases such as schizophrenia and preterm birth.

The most common site of involvement of a glioma is the brain, but they can also affect the spinal cord, or any other part of the CNS, such as the optic nerves.

There are other studies that indicate that moderate amounts of red wine as part of a healthy diet may protect against developing dementia, however it is crystal clear that alcohol abuse is bad for your brain.»

The previous line of thought was that a certain area of the brain was in charge of hand function, but new research shows that other body parts compensating for the missing hand (like a foot, mouth or arm) just as effectively «light up» the erstwhile hand area.

We need to understand how billions of neurons in different parts of the brain talk to each other, and how malfunctions in neural connections get expressed as behavioral abnormalities.»

Professor Graybiel discovered that there are multiple such «matrisomes» for any one body part, in a form of repetition and overlap that others have likened to a «mosaic of broken mirrors», to form multiple loops connecting the outer layer of the brain — the neocortex — where cognition, perception, and motor control reside, as well as the brainstem, which coordinates movement.

The anterograde (forward) tracing results of retinal projections in the garden warbler demonstrated virtually identical connections between the eye and the brain as known from other lateral - eyed bird species [e.g. 15]--[18]: fibers either projected onto the contralateral optic tectum (part of the tectofugal system), to the nucleus of the basal optic root (part of the accessory pathway)(data not shown) or curved into the thalamus innervating the dorsal geniculate complex (Gld, for details, see Fig. 1C, 2A, D).

In addition to increases in the volume of the hippocampus, a part of the brain that can shrink in Alzheimer's patients, the study authors noted other biological changes, including improvements in CRP, a marker of inflammation, as well as glucose metabolism and insulin levels.

Wonderful and effective herbs, nutrients, homeopathic remedies, and other therapies are also available to improve our gut and brain health, and best given as part of an individualized treatment plan.

«Metastatic» breast cancer means it has spread to other parts of your body, such as the lungs, bones, liver, or brain.

As one of the cranial nerves, this structure connects the brain with other parts of the body.

As the circulation turns better, it offers a better support to the human brain and in turn, improves the performance of other parts of the body.

It sounds only logical that the digestive system, which is the biggest system in human body, affects our brains as well as other parts of our bodies.

Certain foods serve as triggers and should be avoided, while other foods that are rich in vitamins and minerals that benefit the brain and nervous system should become foundational and regular parts of one's diet.

Blood sugar, also known as blood glucose, is the primary source of fuel for energy production, particularly for your muscles, brain, and other parts of the body.