Sentences with phrase «other parts of the brain for»

The finding suggests that neuroscientists «will have to look at other parts of the brain for the cause of memory loss,» says Harding.

Memory waves It is well established that sleep strengthens newly formed memories, and slow brain waves are thought to enhance the transfer of information from the hippocampus, a brain structure that is crucial to memory formation, to other parts of the brain for long - term storage.

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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.

Some believe that the 90 % of our brain which we do not use is not simply empty matter in our skulls, but may have originally been the parts of our brain that communicated with the spiritual realm of the angels so that through them we could communicate with each other, with God, with the animals, with the plants, and even with the forces of nature (For more on this theology of angels, see «The Powers Trilogy» by Walter Wink.)

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.

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.

Both varieties are part of Enfamil Staged Nutrition, inspired by the changing nutrition of breast milk and, like all other Enfamil ® formulas, have nutrients for healthy growth and brain - nourishing DHA.

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.

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.

Ito says the next step is to explore which connections to the CA1, CA3, or other parts of the brain could be responsible for this effect.

«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.

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.

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.

Functional MRI and other noninvasive imaging techniques, which have revealed much about other parts and functions of the brain, are too imprecise to measure the exact neurological activity responsible for speech.

Although fetuses start forming pain receptors eight weeks into development, the thalamus, the part of the brain that routes information to other areas, doesn't form for 20 more weeks.

This work is part of the ongoing Duke Neurogenetics Study (DNS), a comprehensive study linking genes, brain activity and other biological markers to risk for mental illness in young adults.

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.

In the hindbrain, an area which is the predecessor for some adult parts of the brain, this was the other way around.

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

Dopamine is important for transmitting messages between brain cells, but over-active dopamine signalling may cause parts of the brain that are supposed to be separate to communicate with each other.

But one by one, the pair ruled out all other explanations — that the pattern was an artefact from their electronic equipment, for example — and then they began to understand how this part of the brain was working.

Scientists have long known that schooling fish observe and learn from each other's failures and successes, behaviors that stimulate neural development, especially in the part of the brain responsible for memory and learning.

Participants are recruited from retirement communities and subsidized housing facilities in and around Chicago to participate in annual clinical evaluations and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and to donate their brains and other parts of their bodies for research after their deaths.

This design leads to the consequence that disease in one part of the brain will inevitably affect the function of the others and that many of the effects of the disease can be partly compensated for by the network.

Because the skull is rigid, providing no room for the tumor to expand, brain tumors may press on parts of the brain that control movement, speech, sight or other vital functions.

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.»

Dolphins also show enlargement of a part of the brain called the insula, which is thought to be important in humans for empathy, understanding, and imagining the mental states of others.

«Intriguingly, the brain had no backup plan; no other part of the brain stepped in to compensate for the LVN,» said Dr. Murray, now a Group Leader at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London.

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.

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).

Your brain moves information that is constant into a different part of your brain to free it up for other things, so the more similar your environment, the less your nerves work to perceive.

In a recent study in the journal Brain, young to middle - aged adults who'd had at least one concussion and had genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's had less gray matter in parts of the brain associated with dementia, compared to other study participBrain, young to middle - aged adults who'd had at least one concussion and had genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's had less gray matter in parts of the brain associated with dementia, compared to other study participbrain associated with dementia, compared to other study participants.

Maybe that patient has other symptoms like chronic brain fog and fatigue, but they never get that piece put together, they never get — they never get tested for brain antibodies or neurological antibodies, so they never even know that that piece is part of their — is part of their underlying autoimmune complex problem.

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.

Your body still needs some glucose or sugar to function like parts of your brain and blood but I never seen this point before it is a good point I need to look more into it but as I'm aware it doesn't say eat no carbs and some of those carbs is still good to come from good vegetables such as sweet potato and such and some of it from good sugar such as fruit but I do know some people have seen an improvement in their thyroid function those who have thyroid problems since eating this way but perhaps it can be a trigger for those long term eaters who see other problems arising in the metabolism and thyroid conditions but most of them are founded to be not avoiding certain sensitive trigger foods which has helped others when avoided

In other words, the ingredients of these snacks damage the hypothalamic part of the brain which controls hunger and the satiety center responsible for regulating appetite making it resistant to leptin and eliminating the feeling of being satiated.

However, some symptoms to look out for include bloating, gas, constipation or diarrhea, food sensitivities, and inflammation in other parts of the body, such as the joints, skin, or brain (brain fog, depression, slow thinking, fatigue, etc..)

While one part of your brain is resting from all the learning you've done for the day, the other part is actively dreaming, allowing you to retain what you have learned for the day while resting your body.

For those who have suffered from an injury, extra zinc will keep brain function strong, because the body naturally diverts zinc to the other parts of the body for healing purposFor those who have suffered from an injury, extra zinc will keep brain function strong, because the body naturally diverts zinc to the other parts of the body for healing purposfor healing purposes.

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For example, bursts of brain activity from the somatosensory cortex are followed milliseconds later by bursts of electrical activity in the hippocampus, amygdala, and then the other parts of the limbic system.

Chronic activation of the fear response can damage other parts of the brain responsible for cognition and learning.

Individual members of groups were asked to start exploring the named abilities in such way that they will retrieve the parts of their body, for example in that group there just the brain, in other group there just the ears, there just the tongue, inside that group there just the hands, there just only the legs, but there were even such groups where they were making the presence of the body from the navel downside or just from the navel upside, there just the body of the left or right arm leg.

That ability was honed to perfection in the part of the early brain that was responsible for reacting to changes in the environment, including the sudden appearance of other critters, «both aversive and cute,» the study notes.

Although it is very uncommon for brain tumors to spread to other parts of the body, it is possible for other types of cancer to spread to the brain.

The reasons for this may be lesions in the prefrontal cortex, problems in the neurotransmitters that carry signals through the brain or lesions in other parts of the brain that receive signals from the prefrontal cortex.

Studies show that when people think about helping others, they activate a part of the brain called the mesolimbic pathway, which is responsible for feelings of gratification.