Sentences with phrase «pattern than a brain»

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Smiling rewires your brain making positive patterns more common than negative ones.

It showed enhanced activity in sections of the brain responsible for willfulness and memory — much different patterns than when people were merely fantasizing about a desired future.

Our bodies» patterns of life tell us that our brain can't focus longer than 90 minutes at a time without a 20 - 30 minute break in between.

While any knowledge of God must indeed be conditioned by human experience, Ashbrook and Albright actually claim much more than this: that the brain not only patterns our experience of God, but its very structure can inform us of God's nature.

The straightforward experimental implication is that the correlation between brain wave patterns and neural impulse patterns should be lower when a person is engaged in creative thought than when engaged in routine activity like adding numbers.14

Modern psychosomatic medicine has made some progress in analyzing along these lines; for example, it seems quite possible that the emotional tone of my soul may directly alter the patterns of physical feeling in my stomach.4 Still, we should not suppose too quickly that the aims of a human personality have any very effective direct influence on the molecules of body cells, other than those in the brain.

Previous research shows that due to their weight and growing patterns children have a much higher risk than adults do from industrial chemicals and heavy metals, and that chemicals can have lasting effects on children's brain development and learning.

And what was very interesting was that it was revealed that you could identify that the children of alcoholics had different patterns of brain wave activity than the children of the non-alcoholics, so it really seems to be a biologic predisposition.

So subsequently people have been looking at this type of brain activity and this brain activity is very highly related to a person's genetic makeup, and they've looked at this through twin studies again, showing that identical twins had more similar patterns than non-identical twins.

In a human brain, 85 billion nerve cells communicate via trillions of connections using complex patterns of electrical jolts and more than 100 different chemicals.

By examining gene expression patterns, the new study found that parrot brains are structured differently than the brains of songbirds and hummingbirds, which also exhibit vocal learning.

Brain measurements have revealed that LSD, ketamine and psilocybin cause patterns of brain activity that are far more diverse than normal consciouBrain measurements have revealed that LSD, ketamine and psilocybin cause patterns of brain activity that are far more diverse than normal conscioubrain activity that are far more diverse than normal consciousness

Remarkably, a similar pattern emerged in participants» brain responses: worse - formed syllables (e.g., lbif) exerted different demands on the brain than syllables that are well - formed (e.g., blif).

Emotiv solved this brain — computer interface problem with the help of a multidisciplinary team that included neuroscientists, who understood the brain at a systems level (rather than individual cells), and computer engineers with a knack for machine learning and pattern recognition.

«The pattern of activity in a brain region involved in spatial learning in the virtual world is completely different than when it processes activity in the real world,» said Mayank Mehta, a UCLA professor of physics, neurology and neurobiology in the UCLA College and the study's senior author.

Schumacher and his students and colleagues, including lead co-author Christine Godwin, measured the brain patterns of more than 100 people while they lay in an MRI machine.

They discovered a pattern: Small - brained animals with fewer neurons in the wrinkly outer layer of the brain, called the cortex, had shorter yawns than large - brained animals with more cortical neurons.

However, further research into that field is necessary to investigate if the pattern of brain development in individual dinosaurs is also reflected in a large scale trend during the more than 150 million years of dinosaur evolution.

When there were squabbles, they usually involved no more than two scientists armed with microscopes, arguing over the precise pattern of connections that they had traced in a corner of the brain.

Due to its brain - inspired design, it can look for the complex patterns that indicate specific «bad apples,» all while using less electricity than a standard 60 - watt light bulb.

It charts a complex pattern of activity across more than 100 areas spanning both brain hemispheres.

(The same pattern of results was obtained when weighting each ROI equally, rather than in proportion to volume as described in Supplementary Note 3, or when neural response similarities were not normalized across subjects for each brain region prior to analysis, as described in Supplementary Note 2.)

Studies carried out at Emory University have shown that DNA methylation patterns in saliva appear to be more similar to patterns from the brain, than methylation in blood.

The braincase is far more rounded and gracile than that of any ape, and the brain has a human rather than an apelike pattern (Tobias 1987).

Studies carried out at Emory University School of Medicine revealed that DNA methylation patterns in saliva appear to be more similar to patterns from the brain, than methylation in blood.

«We attribute the differences in brain activation patterns to the effort expended during the working memory task rather than to differences in speed of processing,» he added.

The researchers saw something interesting in the brain scans of short sleepers that they didn't see in the «normal» group: During their time in the MRI, their brain waves exhibited patterns more typically of sleep than of wakefulness.

In the new report, published Thursday in the journal Current Biology, researchers found that exercising four hours after a memory task increased brain patterns associated with memory, and helped people retain information better than people who exercised immediately after or people who did not work out.

But the researchers saw different patterns when they broke the group down by age: For patients younger than 65, symptoms worsened when the deep brain stimulation system was turned on; for older patients, the treatment seemed to slow down their decline over one year.

When the researchers looked at the brain patterns of the sleep groups, they found that the interrupted sleepers showed significantly less «slow - wave sleep» than the other two groups of sleepers that had slept continuously.

Why the current Food Pyramid Is Wrong And What You Can Do About ItDo you feel that becoming the best you can be is more than difficult?That you are held back from achieving your best by frustrating issues like body fat, sore joints, irritated bowels and brain fog?Interestingly, a consistent pattern in food pyramids around the world puts cereals, grains, bread, pasta and other starchy carbohydrates at the base of the food pyramid diet.

In fact, it's more than a mere ability — the brain is literally wired to look for patterns whenever it can, always seeking to make order out of chaos and boil the world down into simple rules.

When they walked through the busy urban areas, their brain wave patterns consistently showed that they were more aroused and frustrated than when they walked through the parkland, where brain - wave readings became more meditative, notes the New York Times.