Sentences with phrase «processing centers of the brain»

After a brief overview of the research pertaining to memory, attention, learning, retention, and test - taking, Willis devotes subsequent chapters to strategies to captivate and hold students» attention, techniques that reduce the stresses that block information from entering the neural processing centers of the brain, and suggestions about how to maximize the positive emotional climate that maximize learning.

These tests show that touching a pet shuts down the pain - processing centers of the brain.

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Many of the spiritual aspects of ayahuasca are correlated with increased processing in the emotional centers of the brain.

What's more, juice is another example of liquid carbs that your brain's appetite center doesn't process in the same way as solid carbs.

«About 50 percent of the brain's pathways are tied in some to way to vision and visual processing,» said Dr. Steven Galetta, chairman of neurology at N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center and senior author of the study, which was published in The Journal of Neuro - Ophthalmology.

Learning disabilities in basic reading likely involve difficulty with language processing and visual reasoning centers of the brain.

Because Kraft, Coca Cola and Wal - mart are living proof that is possible for giant corporations to make and sell kid - friendly, family - friendly, and healthy processed foods so that we can give our kids some special treats — like the U.K. versions of Starburst and Skittles, for example — without necessarily exposing them to a chemical cocktail that might also give them brain tumors, or leukemia, or the symptoms of ADHD, as the Center for Science in the Public Interest recently highlighted in their report «Rainbow of Risks».

«Cognitive aging is not a disease or a level of impairment — it is a lifelong process that affects everyone,» explains lead author Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

«We found that olive oil reduces brain inflammation but most importantly activates a process known as autophagy,» explained senior investigator Domenico Praticò, MD, Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Microbiology and the Center for Translational Medicine at LKSOM.

A volume decrease in specific parts of the brain's hippocampus — long identified as a hub of mood and memory processing — was linked to bipolar disorder in a study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

«What we're seeing is that [the training] actually changes how the brain processes information,» says pain specialist Gary Kaplan, founder of the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine, who is familiar with Paulus» work.

The nationally representative survey of more than 4,700 U.S. adults centered on public views about: gene editing that might give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implantation of brain chips that potentially could give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information, and transfusions of synthetic blood that might give people much greater speed, strength and stamina.

Theta wave activity starts in the back of the brain, in it's fear center — the amygdala — and then interacts with brain's memory center — the hippocampus — before traveling to the frontal lobe where thought processing areas are engaged.

Each of the defense reactions, she explains, involves activation of motor and arousal centers in the brain and changes in pain and sensory processing.

«As opposed to the normal process of gradually linking up different centers in the brain after a stimulus, chronic pain patients have conditions that predispose them to linking up in an abrupt, explosive manner,» says first author UnCheol Lee, Ph.D., a physicist and assistant professor of anesthesiology at Michigan Medicine.

The tactile signals processed in the somatosensory centers of the brain may actually send feedback all the way to the very early stages of visual processing instead of being merely combined at some higher level.

The process, which located a genetic site for the most common form of prostate cancer, has potential for developing precision therapy for other cancers, such as breast, brain and colorectal, say researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Combining several new techniques, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Ph.D., senior author of the study, and his colleagues at Harvard's Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, applied fast fMRI in an effort to track neuronal networks that control human thought processes, and found that they could now measure rapidly oscillating brain activity.

Researchers at the University of Liège in Belgium reported at a conference in France this week that a study of 13 patients in comas of varying degrees indicated that those with the most activity in these pathways (in the cortex, or brain processing center) had suffered the least brain damage and thereby were most likely to recover if given the correct treatment.

«Though the «blind brain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Cabrain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - CaBrain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada.

Now a team of scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has shed light on how the needs of the body affect the way the brain processes visual food cues.

«Dementia plaques attack language center of brain: Peering into brains of living persons with Alzheimer's language dementia offers insight into disease process, language loss.»

As the signals are passed along to higher and higher processing centers in the brain, they continue to be compared with larger and larger swaths of the surrounding scene.

As the study was conducted in a brain scanner at the LIFE&BRAIN Center in Bonn, researchers could also show that products labeled with this emblem led to increased activity in specific brain regions: For example, they observed increased activation in regions important for reward processing as well as frontal regions that process abstract product attributes (e.g. whether or not a product carries a Fair Trade logo, and the meaning of such a label).

Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and American University have shown that, like humans, mustached bats use the left and right sides of their brains to process different aspects of sounds.

To cast more light on the question, a team led by Rosemary Varley at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. administered a variety of tests to three men with brain damage in their language processing centers.

But the preference of visual perception for the center of our visual field is also represented in the brain: it is mirrored in those brain structures that process stimuli transmitted from the fovea.

WASHINGTON (April 27, 2015)-- Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and American University have shown that, like humans, mustached bats use the left and right sides of their brains to process different aspects of sounds.

A new study authored by Marc Schieber, M.D., Ph.D., and Kevin Mazurek, Ph.D. with the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Neurology and the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, which appears in the journal Neuron, shows that very low levels of electrical stimulation delivered directly to an area of the brain responsible for motor function can instruct an appropriate response or action, essentially replacing the signals we would normally receive from the parts of the brain that process what we hear, see, and feel.

As for the first possibility, the MBs are believed to be a higher - order center of the insect brain that processes complex multimodal information [18], [19], [22], [23].

2/4/2008 Researchers Use New Method to Probe Recollections in Memory - Impaired Patients Neuroscientists continue to debate whether or not long - term memory always depends on a region of the brain called the medial temporal lobe, which contains the brain's memory - processing center, the hippocampus.

Through the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering's (CSNE's) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, students like Ben and Alisha are working in research labs at the University of Washington (UW) campus that explore how the brain adapts and processes information through implantable devices.

«Brain: The World Inside Your Head,» a traveling exhibit that opened over the weekend at the Museum of Science, represents the latest research on the body's center of thought, information processing, and personality.

Recordings were made in the thalamus, which is the major gateway of the information transfer between the environment and the cerebral cortex, the highest center of information processing in the brain.

The pattern of RGC loss in patients as well as information obtained from laboratory research all point to the fact that an important site of pathology occurs at the optic nerve head, a region where the axonal cell processes of RGCs exit the eye on their way to the visual centers of the brain.

Xiaoning Han and colleagues in the laboratories of Steven Goldman and Maiken Nedergaard at the University of Rochester Medical Center posed an interesting question — can you enhance the processing ability of one species by surgically implanting and grafting cells from the brain of another «smarter» species?

What could medicine look like someday if, instead of focusing primarily on the organ affected by a disease — neurologists examining brain diseases, pulmonologists focusing on lung diseases — our system was centered on how cells process energy?

In the case of this drone, that guidance was provided solely by brain signals, collected by an EEG (electroencephalogram) cap and processed by recording equipment provided to the students by Advanced Brain Monitoring (ABM), a Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) industry affilbrain signals, collected by an EEG (electroencephalogram) cap and processed by recording equipment provided to the students by Advanced Brain Monitoring (ABM), a Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) industry affilBrain Monitoring (ABM), a Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) industry affiliate.

But nutrition — including calories — was processed in another part of the reward center: the dorsal striatum, an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain that activates motor behavior.

The findings, which are published today (June 26) in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggest that the quick spike and subsequent crash in blood sugar that comes after eating highly processed carbs activates reward and addiction centers in the brain.

Your brain's pleasure center (aka ventral tegmental area, or VTA, and nucleus accumbens, or NA) is the root of all behavior, driven by chemical messengers that are intimately tied into the energy processes I have outlined above.

Since Contrave specifically acts on the centers of the brain that govern overeating behaviors and craving desires, there is hope that its ability to suppress these processes will lead to long - term weight loss.

Cardiovascular afferent signals have numerous connections to important brain centers as your thalamus, hypothalamus, and amygdala, and because of this, the signals from your heart play a direct role in determining your perceptions, thought processes, emotional experiences and overall stress.

The research field of «neurocardiology» has firmly established that your heart is indeed a sensory organ and an information encoding and processing center, and almost like a second brain.

You might find it hard to believe a bag of chips or chocolate bar could create such catastrophe, but those and other processed foods send a rush of sugar that alerts your brain's reward center to release feel - good neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and beta endorphin.

This may be because steroid hormones cause neurophysiological alterations in the sensory centers of the brain — a process that can take several hours to several days.

Different foods are processed differently and have differing effects on the hunger hormone levels, feelings of hunger, and the metabolic centers of the brain (6, 7).

Dr. Sarah LoBisco, ND @DrLoBisco Unlike other senses, our sense of smell has direct neural pathways to emotional processing centers in the brain which includes the amygdala, hippocampus, and -LSB-...]

The process is simple — the tricky part is getting completely calm, centered, and focused so that when you pull out a card and gaze at it, your intuition can actually «speak» to you instead of getting drowned out by all the chatter and stresses and monkey - mind stuff that typically crowd your brain.

The amygdala, for instance, processes emotions, stores the memories of emotional reactions, and reacts so aggressively to stress that it will physically prevent information from reaching the centers of the brain necessary for absorbing new knowledge.