Sentences with phrase «research on brain activity»

The research on brain activity by Rosalind Picard and her colleagues at MIT's Media Lab suggests that students» brain activity is nearly non-existent during lectures - even lower than when they are asleep.

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In fact, we almost can't help sharing our thoughts and feelings: Research also shows that talking about ourselves, whether in person or on social media, triggers the same pleasure sensation in the brain as does money or food — self disclosure causes increased activity in brain regions associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even sex.

Research on a technique called biofeedback showed that showing test subjects their brain activity — essentially, sending it back to their mind — allowed them to gradually change their own brainwaves and, with them, their thoughts and emotions.

The research (which thrills me personally) was led by Larry Stevens, a Northern Arizona University psychologist, and involved looking at the effects of eating dark chocolate on the brain, using an EEG machine to measure brain activity.

Volume XIV, Number 1 Sleeping on It: The Most Important Activity of a School Day — Arthur Auer Advantages and Disadvantages of Brain Research for Education — Christian Rittelmeyer What Makes Waldorf, Waldorf?

Birthing practices that isolate women from their innate capacity to birth can interfere with these behaviours because women then focus on breastfeeding as a left brained activity when actually research has shown us it is more of a right brained activity (Smilie 2008).

What we know from research is that there's lots of activity going on inside your baby's growing brain when she's in the early stages of sleep.

A recent study conducted by researchers at the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation looked at differences in brain activity comparing the times children spent on screens (TV, smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers) versus reading a book.

A physician who allegedly conducted human brain - activity experiments on people associated with the NXIVM corporation has apparently not published a scientific study in years and there is no indication his private research was being overseen by an independent review board, according to a medical expert and records of the NIH and U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Specializing in research on modafinil, Minzenberg has captured the drug in action through functional MRI (fMRI) scans, which map brain activity through changes in blood flow and oxygenation as subjects engage in particular mental processes.

Engaged in a number of activities that reflect this mission, he recently helped coordinate a high - level meeting on international brain research cooperation to take place this fall at the United Nations General Assembly.

The Brain Activity Map project launched recently by President Obama — and funded to the tune of $ 100 million in the US budget announcement earlier this month — highlights the need for research that focuses both on how individual neurons work and the ways that different regions of the brain work together as a Brain Activity Map project launched recently by President Obama — and funded to the tune of $ 100 million in the US budget announcement earlier this month — highlights the need for research that focuses both on how individual neurons work and the ways that different regions of the brain work together as a brain work together as a unit.

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disbrain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disbrain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disBRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disBRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

Research on the link between implicit race preference and brain activity could be used to prevent unintended consequences of race bias

Since 2009 clinical psychologist Bruce Cuthbert and his team at the National Institute of Mental Health have been constructing a classification system based on recent research, which is revealing how the structure and activity of a mentally ill brain differs from that of a healthy one.

Maged Harraz, Ph.D., a research associate and the first author of the newly published research paper, says the researchers already knew that ketamine interacts with excitatory NMDA receptors on nerve cells in the brain to block their activity.

However, Hannah's research goes above and beyond previous work by investigating the brain activity of drivers using the new driving simulator facility on University Park.

These were the findings of a large - scale study by a research team at the University of Basel that focused on determining the gender - dependent relationship between emotions, memory performance and brain activity.

A scent's location on the map also predicts the brain activity caused by getting a whiff: previous research in a variety of animals such as fruit flies, honeybees, mice, rats and tadpoles showed that neighboring odors cause similar patterns of neuron activity.

«This suggests more people may have mental activity initially but then lose their memories after recovery, either due to the effects of brain injury or sedative drugs on memory recall,» explained Dr Parnia, who was an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Southampton when he started the AWARE study.

The research for the study was conducted on 19 epileptic patients at the UCLA Medical Center, who required invasive monitoring of brain activity prior to potential surgical excision of seizure - causing areas of the brain.

The Yale research team had demonstrated in a prior study that fructose and another simple sugar, glucose, had different effects on brain activity.

Professor Mark Dadds, of the UNSW School of Psychology, says previous research suggested that oxytocin — a hormone with powerful effects on brain activity linked to the formation of social bonds — could have benefits for children with the disorder.

The results are «movies» of brain activity showing not only where and when activity occurs but also how signals move across the brain on a millisecond - by - millisecond level, information no other research team has produced.

Until now, most sleep research has focused on global control of sleep, which occurs when the entire brain is awash in slow waves — oscillations of brain activity created when sets of neurons are silenced for brief periods.

In the aging research, there are mixed findings on whether aging is associated with increased or decreased amplitude of neural activity, and looking into variability of the signal gives us a new type of information on how the aging brain works.»

Her research focuses on characterizing activity in the brain of behaving or resting fruit flies.

The scientists used optogenetics — an innovative research tool that uses light to activate or inhibit select cells in the brain — to stimulate either the go or the stop pathway in mice that were running on a tiny treadmill, while recording neural activity in the brainstem.

In the 2007 - 2008 academic year, for instance, awards supported research on topics such as the imaging of brain regions involved in the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autism.

Coincidentally, the US BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative (originally named BAM for brain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis bBRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative (originally named BAM for brain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis bBRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative (originally named BAM for brain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis bBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative (originally named BAM for brain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis bBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative (originally named BAM for brain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis bbrain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis bbrain activity map) is going to have its budget doubled from $ 100M in 2014 to $ 200M in 2015 (as per David Bruggeman's March 25, 2014 posting on his Pasco Phronesis blog),

Its counting and word - memorization activities, math problems, and reading challenges (all based on the brain - imaging research of Japanese neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima) sparked a mental - exercise boom in Japan.

In a 2015 survey undertaken by the Statistic Brain Research Institute, 64 % of online daters considered having «common interests» to be the most important factor in a partnership.1 So, if you're thinking of asking someone special out on a date, think about whether you have similar interests and which activities you'd both enjoy.

Research on cortical activity also shows physical brain growth spurts at similar ages.

Founder, Carrie Scheiner, developed the Fun Wise ® Exercise methodology based on cutting edge brain research to create programs that provide the optimal learning experiences for increased academic performance and physical activity.

The workplace productivity expert and career coach explains that, based on research into brain activity and work styles — plus her own experiences and those of her clients — there's no single, right way to achieve productivity.

Research has been done using an electroencephalogram (EEG) on dogs, which detects electrical activity in the brain.

In addition, the research on institutionalized children indicates that institutionalization and other adverse early experiences (for example, having multiple caregivers and being held and stimulated less) may affect brain structure and activity.23 Findings from these studies suggest that the timing and duration of institutionalization are important.

Research on Dissociation suggests a link between dissociative symptoms and lowered activity in brain regions associated with emotional processing and memory (amygdala, hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and middle / superior temporal gyrus), attention and awareness (insula), filtering sensations (thalamus), processing of information about self (precuneus), and cognitive control (lateral prefrontal cortices).

Other scientific activities sponsored by the Center on the Developing Child include research on brain plasticity, executive function and self - regulation, and program effectiveness.

A brain - training app based on research showing that some types of activity can help you combat negativity, anxiety and stress while fostering positive traits like gratitude and empathy.

However, research examining the direct effects of psychosocial deprivation on brain activity has identified significant effects upon glucose metabolism (5), functional MRI activity of specific brain regions (6), and EEG activity (7).