Sentences with phrase «said brain matter»

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«There's a great opportunity for other companies to step up and say, «Women's brains matter,»» said Shriver.

You said, «As a matter of fact, I have grown up after I advanced in worldly knowledge and USED my brain.»

The proof that the growing co-extension of our soul and the world, through the consciousness of our relationship with all things, is not simply a matter of logic or idealisation, but is part of an organic process, the natural outcome of the impulse which caused the germination of life and the growth of the brain — the proof is that it expresses itself in a specific evolution of the moral value of our actions (that is to say, by the modification of what is most living within us).

Further, no matter what side of the fence you are on, you'd have to be impossibly naïve and brain dead to say it doesn't matter whether your beliefs are actually true or not.

When the physiologist who thinks that his science cuts off all hope of immortality pronounces the phrase, «Thought is a function of the brain,» he thinks of the matter just as he thinks when he says, «Steam is a function of the tea - kettle,» «Light is a function of the electric circuit,» «Power is a function of the moving waterfall.»

If all determination is negation, as the philosophers say, it might well prove that the loss of some of the particular determinations which the brain imposes would not appear a matter for such absolute regret.

BUT... I think no matter if you fully understand that your EDA is in fact just that, an estimated date of arrival, there is still something in your brain that says «Dang!»

A White House official made light of Arizona Sen. John McCain's battle with brain cancer during an internal meeting, saying his opinion on the president's pick tp lead the CIA «doesn't matter (because) he's dying anyway.»

No matter what was said to her, you could see her brain darting around inside itself, desperately trying to find a hook, an angle, with which to bring up the Ashcroft dilemma.

Poloncarz downplayed the significance of Collins» political brain trust's loss, saying he doesn't think that will matter much to voters when it comes to his race this fall.

He should not abandon the economy, but rather strive to assemble the best brains and experts in economic matters to revamp the economy,» he said.

In a human brain, the cells would need to travel a matter of millimeters or centimeters, up to 20 times farther than the 500 microns tested here, he says.

«We have achieved the ability to build a brain microcircuit, an elementary unit, and now it's just a matter of scaling up,» he says.

«Even our first results show that it really matters to know the composition of the brain in a precise, quantitative way,» says Osten.

At first, brain death advocates said this is a matter of hours.

«These new studies, together with previous studies, show that no matter how you choose subjects or how you define Gulf War illness, you still see structural changes in the brain,» says Roberta White, a neuropsychologist from Boston University's School of Public Health.

As brain structures grow and mature, water diffusion in the gray matter and white matter also changes in recognizable patterns, allowing researchers to track how the tissue is developing, and at what rate, he said.

This finding, published online in Neuroimage, matters because unraveling how the brain solves the complex task of reading can help in uncovering the brain basis of reading disorders, such as dyslexia, say the scientists.

«The direction of tail wagging does in fact matter, and it matters in a way that matches hemispheric activation,» says Giorgio Vallortigara of the Center for Mind / Brain Sciences of the University of Trento.

Leading the work, Dr Nikos Evangelou, said: «We already knew that large research MRI scanners could detect the proportion of lesions with a vein in the brain's white matter, but these scanners are not clinically available.

The bulkier white matter may be what gives men their ability to focus intently on work and tune out distractions, as well as their clear - cut superiority when it comes to spatial reasoning, says Ruben Gur, a psychologist and director of the Brain Behavior Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

She said the studies show yoga practitioners have more gray matter than controls in multiple brain regions, including those involved in pain modulation.

Assessing the impact of brain anatomy on pain reduction, Bushnell said gray matter changes in the insula or internal structures of the cerebral cortex are most significant for pain tolerance.

We showed that it matters what kind of training you're doing,» said lead author Kara J. Blacker, a former Johns Hopkins post-doctoral fellow in psychological and brain sciences.

«We saw that there were prolonged abnormalities in terms of the white matter in the brain,» said Manning, noting that these changes are only visible using high field - strength MRI and these sophisticated analytical methods.

Neurons early on, say, in the eye, will respond to the chiaroscuro patterns of the photographs no matter what the brain the eye is attached to sees.

Deaner says his findings support the hypothesis that absolute brain size matters more than brain size adjusted for body size.

White matter imaging isn't yet used routinely before surgery, but Thompson says in future it could prove useful in avoiding collateral damage to brain connections.

The researchers could not explain with certainty what the findings mean — they do not have the kind of access to the women's brains that scientists have to rodents», for instance — but they speculate that the gray matter losses might confer an adaptive advantage, Hoekzema says.

Further, the wound would have been much more damaging had the bullet ricocheted off the inside of her skull or if it had remained lodged in her brain matter where it could «migrate around» and cause additional harm, Black says.

«In a separate study, we examined the white matter structure of the fornix, a group of nerve fibers at the center of the brain that is important for memory,» she said.

Black said it's not possible to know yet whether the extra gray matter is transmitting information that somehow contributes to tics or whether reduced amounts of white matter elsewhere in the brains of kids with Tourette's may somehow influence the movements and vocalizations that characterize the disorder.

Discerning such faint signals within the cacophony of the brain will be «incredibly difficult,» Koch says, no matter how far neurotechnology advances.

Dr Marco Catani from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, said: «White matter provides key insights which allow us to paint a precise picture of how different parts of the brain develop during critical periods in childhood.

«Toxic wounds» resulted in damage to veterans» nervous systems and immune systems, including neuroendocrine and immune dysregulation, autonomic nervous system irregularities, and reduced white and gray matter in veterans» brains, a new review on Gulf War veterans says.

These «toxic wounds» resulted in damage to veterans» nervous systems and immune systems, including neuroendocrine and immune dysregulation, autonomic nervous system irregularities, and reduced white and gray matter in veterans» brains, the review says.

Kalkbrenner says it was important to look at eastern states because of the differences in climate, seasonal weather patterns and the chemical make - up of the particulate matter that might impact brain development.

Once he's president for the Royal Society, he can finally say what he really thinks about light and God and matter and gravity and living inside God's brain and fermentation - all these things that he can only say at the end.

«Although this is an important sequential milestone, the only milestone that matters to us is the hope that one day we will learn that this investigational new drug has positively and safely changed the life of a patient suffering from a brain disorder such as schizophrenia or Alzheimer's disease,» Warren said.

Yuste says the answer might lie in what he calls the brain's «dark matter,» the neural activity that goes on constantly behind the activity evoked by sensory stimuli.

This finding, published online today in Neuroimage, matters because unraveling how the brain solves the complex task of reading can help in uncovering the brain basis of reading disorders, such as dyslexia, say the scientists.

«It's almost like a raisin shrinking down,» Stenehjem said, in describing the appearance of the damaged brain matter.

It doesn't matter what the pages say, but there's something about a brain dump first thing in the morning that clears your plate and cleanses your palate for the rest of the day.

Floel said she and her colleagues are now planning larger studies of calorie restriction and mental function and will perform MRI brain scans on participants before and after they reduce their food intake in order to better understand what's happening in the brain's gray matter.

«Instead of storing this irrelevant information that our phones can store for us, our brains are freed up to store the memories that actually do matter for us,» he says.

«We found that higher serum levels of NT - proBNP were associated with smaller brain volumes, in particular with smaller gray matter volume, and with poorer organization of the brain's white matter,» lead author Dr. Meike Vernooij said in a journal news release.

No matter your age, «anything that lowers stress will improve memory,» says Majid Fotuhi, MD, chair of the Memosyn Neurology Institute and author of Boost Your Brain.

As a matter of fact things I am reading are debunking the whole cholesterol scare all together and say that cholesterol is actually good for you and good for your brain as long as you do not have artery disease that causes it to Lodge in your veins I am interested in your take on this and if there was a way to know that you did not have inflammation would it be safe to eat a higher cholesterol diet.

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, John Ratey, says that exercise stimulates our grey matter to the extent that it's like «Miracle - Gro» for the brain.

You know that movie where a famous doctor / cannibal / serial killer cuts open a victim's skull, cuts away some brain matter w / out killing the guy, fries it up in a hot skillet, and then feeds it again to the victim («that's good,» said the poor schmuck)?