Sentences with phrase «side of the brain at»

The dolphins» remarkable alertness may result from their ability to sleep on one side of the brain at a time.

Music may provide more than just a brief respite from life's stresses — it may help you to think with both sides of your brain at once

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On the other side of the state, reports the Kansas City Star, a new company called the Brew Lab might be thought of as a «build - a-beer workshop,» in which customers can buy brewing equipment and supplies, and also try out ideas and pick the brains of pros at on - site brewing stations.

Most Christian leaders, especially those of us who feel more at home in the right side of our brains, desperately need simple systems to follow.

With cutting edge technology at our disposal and some of the best brains in the field of packaging by our side we stand committed to continually add value to the business of our clients.

This position helps your little one stretch each side of her torso and neck, balance strength on the front side of the body and back side of the body (flexor and extensor muscle groups) and bring hands together at the middle of the body (called the midline), which is awesome for brain development.

Paul D. Anderson, one of the nation's foremost experts on the legal side of the sports concussion issue, will be one of several speakers at Traumatic Brain Injury 2.0, which will be held November 11 at the School of Law at the University of Missouri.

Since you letdown on both sides at the same time (based on messages from your boobs to your brain), this makes any concerns about letdown less of an issue.

As her brain - body connection develops in the first few months, she'll begin to use both sides of the neck at the same time to lift and hold her head steady in Tummy Time.

Melding the category strengths and bestselling authors of both imprints, TarcherPerigee's core publishing areas include: Self - improvement (such as the runaway successes Start Where You Are by Meera Patel, The Power of Kindness by Piero Ferrucci, Attached by Dr. Amir Levine, and A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley); Creativity (including interactive books like Adam J. Kurtz's 1 Page at a Time and Me, You, Us by Lisa Currie as well as the multi-million-copy bestsellers Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards and The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron); Parenting (the New York Times bestseller Brainstorm by Dr. Daniel Siegel, Carol Kranowitz's go - to guide The Out - of - Sync Child, and Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids by Dr. Laura Markham); Spirituality (including bestselling titles like Transcendence by Dr. Norman Rosenthal, Goldie Hawn's 10 Mindful Minutes, The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes, and I Am the Word by Paul Selig); and Gift / Inspiration (such as the Wall Street Journal bestseller Chasers of the Light by Tyler Knott Gregson, the New York Times bestseller Catification by Jackson Galaxy and the James Beard Award - winner Imbibe by David Wondrich).

Schalk points with his pen at a large rectangular field on the side of the screen depicting a region of her brain abuzz with electrical activity.

Such movement makes the brain bump into the interior of the skull at the point of impact, as well as on the opposite side of the skull, resulting in contusions (bruises) that damage two sites in the brain, called the coup and contrecoup injuries.

Emily Cross and her colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig scanned the brains of 18 people with functional MRI while showing them photographs of a contortionist in ordinary positions — stretching to one side, for example — and in contorted postures such as lying on her stomach with her toes touching her forehead.

Also, the team plans to create devices with even higher density, including a double - sided microelectrode array with 64 electrodes per tine instead of eight — making for a total of around 4,000 electrodes placed in the brain at once.

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence out there claiming a link between cell phone use and cancer: Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says that the brain cancer (malignant glioma) that killed O. J. Simpson's attorney, Johnnie Cochran, was the result of frequent cell phone use, based on the fact that the tumor developed on the side of the head against which he held his phone.

The birds» right eye is connected to the left side of their brain; apparently, says Hunt, their left hemisphere is better at controlling complex sequential tasks, just as it is in humans.

«For 20 years, we thought that only the higher side of the inflammatory processes in the body and brain are associated with depression,» says Raz Yirmiya, a psychobiologist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The oldest known drawing of the nervous system shows a large nose at the bottom, eyes on either side, and a hollow optic nerve that flows out of each one towards the back of the brain.

«Since several BACE1 inhibitors are currently being evaluated in clinical phase 3 trials for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the identification of potential side effects will be of great importance to ensure a positive clinical outcome,» said Dr. Jochen Herms, a Professor of translational brain research at Ludwig - Maximilians - University Munich.

Indeed, functional brain imaging has identified a set of adjacent regions, referred to as the fusiform face area (FFA), that are situated on the left and the right sides of the brain, at the bottom of the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex.

Because the results represent just one sleep cycle, however, it is unclear whether the left side of the brain is always tasked with maintaining attentiveness, explains the study's senior author Yuka Sasaki, a cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences researcher at Brown.

Here the U-shaped loop at the top shows the tract through which signals from one side of the brain are transmitted to the other.

But about a decade ago, Leuthardt and Bundy, who is now a postdoctoral researcher at University of Kansas Medical Center, discovered that a small area of the brain played a role in planning movement on the same side of the body.

«These findings upset the notion that only humans use different sides of their brains to distinguish different aspects of sound,» says the study's senior author, Stuart Washington, PhD, a neuroscientist at Georgetown.

«With the hand grip, the differences were in the left side of the brain, while in the Valsalva study, the differences appeared on the right side, which was a surprise at first,» Macey said.

The researchers used non-invasive brain stimulation techniques to disrupt activation in the so called «temporo - parietal junction,» a region at the side towards the back of the brain.

Surgeons at the City of Hope Medical Center cut a tumor the size of a tennis ball out of the left side of Heil's brain.

Electrodes were placed adjacent to those structures on both sides of the brain through the foramen ovale (FO), naturally occurring openings at the base of the skull.

New research from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions that explored the potential side effects of the stimulant drug Ritalin on those without ADHD showed changes in brain chemistry associated with risk - taking behavior, sleep disruption and other undesirable effects.

This study, led by Soo Young Kim and performed at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Berkeley, found that such compensation produces structural brain changes at the site of the stroke in rats, limiting recovery of the injured side.

â $ œWe have found neuroprotective compounds that can limit damage to the brain during ischemia associated with stroke and other brain injuries, but have minimal side effects, â $ says senior author Stephen Traynelis, PhD, professor of pharmacology at Emory University School of Medicine.

For example, two distant hubs in the circuit, one at the front of the brain (right circle) and the other at the rear side (left circle), showed varying amounts of synchrony in their brain waves, depending on what object a monkey was holding in memory.

«Dolphins have an unusual form of sleep, in which only one side of the brain goes to sleep at a time, and during this state they continue to swim and have some awareness,» he said.

«We can tap into the signaling of an intact brain, the right side still unaffected by the stroke,» said Thy Huskey, a neurology professor at Wash U. «Those signals could signal through a computer, a device that can assist the right hand to move.»

Phosphatidylserine (PS) is an amino acid that is soluble in fat and it can be found at the inner side of brain cell membranes, where it is in charge of cognitive operation by promoting communication between the cells, which is in turn essential for the proper functioning of the brain.

We can start to understand if we fall on either side by testing for Thyroid - stimulating hormone (TSH), which is released by a small gland at the base of the brain.

Eventually the rational side of my brain won so I dedicated virtually every waking hour to figuring out what my colleagues were talking about at that dinner table (mostly because I didn't want to embarrass myself in front of them again).

Perry Renshaw, MD, PhD, director of the Brain Imaging Center at McLean Hospital and senior author stated, «The development of an inexpensive, widely available intervention such as yoga that has no side effects but is effective in alleviating the symptoms of disorders associated with low GABA levels has clear public health advantage.

According to recent Bulletproof Radio (iTunes) podcast guest Kris Smith, MD, a top neurosurgeon who specializes in brain tumors at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, the downside of some aggressive cancer treatments is that they can cause lifelong side effects in survivors.

Still, it's a curious side effect people who think too much about everything seem to encounter, and it can be quite enraging at times, especially when you try to fall asleep and your brain thinks about showing you that awkward conversation / event / moment from five years ago (yes, those things can happen and I bet a few of you know that).

It's important that students show that they can use both sides of their brain, stay realistic and rational, but at same time full of imagination.

A study is a study, and the scientific side of my brain can't resist the urge to take a look at the research (biased though it may be).

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Immordino - Yang's early results suggest that while both examples of admiration engage the brain's systems for supporting the self and body, neurological differences between these sides of the emotion hint at an intriguing story that may prove to reflect qualitatively different aspects of self - awareness and consciousness.

Research suggests that Mandarin supports thedevelopment of both sides of the brain and the Abacus technique makes pupils more adept at mental arithmetic and embeds numeracy in children's minds.

A bit of torque steer — in which the engine's power pulls the car to the side — cropped up at high speeds in lower gears; but if you have both hands on the wheel and your brain in gear, that should pose no problems.

I'm certain most of you did not realize I had even left but I am happy to say that at least for today, the writer side of my brain has become active again.

Looking at a puzzle in Semispheres at first seems like a weird and daunting brain puzzle due to the unique presentation of two sides of the puzzle being on screen at the same time.

Whereas previously to view stereoscopic 3D images on a 3DS you needed to keep your head locked at a certain viewing angle, which if broken would cause you to see two images that confused your brain and hurt your eyes, the New 3DS uses its top camera in conjunction with a new infrared sensor to locate and follow your eyes for about 60 - 70 degrees either side of centre, constantly readjusting the angle at which it projects images and effectively meaning the 3D effect is never lost.

With the headset on, as you inch your way along the knife - edge ridge leading to the Hillary Step, an 8,000 ft drop on one side and 12,000 ft on the other, and despite internally screaming at your brain that you're walking on your carpet, the sense of danger is palpable.