Sentences with phrase «signals around the brain»

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory tests.

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory...

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Understanding these brain wave basics, researchers from New York University found that rhythm serves as a type of «carrier signal» for information, with brain waves actually synchronizing to the tempo of sounds around you, including music.

It helps signals move faster around the neural network, and in two important areas of the brain, the frontal and temporal lobes, myelin levels increase with age, peaking on average around age 50 and in some people continuing to rise into their 60s.

If, during surgery, an incision was made around your areola, especially on the lower, outer side, these signals to your brain may not happen, and milk production will be low.

Throughout childhood Myelin continues to be build around the axons and dendrites in your child's brain to improve the transmission of nerve signals.

Even the teeny - tiniest amount of light creeping around through the window can signal to your child's brain that it's morning and sleep time is over.

«What this implies is that the brain produces molecular signals that instruct the skeleton to form around it, although we understand relatively little about the precise nature of that patterning.»

Implants that beam brain signals around a break in the spinal cord may let paralysed people walk again

But the brain can't move these signals around to other parts to create a single unified experience.

As well as offering a way to create souped - up organisms, changing neural connectivity could one day allow us to treat brain damage in people by rerouting signals around damaged neurons.

The system takes electrical signals from the participant's brain, which then travel down to electrodes placed around his knees to create movement.

This makes it a common target for antidepressants, which block serotonin from being reabsorbed by neurons after it has dispatched its signal, so more of it stays floating around the brain.

Close your eyes, for example, and you will still be able to find your way around your home or office, based on signals from within the body, such as feedback from muscles, and the brain's vestibular system, which maintains balance.

Studies in animals indicated that in branches of the nerve that exit from the back of the brain and wrap around various parts of the face and head, overactive cells would respond to typically benign lights, sounds and smells by releasing chemicals that transmit pain signals and cause migraine.

A well - known example of this is when the spinal cord continues to transmit signals even when the brain is no longer involved, as in the headless chicken running around the farmyard.

A1 bathwater also impaired the development of yet another class of non-neuron brain cells called oligodendrocytes — essentially fat - filled flapjacks that wrap themselves around nerve fibers, providing electrical insulation that speeds long - distance signal propagation.

Epilepsy researchers around the world have been working for decades to identify patterns of electrical activity in the brain that signal an oncoming seizure, but with limited success.

In recent years scientists have dramatically improved the power of EEG by writing computer programs that compare recordings from multiple locations around the head and then calculate which regions of the brain are producing the signals.

Yes, getting older slows us down: parts of the brain associated with memory and executive function shrink, myelin sheaths around our neurons start to erode, slowing down signalling, and arteries narrow diminishing blood supply.

A second study, to be published next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), shows how these brain signals can be used to predict virality of the same news articles around the world.

«This is a signal moment when scientists around the world are poised to solve some of the most important puzzles of the human brain,» Paxson says.

Together, they found that the human gene PTCHD1, which is missing in around 1 % of patients with autism, plays a crucial role in suppressing noise and allowing the brain to perceive signals unimpeded.

«This is a signal moment when scientists around the world are poised to solve some of the most important puzzles of the human brain,» Paxson said.

So our brain may be used to sending signals that we need to eat on high calorie foods in order to survive, even when food is everywhere around us today.

Once your body and brain have stopped «listening» to insulin's signals and stop absorbing glucose, you end up with excess glucose floating around in your bloodstream which your body (in) conveniently packages up as fat.

The attack targets the fatty shield around nerve fibers, gradually impeding the body's signals to the brain and vice versa.

The phase right around the time of menopause, when hormones and brain signals to the ovaries are fluctuating, is called perimenopause.

These neurotransmitters are the signals that carry thoughts, feelings, and commands around our brains and throughout our nervous system.

• Never make your children close their eyes: When those of us with natural hearing close our eyes, our ears pick - up sounds around us and send signals to our brains, telling us what is going on.

Best I can tell, the Obama team has no intention of doing either at this time... But I've wracked my brain trying to think of ways to retool America around clean - power technologies without a price signal — i.e., a tax — and there are no effective ones.

Magic Leap has hired a team of neuroscientists and PhDs to work on how the brain interprets the world around it and wants to use a new technology called Dynamic Digitized Lightfield Signal, or Digital Lightfield to create a single, seamless universe.