Sentences with phrase «size of one's brains»

There are, of course, other sequences of evolution which can be regarded as progressive trends in complexity such as the increase in size of the brain of Homo over the last two million years.

The small numbers and large sizes of brain cells in sea slugs make the animals ideal for brain research.

The brain regions most affected are those involved in reward, emotion and learning — although it isn't clear yet whether the smaller than average size of these brain areas could be a cause or effect of addiction.

Golden retrievers, for example, have many more nerve cells than cats, and brown bears have an unexpectedly low number of nerve cells given the relatively large size of their brain.

Brain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account the differing overall sizes of their brains — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did.

Following early recognition of the importance of the brain as a potential differentiator between the activity of new drugs, the brigatinib trial includes patients with untreated brain metastases, showing a greater than 30 percent decrease in size of brain tumors in 8 of 15 patients with brain tumors greater than 10 mm and disappearance of brain metastases in 11 of 33 patients with smaller lesions only.

«One is the sheer size of their brains in absolute terms.

If that happens during the key phases of brain development in the first 3 to 4 months of pregnancy, the overall size of the brain would be dramatically reduced, leading to microcephaly.

Morton and her team say sheep are a good animal model for studying neurodegenerative diseases because of the relatively large size of their brains and their longevity.

The study, recently published in the journal Resuscitation, found that patients discharged in «good neurological condition» after a brief cardiac arrest (when the heart suddenly stops beating normally and can not pump blood effectively) had significant memory problems and a 10 to 20 per cent reduction in size of their brain's memory region, the hippocampus.

God's image IS our brain, & if we could shrink ourselves to the size of a brain cell & go inside & take a look around, I imagine it would look a LOT like the universe does to us from Earth now.

This has nothing to do with the size of your brain you obviously are very smart.

Although the find was remarkable, it wasn't until this year that a team led by French paleoanthropologist Michel Brunet used CT scans to create a virtual model of the skull, revealing precise measurements of the size of the brain cavity and information about the angle at which the spinal cord exits the brain.

Your answer can reveal the size of your brain.

Neurons in the shell surrounding the established vocal centers of the parrot brain play a part in vocal learning and other complex motor behaviors, resolving controversies over the size of brain areas involved in song and speech imitation.

These differing views caused confusion about the sizes of the brain regions important for vocal learning.

From there, the virus triggers brain cells to die off, and blunts the size of the brain, according to Song.

Biologists at the University of Washington observed the behavior of paper wasps (Mischocyttarus mastigorphorus) in the Costa Rican rain forest and then measured the size of their brains.

He grew intrigued by ASPM after other researchers discovered that serious defects in the gene cause microcephaly — a drastic reduction in the size of the brain's cerebral cortex, the region responsible for such higher brain functions as abstract thought and planning.

In Lahav's studies, NICU infants who heard recordings of their mothers» singing, reading stories, and talking softly, along with their heartbeats, gained more weight and increased the size of their brain's auditory cortex compared to infants who listened mostly to the white noise of the fan inside their incubators.

That's because many evolutionary biologists believe the increase in the size of the brain relative to body size in animals such as primates was driven by the demands of living in societies.

A new study shows that the time it takes for humans and all other mammals to start walking fits closely with the size of their brains.

And if you compare the relative size of brains to bodies, our brains are even more impressive.

A study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden suggests that ravens can be as clever as chimpanzees, despite having much smaller brains, indicating that rather than the size of the brain, the neuronal density and the structure of the birds» brains play an important role in terms of their intelligence.

The size of the brain's ventricles — cerebrospinal fluid - filled spaces deep within the brain — became progressively larger during the course of treatment, and changes were also seen within the subventricular zone, one of two structures in which new brain cells are generated in adults.

To test it, they compared the size of brains and guts in a range of primate species (pdf).

Research from paleoanthropologist Dean Falk, of the State University of New York at Albany, indicates that men might, and it may be related to the size of their brains.

Absolute size is important, but it is usually regarded as less informative than relative size — the size of the brain as a fraction of the size of the body.

The study, published in the open access journal Acta Neuropathologica Communications, showed that in experiments on mice, an immune - based treatment reduced the size of brain lesions.

The paper «provides the first evidence of the relative size of the brains and which parts were initially enlarging during critical stages in the evolution of modern mammalian brains,» says biologist R. Glenn Northcutt of the University of California (UC), San Diego.

Social insects tend to have larger mushroom bodies than solitary ones, leading researchers to believe that the transition from solitary to social living increased the size of these brain regions.

Now there's evidence that such stress can actually change the size of brain structures responsible for learning, memory and processing emotion.

This study on the sizes of brain regions may offer physiological clues to why what happens to toddlers can have such a profound impact decades later.

The images showed features such as the size of each brain region, the level of connectivity between neurons, and how much white matter was insulating the neurons.

MRI scans show that memorizing ancient mantras increases the size of brain regions associated with cognitive function

The research, by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, also suggests that the size of the brain's right anterior insula may predict the risk of future bouts of depression, potentially giving researchers an anatomical marker to identify those at high risk for recurrence.

«Cooking allowed us to overcome an energetic barrier that restricts the size of the brains of other primates.»

Since the brain shrinks as we age, intracranial volume is thought to represent the size of the brain at its largest point.

Cooking allowed early humans to overcome the energetic barrier that limits the size of the brains of other primates, she has determined.

It turns out that it's not the size of the brain that matters, but neuronal density and the structure of the brains.

Humans are distinguished from other species by the size of their brains, but bigger brains don't come free.

New research links this complexity of cetacean culture and behavior to the size of their brains.

Stress causes severe muscle pains, shrinks the size of our brains, and even causes heart disease.

And it does not take much: Just a slow jog with proper warm up and cool down can do this, and actually increase the size of the brain.

According to recent research published in the journal Neurology, 9, 10, 11 lack of sleep may affect the size of your brain.

They superimposed Marlon Wayans» (The Ladykillers, Scary Movie 2) head on the body of a young dwarf to create the effect of making him look small, but one part of him did appear to shrink down to tiny size during the conception stage of this abysmal film — the size of his brain.