Sentences with phrase «studied brain wave»

The first investigations studied brain wave patterns in the late 1950s.

For almost a century, scientists have been studying brain waves to learn about mental health and the way we think.

One aspect of this emphasis on the importance of scientific verification that I find alternately disquieting and amusing is the reductionist misconception that yoga practice and effects can be fully understood in analytical and biochemical terms; that if we study the brain waves of meditators, for example, we will understand the nature of consciousness and the causes of the transcendent experience some meditators report.

Scientists put her in an MRI like a machine, studying her brain waves, and they were, in fact, identical to the overwhelming hurricane of brain activity that occurs during orgasm.

Not exact matches

They've been studying deep sleep — the tier beyond light sleep and REM sleep — and found that using certain sounds to stimulate subjects» deep sleep can elevate the number of long - burst brain waves they experience.

More sensors connected to the child's head allow the algorithms to create an image of brain waves that doctors can then study.

Afterwards the brain waves of the different participants were studied.

Other studies show that oxytocin levels, and even brain alpha waves, track between mother and baby in synchronous interactions as well.

Publication of the Purdue study sent shock - waves reverberating through the football world, with the findings cited by concussion experts calling on youth sports organizations to take more aggressive action to minimize exposure to RHI, including sub-concussive blows, by changing the way contact and collision sports are played and practiced, and reducing the amount of brain trauma a child incurs by limiting the number of hits they sustain in a sports season, over the course of a year, and during a career.

Studies have shown that at 4 - months there are dramatic changes in your baby's brain waves and a significant increase in his head circumference!

Dr. Brandon Porter is accused of having run a study in which women were shown video clips — some of them violent — while their brain waves were recorded and facial expressions videotaped.

Twenty - seven participants with tremor - dominant Parkinson's disease were enrolled in the study; the research team randomly assigned 20 to be treated with focused ultrasound waves on their brains, while the others received a fake procedure, to account for any potential placebo effect.

Our study tells us that a large proportion of these changes may occur during very short and repetitive brain waves called spindles.

The study, published in Nature Communications, found that activity in dendrites increases when we sleep, and that this increase is linked to specific brain waves that are seen to be key to how we form memories.

Whether you can sleep through noise has a lot to do with the brain waves you produce while you sleep, according to a new study published in Current Biology.

The study, led by the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences, found that younger and older adults show very different brain wave patterns when performing the same memory task.

«Past studies have shown that brain waves travelling at slower speeds tend to be important for memory, while slightly faster speed brain waves play a role in our attention,» said Rondina.

Flickering light kicks off brain waves that clean a protein related to Alzheimer's disease out of mice's brains, a new study shows.

Studies on people with electrodes implanted in their brains suggest brain waves, and their interactions, help enable emotion, language, vision and more.

CATCH A WAVE Created by collections of busy nerve cells, brain waves may help the brain organize information, new studies suggest.

Shown are brain waves during slow - wave sleep, measured as a study participant slept.

The conference included six presentations on meditation research, including a study by Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin that was supported by the Dalai Lama's Mind and Life Institute, in which the brain waves of meditating Tibetan monks were monitored and compared with those of novice meditators.

The study, which used EEG caps to monitor the brain waves of sleepers in the brain's posterior «hot zone,» pinpointed a new signal that can accurately predict dreaming during non — rapid eye movement sleep.

In keeping with earlier studies, the older adults performed less well than the younger ones on the memory test, and showed significant reductions in the slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.

This past January Claudio Del Percio of Sapienza University in Rome and his colleagues reported the results of a study in which they measured the brain waves of karate champions and ordinary people, at rest with their eyes closed, and compared them.

A recent wave of studies are starting to bear fruit: We are now learning that in the first few days after birth, changes occur in the brains of both the dad and the baby, depending on whether the father is around or not.

Wyss bioengineer Kit Parker (left, with Harvard graduate student Borna Dabiri) is studying how pressure waves from explosive blasts affect brain tissue.

The study recorded the brain waves of 25 healthy adults as they listened to sentences and word lists.

Proponents of the idea of multiple personalities have also performed controlled studies of biological differences among alters, revealing that they may differ in respiration rate, brain - wave patterns and skin conductance, the last being an accepted measure of arousal.

The ghostly voices and disordered thought associated with schizophrenia may result from faulty brain - wave patterns — essentially a mind gone out of tune — according to a new study.

But he and other neuroscientists say the study may be fatally flawed because it uses technology that can not reliably distinguish one type of brain wave pattern from

Reach for the hand of a loved one in pain and not only will your breathing and heart rate synchronize with theirs, your brain wave patterns will couple up too, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The University of Alaska Fairbanks lent both brain and supercomputing power to a recently published international study of the life cycle of massive under - the - ocean waves called internal waves.

New studies are examining contributing factors ranging from vaccine reactions to atypical growth in the placenta, abnormal tissue in the gut, inflamed tissue in the brain, food allergies, and disturbed brain wave synchrony.

The study dives into mechanotransduction — how hair cells sense mechanical sound waves, or in this case, water waves, and convert them into brain signals.

Previous studies have shown that when a typically developing 20 - month - old child hears a word that she doesn't know, a characteristic uptick in brain waves in the left hemisphere of the brain can be detected through electroencephalography (EEG), a noninvasive method of measuring the brain's electrical activity.

However, recent studies have shown that sleep - deprived animals can exhibit slow waves in parts of their brain while they are still awake, suggesting that the brain can also control alertness at a local level.

«During sleep, maybe specific brain regions have slow waves at the same time because they need to exchange information with each other, whereas other ones don't,» says Laura Lewis, a research affiliate in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and one of the lead authors of the new study, which appears in the journal ebrain regions have slow waves at the same time because they need to exchange information with each other, whereas other ones don't,» says Laura Lewis, a research affiliate in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and one of the lead authors of the new study, which appears in the journal eBrain and Cognitive Sciences and one of the lead authors of the new study, which appears in the journal eLife.

«It is the first time that a model of this complexity has been used to study the underlying properties of brain waves,» says EPFL scientist Sean Hill.

Researchers from the University of Iowa studied how people stopped an action — first by measuring participants» brain waves and second by clocking the amount of time it took participants to stop an action when prompted to do so.

The scientists are currently studying similar brain wave phenomena in larger and more realistic neural circuits.

After a head injury, the protective lining around the brain heals with help from two waves of immune cells, according to a new US study in mice.

To study this, they performed electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings — a technique that detects abnormalities in the brain's electrical waves such as those found in patients with epilepsy.

The brain holds in mind what has just been seen by synchronizing brain waves in a working memory circuit, an animal study supported by the National Institutes of Health suggests.

What the study's authors discovered was each person's brain wave responses to the visual stimuli were unique enough to identify them by — very much like fingerprints or DNA.

In her study, she wants to know if that brain wave produces a stronger reading when the subject sees the person they love, compared to the faces of friends and strangers.

Diagnose a patient's sleep disorder using brain wave, eye movement, and breathing data collected during a sleep study.

In the first study, the researchers found that taking GABA had a relaxing effect on brain waves.

According to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, close friends actually share strikingly similar brain waves.

Enjoy caffeine and tea Caffeine has been shown to improve concentration in studies, and tea has also been shown to have a compound, L - theanine, that impacts alpha waves in the brain.