Sentences with phrase «studies of the human brain»

THE STUDY of the human brain and its origins is of enormous interest and great potential, and one that has been lucky enough to attract the patronage of the Fyssen Foundation.

The approach enabled a wide range of studies of human brain development, including implicating a new class of neural stem cell recently discovered by the lab in the evolutionary expansion of the human brain and identifying how the mosquito - borne Zika virus may contribute to microcephaly in infants infected in utero.

«These results challenge the long - held notion that images are appropriate proxies for real objects in the study of human brain function,» Snow said.

But studies of the human brain have come to conflicting conclusions.

Through both its Yale - based activities and its collaborations with other institutions worldwide, the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale creates an intellectually vibrant environment for the study of the human brain.

whose theoretical studies of the human brain's untapped potential make him an information source and then finally a kind of partner - savior to Lucy; the handsome nice - guy Parisian cop (Amr Waked) who assists Lucy during her climactic mission to acquire more of the experimental hormone to ingest and become whatever it is that she's becoming: a 1950s sci - fi monster, probably — the kind that can not be killed because everything you shoot at it makes it stronger and hungrier.

Humphrey takes her inspiration not only from embroidery, but also from clinical studies of the human brain.

The first is neuroscience, the study of the human brain.

Not exact matches

Mentioning that the human brain is made for visual processing, the study notes that people remember 80 % of what they see, and only 20 % of what they do.

Brain - chemistry studies show that, as a species, humans need to be pushed out of their comfort zones in order to grow.

There have been a ton of studies on how music impacts the brain during exercise, and it's no secret that «the human heart wants to synchronize to the music -LSB-...]» The songs we use in class are carefully selected per section.

Their latest offering, the Brody WorkLounge was the outgrowth of an extensive research study conducted by Steelcase on how the human brain functions.

And that led me to study a type of neuroscience called neurotheology, which is the study of what religious beliefs do to human brains.

Neuroscientists have over the past decade uncovered evidence, both in rodent and human studies, that parental caregiving, especially in moments of stress, affects children's development not only on the level of hormones and brain chemicals, but even more deeply, on the level of gene expression.

Cats are very intelligent and studies show their brain is closer to that of a human than the brain of a dog is.

While not a lot of research can tell us the effects of BPA on humans, studies on animals suggest it may be dangerous to brain development, the reproductive system, and the immune system.

In 2007, researchers published the first randomized, controlled study of the effect of being raised in an orphanage; that study, and subsequent research on the same sample of Romanian orphans, found that compared with babies placed with a foster family, those who were sent to institutions had lower IQs, slower physical growth, problems with human attachment and differences in functioning in brain areas related to emotional development.

Dr. Nina Kraus, a groundbreaking neuroscientist at Northwestern University, has been studying the effects of music training on brain development — with the use of non-invasive approaches in humans — and on the development of language skills.

In order to protect infant safety and ensure the patient and human rights of mothers and babies, we have built a non-profit organization committed to: (1) the study of exclusive breastfeeding complications that can result in brain injury and, in the most severe instances, death; and (2) raising public awareness to signs of infant hunger and the consequences that can result based on peer - reviewed research.

Animals studies show us that regularly separating baby from mother alters the brain (the first 10 days of life for rats is comparable to the first 6 months for human babies).

Scores of animal and human studies show that early life stress, such as severe early social deprivation, leads to long - term changes in the brain, cognitive and social problems, and heightened susceptibility to anxiety, depression, and drug abuse in adulthood.

More work has to be done on humans as many of the results showed up in mice samples, however in studying the human brains of women who had AD scientists found significantly less male fetal tissue in their brains as in the same of women who did not have AD.

The disruption of prenatal cellular activity in zebra fish, which share 80 percent of their genes with humans and are considered a good model for studying human brain development, seemed to result in hyperactivity, according to the Canadian study, which was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Studies done of neglected children who did not receive adequate affection from another human being showed that these poor babies often suffered from chronic stress, a condition which may negatively effect the parts of the brain responsible for memory, focus and learning.

Studies have shown that a protein in human milk aids in brain development, and breast - fed babies are less likely to get gastrointestinal infections and diarrhea, respiratory and ear infections or more serious diseases such as pneumonia, and there is a lower risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

She worked on multiple research studies as a post graduate at the University of Washington's Institute of Brain and Learning Sciences and Center on Human Development and Disability.

A physician who allegedly conducted human brain - activity experiments on people associated with the NXIVM corporation has apparently not published a scientific study in years and there is no indication his private research was being overseen by an independent review board, according to a medical expert and records of the NIH and U.S. National Library of Medicine.

«Music and rhythm are human universals but do not appear to be shared by most other species,» says Jessica Grahn of the University of Western Ontario who is chairing the CNS session on musical rhythm and who co-authored a new study of live music and brain rhythms.

In a study published on Nov. 16, scientists discovered that human brains exhibit more plasticity, propensity to be modeled by the environment, than chimpanzee brains and that this may have accounted for part of human evolution.

«The human organoids are good for studying the very early stages of brain development, but may not reveal much about later, more mature stages on which things like sociality depend,» says John Mason at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

WASHINGTON — Tiny orbs of brain cells swirling in lab dishes may offer scientists a better way to study the complexities of the human brain.

Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»

To test this, Shelby Putt, an anthropologist at the Stone Age Institute and Indiana University, compared the brains of modern people making Oldowan and Acheulean tools in a study published earlier this year in Nature Human Behavior.

A new study finds stress - response differences in the brains of foxes bred to be more or less aggressive toward humans.

Evidence that animal pheromones don't always work in they way we thought, backed up by a growing number of brain - imaging studies in humans, is convincing some researchers that we really do make and respond to pheromones.

In the new study, researchers mined databases of genomic data from humans and chimpanzees, to find enhancers expressed primarily in the brain tissue and early in development.

Carmen Sandi remains cautious, since the study involved rats rather than humans; after all, brain function is just one of the many elements that influence social dynamics.

A recent study published in Annals of Neurology reports that healthy human tissue grafted to the brains of patients with Huntington's disease in the hopes of treating the neurological disorder also developed signs of the illness, several years after the graft.

That, along with the complexity of the human brain, makes fear — and its close cousin, anxiety — difficult to study.

For the first study, which was published in February in Human Brain Mapping, 20 people were shown a video of a hand being poked with a pin and then asked to imitate photographs of faces displaying a range of emotions — happy, sad, angry and excited.

85 Billion Estimated number of cells in the human brain that are not neurons, according to a 2009 study by Brazilian neuroscientists.

Understanding how and why we evolved such large brains is one of the most puzzling issues in the study of human evolution.

The findings, including the key role played by the prefrontal cortex in coordinating all the activated regions of the brain, are in line with what neuroscientists have pieced together over the past decades from studies in monkeys and humans.

Published in Molecular Neurobiology, the study led by Dr Elodie Siney under the supervision of Dr Sandrine Willaime - Morawek, Lecturer in Stem Cells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cells.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

Engineered human immune cells can vanquish a deadly pediatric brain tumor in a mouse model, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has demonstrated.

In the study, Dr. Barber and colleagues analyzed brain imaging data from the Human Connectome Project of 76 otherwise healthy participants reporting PLEs and 153 control participants.

«The superior temporal sulcus or the amygdala are implicated in humans and macaques, suggesting that the brain networks involved in processing social information in humans has evolved from a network that was already performing computations related to social cognition in rhesus macaques,» says Jerome Sallet, one of the University of Oxford researchers who performed the study.

A small group of human studies have been done on a drug called propranolol, which blocks the action of stress neurotransmitters that help cement memories in the brain, but LeDoux's work shows the potential for greater precision.

The 2009 book The Playful Brain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functBrain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functbrain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functions.