Sentences with phrase «study of the brain really»

But can study of the brain really tell us about God?

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«A study published last year in Experimental Brain Research appeared to provide some partial scientific support for this idea,» notes BPS, explaining that brain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain aBrain Research appeared to provide some partial scientific support for this idea,» notes BPS, explaining that brain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain abrain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain abrain areas.

And, over time, those benefits could really add up: One animal study found that regular exercise actually reorganizes parts of the brain, making it less reactive to stress.

There are several studies, published in peer reviewed journals that are really quite suggestive that consciousness is in some way unrelated to the biological functioning of the brain.

Given the results of a a new study reported in the British medical journal, The Lancet4 that children and young adults scanned multiple times by CT have a small increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors in the decade following their first scan, parents should make sure a CT scan is really necessary in treatment of their child after head injury.

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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.

This detail of the research — showing this brain circuit can adapt to winning — is what really makes this study stand out, Kessels says.

Rather «handedness is really a very crude measure of how the brain is working,» says Alina Rodriguez, a clinical psychologist at King's College London and the study's lead author.

«This is really about creating tools and resources for the broad community of people who want to study the brain.»

«I really worry about this study — I think it's flawed,» says Peter Snyder, a neurologist who studies ageing at Brown University's Alpert Medical School in Providence, R.I. Snyder agrees that data supporting the efficacy of brain training are sparse.

In neurobiology, I think we are getting a really interesting meld of genetics on the one hand and the way people study the brain on the other.

This study is really the first of its kind and provides a big step forwards in our understanding of how training can alter the functioning of brain networks.

«It seems like the brain's communication with the motor system is so hard wired, and this ability to stop an action is so innate that even repeated practice won't really alter it,» says Jan Wessel, assistant professor in the UI Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and corresponding author on the study, published in the Journal of Neuroscibrain's communication with the motor system is so hard wired, and this ability to stop an action is so innate that even repeated practice won't really alter it,» says Jan Wessel, assistant professor in the UI Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and corresponding author on the study, published in the Journal of NeurosciBrain Sciences and corresponding author on the study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience.

«A really interesting finding was when Matt (lead author of the study, Matthew Ulgherait) activated AMPK in the nervous system, he saw evidence of increased levels of autophagy in not only the brain, but also in the intestine,» adds Walker.

«What was really exciting is that in both old and young brains, a small percentage of the grafted cells retained their «stemness» feature and continuously produced new neurons,» said Bharathi Hattiangady, assistant professor at the Texas A&M College of Medicine and co-first author of the study.

«These findings were really surprising and exciting to us because nobody knew anything about collagen VI in the brain,» said Jason Cheng, MD, co-lead author of the study.

«The results seem pretty dramatic,» says Mark P. Mattson, PhD, a senior investigator at the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md. «Even though the number of subjects in the study was not really high, they had really high, statistically significant improvements in their performance on the memory test,» added Mattson, who studies caloric restriction and the brain in his role as chief of the Cellular and Molecular Neurosciences Section at the Laboratory of Neurosciences but was not involved in Dr. Floel's investigation.

«Chocolate is indeed a stimulant and it activates the brain in a really special way,» said the study's lead author Larry Stevens, a professor of psychological sciences at NAU, in a statement.

The first - of - its - kind study mixed brain - imaging data from canines with a series of behavioral experiments, and came to the conclusion that dogs really do value the relationships they have with their owners.

«THE only thing I really like is that brain,» said the painter Dana Schutz, sitting on a stool in her Brooklyn studio and pointing to her detailed study of a strangely shaped human brain in gangrenous shades of green and gray.

Finally, dissection of brain tissue would be done for the very important purpose of trying to see if some abnormality exists which makes the Japanese prone to do the same kind of research on whales, when they simply could have used advanced, non-invasive technologies to track and study whales — assuming that what they really were interested in was research and not filling plates at sushi bars in the first place.

I must turn to the great oracle and brain of the modern world, Google and Wikipedia, even to refresh my memory of things I have actually studied and know fairly well, and to go beyond them to textbooks, also written by «authorities», or the literature when the first two fail or appear likely to be unsound or I really need to see the results themselves to judge.

I have always been racking my brain to find a really good source of case studies.

Posner has conducted studies showing that even a few days of really good mindfulness meditation can alter the ability of the brain to focus.

During a study to demonstrate the negative effects of sleep deprivation in children, Corkum found that, ``... We were able to demonstrate that they actually had difficulties with things like memory, paying attention, emotional regulation; they actually changed how they viewed pictures — they tended to see things in a less positive light... We're really concerned because this is a period when their brains are developing and skills are developing, and the impact that might have on the developing child could potentially be even more problematic as an adult.»