Sentences with phrase «than the brain changes»

Research from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) shows that retinal changes may be detected earlier than brain changes.

What's more, the changes Cha and his colleagues saw were «much greater than the brain changes or abnormalities associated with psychiatric disorders that we usually observe in children or adults,» he said.

Not exact matches

With all of the intelligent changes Panda and Penguin brought to the table, it was only a matter of time before one of Google's big brained developers found a way to «smarten» search engines up enough to take a question and look at the context rather than seeing the words within the query as separate entities.

While particular structures of the brain can be seen in terms of their evolutionary heritage, the functions of many of these structures have changed and are much more complicated than previously thought.

A clump of cells with no brain, and no neural tube is no more «a human life» than cells from your skin layer, or a sperm cell with no change of fertilizing an egg.

I guess it's easier to fall back on some high and might invisible thing rather than use your brain power for something practical that could really change the world for the better.

I need to change & I know it, but fooling or retraining the brain into thinking the different foods are better is harder than one can imagine.

Maybe I'll change my mind when grey hair starts conquering my head and boredom overlays my retired brain, but at the present moment I'd rather spend hours with my bike than my oven.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

As Taylor later realized, this brain injury was far more than a career - ending injury, rather, it was a life - changing event.

Plenty of live interaction from other people can actually make changes in the brain and make the child want to communicate or learn to communicate even more than they were able to.

Mindfulness does take practice, but each time you practice it, it actively changes the neural pathways in the brain so that it's easier to respond mindfully in stressful moments rather than continue to struggle with the primitive «fight or flight» reactions.

It can be hard to make the shift in your brain, but breastfeeding can affect your sex life in more than just an emotional or psychological sense; there are also some actual physical changes.

«A baby's brain changes when she is separated from her mother and cries for more than a few minutes.

But there are few functions the brain must perform that are more complex or crucial to survival than recognizing when something has changed and then calling up all the disparate information needed to adapt appropriately.

While there has been a lot of research on hypertension - related brain changes in the grey matter, Carnevale proposed that a look into the brain's white matter could tell if high blood pressure was having an effect even earlier than what is known.

The change in what the volunteers saw was so fast, Dilks says, that it must be due to the brain redirecting signals through pre-existing circuits rather than forging new connections.

The brain is changing more rapidly during this time than at any other time in development.

«Mice that don't have these molecules seem to be able to change their brain circuits with experience much more rapidly than normal mice,» Shatz says.

Changes in brain activity might last longer than users expect or may extend beyond the regions beneath the electrodes.

Based on analyses of current IQ data, he speculates that we are not born with more mental potential than our ancestors; however, because our modern brain is expected to handle higher - level cognitive tasks from a very young age, our mental capabilities have changed.

The discovery, which shows that the brain has a far greater ability to adapt and respond to changes than previously believed, could have significant implications on epilepsy, movement disorders, and psychiatric and neurodegenerative disease.

«Caloric restriction in combination with low - fat diet helps protect aging mouse brains: Low - fat diet plus limited caloric intake prevented aging - induced inflammatory activation of microglia; exercise was significantly less effective than caloric restriction in preventing these changes.»

Rather than focusing on how games such as World of Warcraft or the socialnetworking services of Twitter and Facebook change our brains, Davidson believes we should foster these newfound skills, building curricula around interactive multiplayer games and training workers using virtual environments.

The researchers found that male rats have inherently higher levels of endocannabinoids in their brains than females, so trying to give the males a little boost did not cause any measurable changes.

It seems it may work less by re-plumbing the gut than by rewiring the brain (see «Change your stomach, change your brain&raChange your stomach, change your brain&rachange your brain»).

Rather than search for changes in genes themselves, Pipes and her colleagues took an indirect approach, looking for differences in the activity of genes in the foxes» brains.

Although they're not yet certain whether it will be possible to trick the MRI, they say it's harder to change what your brain is doing than to suppress your nervous responses.

Holdcroft believes that the changes in the brain are more likely to be the result of changes in the volume of individual cells, rather than changes in the number of cells in the brain.

These disorders are associated with changes to the brain structure: for example, the hippocampus in the temporal lobe is usually smaller in affected individuals than in healthy ones.

Professor Aneta Stefanovska from Lancaster University, who has been studying the physics of biological oscillations for over 20 years, said: «Combining the technique to noninvasively record the fluctuation corresponding to cerebrospinal fluid and our sophisticated methods to analyse oscillations which are not clock - like but rather vary in time around their natural values, we have come to an interesting and non-invasive method that can be used to study aging and changes due to various neurodegenerative brain aging may begin earlier than expected.»

Brain changes in the mice lasted for more than four months, equivalent to years in humans.

I'm keen to find out the precise sequence of changes to OLs and myelin during learning and whether these changes are needed more in some parts of the brain than others, which might shed light on some of the mysteries still surrounding how the brain adapts and learns throughout life.»

Rather than being programmed, the neural network, like the human brain, responds to training: It can continually integrate new information and change its response accordingly.

In new research, published in an article in The Journal of Neuroscience, Burger and Oline — along with Dr. Go Ashida of the University of Oldenburg in Germany — have investigated auditory brain cell membrane selectivity and observed that the neurons «tuned» to receive high - frequency sound preferentially select faster input than their low - frequency - processing counterparts — and that this preference is tolerant of changes to the inputs being received.

In a study of 92 primary / elementary school aged children, Mr Coussens measured more than 30 different sleep parameters, such as muscle movements, breathing, eye activity and changes in the brain's processing.

This means that male brain electrical functioning is changed more than female brains by long - term alcohol use»

«We found more changes in brain electrical activity in male subjects, than in females, which was a surprise, as we expected it would be the other way around.

Nor is there anything bad about our brains» being altered by these new technologies, any more than there is something bad about a monkey's brain changing as it learns how to play with a rake.

Although these changes are far less striking than those in young brains, the potential has inspired a burst of optimism about the human condition and launched a new era of neuroscience.

Adult brains are less malleable than juvenile ones, much as a Boltzmann machine trained with 100,000 car images won't change much upon seeing another: Its synapses already have the correct weights to categorize a car.

The finding, reported here today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of ScienceNOW, suggests to the researcher that modern behaviors such as dolling up with jewelry may have originated from a need to communicate rather than a fundamental change in the human brain.

This view of the brain started to change about 15 years ago, when Israeli neurobiologist Dov Sagi discovered that with intensive training in specific visual tasks, such as target orientation (the ability to look at a dot on the wall, look away, then look back at the dot's exact spot), people much older than 12 months could improve their performance in those tasks.

Using functional MRI, the researchers then determined that less than a minute of blue light exposure triggered changes in activity in regions of their brain associated with alertness and executive function.

To the researchers» surprise, the mice subjected to both prenatal infection and stress during puberty showed far greater behavioral deficits and cellular changes in brain regions relevant to schizophrenia than those that had been exposed to infection or stress alone.

BRUSSELS — To get into the spirit of innovation at the European Commission's Innovation Convention here this week, one needed look no further than orange - haired punk fashion designer Vivienne Westwood quizzing Chinese business professor Xue Lan and Olivier Oullier, an expert in behavioral and brain sciences who advises the French government, on how best to address the problem of climate change.

But an alternative explanation could flip this theory on its head: perhaps the brain changes in obese individuals are the cause of obesity, rather than the result.

Throughout life our brains undergo more changes than any other part of the body.

Advances in neuroscience and genetics now suggest that the human brain has changed more rapidly — and in different ways — than was initially thought, according to a new paper published online July 19 in PLoS Biology.

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.