Sentences with phrase «think about brain function»

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As we our bombarded with information our brains sift through the small percentage that is necessary for our cognitive functions, or in other words the things that require us to think about, for instance, reading.

Long despised as a craft of the lazy and unproductive, spontaneous thought (including nostalgic trips down memory lane and fantasizing about the future) is now viewed by brain scientists as a critical aspect of healthy functioning.

However, if you consider that when your brain stops functioning, your thought life ceases to exist, then there will be no way to know that you were wrong about your god belief.

They say berries help brain function, that's probably a good thing, though I like to think my brain is just thinking about something more important, if only I could remember what it is... (who am I kidding it's just thinking about food probably).

If I would have listened to my intuition during my pregnancy I would not be able to type this comment because I would be six feet under... Some people with executive thinking and actually very nice words managed to save my life and my baby's life and brain function... I think that you have no idea what you are talking about.

Many of Markram's colleagues think that he is too ambitious, that a model of billions of neurons, no matter how intricate, can not tell much about the functions of a real brain.

Named after the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer it relies on, the Blue Brain Project has started modelling — in every detail — the cellular infrastructure and electrophysiological interactions within the cerebral neocortex, which represents about 80 % of the brain and is believed to house cognitive functions such as language and conscious thoBrain Project has started modelling — in every detail — the cellular infrastructure and electrophysiological interactions within the cerebral neocortex, which represents about 80 % of the brain and is believed to house cognitive functions such as language and conscious thobrain and is believed to house cognitive functions such as language and conscious thought.

«They came up with questions that none of the scientific reviewers thought to ask, asking about another part of the brain that lit up in both the ADHD and control groups and wondering about its function.

Neuroscience, arguably more than any other aspect of biology, is a science that requires intense computation, because understanding the brain is about understanding how billions and billions of neurons function in orchestras to regulate our thoughts and behavior.

You may not thought about eating fat when trying to build a shredded body, but scientists discovered that omega 3 fatty acids promote fat loss, decrease inflammation, improve digestion and have a positive effect on the brain functions.

Cerebral cortex: The brain's outer layer of gray matter is responsible for higher functions, including thoughts about sex.

And if sports isn't your total thing, think about this, Non-Dominant Side Training ™ incorporated into your exercise actually will result in better balance through the brain, better mental function.

The brain uses about half of all the glucose energy in the body, for functions such as thinking, learning, and memory.

Think about it, interventional research for the first time demonstrating actual improvement in brain function by addressing various factors known to be profoundly influential in determining whether the brain functions well or not.

As eLearning professionals, we must think about how the brain functions and how to engage our online learners on a cognitive level.

Dr. Judy Willis, a neuroscientist and educator, has done incredible work thinking about how we can use our understanding of brain function to create the best learning conditions for all kids.

When we use our executive functioning, or frontal cortex (otherwise known as our «thinking brain») we expend energy, so creating habits means that we no longer need to think about it — great news for our brain and body.

There «is not yet a smoking gun» linking socio - economic status to brain function or structure and to deficits in thinking, but he lays out evidence about strong correlations between poverty and learning difficulties that «provide converging strands of proof.»

[00:02:58] So if you think about sort of their normal function their peer relationships their education as well as their physical health and you know trauma physically changes the brain and so we know that that the areas of the brain the brain that are most likely affected by trauma especially early trauma are those involving stress response emotional regulation attention more cognition executive function memory.

Despite the caveats about how much we can know about brain function and how readily any of this work can be translated into policy, it is clear from the research that the brain is a good deal more plastic or changeable than we once thought.

The original account of formulation has been considerably expanded by the contribution of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking about the mind, as well as deepened to embrace possible individual differences in brain function.