Sentences with phrase «wave of brain research»

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After five long years of innovation, research, and testing, David Dickinson, CEO of start - up Zeo, based in Newton, Massachusetts, was confident that the product his company introduced last year»» a personal sleep monitor that gathers data from brain waves during sleep»» was unlike anything on the market.

According to Merry, a lot of research shows that there are implications for kids who have ADHD that can be observed directly in these brain waves.

Brain waves usually are monitored in hospitals or research labs, but I'm in a conference room at a company called Emotiv, where a few dozen scientists have developed the gear and software that quite literally read my mind, allowing me to play a sort of video game with nothing but sheer thought.

A research project connected to the British television show The Secret Life of Buildings attached brain - wave measuring devices to people's heads and found that the low - level racket endemic to open workplaces interrupts one's concentration.

What are the implications of the brain wave model for scientific theories and research?

Intermittent lower - dose exposures can be as toxic as a single higher - dose exposure; Miller cites monkey research showing that either 10 nontoxic weekly doses or one toxic dose of an organophosphate pesticide led to the same increase in brain wave activity as measured by electroencephalogram, or EEG.

Previous research has shown that when people sleep, the thalamus — a brain structure that connects the high - level thought areas with the sights and sounds of the outside world — produces brief, high - frequency brain waves called spindles.

«The scale and speed of Princess Leia waves in the cortex is unprecedented, a discovery that advances the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative,» says Terrence Sejnowski, head of Salk's Computational Neurobiology LaboraBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative,» says Terrence Sejnowski, head of Salk's Computational Neurobiology LaboraBRAIN) Initiative,» says Terrence Sejnowski, head of Salk's Computational Neurobiology Laboratory.

Research done by Dr. Christopher Pack, from McGill University, who looked at such waves occurring in a region of the visual cortex of the brain, suggests these oscillations could have a role in resetting the sensitivity of neurons after eye movements.

Zhang did the research at Stanford Sleep Center, where he could record brain waves of snoozing mice.

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.

This research by a guy named Marcus Raichle at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, the reason why he start [ed] to look at it was he began to wonder [whether]-- all this brain wave activity when we look at, when scientists look at brainwave activity, they typically strip out what you and I would call noise.

Gilles Laurent and members of his laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, describe for the first time REM and slow - wave sleep in a reptile, the Australian dragon Pogona vitticeps.

Until now, most sleep research has focused on global control of sleep, which occurs when the entire brain is awash in slow waves — oscillations of brain activity created when sets of neurons are silenced for brief periods.

«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.

No problem: «Research has shown that even a 15 - minute seated massage at work can change your brain wave pattern to increase alertness, improve focus, and boost performance on quantitative tasks,» says Marilyn Kier, a member of the American Massage Therapy Association and founder of Wellness At Work in Northfield, Illinois.

As a result, white tea has the highest concentration of L - theanine, an amino acid that, according to recent research, stimulates alpha brain waves to boost alertness while producing a calming effect.

Hoping to connect with the local inhabitants, the research group, headed up by the cigarette smoking Dr. Grace Agustine (Sigourney Weaver), is growing their own avatars: living creatures created from human and Na» vi DNA, which are controlled by means of brain waves.

Research conducted by Matthew Wilson and Kenway Louie of MIT proved that during sleep, dogs brains go through similar brain wave patterns as humans (see reference below).