Sentences with phrase «which brain controlled»

Scientists working for Professor Florian Holzapfel are researching ways in which brain controlled flight might work in the EU - funded project «Brainflight.»

Eye movements and the mechanisms by which the brain controls and processes what we choose to look at have been a major focus of neuroscience researchers for decades.

Not exact matches

«Chronic stress and overexposure to cortisol — which increases sugars in your bloodstream, alters your immune system responses, suppresses your digestive and reproductive systems, and communicates with that part of your brain that controls mood, motivation and fear — puts you at risk for mental health problems like anxiety and depression, and a whole host of physical health issues,» writes Levy.

Nerve cells in our brains control our circadian rhythms, which influences sleep - wake cycles, hormone release, emotions and energy levels.

Confusingly, there is some crossing of nerves between the body and the brain, which means it's actually the left side of the brain that has more control over the right side of the body and vice versa.

The second is norepinephrine, which affects parts of the brain that control a person's attention and response to things in the environment, which could help direct a person's attention to a sexual partner.

The first is dopamine, which helps control the brain's reward and pleasure centers and could help drive up a person's interest in sex.

Furthermore, we found that in people who intentionally mind wander, two main brain networks broadly overlap each other: the default - mode network, which is active when focusing on information from memory, and the fronto - parietal network, which stabilizes our focus and inhibits irrelevant stimuli as part of our cognitive control system.»

Halo Sport uses electrodes to stimulate the brain's motor cortex, which controls planning and voluntary movements.

For all its track record of innovation and investment the US has created for its tech businesses some interesting competitive disadvantages: high noise levels of spam and marketing, erosion of trust and degraded value of personal data, laws like Patriot Act and FISAAA which justifiably piss non-USians off, programs like PRISM which seriously undermine the credibility of the companies affected, the dead hand and zombie brain of an out of control military - industrial complex.

Scientists have developed a program that lets monkeys control a virtual arm with brain waves, which they say could help paraplegics through the development of wearable exoskeletons.

The complex of ordered energy that is the human body centred on the brain must itself be integrated through its own individual principle of transcendental control and direction - the centred knowing and loving as person which we call our «soul».

This feedback enables people to learn to control their physiological reactions to mental stimulation — which, as Jodi Lawrence says in her book Alpha Brain Waves, provides «you with instant information concerning your inner state, a kind of electronic mirror to see into your mind.»

Rather it does so by altering the physiology of the brain itself, a process beyond the conscious control of the consumer of pornography, and which thus subverts the assumptions of the principle of consent.

After being prescribed Aricept and later Memantine, which stops the destruction of brain messengers responsible for memory and learning, Jennifer found she could «hold a proper conversation again» and begin to regain control of her life.

This is the centrality of control embodied in the «I can» of the corporeal schema in and through which my body is mine: «My brain, my heart, my bowels, my lungs, are mine, with an intimacy of mutual adjustment» (MT 99).

In short the process by which matter combines in increasingly complex forms moves firstly towards a material brain that can harmonise with a spiritual soul and once man, a spiritual / material being, has made an appearance, the one unity law of control and direction moves forward toward the Incarnation.

Along with its» ability to control blood sugar levels, cinnamon's scent is thought to boost brain function, which makes it perfect for adding into the morning routine.

A 2012 study reveals that fish oil increases transmission of serotonin in the brain which controls emotion.

As Dr. Robert Cantu explains in his 2012 book, Concussions and Our Kids, [15] it «takes more than one type of test to compile a comprehensive baseline,» because neurocognitive tests measure the thinking and reasoning parts of the brain (medial temporal lobe and front lobe), but concussions «also may cause trauma to the calcarine cortex, which is in the back of the brain and controls vision, and the cerebellum, at the top of the neck, where balance and coordination are measured.

Although they are mainly just growing bigger and stronger now, there are some key elements of their development going on as the nerves in their brain which control the senses are still forming, eventually enabling them to smell, see, hear, taste and touch.

Once we can talk about feelings, the feelings which are on the non-verbal side of the brain connect to the words on the other side of the brain and we have so much control and therefore, we have control over our behavior.

Executive skills come from a part of the brain called the frontal lobes, which is up here way behind your eyes and is actually the control switches for the brain in the sense that if we take conscious control of our thinking, our planning, controlling our own impulses, and basically behaving in socially acceptable ways, your frontal lobes are involved in all of those.

Every time you do this, though, you're building gray matter in your brain, which develops impulse control.

The brain can control breathing, which means that if your baby is born prematurely, he or she has an excellent chance of surviving and spending much less time in the hospital.

The most recent finding, announced in February, suggested that brain stems of SIDS babies contain low levels of the hormone serotonin, which controls vital functions during sleep, such as breathing, heart rate and blood pressure.

When we are calm, the cortex of our brain, which controls our rational thinking is connected to our mid brain, which controls our emotions.

During times of emotional upset, children are functioning from their lower brain (which controls the fight, flight, or freeze response) and need to calm down before they can access their higher brain (responsible for logical thought and reasoning).

Synapses are crucial because they transmit brain impulses, which control body functions, thinking, feeling, learning, memory, and language.

- By helping them calm down, they are not stimulating the part of the brain which controls stress as often, so it doesn't overdevelop.

Some autopsy data shows that infants of smokers have signs of established hypoxic - ischemic cellular injury in the brain and the heart which probably occurred in antenatal life, may have been caused by suboptimal placental function and may have been sub-clinical, but if the baby continues to be in a vulnerable environment exposed to post-natal passive smoking, this could affect autonomic nervous system function and lead to poor temperature control, and poor heart rate and respiration control.

If nurtured, the brain develops all - important «executive function skills,» which include the ability to focus, filter distractions, self - regulate, plan ahead, adjust to changes, control impulsivity, resist temptation, delay gratification, and remember, organize and use information.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Which happens to be the area in the brain that controls executive function and self regulation.

And in normal human development, these right - brain features are able to control our brain's survival systems, which include stress response.

Another common health problem in premature babies is apnea, which occurs due to immaturity in the part of the brain that usually controls the force to breathe.

In 2015, Noebels and Dr. Isamu Aiba, a research fellow in neurology at Baylor, published a paper in Science Translational Medicine in which they described in a mouse model what would happen if spreading depolarization, the blackout of brain activity, occurred deep in the brainstem, which controls the heart beat and breathing.

Scientists have gained a better molecular understanding of the region of the brain in individuals with epilepsy which — due to a developmental abnormality, trauma, stroke, or a growing tumor — has stopped responding to control signals, and this results in recurrent seizures.

Saper and his colleagues have been studying the brain's suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN, which resets our daily circadian clock, and the genes that control wakefulness.

You can also track your eye movements to see which objects catch your attention, and why, and rotate a virtual brain to discover which regions control learning and memory.

The authors searched for genetic mutations that might explain the disproportionately high risk of SUDEP in people with poorly controlled focal epilepsy, which, by definition stems from a specific area of the brain.

In this study, researchers from the UCLA School of Nursing used the Valsalva maneuver — during which participants breathe hard out through a very small tube to raise blood pressure — to measure brain activity as it controls the blood pressure change.

In Blair's study, the parts of the brain's so - called executive function, which is linked to math ability in preschoolers, are «working memory» and «inhibitory control.»

The mice, which move backwards when they try to walk forwards on a smooth surface, have a gene for a mutated protein that prompts neurons in the cerebellum, a brain area that controls movement and balance, to die off.

The illness was later renamed progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) to describe the weakness or paralysis (palsy) patients develop when brain areas that control eye movements are affected by the syndrome — which produces the classic symptom of motionless eyes described by Dickens.

The updated guideline covers four neurologic disorders: spasticity in adults, which is muscle tightness that interferes with movement typically following a stroke, spinal cord or other neurologic injury; cervical dystonia, a disorder of the brain affecting neck muscle control that causes involuntary head tilt or neck movement; blepharospasm, a movement disorder that causes the eyes to close uncontrollably; and chronic and episodic migraine.

The nerve cells involved in this integration process and control of hormonal signals reside in an area of the insect brain known as the mid-Ventral Ganglion (mVG), which in turn communicates with a region of the central brain that is akin to the mammalian hypothalamus.

In vision especially we can control inputs to the brain with exquisite precision, which makes it possible to quantitatively analyze how signals are transformed in the brain.»

To overcome gravity that would otherwise prevent him from raising his arm and reaching, Kochevar uses a mobile arm support, which is also under his brain's control.

«There's a part of the finch's brain that controls song, which we call area x.