Sentences with phrase «which brain matter»

Bin Laden's injuries apparently include a great wound on his forehead through which brain matter is visible and a large gaping hole where one of his eyes should be.

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The truth of the matter is that our brains, from a fundamental development perspective, actually can't do it, which is why we become so distracted.

(Females have more white matter, the tissue that connects different parts of the brain while men have more grey matter, which handles information processing.)

If your brain is merely a minuscule portion and intermediate result of a guideless process of self - existing particles that just happened to unpack themselves from an unexplained singularity and arrange themselves into various integrated systems of matter and life of increasing complexity over billions of years, which will ultimately disorganize and dissipate into nothingness, why should any value be attached to your thoughts, or to your existence?

The proof that the growing co-extension of our soul and the world, through the consciousness of our relationship with all things, is not simply a matter of logic or idealisation, but is part of an organic process, the natural outcome of the impulse which caused the germination of life and the growth of the brain — the proof is that it expresses itself in a specific evolution of the moral value of our actions (that is to say, by the modification of what is most living within us).

As I tried to show in the preceding part, we also know something about the structure and function of that part of brain matter to which psychic phenomena correspond.

One final comment: The assumption of protopsychic matter is no more revolutionary than our epistemological knowledge that all objects which we see have no color, because color only arises in sense cells and brain.

a an extreme physico - chemical complexity (particularly apparent in the brain) which permits us to consider him the most highly synthesized form of matter known to us in the Universe;

Some believe that the 90 % of our brain which we do not use is not simply empty matter in our skulls, but may have originally been the parts of our brain that communicated with the spiritual realm of the angels so that through them we could communicate with each other, with God, with the animals, with the plants, and even with the forces of nature (For more on this theology of angels, see «The Powers Trilogy» by Walter Wink.)

Why, as the white radiance comes through the dome, with all sorts of staining and distortion imprinted on it by the glass, or as the air now comes through my glottis determined and limited in its force and quality of its vibrations by the peculiarities of those vocal chords which form its gate of egress and shape it into my personal voice, even so the genuine matter of reality, the life of souls as it is in its fullness, will break through our several brains into this world in all sorts of restricted forms, and with all the imperfections and queernesses that characterize our finite individualities here below.

If all determination is negation, as the philosophers say, it might well prove that the loss of some of the particular determinations which the brain imposes would not appear a matter for such absolute regret.

And the human brain is incomparably more complex in its organization than any other state of matter of which we are aware.

For that matter you should doubt all of quantum physics which governs how your small brain fails to work.

Evolution's goal is an organ at the very limit of the complexity which matter can achieve: the human brain.

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.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

For that matter, there are various genetic conditions for which either breastfeeding or conventional formula would be deadly or lead to permanent brain damage.

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

Perhaps most concerning, four of the Purdue studies found that damage to the brain from RHI persisted after the football season was over, as did a 2014 study by Bazarian and his URMC colleagues, [23] which found changes in brain white matter in a small group of college football players which persisted six months after the season was over.

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

No matter what was said to her, you could see her brain darting around inside itself, desperately trying to find a hook, an angle, with which to bring up the Ashcroft dilemma.

[Bruderer:] «Which means no matter where they're growing up in the world, their brains are prepared to pick up the language they're listening to around them.»

Using resting - state MRI analysis on thousands of people's brains around the world, the research has found that the areas of the brain which are associated with learning and development show high levels of variability, meaning that they change their neural connections with other parts of the brain more frequently, over a matter of minutes or seconds.

The scanner, quiet enough for a baby to sleep inside, relies on a new brain - imaging technique called diffusion MRI, which maps long - distance white matter connections in the brain by tracking the movement of water.

As another crucial part of the new study on Internet addiction, the research team zeroed in on tissue deep in the brain called white matter, which links together its various regions.

Studies have also found damage in the white matter of the brain, which connects these regions.

The upshot: the monkeys in the larger groups had more gray matter in brain areas linked to processing social information (the middle superior temporal sulcus, amygdala and rostral prefrontal cortex, two of which overlap with those reported on in the Proceedings B study).

Of those people, 562 had an MRI brain scan around age 73 to measure overall brain volume, gray matter volume and thickness of the cortex, which is the outer layer of the brain.

The researchers also found increases in gray matter volume in regions that control leg movement and process sensory information from legs, which may reflect changes related to the brain learning how to move in microgravity.

The male brain, by contrast, is filled with more white matter, which consists of longer neuron fibers coated with a fatty myelin sheath that communicate with more distant regions of the brain.

They have used a clinical MRI scanner of the type all neuroscience centres have to carry out a special type of scan called a T2 - weighted imaging process which is able to reveal lesions in the brain's white matter that are centred on a vein — a known indicator of MS.

Cosmic evolution, the structure of matter, the origins of life, and understanding how the brain works all deserve strengthened support, according to China's latest 5 - year development plan, which could triple funding for basic research by 2020.

That type of procedure is usually a day - long operation which involves removing part of the skull, cutting through healthy brain matter and physically removing the problem tissue, followed by a weeklong hospital stay and prolonged recovery period.

One message from the study is that brain functions depend not only a matter of the arrangement of nerves, or overall physical structure — which remain the same under many different conditions.

Bad navigators, on the other hand, have more white matter — which connects gray matter areas with each other — in a brain area called the caudate nucleus.

«The mastery of science and math is not a matter of simply transferring knowledge into the brain, which is the traditional model,» Wieman explained.

Published in the Neurobiology of Aging, the study, which focused on detecting changes in the white matter connections of the brain, offers tantalizing potential for the identification of biomarkers connected to the development of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

Those in the group with 22q deletion, which carries the risk for schizophrenia, had thicker gray matter, but less brain surface area — a measure which relates to how folded the brain is — compared to those in the duplication group.

She has shown through morphometric brain imaging that white matter — which carries impulses between neurons — is larger in children with autism.

«This study suggests that amyloid deposition in the gray matter affects the associated white matter connections, which are essential for conducting messages across the billions of nerve cells in the brain, allowing for all aspects of mental function.»

Lithium treatment was associated with less thinning of gray matter, which suggests a protective effect of this medication on the brain.

To do this they will combine several imaging tools including something called diffusion MRI, which maps the structure of the white matter that insulates the «wires» of the brain, and also resting - state MRI, which measures how brain regions oscillate in unison as a result of shared connections.

The results showed that with testosterone treatment the volume of grey matter decreased in two specific regions of the brain, the Broca's and Wernicke's areas, which are mainly responsible for language processing.

Cows with bovine spongiform encephalitis have holes in their grey matter, which give their brains a spongy look.

The researchers also found they could predict which players had depression by examining images of their brains» white matter, suggesting a link between white matter changes and depression.

Comparing MRI brain images of eight Dobermans with CCD to the control group, Ogata found that the CCD group had higher total brain and gray matter volumes, lower gray matter densities in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and right anterior insula, and higher fractional anisotropy in the splenium of the corpus callosum (the degree of which correlated with the severity of the behavioral traits).

Halloway's analysis found the association between participants» actual physical activity and gray matter volumes remained after further controlling for age, gender, education levels, body mass index and symptoms of depression, all of which are associated with lower levels of gray matter in the brain.

A study of 473 adults has found that people who are overweight have less white matter, which connects different brain areas and enables signaling between them.

Dr Marco Catani from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, said: «White matter provides key insights which allow us to paint a precise picture of how different parts of the brain develop during critical periods in childhood.

Researchers used genetically modified mice in which the axons in the corticospinal tract, a bundle of nerves carrying signals from the brain to the spinal cord, were «stained» with fluorescent matter visible under a powerful microscope.