Sentences with phrase «with brain break»

Our people have also embraced mindfulness training workshops that provide them with the tools to increase resilience and take time out both at work and home, as well as kicking off team meetings with a brain break to reset for the afternoon after lunch.

The Internet abounds with brain break ideas; do some research to find activities that appeal to you, or consider creating your own.

Includes a YouTube music clip for use as with a brain break activity.

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You then follow it with a designated break period where you let your brain recharge or get back to people who need something from you.

It's pretty clear, he argues that if you can't fairly rapidly achieve mass consumer pricing, your EON (Economy of Now) business on its best days will be a niche nicety for the folks with more money than time or brains and never break out of that box.

While it's important to keep up - to - date with new trends and thinking on professional topics, many businesspeople need to give their brains a break and let their imagination find inspiration in the story a novel might have to tell.

At that time I close my office door, take a breath and take three minutes to re-boot my brain with a music break.

Oatmeal is a quick, easy breakfast with a happy side benefit — the complex carbohydrates in oats break down very slowly, keeping your brain well fueled for many hours.

It nearly broke my brain at times but it left so much room for delight and imagination with my old nemesis, physics.

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.

I was just breaking my brain over what to do with all the seitan I have.

By the time I get off the phone with their call centers I feel like my brain is broken.

The brain responds by flushing the body with water to try and douse the flames, which is why after consuming a particularly hot Chile some people suddenly break into a sweat, their nose runs and their eyes start to stream.

To avoid breaking my brain and our marriage, I have taken a «do it as you wish, when you wish» stance (as long as it's done before bed) with my husband and chores.

But it also means there's none of the mind - melding brain - fog of ecstatic sleeplessness overlayed by the irrational fear that a bird is going to fly in through the window and take the baby hostage *, along with the never - ending ride on the hair - raising postnatal emotional rollercoaster, with happy joy followed with the deep panic that you have no idea what you're doing and are going to break them and why am I crying again?!.

One simple way to help a kid with ADHD reset is to implement brain breaks.

In theory I'd love to work on extra things with her, do something educational or even get outside more — but really, she just needs a «brain break» — and lets be honest — so do mom and dad!

The area of the brain that signals when you're awake or asleep breaks down in people with Alzheimer's.

I will support anyone who will help to break the stranglehold that Noam and his little machine have on New Rochelle in which they divert school resources (brain power and money) to «their» schools and raise campaign cash by tapping into companies and individuals with business before the City government.

Among those already using the program with his students is Gerald Smith, who teaches conceptual physics and advanced chemistry at Bishop McNamara High School in Washington and plans to attend the march.Students who completed the print - out activity sheet illustrated how headphones work through physics — among the examples Smith intends to post to Twitter after spring break, the week after the March for Science «The kids definitely like to probe their brains a lot in terms of seeing science in real life, not just something far - reaching for geniuses to dobut as something that we exist in every day,» said Smith.

«For people with epilepsy, there are a number of areas of the brain that are really broken — that's the seizure - generating network,» Bassett said.

Arguments abound over whether the hallmark protein clusters that accumulate in the brain are a cause or an effect of the illness, and current treatments do not address the main problem that causes impaired thinking: broken synapses, the junctions that allow neurons to communicate with one another.

It is not that surprising that our decision making system breaks down when the human brain is confronted with too many options.

Alpha got a break last year when Apple announced that it was using it as the brains behind Siri, an automated assistant that comes with the latest iPhone.

But it also leads to other problems, Jasanoff notes: Society views broken brains as harder to fix than moral flaws, making life even more challenging for individuals already struggling with mental illness.

For most people, it is a stretch of the imagination to understand the world in four dimensions but a new study has discovered structures in the brain with up to eleven dimensions — ground - breaking work that is beginning to reveal the brain's deepest architectural secrets.

People with Sanfilippo Disease have too much of the substance heparan sulphate in their cells, particularly cells in the brain, because they lack the enzyme that usually breaks theheparan sulphate down.

The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»

In some people, pieces from the calcified artery can break away — if the artery supplies the brain or heart with blood, this can lead to stroke or heart attack.

When the late Robert Sperry was a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he experimented on patients with epilepsy, and noticed that breaking the link between brain hemispheres affected the ability to perform certain tasks.

They found that germ - free mice broke down brain chemicals associated with anxiety, such as noradrenaline and dopamine, faster than did the other mice.

But for those with REM sleep behavior disorder, abnormal activity in the brain stem prompts the system to break down.

They also showed in mice studies and in the laboratory that NCAM2 was broken down by another protein called beta - amyloid, which is the main component of the plaques that build up in the brains of people with the disease.

The authors conclude that valproate may be effective for treating negative symptoms in psychiatric patients with two copies of the «Val» variant of the COMT gene, which breaks down dopamine in the brain.

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In the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyloid precursor protein is broken apart, and the resulting fragments — β - amyloid peptides, or Aβ peptides — aggregate to form plaques.

An hour a day of light therapy has been found to break down brain deposits in mice with Alzheimer's - like symptoms.

The study's conclusions are based upon brain activity in modern individuals taught to create two types of ancient tools: simple Oldowan - era «flake tools» — little more than broken rocks with a jagged edge — and more complicated Acheulian - era hand axes, which resemble a large arrowhead.

«This interesting study in mice uses a chemical able to break down Alzheimer's plaques in the brain after they've already formed, potentially presenting a way to circumvent the difficult issue of timing with this treatment approach.

But new U-M led research shows that the clock may be broken in the brains of people with depression — even at the level of the gene activity inside their brain cells.

Combining their interests with Andrew's background in neuroscience and brain imaging, they were able to break new theoretical and empirical ground on the relationship between the brain and religion.

«A tiny variation in the gene that makes the enzyme that breaks down dopamine causes a complete flipflop — not a mere difference in degree — in dopamine activity in these two brain areas,» explained NIMH's Dr. Andreas Meyer - Lindenberg, who, along with Dr. Karen Berman and colleagues, reported their findings in the April 10, 2005 online edition of Nature Neuroscience.

Meanwhile, researchers at the Queensland Brain Institute have shown that noninvasive ultrasound can restore memory in mice with AD, by breaking apart the neurotoxic beta - amyloid plaques in the brain they think cause cognitive decBrain Institute have shown that noninvasive ultrasound can restore memory in mice with AD, by breaking apart the neurotoxic beta - amyloid plaques in the brain they think cause cognitive decbrain they think cause cognitive decline.

We don't connect our behaviors and choices with how we feel, and broken brains often result.

Nobody who isn't a robot is able to keep pounding the iron endlessly with the same level of motivation — we can all use a break from time to time to refresh our brains and come back with renewed enthusiasm.

I have been racking my brain on how to stay in contact with those that I care about more frequently as well as provide information and more importantly stories that may drive you to either start or continue a positive habit in an environment that may constantly try to break it down or put it off.

All my life I have struggled with brain fog, attention deficit disorder, and learning disabilities; it seemed as though my brain was broken and not working as it should.

«In addition to the environmental and dietary influences that deplete glutathione, half of us (and most of the people with broken brains) are missing a key gene, GSTM1, which helps the body rebuild its stores of glutathione.»

In Save Your Brain from Alzheimer's and Dementia, Dr. Passero and I break down the research to make it easy for you to identify your cognitive health risk factors so you can protect and restore optimal brain function — with specific dietary and lifestyle changes that anyone can easily embBrain from Alzheimer's and Dementia, Dr. Passero and I break down the research to make it easy for you to identify your cognitive health risk factors so you can protect and restore optimal brain function — with specific dietary and lifestyle changes that anyone can easily embbrain function — with specific dietary and lifestyle changes that anyone can easily embrace.

15 In fact, type 2 diabetes (T2D)-- a condition stemming from broken glucose metabolism and insulin signaling — has been identified as an additional risk factor for developing AD.16, 17 Moreover, the pathological changes that occur in AD in the brain physically resemble those seen in the pancreas and vasculature in T2D.9, 18 Type 2 diabetics who carry ApoE4 alleles are at the greatest risk for AD, with an even more severe risk reserved for those treated with exogenous insulin.19 This suggests that either T2D or related features of the metabolic syndrome bring about AD, or that they are separate consequences of the same underlying cause — and moreover, that insulin is a key factor.