the brain

'It's almost as if they're in some kind of identity crisis. In a sense it's keeping the brain in a sort of time warp. '

"The complexity of a computer as it exists today is probably less than the brain of an earthworm, " he said.

Rather than putting the brain back in the body, Harvey decided to keep it, ostensibly for study.

A second relationship between the executive and default networks may be reflected in how the brain switches from one to the other, she said.

Even more intriguing, he says was that love activated different parts of the brain than the normal analgesic pathways.

What was so astounding was that we saw the movement part of the brain get active, even though there was no movement possible.

The brain used to be thought of as the body's master clock, sending signals telling organs when to operate.

Viral myocarditis in the video ads, phone Expanded popcorn so that people do not know if the phone can damage to the brain.

Cambridge University researchers have analysed the structure of the brain and worked out how much energy its cells use up.

Those signals travel up to the brain stem and then the hypothalamus, telling the body to stop eating.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.

The company wants to see if the software, which trains visual-related parts of the brain, will lower accident rates among older drivers.

A number of other researchers propose that they might be used for intercellular communication in the brain.

Different parts of the brain control logic and speech, as anyone listening to an air head endlessly blather on realizes.

The research will help scientists to understand how the brain conducts the symphony of activity that leads to sexual climax in a woman.

At its heart is serotonin made by the gut, not the brain, whose role outside the brain had been a mystery.

The face of things, it is necessary to consider Doss cooked, it is necessary to think more about, this is the only advantage to the brain.

Languages appear to exercise the brain as if it were a muscle and flexibility links directly to the development of digital literacies.

"We found a strong overreaction from the emotional centers of the brain, " Walker said.

This position he held until 1876, when overwork induced an affection of the brain and eyes, and he had to travel for his health.

Gene treatment Patients with Parkinson's have reduced levels of a chemical - GABA - in part of the brain known as the subthalamic nucleus.

Claims that the part of the brain known as the hypothalamus is influential in determining sexual orientation, have yet to be substantiated.

The brain works not by dint of its bulk properties but because neurons are wired up in amazingly specific and idiosyncratic patterns.

Oxytocin breaks down in the gut, so oral administration has no effect on the brain.

The parts of the body controlled by this Charkra are the pineal gland, the brain, and the entire nervous system as a system.

For millennia the question of free will was the province of philosophers and theologians, but it actually turns on how the brain works.

The news came after he suffered a seizure. Doctors found a glioma, a growth in the supportive tissue of the brain.

That, he says, suggests that it may perform the same types of visual processing that takes place in the brain.

Spread in the brain any voice that reach, just up and down the Han bone send out of the collision voice is still so irritating to the ear.

Parkinson's, a neurological disorder in which some of the brain cells that control movement die, had made him unable to walk.

Researchers theorize that the enzyme may be able to break up the protein that forms the memory-altering deposits on the brain.

But once the "Institute for the Brain" confirmed what Stalin wanted to hear, he decided to keep those "findings" secret.

On pre-op MRI, is the tumor purely intraventricular or is at least part of it in the brain parenchyma?

This kind of extended sensation appears to be the result of a reorganization of the brain.

when the surface of the skin gets too cold , skin receptors send signals to the brain , which tries to warm us up in different ways.

Looking back, really want too much to think about and should not be thinking about it, all into the brain where it together with the output.

The alarms produce a wide range of frequencies that enable the brain to determine where the sound is coming from.

Scientists have identified the brain circuits that 'decide' how much we eat.

Stalin's idea was that scientists would study the brain to prove that the Soviet founder had been a genius.

The brain then adds them together as if they were natural, to create the impression of depth, as well as width and height.

Already he had discovered that his brain went beyond Ruth's, just as it went beyond the brains of her brothers, or the brain of her father.

He said the same region of the brain has been found in prior studies to play a role in motor control.

First we look at the center, as it is the heart ( or at least the brain ) of the system.

The goal is to see how sharing a new and challenging experience with a spouse changes the neural activation of the brain.

He realised her mother's violent death was 'like a wound on the brain'.

Researchers discovered that contrary to popular opinion the brain is not always entirely asleep or awake but parts of it can go "offline" .

Dr. Alzheimer was the first to notice the changes in the brain tissue of a woman who died of an mental illness.

Feed some appropriate electrical signals to this nerve, Dr Zrenner reasoned, and the brain would be able to see again.

He died of a wound in the brain caused by a rifle bullet that was fired at him as he was riding through downtown Dallas in a motorcade.

He painted with the brain, and he could not help knowing that the only painting worth anything was done with the heart.

The beta endorphin created by the brain is called Happy Hoemone, while the epinephrine is often called Painful Hormone.

Just as the brain came out of chaos at the beginning, it's going back into chaos in the end.

However, until now, the question of how distinctive features processed in the brain is still unclear, it need to make further study.

If I stand on the free-throw line, but the brain think of that 10 million viewers watching me, and I may be loss.

Their brains do not know how full or how much fat they have stored, so the brain does not tell the body to stop refuelling.

Although we might tend to put this sort of skill down as basic "instinct, " it actually relies on higher activities of the brain.

Then the energies move like wave frequencies throughout the channels within the physical structure, moving right up to the brain.

It will also be important, he notes, to look for cases in which parts of the brain have been impaired and emotional tendencies have changed.

Because we primates are primarily visual creatures, perhaps the best way for us to make sense of the brain is to see it clearly.

I wonder how the great DiMaggio would have liked the way I hit him in the brain?

'Women metabolise alcohol in a different way and alcohol seems to have more toxic effects on the brain and also on the body, ' she said.

High blood pressure was also linked to a more rapid worsening of scores on mental tests, effectively ageing the brain by up to eight years.

Phosphates constantly are added to or removed from eIF2a, depending on how much protein the brain needs to make.

"Reward-dependence" personalities stood out for having smaller volumes of tissue in the front o-striatal and limbic areas of the brain.

The result was achieved though a special protein limited diet, which had a great effect on the chemistry of the brain.

It is not the brain cells themselves but the nerve connections between them (called dendrites) which are most affected by alcohol.

Sitting in a chair or riding a bicycle on a regular basis signals the brain to set the length of the muscles about the hips for flexion.

Strain in the brain gives it a fatigue test which helps evaluate your mental stamina and capacity.

Parts of the brain have been tentatively identified, but more research was needed, he said.

And to the brain, a dry, dull, academic explanation is definitely CRAP (regardless of how much your mind cares about the topic).

"So, to prevent worsening of damage to the brain, the patient must be maintained in as stable a condition as is possible, " she said.

The most popular notion was that some substance builds up in the brain during wakefulness, eventually to cause sleep.

We use current pacemaker defibrillator technology that's used for the heart. We thought we could adapt it for the brain.

This vein, which runs down the side of the neck, carries spent blood from the brain back to the heart.

But until recently, exactly what happens in the brain during sex was something of a mystery to scientists.

Researchers found a protein triggered by rheumatoid arthritis could undo the "tangles" in the brain that are thought to cause Alzheimer's.

In her studies, Carskadon is trying to figure out what's going on in the brain to produce this delay.

Scientists stressed good diet was vital in a child's early life as the brain grows at its fastest rate during the first three years of life.

During these 'ah-ha' moments, it is no doubt that your mind is completely powered up and probably working in another gear of the brain.

Indeed, it is often referred to as the "control" center of the brain.

Xue Bao Chai all tries to be practical, mind like this, also whatever blow to rotate son in the brain, disappear to have no Zong.

OK, how is all this complex circuitry set up in the brain?

One of the scientists said the brain could "restore" lost memories during the night.

Was not until the beginning of the century that man began to realize that it was the brain not the heart that was the center of mind.

Once in the brain, the parasite surrounds itself with a cyst, then seems to go dormant.

Feelings of being out of the body can also be explained by the brain's behaviour, the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences reports.

love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

The brain is acting a bit like a sponge; it can soak up new information and change to make room for it, a concept known as plasticity.

The animals that had not run before moving in with the mean mice showed much less neuronal activity in these portions of the brain.

By such figments of the brain, in the face of unsettled and disturbing conditions, he was becoming used to the idea of a new alliance.

By such figments of the brain, in the face of unsettled and disturbing conditions, he was becoming used to the idea of a new alliance.

If it is not a question of resting the body, then perhaps it is the brain that needs resting?

In passive sleep, the body is at rest, the heart slows down and the brain becomes very inactive.

The suprapersonal unconscious, being distributed throughout the brain-structure, is like an all-pervading, omnipresent, omniscient spirit.

Needless to say, a certain part of the brain lights up when the jaw is so engaged, but what that proves is hard to tell.

The researchers said the findings could boost understanding of how the brain processes languages.

The woman talked sometimes that she did not thought on the brain. The case did not dropscene.

'The brain is not immune to the long-term consequences of smoking, ' she said.

Researchers may have found a clue to age-related memory loss among the coiled strands of DNA in the brain cells of elderly mice.

This ensures that only one of the two images being shown is seen by each eye and forces the brain to turn them into a moving 3D image.

This does not mean that the brain hypnotizes itself into a state of order when there is really disorder in and about it.

Now scientists claim to have come up with an answer to her changing moods - our eyes are sending mixed signals to the brain.

It was almost as if the brain had been rewired, and connected to the fright, flight or fight area in the brain stem.

The grey part of the brain is folded to fit inside the skull and, if flattened, it would cover the surface of an office desk.

Previous research had suggested that this part of the brain (which regulates emotion) is an important centre of religious activity.

His project is nothing less than an attempt to reverse engineer the relevant part of the brain.

Once again, the part of the brain in question seems to be involved in integrating inputs from different senses.

Inviting the men might as well say the move is the most primitive desire, a woman is tempted by a move prior to the brain.

"So it is going to be interesting to see if prions play any role in demyelinating diseases that stem from the brain, " he says.

A rat with damage to the amygdala, the primitive part of the brain that handles fear, will not freeze at all--even if it encounters a cat.

That molecule remained for only a few days and appeared to strengthen the brain circuit responsible for maintaining the fearful memory.

Deep inside the brain (in the "hypothalamus" ) is a temperature center, sort of like the thermostat in your house.

In one sense, the brain could be trying to economise during a repetitive task by shifting resources to the default mode.

Mum said that there was a direct link from the brain to the written word that was just as strong as the light God has granted us.

Even so, the idea that consciousness seems to be an emergent property of the brain can take us somewhere.

Another food with a long pedigree and which seems to have many benefits on the brain is usually served as a beverage, tea.

Technicians slice the brain as if it were a loaf of bread into slabs up to about a centimeter thick.

The next step is to map what other areas of the brain light up in response to clitoral and vaginal stimulation.

As you might guess, just one decade of the brain was not enough to solve all of the problems that plague the lump atop our spinal cord.

Unfortunately the brain doesn't say that's a silly thought it just takes on every thought as if it were true.

Students could sign up to implant electrodes into a rat's skull to show thatelectrical stimulation of the brain can affect behavior.

The gene affected seems to make a protein that acts as a "receptor" or docking point for nicotine in the brain.

1, For creativity to have a chance, the brain needs to get out of its own way and go with the flow.

So by measuring the electrical activity of the brain it is possible to tell if people are attending to a flashing light.

As well as being a stimulant, caffeine interrupts the flow of melatonin, the brain hormone that sends people into a sleep.

Cambridge University researchers have analyzed the structure of the brain and worked out how much energy its cells use up.

It seemed so intuitive to me. To diagnose and treat a brain disorder accurately, it would be necessary to look at the brain directly.

frequent repetitive motion seems to be the key to building not just stronger limbs but new connections within the brain.

Dr Scott said the findings could help scientists to understand how the brain learns language.

They actually seem to measure the speed with which the brain apprehends , integrates and evaluates information.

For him it was not enough that there might be disorders of the body that originated in the brain.

On an average day, the brain receives and acts in more than a million messages from different parts of the body.

The brain is also learning to control her breathing and body temperature and her eyes are beginning to move in their sockets.

they say that the only limit on the power of the brain is the limit of what we think is possible .

The size of the body's parts show how much of the brain is dedicated to processing the sensory information from each body part.

It is the first time the technique has been used to document how the brain processes grammar and produces words.

For a book that leads with the heart or the brain, rather than the penis, try one of the others on the shortlist instead.

These results raise the question of how the nicotine from a single cigarette could alter the brain enough to trigger the onset of addiction.

I really did not know should say any, the brain has been very chaotic!

Of course the brain is different, but to say whether the brain is damaged or not depends on what you mean by damaged.

"We tend to think of the brain as being static or even beginning to degenerate once we reach adulthood, " she says.

This activity, the scientists say, is the brain's way of blocking out the [NOISE] and the [NOISE] while you're trying to rest.

After a night's sleep, the next morning the brain wakes up and is ready to go, ready to acquire new information.

Scientists understand that Alzheimer's disease is characterised by a build up in the brain of a protein called amyloid beta peptide.

One-sided conversations make it more difficult for the brain to make these predictions, so listening is more distracting, she said.

He wrote that, "It's hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radicle acts like the brain of one of the lower animals. "

We've shown that it is possible for the brain to condition its own wiring system to operate more efficiently.

Because there's a limit to how much visual information the brain can process, it tends to pay attention to one thing at a time.

I wonder how the great DiMaggio would have like the way I hit him in the brain?

The main antioxidant found in cocoa, known as flavonols, is said to help increase blood flow to the brain.

And linguistic innatism is part of a wider debate about just how much of human nature is wired into the brain.

Well, sir, the rupture of a blood-vessel on the lobe of the brain has destroyed all this, not in a day, not in an hour, but in a second.

If you can't think, go for a walk. A change of atmosphere is good for you and gentle exercise helps shake up the brain cells.

It is not easy to say exactly what each part of the brain does.

The body rests when you sleep, but the brain is still active, preparing for the wake up and the best condition for the next day.

In what have come to be known as Broca's area, Wernicke's area and angular gyrus, all located in the left hemisphere of the brain.

Research suggests that it takes about a tenth of a second from information arriving in the brain to its conscious perception.

They then synchronized the MRI data with the laugh track to see how the brain changes when it's registering something funny.

Other researchers have speculated that this more-organized musical structure may have greater resonance for the brain.

A man in spite of the heart is still beating the brain there is still a thought, but it may result into death.

Scientists could use studies like this to create a map. It could show which parts of the brain are activated by different smells.

The brain, just like the body, needs to be kept in shape to perform at its optimum level.

Over a short time, the brain would accumulate just a few pulses, and so the error could be significant.

It used to be that we could only see what parts of the brain lit up when our subjects performed different tasks.

Hochner also found that many of the movements are guided peripherally, rather than by the brain, as if each arm had its own spinal cord.

Brain scans indicate that this may be because people with autism recruit more firepower from the brain's visual areas when doing such tasks.

Basically, when you're looking at story boards, you want to help the brain visualize as much of the movie as possible.

Schalk's computer screen shows that even when the music stops, the waveform from the brain continues as if the music were still playing.

Either of two closely related pentapeptides having opiate qualities and occurring in the brain, spinal cord, and other parts of the body.

Functional programming also stretchs the brain, as it makes you think of solving problems by chaining solutions together.

In 1990, President George H. W. Bush declared that the last decade of the 20th century would be known as the "Decade of the Brain. "

Some students of the human mind make a strong argument that thinking is a type of evolution of ideas within the brain.

The British researchers are exploring ways to stimulate the brain to improve the ability to understand and work with numbers.

You see 12 intelligent computer agents , the little rectangles that are flying in the brain with you .

When a part of the brain stem known as the pons is destroyed, people no longer experience REM sleep.

It is not easy to say exactally what each part of the brain does.

To the best of my knowledge, it is not absurd to have the idea that fish is the best nourishing food for the brain.

A few years later German neurologist Carl Wernicke identified a second language center farther back, in the brain's left temporal lobe.

One of the many ways to help tap into emotions (and increase attention and memory) is to use the brain's reaction to faces.

Intricate, three-dimensional hand motions have been "read" from the brain using nothing but scalp electrodes.

It's easy to fall into routines that turn into ruts, but trying new things literally triggers a happiness response in the brain.

You could do brain surgery while fully conscious because the brain itself has no sense organs to it.

One is Broca's area at the front. The other is Wernicke's area further back in the brain.

The rod had damaged a significant part of his frontal lobe, a part of the brain now known to be essential in governing our temperament.

Unfortunately, none of these drugs deals with the other part of the problem: the viruses in the brain, gut and lymph nodes.

It turns out that if you imagine doing an activity, the same area of the brain will light up as if you are actually performing the activity.

Knowledge cannot be acquired by the brain from without, it must be "recollected" from within the consciousness of self.

Youre the brain, and central nervous system of the ship, and your responsibilities include watching over the men in hibernation.

Simply falling asleep might be enough to trigger the crucial memory process in the brain, researchers suspect.

The brain seems to break sounds down into their constituent acoustic frequencies.

Until the early 1990s, the "brain drain" was the predominant (if controversial) concept used to frame such discussions.

Many things connected to yawning, like being tired, make the brain hot, and yawning can reduce the heat, he said.

Interestingly, results showed that this increase in longevity extended to mice in which Irs2 expression was reduced only in the brain.

You see a strong and consistent pattern of activity throughout the brain that enables creativity.

The bullet that entered her skull did so from the back-left section of the brain and exited through the front-left section.

It is often used as a synonym for fainting, which is loss of consciousness due to inadequate blood flow to the brain.

You're the brain, and central nervous system of the ship, and your responsibilities include watching over the men in hibernation.

When confronted with a celebrity, the team documented heightened activity in a certain part of the brain - the medial orbitofrontal cortex.

Penfield mapped the brain location of each memory while he scanned the surface with his probe.

People who stay in education for longer appear to be better able to compensate for the effects of dementia on the brain, a study suggests.

Moreover, it occurred to me that love and anger might be linked in the brain, and indeed they are.

Scientists say it is possible to overcome painful memories, such as a bad romance, with the help of a chemical that works on the brain.

"We're seeing the brain as more plastic and ready to create new circuits before than after puberty, " Kuhl says.

This, he said, was possibly due to the brain releasing lower levels of the chemical dopamine.

Well , the brain , as you know, is made up of neurons .

They've got more in the right parts of the brain and for the right muscle groups, and that's what allows them to optimize their circuitry.

It is only recently , however , that science has begun to give us a true idea of how the brain really works .

When you compare the brain's detectives, neuroscientists, to other detectives, the neuroscientists seem to fall short in solving mysteries.

The brain inflammation that made Eva see her husband as a stranger and a killer soon moved to her lungs, and her breathing became painful.

Keep it simple. The brain gets overwhelmed when trying to process too much information.

It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

Oxygen-poor blood then "piles up" in the veins draining the brain, especially in central brain regions that are key to memory formation.

This research suggests that education is not able to stop the damage but enables the brain to cope better and alleviate its impact.

Other areas of the brain, less important very early in life, may be the regions that see greater growth as the child matures.

It's as if an entirely different part of the brain has been activated, utilizing a different mode of thinking.

And though silicon networks today look nothing like the brain, nodes of the Net have begun to function as neuron.

Second, too much stimulation can numb the pleasure response of the brain for a time, pumping up cravings for more novel stimuli.

Researchers, writing in the journal Nature, said the brain could "rescue" lost memories during the night.

When worry and anxiety to a certain extent, part of the brain responsible for emotions - the amygdala would not work.

They are now probing other parts of the brain in humans, chimps and macaques to see where neoteny might play a role.

When money is on the brain, people become disinclined to ask for help when faced with a difficult or even impossible puzzle.

It is imperative to understand how the brain's basic molecular processes function to generate corresponding insights in cognitive disorders.

And, caffeine causes our brains to produce higher levels of dopamine, the brain chemical that floods us with a sense of pleasure.

Also whole grains promote production of the brain neurotransmitter serotonin for a greater sense of well-being.

Ear melodious melody mind is still, as if a generation had passed, the clouds, the brain clear bright eyes.

Even the small vessels and subarachnoid cavity on the surface of the brain could be distinguished by OCT.

So if you imagine playing tennis, the same area of the brain lights up as if you're actually playing tennis.

Now, Falk said, the team is looking for other regions of the brain that might add to the accuracy of the technique.

This means that insulin levels in the brain would be only one of many factors when it comes to improving longevity.

Then he points to another section of the brain, in the front part of the brain, just behind the eyes.

"We are trying to figure out whether there is hidden wisdom that the brain contains, " Falk said in a telephone interview.

That characteristic let the experimenters study how the brain handles both anticipation and arrival of a musical rush.

Indeed, true mastery requires a muscle sense, a motor image, as it were, in the brain's motion-planning areas of the movement in question.

This illusion can be explained by a dissonance that takes place in the receptive field of the brain.

The discovery of the brain chemistry changes suggests doctors may be able to develop drugs to counteract the effects of bullying in humans.

When the brain is learning, it is tempting to say that it is adjusting the number and strength of these connections.

The electrodes used were non-penetrating, meaning they sit between the patient's brain and skull, but do not actually poke into the brain.

If the brain is not so active, it concentrates its full energies on monitoring the passing of time. As a result, time seems to drag.

By the body into the tools to the brain extension of the tools, urbanization mode and today energy utilization way has close relationship.

In animals, this part of the brain evolved around the time of the dinosaurs before mammals existed.

Carrying inward to a central organ or section, as nerves that conduct impulses from the periphery of the body to the brain or spinal cord.

Furthermore, researchers found that the brain's pleasure centers lit up in males when just punishment was meted out.

Retreating to a bar at the Imperial Palace, we talked about a different mystery he had been pondering: the role words play inside the brain.

But he says the brain needs some sort of counting system to tell the difference between 10 cookies and 11.

Can the brain - with all its reactions and its immediate responses to every challenge and demand - can that brain be very still?

The brain maps show a marked difference in the brain patterns of someone just browsing compared with a consumer about to make a purchase.

If there was bleeding around the brain, this could lead to further neurological problems, forcing Cech out for many months.

''But so much of what makes us human goes beyond the brain as an information-processing organ. ''

The implants developed by the project will likely be composed of electrodes or optical fibres, and will sit on the surface of the brain.

Smeyne said the virus' path from the stomach through the nervous system and into the brain is reminiscent of how Parkinson's unfolds.