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In the short term, stress can be advantageous, but when activated too often or too long, your primitive fight or flight stress response not only changes your brain but also damages many of the other organs and cells throughout your body.
When your brain detects a stressful situation, your HPA axis is instantly activated and releases a hormone called cortisol, which primes your body for instant action.
If the neuronal ensembles for the dolphin and pineapple are activated at the same time, we can perceive the two separate objects as a single image.
We designed these nanoparticles to be activated by these enzymes.
OK, so if I make a 100-nanometer cancer detector, I inject it in the bloodstream, it can leak into the tumor where it's activated by tumor enzymes to release a small signal that is small enough to be filtered out of the kidney and put into the urine, I have a signal in the outside world that I can detect.
My team hypothesized that we could use the carbon that's already in Styrofoam to create activated carbon, which is used in almost every water filter today.
And activated carbon works by using very small micropores to filter out contaminants from water or even air.
With the right temperatures, times and chemicals, we finally got that successful test result showing us that we had created activated carbon from Styrofoam waste.
And moreover, not only were we able to create activated carbon for purifying water, but we were also able to reduce Styrofoam waste, solving two global problems with just one solution.
And it's not just activated by food.
When an immune cell snuggles up against a cancer cell to take a taste, it's looking for signs of disease, and if it finds those signs, the cell gets activated and it launches a missile strike and kills the cell.
The results show that the areas needed for visual processing are activated whether or not the participant is aware of the image, but a whole additional network lights up only when they are conscious of seeing the image.
If enough sensors are activated, electrical signals shoot up the nerve to the spine and on to the brain.
If nerve fibers are activated repeatedly, the brain may decide they need to be more sensitive to adequately protect the body from threats.
So, you know, when a school bus is blown up and we've never seen this before, our general tendency is to orient towards that which is new and novel is activated.
So that's the part of the brain that is activated when you give a word to something.
And then the limbic system is activated when we see motion, when we see color, and there are primary shapes and pattern detectors that we've heard about before.
The answer can be found in the second and third test runs: the fuel tank glowed in both, but B was activated in one, and C in the other.
The sensors are activated when they're rehydrated by a patient sample that could consist of blood or saliva, for example.
That means your memory, your judgment, your impulse control deteriorate, and the brain areas for anger and anxiety are activated.
Fascinatingly, in the last few years, it's been possible to do functional brain imagery, to do fMRI on people as they are hallucinating, and, in fact, to find that different parts of the visual brain are activated as they are hallucinating.
When people have these simple, geometrical hallucinations, the primary visual cortex is activated.
There is an area in the anterior part of this gyrus where teeth and eyes are represented, and that part of the gyrus is activated when people get the deformed hallucinations.
There is another part of the brain which is especially activated when one sees cartoons.
It's activated when one recognizes cartoons, when one draws cartoons and when one hallucinates them.
Memory cells generated by the HIV vaccine are activated when they learn HIV is present from the front-line troops.
And what scientists call the readiness potential in our brain is activated, allowing us to take concrete steps.
Because, if the first neurons in the chain are activated, through their synapses they send messages to the second neurons, which are activated, and so on down the line, like a chain of falling dominoes.
Brain studies have shown that the withdrawal of romantic love activates the same mechanisms in our brain that get activated when addicts are withdrawing from substances like cocaine or opioids.
Instead you get a lot of Lords perkies pointing through a shirt, however they seem to be activated by hot steam.
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