Brain in sentence

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And what they've done here is they've put electrodes in its ganglia and its brain and then a transmitter on top, and it's on a big computer tracking ball.

The computer learned what the monkey brain did to move its arm in various ways.

Finally, Mussa-Ivaldi of Northwestern took a completely intact, independent lamprey eel brain.

This is a brain from a lamprey eel.

So now we have a complete living lamprey eel brain.

I don't know, but in fact it is a fully living brain that we have managed to keep alive to do our bidding.

And I phoned them up and picked their brain in an effort to match their expertise with what we found in code and data.

Well it turns out there is a way to measure happiness in the brain.

Matthieu's brain scan shows that compassion is not a chore.

They enabled us to tell the story about neuromarketing, as we got into telling the story in this film about how now they're using MRI's to target the desire centers of your brain for both commercials as well as movie marketing.

And then from about 500 years ago, humans began to link up globally through shipping, through trains, through telegraph, through the Internet, until now we seem to form a single global brain of almost seven billion individuals.

Even if you imagine that this room we are in now exists and is real and here we are, and we have, not only our memories, but our impression that outside there's something called Caltech and the United States and the Milky Way Galaxy, it's much easier for all those impressions to randomly fluctuate into your brain than for them actually to randomly fluctuate into Caltech, the United States and the galaxy.

With, you know, of course, there's the gravity brain.

There's the weak brain.

In a related German study, researchers used fMRI imaging to measure brain activity before and after injecting Botox to suppress smiling muscles.

The finding supported Darwin's theory, by showing that facial feedback modifies the neural processing of emotional content in the brain, in a way that helps us feel better when we smile.

British researchers found that one smile can generate the same level of brain stimulation as up to 2,000 bars of chocolate.

And that's that all those sensations, feelings, decisions and actions are mediated by the computer in your head called your brain.

But the last 100 years of neuroscience have allowed us to zoom in on the brain and to see the intricacy of what lies within.

And they've told us that this brain is an incredibly complicated circuit made out of hundreds of billions of cells called neurons.

Now, unlike a human-designed computer, where there's a fairly small number of different parts, and we know how they work because we humans designed them, the brain is made out of thousands of different kinds of cells, maybe tens of thousands.

They come in different shapes; they're made out of different molecules; they project and connect to different brain regions.

As just a second example: these pyramidal cells, large cells, can span a significant fraction of the brain.

And honestly, where we've gone through over the last 11 years, through an attempt to find ways of turning circuits and cells and parts and pathways of the brain on and off, both to understand the science and also to confront some of the issues that face us all as humans.

Now, before I tell you about the technology, the bad news is that a significant fraction of us in this room, if we live long enough, will encounter, perhaps, a brain disorder.

Already, a billion people have had some kind of brain disorder that incapacitates them.

Now, in the 20th century, there was some hope that was generated through the development of pharmaceuticals for treating brain disorders.

And while many drugs have been developed that can alleviate symptoms of brain disorders, practically none of them can be considered to be cured.

Now some people have gotten some solace from electrical stimulators that are implanted in the brain, for Parkinson's disease or cochlear implants.

There's one other magic trick you need to make this happen: the ability to get light into the brain.

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