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The mouse brains were excised and collected for histopathological study and immunological analyses.
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The three techniques used had the same sensitivity for virus detection in bat brains (100 %).
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Studies have demonstrated that our brains contain neurally based 'body schema', or representations of our bodies.
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Our brains are plastic in the sense of being adaptable, able to learn to operate in new ways as the environment demands.
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The account also implies we couldn't survive severe amnesia or strokes that render our brains infant-like and in need of retraining.
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Replication of distinct scrapie prion isolates is region specific in brains of transgenic mice and hamsters.
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Two other chapters in this section cover the neuron, which is the brain's ' microprocessor ' and the many different neurotransmitter systems.
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One month after immunization brains were processed to detect b-galactosidase expression by immunohistochemistry.
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One boy tells another that their teacher: is always telling us to use our own hands and brains.
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How many subtypes of glia exist in the brains of invertebrates and mammals?
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Since every human being's history and circumstances are different, each brain's wiring is going to be quite unique.
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The idea that psychologists' choice of experimental paradigms has representation in the animals' brains is too, too much!
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Also, big brains would still remain adaptive even without niche construction.
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Three times he has infected our blood and brains with the bacillus of perfection.
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If the number of languages is finite, the enumeration might be inscribed as such in the brains of human infants.
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The small subset of species possessing brains, including humans, is characterized by a diverse array of specialized evolved psychological mechanisms.
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The way perceptions are represented in our brains is far from settled, but the rules of kinematic geometry could not be applied to some possibilities.
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Not yet knowing how brains develop, we do not really know what the units are that selection can target.
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Likely, most cortical regions and their interconnecting pathways in rodent and primate brains will be different to accommodate this order-related difference.
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Thus, brains of necessity become bigger in order to accommodate new functions.
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The extremely divergent nature of these features from that of other mammalian brains continues to be the centerpoint of active debate about dolphin intelligence.
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When considering hominid evolution, attempts to understand how evolution produces larger brains is of prime interest.
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Our intuitions tend to be very different when discussing human brains and insect brains, yet the problems are often common ones.
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Early motor control research often assumed that the brain's commands were in terms of joint torques, angles, and so forth.
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Do they find it distressing when art museums fail to hang pictures of brains on their walls?
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Probably brains are even more than that, namely, complex dynamical systems exhibiting something like a "liquid" architecture.
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The generality of this process is remarkable, as is its potency across the vast range of the brain's evolutionary mechanisms.
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Humans, with their large brains relative to body size, are an example of this situation.
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Such connections may well function to integrate information across the brain's perceptual and conceptual faculties, without recourse to a linguiform medium of thought.
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What remains to be discovered, however, is what form these constraints take in terms of the brain's structural properties.
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Accelerated amyloid deposition in the brains of transgenic mice coexpressing mutant presenilin 1 and amyloid precursor proteins.
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Linked regularities in the development and evolution of mammalian brains.
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Evoked potential studies of attention capacity in human frontal lobe brains.
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If we are tired and are "winding down" at the end of a day, our brains are presumably less activated.
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There is much here to stimulate those famously large brains with which humans are endowed.
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Our brains are divided into ten, and we are ten groups who are quarrelling.
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Individual differences in the reactivities of sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the brain's autonomic centres should therefore also be relevant to the efficiency of socialization.
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They can also assert that materialists are entitled to say precisely the same things about brains.
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What kind of special matter are brains made of, according to materialists ?
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The thalami from the brains of two normal subjects were used for generating maps of gene expression patterns in the serially-sectioned thalamus.
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Rats were intracardially perfused (10% formalin), brains were removed and stored for 1-2 days.
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Expanded ontogeny of neurotransmitters and their metabolites in the brains of fetal and newborn lambs.
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The brains were rapidly removed and snap frozen.
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First, he began to collect the brains of scholars, whereas the earlier nineteenth century knew only collections of skulls.
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He had weighed the brains of 29 normal men and found an average figure of 1323 grams.
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On the contrary, he started to collect radical brains and sought a material basis for their peculiarity.
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He wanted to study this problem by comparing the brains of hibernating animals, during sleep and awake periods.
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They thus lacked intelligence, athletic bodies, and brains.
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The brains from the cases used in the three transsynaptic protocols all underwent the same histological procedures.
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Perhaps most intriguing, might some of the developmental constraints have evolved as adaptations for the generation of functionally viable brains?
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In addition, he mentioned the weight of the brains of four eminent men, none of which he had ever seen.
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After per fusion, the brains were immediately removed and blocked in the coronal plane (5 mm thick).
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By far the most important and immediate context for decerebrating brains was, however, in response to the political pressures of animal protection and antivivisection movements.
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A cryoprotection method that facilitates cutting frozen sections of whole monkey brains from histological and histochemical processing without freezing artifact.
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There is abundant evidence now that neonatal brains are embarking on changes in organization that are highly responsive to stimulation from caregivers.
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Superficially, a computer might seem a useful analogy for how brains perceive and act in information-rich environments.
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Seeking half our brains: reflections on the social context of interdisciplinary research and development.
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There have been millions of other brains much like mine.
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We all know the importance of keeping our brains and bodies healthy and active, and of maintaining social support networks.
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In line with this, where the nature of the work was complex and employees were mainly ' brains ', greater sympathy, responsiveness and flexibility was reported.
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I find it more instructive, therefore, to compare the brains of animals with similar body sizes.
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Is there some hierarchy to this weeding-out process that might be different in brains of different size of maturational rate?
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The alternative is to take a braincentered approach, to assume that brains like ours are more likely than others to have these capacities.
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Thus, big brains are more likely than small brains to have excess neurons available for cognitive processing.
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Marsupials have the same event order, producing brains of different sizes, but the pace of neuronal production is slowed overall.
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Is a map of stars etched into the brains of indigo buntings to guide them south?
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The meeting is instead a match - a belonging-together - some match between reality and cognitive attunement, which may be repeated across monadological brains.
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Here, we investigate the phagocytic activity of microglia prepared from neonatal rat brains and macrophages prepared from rat bone marrow using flow cytometry.
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Astroglial cultures were prepared from brains of neonatal rats and maintained for 2-3 weeks.
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Our brains are well adapted to achieving control objectives in spite of inertia, friction and gravity.
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In other words, mental processes are viewed as being essentially identical with the brain's physical processes (and not the result of these physical processes).
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Following major insults, delirium occurs even among those with relatively healthy brains.
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Human brains are much larger than those of mice and, as in the case of naturally infected rodents, numbers are likely to be low.
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On the basis of the number of larvae recovered from individual brains of mice, the infected mice were divided into larval intensity groups.
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Big brains and complex behaviours, however, cannot be considered in isolation.
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The images of these minimally conscious brains were compelling, prompting all manner of speculation.
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Dystrophic calcification was a feature of some brains.
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Finally, neurophysiological studies have started to produce a wealth of data on the multimodal speech representations in the developing and mature brains.
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The project cannot be avoided, for the metaphysical consensus of the age insists that minds do not exist apart from brains - or, perhaps, comparable machines.
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Rat brains were then aldehyde-fixed and processed using standard methods.
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He also assumes that there are no essential differences between the brains of people from different societies or different historical periods.
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Moral restrictions precluded the dissection of brains of eminent men before the 1830s.
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Structural changes, in other words, occur within their brains on a large scale for nearly a month.
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In understanding brains, some of the crucial steps have been technical.
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Partnership became his slogan- the partnership of public and private brains and money.
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We have learned much about our own brains and vocal tracts, and those of our primate cousins.
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Their brains function; they are conscious and are able to do a variety of things; but they have been struck down, for example, by polio.
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When it tells our brains which way our heads are pointing, it affects our perception of stereo and quadraphonic sound.
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At an early stage, cells in the inner cell mass are not determined; they are not yet specified to form brains or toes.
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However, we know that the development of the brain's structure and function always occurs within an environmental context.
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Nevertheless, the brain's openness to environmental influence also creates a degree of vulnerability to early disruptions in development.
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Furthermore, activation maps can be misleading due to the structure of the brain's vascular system.
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The model has implications for how the brain's reading network might respond to variations in writing systems.
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One way to explore this question is to contrast the brains of individuals who differ in their vocabulary knowledge.
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Many people function homolaterally, using only some of the brain's capacity in any one situation.
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Pupils will have to listen hard, work hard and use their brains to master cross-rhythms, develop musical motifs and sustain their concentration in longer performances.
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Genes are the primary policy-makers; brains are the executives.
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