They are already the brain food of the smartphone, and now they allowing an increasing array of previously inanimate objects to understand your place, motion, touch, gestures and activity.
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They both offer you, the homebuyer or renter, all kinds of brain food to keep you smart about where and whether you should buy a home, sell a home, lease a home etc.
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The effect should be fleeting, enough to warm up the brain's food neurons, kick-start the taste buds, and crank open the saliva glands.
However, researchers were curious about what happened inside the brain to alter the food people choose to eat.
In fact, a battery of studies by Diana Tamir and Jason Mitchell of the Department of Psychology at Harvard University found that talking about ourselves lights up the same brain pleasure centers as food, money and sex.
Scans of 21 people showed the brain was more attracted to food if breakfast was missed so people had more food at lunch.
Anyone who is interested in communications and the brain should spend a little time with Heribert Watzke, food scientist and researcher into what he calls the little or lower brain.
As a result, about 25% of the energy humans get from food goes to the brain, and about 20% of its oxygen, as well.
They showed part of the brain thought to be involved in "food appeal", the orbitofrontal cortex, became more active on an empty stomach.
Demos went a bit long, audio was a bit haphazard (especially with all the engineering talent in the room) but there the wine, food and victuals for the brain flowed.
When Scarmeas' group looked at the individual components of the diet, they found a stronger association between the overall diet and brain damage prevention than with any individual food in the diet, suggesting that the combination all of the elements may be producing the effect, Scarmeas said.
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It accounts for a sixth of infant deaths, and even in those it does not kill it prevents the absorption of food at a time when the brain is growing and developing rapidly.
It takes 10 minutes before the brain realises that the body has taken in enough food, according to scientists.
"What microwave radiation does in most simplistic terms is similar to what happens to food in microwaves, essentially cooking the brain, " Black said.
Now, researchers have found that eating chocolate, the number one food craved by American women, causes the brain to release endorphins, chemicals that make us feel good.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved deep-brain stimulation to treat Parkinson's and a movement disorder known as dystonia, and it is used to treat chronic pain and severe depression.
They found some evidence that low concentrations of dopamine, a brain chemical, may respond to the sight and smell of food in an addictive manner for some obese people.
Lots of junk food, the theory went, can mess up your brain and make you depressed.
She found a link between the brain's pleasure chemicals and a craving for this type of food.
Indeed, the nerves from the taste buds meet in a part of the brain called the amygdala with nerves that convey information on the softness of food.
Wang's theory could mean nothing more than that drugs hijack the same brain circuits that evolved over millions of years to motivate people to find and eat food.
He uncovered that people who did not have a fully functioning emotion center of the brain were unable to make decisions even when presented with simple decisions as choosing what food to eat.
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She and her colleagues first measured enkephalin in this region of the brain in rats going about their daily business: playing, running around and gnawing on non-food toys.
Since 2004, the USDA has removed the brain and the spinal column, the parts suspected of causing mad cow disease in humans, from the food system.
The Food and Drug Administration just approved a hat that generates electric fields to fight a deadly form of brain cancer.
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Axona contains FDA-approved food additives and a special formulation of a fat called caprylic triglyceride, which Accera says provides the brain an alternative energy source to glucose called ketones after the product is metabolized by the liver.
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One new technique being used by some neuroeconomists is transcranial magnetic stimulation, in which a coil held next to the head issues a low-level magnetic pulse that temporarily disrupts activity in a certain part of the brain, to see if that changes the subject's preferences for example, for a particular food and how much he is willing to pay for it.
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