Sentence examples for brain altered from inspiring English sources

In a concrete basement at the University of Sydney, I sat in a chair waiting to have my brain altered by an electromagnetic pulse.

On his side, Gorner has a man named Chagrin, a sadist from Viet Nam who had his brain altered by Soviet surgeons so he can feel neither compassion nor pain.

This led to increased arterial delivery of phenylalanine to the brain, altered its unidirectional uptake in the brain, and was accompanied by an impressive net brain glutamine release.

A provocative new study, however, hints at a third factor: bits of genetic material that spontaneously hop around the genome of neurons in the developing brain, altering patterns of gene expression.

Recent experimental studies show that systemic inflammation exacerbates neutrophil infiltration in the brain, altering the kinetics of the BBB tight junction disruption after experimental stroke in mice [ 11].

The release of inflammatory mediators [ 23, 24] or certain metabolites to the bloodstream can be sensed by the brain, altering the permeability of the blood brain barrier [ 22, 25] or modifying cerebral blood flow.

Others have raised the possibility that such drug use could induce unanticipated changes to the complex biosocial and psychological functions of the brain, altering our social behaviour in an altogether different way [ 81].

We hypothesize that expression level changes in the brain alter neuronal signaling either directly or indirectly, which impacts the processing of sensory cues and targets other reproductively important tissues.

His testimony about how this happened in his own life is plangent and familiar, but he addles it a bit by insisting that the real damage is being done at the neurological level, that our children are having their brains altered by too much instant messaging and the like.

The cold-hearted, knife-wielding teenager has grown into a brilliant neuroscientist with new theories about how computers, games and virtual lives are physically changing our brains – altering the way we think, make connections and function.

Their reported high correlation (r = 0.71) could be due to the stunning damage to the pigs' brains, altering their vasocontrolled thermoregulation and the stressful situation in which the measurements took place (a commercial abattoir).