Tharp prescribes going a week without mirrors, newspapers, movies, background music, multitasking, speaking or numbers, by which, she explains, she means the ones on "clocks, dials, meters, bathroom scales, bills, contracts, tax forms, bank statements and royalty reports" that can tax the left side of the brain at the expense of the more intuitive right.
As a result, he decided that our whole civilization is sick and that the root cause of this sickness is the cultivation by our society of the patriarchal (technological, aggressive and warrior) brain at the expense of the feminine brain (nurturance) and the childhood brain (spontaneity).
It is well documented that late-fetal nutrient deprivation in humans and other mammals can lead to sparing of the growth of the brain at the expense of other less critical organs (Gruenwald, 1963).
It has also been suggested that nutritional restriction may cause changes to the fetal blood circulation, sparing the brain at the expense of other organs and tissues during a "window of vulnerability" in fetal development.
During this period, in which compensatory mechanisms predominate, the neurohumoral response-induced vasoconstriction preserves the perfusion of the heart and brain at the expense of perfusion of the skin, muscle and gastrointestinal vascular beds [ 27, 31].
Poor fetal nutrition may lead to a "thrifty" phenotype that selectively protects the growth of the most vital organs (e.g., brain) at the expense of the less vital ones (e.g., pancreatic β-cell mass, nephron cell mass) during fetal development [ 2].
Let's not idolize our brains at the expense of our hearts.
So, for example, the preternatural ability that footballers have to anticipate the motion of a ball in flight is attained by the overdevelopment of the appropriate brain structure at the expense of the adverb department just next door.
Although cortical stimulation protocols need to be adapted to the scanning parameters and vice versa, event-related or interleaved strategies ensure successful brain imaging at the expense of some flexibility of the experimental procedures.
LRRK2 inhibitors may protect the brain, but at the expense of inducing pathology in the periphery.
Lack of nutrition is identified as key negative stimulus, which may cause changes in the fetal circulation, prioritizing essential growth (brain sparing) at the expense of other organs and tissues, or in the epigenome of the fetus.
