Michael Merzenich on re wiring the brain

The workers are wiring the new house.

Gordon Brown Wiring a web for global good

Recovering the Wiring of Enigma's Umkehrwalze A , Cryptologia 24(1), pp.

Amnesty laws in Argentina at the time shielded him from prosecution.

It was determined that faulty wiring was the cause of the fire.

Asia may be shielded to some extent but it cannot be immune.

Meanwhile, the Kaiser was systematically shielded from the truth and became estranged from reality.

If the wiring is secret, the total number of possible configurations has been calculated to be around 10114 (approximately 380 bits) with known wiring and other operational constraints, this is reduced to around 1023 (76 bits).

Well it turns out that the main causes are faulty and misused appliances and electrical wiring.

Never work on electrical wiring without unplugging it it's a bad idea. I know from experience.

Though children s identities should, of course, be shielded in sex crime allegations, women are not children.

I got this on some trading locally, but really don't feel like screwing with wiring and crap.

What we see with, say, chocolate cake is it s a supernormal stimulus to tweak our design wiring.

I was shielded from the pains of bigotry and the social restrictions of a religiously based upbringing.

But these precautions haven t shielded her from frequent death threats from al Shabab by phone and text.

Shielded behind a protective China, Kim Jong il launched his rocket anyway, and the US refrained from action.

Some might assume that bond markets are shielded from the effects of climate change, ecosystem degradation, and water scarcity.

The smugglers, exhibiting a worrying level of technical knowledge, had tried to evade detection by building a shielded container.

A document, an image, or a video is shared, and suddenly what was secret or shielded is globally exposed.

The smugglers had tried to evade detection by building a shielded container a worrisome level of sophistication on their part.

Because of their limited participation in international financial markets, these countries have, so far, been somewhat shielded from the storm.

But the more their politicians argue over the debt ceiling, the greater the risk that the wiring will become irreparably frayed.

Countries in Europe and elsewhere have shielded their citizens from a part of this rise by piggybacking on US technological advances.

Shielded by China and Russia from foreign intervention, Assad now has license to pursue his goals with no mercy for his opponents.

By contrast, Thailand s government and local elite seem content to remain a provincial country shielded from global competition in science and technology.

In neutrino astronomy, astronomers use heavily shielded underground facilities such as SAGE, GALLEX, and Kamioka II III for the detection of neutrinos.

It funded the investment imperatives of economic development and boosted the cushion of foreign exchange reserves that has shielded China from external shocks.

Moreover, the agreements lack transparency, as they were considered commercially confidential and were thus shielded from public scrutiny until they were passed into law.

So much that enrages women, or leads them to feel rejected or unheard, may not reflect men s conscious neglect or even sexism, but simply their brains wiring!

Austrian and Hungarian Jews were among the most fiercely loyal subjects of the Austro Hungarian Emperor, because he shielded them from the violent nationalism of the majority populations.

During the war in Bosnia, the Serbs were effectively shielded by Moscow, with the ability of the US to threaten the use of force severely curtailed by Russia.

A survivor among a group of locals who have taken cover in a vacant lot watches me, shielded by one of the last pieces of zinc sheeting in his possession.

He and his wife had started ripping out all the walls, plumbing, and wiring in their modest Washington apartment, hoping to refurbish it prior to the arrival of their first child.

Because of their limited participation in international financial markets, these countries have, so far, been somewhat shielded from the storm. But it is an uneasy calm that probably will not last.

Selfie taking has been on the radar of Russian news media, with several cases of selfie takers getting seriously hurt or even dying after climbing tall buildings, touching electric wiring, or otherwise risking their safety.

In order to explain it to my students at Sciences Po in Paris, I have devised a kind of wiring diagram that shows the connections among the different bodies responsible for the various components of oversight.

Anyone who gets up and tells you their theory about how the brain works and doesn't tell you exactly how it's working in the brain and how the wiring works in the brain, it is not a theory.

The squatters, who had invaded 11 of the 13 floors of the building, the rest are inhabited took all the wiring and part of the water, painted the walls and left residues of all kinds, especially alcoholic beverage cans.

The HomePNA Alliance (formerly the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance, also known as HPNA) is an incorporated non profit industry association of companies that develops and standardizes technology for home networking over the existing coaxial cables and telephone wiring within homes.

Now by taking the biblical epithet abomination and attaching it to the ultimate image of innocence, a baby, this joke short circuits the emotional wiring behind the debate and it leaves the audience with the opportunity, through their laughter, to question its validity.

Despite everything we ve been through this past week the beatings, the torture, the denailing, the electrical currents that run more powerfully through our bodies than through the prison wiring, there are still people amongst us who have the power to revolt against their tormentor.

Studies of humans with damage to the amygdala, due to neurological disease or as a consequence of surgery to control epilepsy, show that our brains also work in this same basic way. The implication of these findings is that early on (perhaps since dinosaurs ruled the earth, or even before) evolution hit upon a way of wiring the brain to produce responses likely to keep an organism alive in dangerous situations.