Sentences with phrase «aging brain study»

The Duke - NUS study examined the data of 66 older Chinese adults, from the Singapore - Longitudinal Aging Brain Study (1).

1) The Singapore - Longitudinal Aging Brain Study (started in 2005) follows a cohort of healthy adults of Chinese ethnicity aged 55 years and above.

Researchers derived data from the Harvard Aging Brain Study, an observational study of older adult volunteers aimed at defining neurobiological and clinical changes in early Alzheimer's disease.

Not exact matches

A study published in May found that for adults aged 60 - 88, walking for 30 minutes four days a week for 12 weeks appeared to strengthen connectivity in a region of the brain where weakened connections have been linked with memory loss.

And if you need more motivation to increase your shut - eye time, there are plenty of studies available that indicate that people who don't get enough sleep age faster, experience a loss of brain power in mid-life and don't grow as tall as people who are well - rested.

The study involved giving a triple - receptor drug to mice that had Alzheimer's and age - related brain deterioration.

In fact, one Boston University study of 19,000 people concluded that for every additional 10 micrograms per cubic meter of bad air, your brain ages about two years.

Some of the medical studies I used as a reference are: Caloric restriction and intermittent fasting: Two potential diets for successful brain aging and Dietary Factors, Hormesis and Health, found on the US National Library of Medicine Site, Cardioprotection by Intermittent Fasting in Rats on the American Heart Association Site and Effect of Ramadan intermittent fasting on aerobic and anaerobic performance and perception of fatigue in male elite judo athletes from the Journal of Strength and conditioning research.

Paul Fletcher, Professor of Health Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, shares the findings from a new study which reveals, in addition to other health benefits, that the Mediterranean diet may protect your brain in old age.

A study from the University of California - Los Angeles Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research shows people with diets deficient in omega - 3 fatty acids were more susceptible to accelerated brain aging.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

A new study suggests that age - associated improvements in the ability to consider the preferences of others are linked with maturation of a brain region involved in self control.

Studies have found that antioxidants in fruits and vegetables can help prevent declines in brain function due to aging, and leafy green and cruciferous vegetables (including broccoli, cauliflower, romaine lettuce, and spinach) are particularly helpful for older women's memories.

A recent study from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that preemies who received more breast milk in their first 28 days of life had greater brain development at their intended due date and were more cognitively advanced at age seven than babies who did not receive as much or any breast milk.

These current studies represent a leap forward in the knowledge base about HS - AGING, and represent potential new paths to explore for diagnosis and treatment of this serious, but under - appreciated brain disease.

A second study, «Arteriolosclerosis that affects multiple brain regions,» appears in a recent issue of the journal Brain, and looks at small blood vessels in patients with HS - Aging and describes a specific change, called «arteriolosclerosis,» which is present in patients with HS - Abrain regions,» appears in a recent issue of the journal Brain, and looks at small blood vessels in patients with HS - Aging and describes a specific change, called «arteriolosclerosis,» which is present in patients with HS - ABrain, and looks at small blood vessels in patients with HS - Aging and describes a specific change, called «arteriolosclerosis,» which is present in patients with HS - Aging.

Sandberg's study of adults with aphasia compared to same - age healthy adults indicates that issues may extend beyond language portions of the brain and therefore require additional intervention programs to ensure patients» full recovery.

Burd and her colleagues used a mouse model to study what happens to the brains of those offspring as they age into adulthood to see if the effects persisted.

Results from a series of studies involving thousands of participants from birth to age 90 suggest that the brain's ability to process sound is influenced by everything from playing music and learning a new language to aging, language disorders and hearing loss.

To test this, Shelby Putt, an anthropologist at the Stone Age Institute and Indiana University, compared the brains of modern people making Oldowan and Acheulean tools in a study published earlier this year in Nature Human Behavior.

«We came up with interesting hypotheses, and possibly insights, into risk factors for brain disease by studying aging intestines,» he says.

«Potentially, if we can prevent or control diabetes and high blood pressure in middle age, we can prevent or delay the brain damage that occurs decades later and leads to memory and thinking problems and dementia,» says study author and Mayo Clinic epidemiologist Rosebud Roberts M.B., Ch.B.

«Brain development and aging: New study reveals that brain signals in specific regions change over a lifespan in ways that might be important for maintaining flexibility.&rBrain development and aging: New study reveals that brain signals in specific regions change over a lifespan in ways that might be important for maintaining flexibility.&rbrain signals in specific regions change over a lifespan in ways that might be important for maintaining flexibility.»

Their results demonstrated that, instead of an overall decrease in variability with aging, as earlier studies showed, the brain displayed regional differences, with some areas of the brain showing increases in variability across age while other areas showed a decrease.

Blood type may affect brain function as we age, according to a new large, long - term study.

In the Cardiovascular Health Study in the USA, 3,660 people aged 65 and older underwent brain scans to detect so called silent brain infarcts, or small lesions in the brain that can cause loss of thinking skills, dementia and stroke.

To investigate, they studied 26 people of different ages while they were undergoing brain surgery.

In the study, researchers used a mathematical algorithm to analyze the brain scans and eye movements of 16 young adults between the ages of 20 to 28.

For the present study, researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess brain response to sensory stimulation in 35 women with fibromyalgia and 25 healthy, age - matched controls.

Rondina says the study's results do not immediately change diagnosis or treatment options for age - related cognitive impairments, but it will be interesting to see the long - term implications of these results, as we continue to learn how our brains change as we age.

All images courtesy of Oregon Brain Aging Study, Portland VAMC and Oregon Health & Science University

Recent studies suggest that the total loss in brain volume due to atrophy — a wasting away of tissue caused by cell degeneration — between our teen years and old age is 15 percent or more, which means that by the time we're in our seventies, our brains have shrunk to the size they were when we were between 2 and 3 years old.

One study published this year in Neurobiology of Aging, from researchers at the University of Southern California, examined brain changes in mice exposed to particulate air pollution at levels commonly found near freeways.

In the latest study, low scores on the brain health index at age 3 were found to predict high healthcare and social costs as an adult.

«We know that our brains change over time, but fully understanding how we make and recall memories as we age has been a mystery,» said Renante Rondina, a University of Toronto and Rotman graduate student in the Department of Psychology and lead author of the study.

«When we hear a sound, the normal aging brain keeps the sound in check during processing, but those with MCI have lost this inhibition and it was as if the flood gates were open since their neural response to the same sounds were over-exaggerated,» says Dr. Gavin Bidelman, first author on the study, a former RRI post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor at the University of Memphis.

Researchers studied hippocampi from the autopsied brains of 17 men and 11 women ranging in age from 14 to 79.

«This study provides an explicit test of some controversial ideas about how the brain reorganizes as we age,» said lead author Simon Davis, PhD.

«Furthermore, given the continued use of psychotropic medications in very young children and concerns regarding their effects on the developing brain, future studies on the long - term effects of psychotropic medication use in this age group are essential.»

Gazzaley wanted to take a broader view of the brain to answer questions about memory and aging; he hoped to study how distinct neural regions interact during memory formation and other complex cognitive processes.

Prior studies have suggested that participation in activities that stimulate thought, new ideas, new memories, and that challenge us mentally may encourage brain health as we age and possibly reduce risk of cognitive impairment and dementia.

Scientists have studied brain changes on short terms of seconds and minutes, such as when research subjects complete a task, as well as on the long term of years, documenting cognitive decline during the aging process.

Such changes, Li and colleagues suggested while reviewing a number of related studies, are consistent with anatomical changes that can occur in the brain as a result of learning a second language, no matter the age of the learner, as they reported in a recent issue of Cortex.

The study looked for two of the most common types of brain tumors — gliomas, which are often malignant, and meningiomas, which are more often benign — in people ages 20 to 79 in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden between 1974 and 2003.

«I really worry about this study — I think it's flawed,» says Peter Snyder, a neurologist who studies ageing at Brown University's Alpert Medical School in Providence, R.I. Snyder agrees that data supporting the efficacy of brain training are sparse.

You might shudder at the mere thought of ancient brain surgery, but recent studies of the practice at Bronze Age sites in Turkey suggest that early neurosurgeons were surprisingly precise and that a majority of their patients may have survived.

Professor Aneta Stefanovska from Lancaster University, who has been studying the physics of biological oscillations for over 20 years, said: «Combining the technique to noninvasively record the fluctuation corresponding to cerebrospinal fluid and our sophisticated methods to analyse oscillations which are not clock - like but rather vary in time around their natural values, we have come to an interesting and non-invasive method that can be used to study aging and changes due to various neurodegenerative brain aging may begin earlier than expected.»

Raghanti says that the researchers are now counting the neurons in the chimp brains they studied to determine whether the cells are lost with age, and studying inflammation in the brains.

«The less older adults sleep, the faster their brains age, new study suggests.»

«This is exactly the pharmacokinetic profile produced by lithium salicylate in our study,» said senior author Doug Shytle, PhD, also of the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair at USF Health.