Sentences with phrase «brain research reveals»
Brain research reveals that fats and sugars may increasingly be driving people toward obesity
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Research by the University of Southern California, which explores what happens when our brains are at rest, reveals that when our minds wander they engage in a form of neural processing «that is relatively suppressed when attention is focused on the outside world.»
Concussions are connected with substance abuse and suicidal thoughts in adolescents, new research presented at a St. Michael's Hospital conference on sports - related brain injuries revealed Saturday.
Recent studies show poor sleeping habits cause both brain damage and brain shrinkage, and may even accelerate onset of Alzheimer's disease.1 Previous research published in the journal Science2 revealed that your brain removes toxic waste during sleep through what has been dubbed «the glymphatic system.»
Increasing amounts of research have shown that infants and toddlers have a critical need for direct interactions with parents and other regular caregivers for healthy brain growth.82, — , 84 In addition, the results of 7 studies have shown that infants younger than 18 months who are exposed to TV may suffer from a delay in language development, and 1 study revealed that infant videos may delay language development.85, — , 91 No studies have documented a benefit of early viewing.92
Research has revealed that when your child watches an action performed by someone, neurons are fired in their brains.
Moreover, Rohner says, emerging evidence from the past decade of research in psychology and neuroscience is revealing that the same parts of the brain are activated when people feel rejected as are activated when they experience physical pain.
What mechanisms in the brain are in play when phobias strike and what does research reveal about effective treatments?
Now research reveals that brain rhythms also synchronize with musical sequences.
Research published today from Queen Mary University of London reveals less than 1 in 3 women have taken folic acid supplements before pregnancy to prevent spina bifida and other birth defects of the brain, spine, or spinal cord (neural tube defects).
Nobody really knows how the activity in your brain reorganizes as you learn new tasks, but new research from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh reveals that the brain has various mechanisms and constraints by which it reorganizes its neural activity when learning over the course of a few hours.
Recent research reveals that teen brains go awry because they weigh those consequences in peculiar ways.
«Mechanisms cancer cells use to establish metastatic brain tumors revealed by research.»
This new study of non-military, civilian trauma patients visiting the emergency department builds on recent research conducted by Dr. Samadani, supported through the Cohen Veterans Center, which found that the use of this novel eye - tracking technology could reveal edema, or swelling, in the brain as a potential biomarker for assessing brain function and monitoring recovery in people with head injuries.
Further research is needed to confirm the results and reveal the underlying brain mechanisms at play.
Christof Koch, a neuroscientist at Caltech, and Itzhak Fried, a neurosurgeon at the University of California at Los Angeles, revealed this spring that their research team had discovered individual brain cells that fire in response to particular people and places.
IRON overload may accelerate Alzheimer's disease, according to research that also reveals the role of beta - amyloid precursor protein (APP), which forms plaques in affected brains.
Since 2009 clinical psychologist Bruce Cuthbert and his team at the National Institute of Mental Health have been constructing a classification system based on recent research, which is revealing how the structure and activity of a mentally ill brain differs from that of a healthy one.
Insights into how the brain compensates for temporary hearing loss during infancy, such as that commonly experienced by children with glue ear, have been revealed in a research study in ferrets.
A study published in Molecular Cancer Research reveals that a tumor suppressor gene p16 is turned off by a histone mutation (H3.3 K27M), which is found in up to 70 percent of childhood brain tumors called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG).
The latest research reveals that the part of the brain that signals which direction you are facing, called the entorhinal region, is also used to signal the direction in which you need to travel to reach your destination.
In new research, published in PLOS Computational Biology, neuroscience researchers have created an algorithm to reveal key insight into why the brain can sometimes muddle up one of the most fundamental aspects of the human experience.
Previous research has already identified components of the brain's social network, revealing the inferior parietal lobule seems to encode familiarity and social distance, and that the medial prefrontal cortex encodes how socially relevant other people are to us.
The latest research reveals that the brain's blood supply is in fact chiefly controlled by the narrowing or widening of capillaries as pericytes tighten or loosen around them.
Her research, which draws on network science, has revealed that people with more «flexible» brains — those that can easily make new connections — are better at learning new information.
New research reveals that brain damage affecting the insula — an area with a key role in emotions — disrupts errors of thinking linked to gambling addiction.
Research carried out by the Perception and Memory team (Institut Pasteur / CNRS), directed by Pierre - Marie Lledo, a CNRS Director of Research, has recently revealed the specific role of these neurons produced in the adult brain.
«Advances in neuroimaging research have revealed that the disease progresses in the brain over time.
New research led by UC San Francisco scientists has revealed that mutations in a gene linked with brain development may dispose people to multiple forms of psychiatric disease by changing the way brain cells communicate.
Brain imaging research — in which scientists scan tiny mouse brains to understand neuroanatomical differences in autism models — has also revealed sex - based patterns.
«Consumers reveal barriers to brain - training app - iness: More research needed to show effectiveness of brain - training apps.»
Early research on the sharpest octogenarians reveals unusually youthful brain regions A nasty affliction sets into humans as they advance in years.
«The distinct neural markers associated with cognitive performance and GWI revealed in our study can be useful for future research to objectively measure the efficacy of treatments for GWI as well as other brain disorders related to the same neurotransmitter system, like Alzheimer's disease.»
In the first study of the drug lorcaserin in the human brain, the research revealed the mechanism underlying the drug's efficacy and provides insight into which individuals may benefit most from the medication.
New research in mice reveals that during sleep the connections between brain cells, which hold information learned throughout the day, undergo massive shrinkage.
New research by neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), published in The Journal of Neuroscience, reveals a set of cells in the fruit fly brain that respond specifically to food odors.
Breakthrough research using virtual reality has revealed significant differences in how the brains of sleepwalkers and non-sleepwalkers control and perceive body movement — a first in cognitive science.
Research at King's College London has revealed subtle brain differences in adult males with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which may go some way towards explaining why symptoms persist into adulthood in some people with the disorder.
In addition, the study took the research further and revealed the effects of adding Rhes to the cerebellum, a brain region normally not affected in Huntington's.
By looking at activation of different brain regions while test subjects were exposed to different listening conditions, Dr. Johnsrude's research has revealed that the early processing of sound, which occurs in a brain region called the primary auditory cortex, depends on higher - level linguistic knowledge encoded in other regions of the brain.
Professor Nizetic, calling for further research into the components of the disturbed cascade he and his team have revealed said; «We hope that further research might lead to clues for the design of new therapeutic approaches tackling developmental delay, mental retardation, ageing and regeneration of brain cells, and Alzheimer's disease.
His research has revealed that brain chemicals such as oxytocin and vasopressin regulate the neural processing of social information and promote the formation of social bonds by acting in specific neural pathways.
New research into CAR - T cell therapy has revealed crucial mechanisms that could help the immunotherapy technique, which is currently only effective against blood cancers, be adapted for the treatment of brain tumors and other forms of solid cancers.
Ann M. Graybiel, of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, at MIT, has identified and traced neural loops going from the outer layer of the brain to a region called the striatum and back again, and revealed that these form the basis for linking sensory cues to actions involved in habitual behaviBrain Research, at MIT, has identified and traced neural loops going from the outer layer of the brain to a region called the striatum and back again, and revealed that these form the basis for linking sensory cues to actions involved in habitual behavibrain to a region called the striatum and back again, and revealed that these form the basis for linking sensory cues to actions involved in habitual behaviours.
The 2010 Kavli Prize laureates were chosen for research that has transformed our knowledge of basic units of matter, laid the foundations for the field of nanotechnology, revealed the molecular basis for the transfer of brain signals and other physiological functions, and made possible the building of telescopes that can see deeper into space and further back in time.
Previous research by Dr. Akassoglou revealed that MS is linked to elevated levels of blood clotting - related proteins in the brain.
New scientific research has revealed how a small part of the brain singlehandedly steadies the body if it is thrown off balance.
Research like this that reveals how brain tumours survive will help us find the disease's weaknesses so we can exploit them.
«Two decades of discoveries in the fields of stem cell biology, cortical brain development, and cell transplantation have revealed the potential for particular types of neurons to repair the nervous system, representing a possible breakthrough therapy for patients with devastating neurological diseases,» said Cory Nicholas, Co-Founder, VP of Research at Neurona.