Sentences with phrase «many young brain»

Too much time in front of the TV or computer can affect young brains and make sleep difficult.

Their young brains are recognizing patterns in words they may see in a book, even before they know what those patterns mean or what the words mean.

Now, researchers who have measured the brain responses of 125 infants — including babies who were born prematurely and others who went full - term — show that a baby's earliest experiences of touch have lasting effects on the way their young brains respond to gentle touch when they go home.

Yes: Chronic, toxic stress is bad for young brains.

over the phone, alluding to the scientific fact that young brains have more development to go through before their decision - making faculties are perfected.

«It has to do with their brains,» says Van Zandt, who spoke to The Alt over the phone, alluding to the scientific fact that young brains have more development to go through before their decision - making faculties are perfected.

The real risks are from long - term effects on the young brain.»

Thus, the detrimental effects seen in young brains, in which cannabinoids are already plentiful, may turn out to be beneficial in older brains that have a dearth of them.

Barres speculates that the same immune molecules that help eliminate unneeded synapses in the young brain may mistakenly destroy necessary synapses later in life, causing the symptoms of these neurodegenerative diseases.

Those are among the most complex tasks the young brain has to master, so it's no wonder many childhood diso...

Cognitive scientists have found more evidence that aging brains work differently than younger brains when performing the same memory task, pointing to a potentially new direction for age - related cognitive care and exploration.

LPA receptors are all over neural progenitor cells, which go on to form neurons and other types of cells in a young brain.

The electrical signal is perhaps a third of the speed it is in an adult, reflecting the delayed myelination (myelin is the covering of the axon that speeds up transmission of long - distance electrical communication) and immaturity of the young brain.

This imprints the colour grey in their young brains, so when they grow up to lay eggs, they feel «more content» with a colour they knew as chicks.

«We don't know which substance in tobacco smoke might be responsible, but at this point there is strong evidence that smoking is damaging young brains.»

Rather than regarding young brains as immature and less functional, a better perspective may be to regard them as constantly adapting to meet the key challenges they face.

But the new finding suggests that while young brains have an extraordinary capacity to recover, there might be limits on which areas can pinch - hit.

Could these older brains be rewired by experience, in the manner usually seen only in young brains?

While e-cigarettes are touted as a means to help adult smokers quit, the devices might prime young brains...

«These features might be down to the particularly harmful effects of alcohol on young brains that are still in development, perhaps by delaying neuromaturational processes,» says López - Caneda.

In young brains, the neurons and their feedback controls grow and link up to each other.

In a study led by Duke Health and published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, scientists demonstrate in rats that a short duration of the drug donepezil can reverse both structural and genetic damage that bouts of alcohol use causes in neurons, or nerve cells, in the young brain.

«If replicated, this work paves the way for larger clinical trials to test the ability to harness the potential of the aging mind and its ability to excel — by working like a younger brain with all the rich knowledge and expertise accrued over time.

It is thrilling for me as a cognitive neuroscientist, who has previously studied age - related cognitive decline, to find that cognitive training has the potential to strengthen the aging brain to function more like a younger brain.»

Dr. Michael Motes, senior research scientist at the Center for BrainHealth and one of the lead authors of the study, said, «Finding a nonpharmacological intervention that can help the aging brain to perform like a younger brain is a welcome finding that potentially advances understanding of ways to enhance brain health and longevity.

Although these changes are far less striking than those in young brains, the potential has inspired a burst of optimism about the human condition and launched a new era of neuroscience.

Stressful lives can cause parents to engage less with children, and stress also acts directly on young brains, leaving a physical signature.

Some efforts to protect young brains may actually backfire.

More research on how they affect younger brains is urgently needed.

Some scientists think that these bursts of brain activity help young brains form the right connections between regions.

Earlier this year, Lerner, Xie and their colleagues reported using the new method to find an antibody that can perform the remarkable trick of turning bone marrow cells into young brain cells, via a previously unknown signaling mechanism.

THE GREAT DIVIDE Young brain stem cells (one shown dividing, left) pack old proteins tagged with ubiquitin (red) into one daughter cell.

In particular, younger brains seemed short on prefrontal cortex, the seat of so - called executive functions that, among other things, enable us to switch our attention from what we are learning now to something we learned earlier.

The biggest trick that older brains employ is to use both hemispheres simultaneously to handle tasks for which younger brains rely on predominantly one side.

Young brains are plastic, meaning their circuitry can be easily rewired to promote learning.

The Canadian Paediatric Society and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health have publicly stated that marijuana is not harmless and can have negative effects on the brain, especially young brains.

Research has shown that this tendency can be modified quite easily by experience, however, so overriding it most likely presents little problem to young brains in a culture that writes from right to left.

One such antibody agonist, which can turn stem - like cells in bone marrow into young brain cells, was described in a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last month.

This growth of new connection spots is something that typically occurs in young brains.

«What was really exciting is that in both old and young brains, a small percentage of the grafted cells retained their «stemness» feature and continuously produced new neurons,» said Bharathi Hattiangady, assistant professor at the Texas A&M College of Medicine and co-first author of the study.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

Her research translates existing studies from an adult population with cognitive disabilities to children with traumatic brain injury to investigate how an injured young brain heals and how it organizes itself around learning.

Seibt, who is not attached with the study, also added that to confirm the findings, the research team will have to show that memory problems can be caused in a young brain by disturbing these rhythms.

Rosser describes new studies planned for 2017 - 2018 with transplantation of young brain cells into the brains of 2 - 3 HD patients.

Just like a younger brain, the aging human brain can still form new neurons but why does the brain deteriorate in old age?

Overall, the study found, older and younger brains had similar numbers of «intermediate» progenitor cells and «immature» neurons — signaling that older people had a similar capacity for generating new cells as young people.

In general, old and young brains were capable of making the same number of new neurons from more primitive «progenitor» cells in the hippocampus.

In most young brains, that happens easily, but as we get older and our brain gets older, we have trouble with that.»

He's now at work on a novel about her life as a fanatically dedicated young brain scientist.

He has found that most of the areas of the brain can use glucose perfectly well, and also that the areas that do not take up glucose DO take up ketones just as well as a healthy young brain.