Sentences with phrase «noted brain researcher»

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One researcher notes that the supine position (lying on the back) may contribute significantly to hypotension and FHR abnormalities when an epidural is in place.73 Another found that the supine position (plus epidural) was associated with a significant decrease in the oxygen supply to the baby's brain (fetal cerebral oxygenation).74

Most recently, he noted, researchers reported in Science that sleep functions as a kind of «sewer system» for the brain, at least in mice, by flushing beta - amyloid, which is known to accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

This represents real progress for many children, some of whom were hearing fewer than 6,000 words a day, well below the 19,000 to 21,000 words that researchers have said are optimal for brain development, she noted.

«Our own previous study on Facebook could only show correlation between social network size and the brain, but we could not determine the direction of causation between social brain regions and social network size,» notes Ryota Kanai of University College London, one of the researchers on the study.

Editor's note: When reporting results from the functional MRI scans of dogs» brains, left and right were accidentally reversed in all images, the researchers report in a correction posted April 7 in Science.

Although malnutrition during pregnancy is known to lead to poor outcomes for babies, «the functional long - term consequences of maternal malnutrition on the brains and behavior of their progeny are mostly unknown,» the researchers noted.

While the results suggest that deep brain stimulation could improve survival rates for patients with Parkinson's disease, the researchers note a few limitations to the study.

«It was particularly exciting to see plasticity in the neurons impaired by mHTT,» said Davidson, noting that in the HD mice, brain areas that had begun to atrophy recovered volume and permitted better motor function after the researchers restored mTORC1 activity to more normal levels.

However, despite these similarities, the researchers noted that the relationship between these sleep waves and cognitive performance differs between neurotypical and autistic children, as different brain regions are involved for each group.

Last Friday, in the leading Moscow business newspaper Vedomosti, a letter addressed to Russia's president and its prime minister and signed by more than 100 Russian researchers who permanently work abroad complained of «the disastrous situation in the Russian basic research,» noting extremely low levels of funding and a continuing massive brain drain.

Although the «Jen» and «Halle» neurons behave much like a grandmother cell, the findings do not mean that a given brain cell will react to only one person or object, notes Christof Koch, one of the study's researchers at the California Institute of Technology.

In a series of experiments in mice, the researchers developed a computer program that connected the neural activity in the animals» brains to musical notes, so that when one group of neurons switched on, a corresponding musical note played.

Only then, CSTE's Co-Director Robert Stern noted, can researchers evaluate ways to avoid the brain damage or reverse it.

She notes that other researchers currently studying immunotherapies for glioma and other brain tumors should also consider doing the same.

Though much of the concern in the media regarding the toxic effects of Zika virus has focused on brain findings of microcephaly, the researchers noted that there are a variety of brain abnormalities that can be found in fetuses exposed to the virus, including gray and white matter volume loss, brainstem abnormalities, calcifications, and a condition called ventriculomegaly, where the ventricles, or fluid filled spaces in the brain, are enlarged.

As activity was monitored, researchers noted changes under the assumption that the brain reduces activity as it becomes accustomed to a stimulus and then reactivates when a novel stimulus is presented.

Editor's Note: This article originally stated that researchers sometimes implant electrodes in the brains of epilepsy patients undergoing surgery.

Long before the head - cracking collisions that damage the brains of football players (SN: 6/14/14, p. 12), people were sustaining head hits in other ways, the researchers note.

Romantic love may be linked to addiction in the brain, but it is possible to break the habit, though it's not easy, says study researcher Helen E. Fisher, PhD, an anthropologist and noted relationship scientist at Rutgers University.

The researchers measured NF - κB activation in mouse brains as they aged and noted that, while the protein was barely active in the hypothalamuses of young mice, it became increasingly active as the mice got older.

In a new finding with implications to human learning, memory, and speech acquisition, researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have correlated the simple notes and more complex passages of a bird's song to activity in different areas of the brain.

The researchers note that in the mammalian brain, whose cells do not divide, prions pass between cells and function as infectious agents; in yeast, they produce heritable changes from one generation to the next.

Researchers note that while PCI - aided delivery of chemotherapy to the brain has proven effective in laboratory tests, additional testing prior to human clinical trials is needed to identify other less - toxic blood - brain barrier agents to be used in tandem with the photosensitizer in the PCI process.

One researcher posted a note to say that a 2 gram model would be helpful for recording brain activity in songbirds, which prompted the UCLA team to produce a lighter version of the microscope.

The researchers also noted that about 80 percent of American babies had been introduced to rice cereal by age 1 and that arsenic is associated with health effects on brain development and the immune system.

It's important to note the reduced consumption of carbohydrates in the study --- some researchers have called Alzheimer's type 3 diabetes due to the deleterious effects of excess sugar and carbohydrates on the brain.

Researchers have noted pleasure deficiencies shown on brain scans of a variety of people, finding that frequent abuse of food or drugs actually alters the brain, causing it to not light up with dopamine as it once did.Chronic overeating can also lead to diabetes and predisposes the body toward inflammation, insulin resistance, elevated blood pressure, psychiatric illness, poor digestion, hormone imbalance, and malnutrition.

Researchers continue to find ways to optimize the brain, and profound results have been noted by simply consuming certain foods.

-RSB- In Romania, researchers noted similar activity using inhaled lavender for an hour each day and, according to the study, «Taken together, our results suggest that antioxidant and antiapoptotic activities of the lavender essential oils are the major mechanisms for their potent neuroprotective effects against scopolamine - induced oxidative stress in the rat brain,» that can lead to severe illness and cancer.

[13] In Romania, researchers noted similar activity using inhaled lavender for an hour each day and, according to the study, «Taken together, our results suggest that antioxidant and antiapoptotic activities of the lavender essential oils are the major mechanisms for their potent neuroprotective effects against scopolamine - induced oxidative stress in the rat brain,» that can lead to severe illness and cancer.

Brain researcher Maryanne Wolf (2007) has discussed «word poverty,» noting that «by kindergarten a gap of 32 million words already separates some children in linguistically - impoverished homes from their more stimulated peers» (p. 20).

Please study carefully what this brilliant researcher has noted regarding Autism spectrum disorders, and the induced changes in brain functions caused by electromagnetic field emissions.

On a side note, the researchers responsible for this fMRI study recently produced a video of what a complete orgasm looks like inside the female brain (see here).

Dr Franco Manes, a neurological researcher, notes in a WebMD interview that there is a possibility that impairments in the brain's pre-frontal cortex make it more difficult for a problem gambler to reasonably consider future consequences.