Sentences with phrase «older brains seem»

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«It was the older meditators who had brains that seemed particularly well preserved, suggesting that meditation provides protection against the brain cell loss associated with aging,» notes the BPS.

So it seems to me that for those of us who call ourselves Christians, but who also have used the brain that God gave us to conclude that the planet is more than 6000 years old and that the actions of Noah and his family saved all the then living things — that we can retain faith in a God who would not joke around with Abraham just to test him.

This is because (in my opinion) Arteta is average, he is the old man with a slow brain and slow feet, and is often caught out which puts the defence under unnecessary pressure (opposition teams seem to target him), He should never be first choice for such a prestigious club such as Arsenal..

Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a football club softly creeping Left has manager that is sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence In restless dreams Wenger walked alone Nobody could seem to dethrone *************** The prophetic words -LSB-...]

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

Eliot explains that the «cortical emotion centers» of your baby's brain don't begin to function until he's 6 to 8 months old, when he starts to feel the emotions that seem so vivid on his face.

And I wanted to tell her, there is another way, a way so old that after centuries of innovation, research and drugs testing we're now having to rediscover it and tell each other a truth so simple is seems incredible — your baby knows what to do and there's nothing to fear but fear itself Effortlessly, naturally, you gave your baby a body, eyes, a brain, life itself; the same way, you can give birth.

Older adults seem to share the same concern about their health as a 2014 survey by the AARP found that 93 % of respondents said maintaining brain health was a top priority.

People who are overweight have less white matter in their brains, making them look a decade older — an effect that doesn't seem to kick in until middle age

The controversy has reopened an old debate about the safety of the class of antidepressants that seem to act on the mood - regulating brain chemical serotonin.

A new study shows how changing the activity in this brain area can make the new seem old, and the old seem new again.

Those antibodies also seemed to help the brains of older mice that had aged naturally, the team found.

Although the brain becomes smaller with age, the shrinkage seems to be fast - tracked in older adults with hearing loss, according to the results of a study by researchers from Johns Hopkins and the National Institute on Aging.

The findings also lend support to claims that the small brain of the human ancestor Homo floresiensis, whose 18,000 - year - old skull was discovered on a remote Indonesian island in 2003, isn't as remarkable as it might seem.

Their success seems to be a by - product of changes in brain chemistry that usually make older people worse at a task, says psychology researcher Allison Sekuler.

Endocrinology is such a huge field, we know hormones but it seems the relationships are very complex (puberty, sexual capability, gonad formation, brain plasticity to hormones, speed of aging in relation to hormones (see the famous example of parasited salmon who lives 13 years and is «reproductive capable», while the reproductive - non parasited one dies of sexual progeria at 3 years old; or in smaller form in the parasited - S.

The study findings seem to throw light on a long - puzzling question about how getting older can impact the memory of even those not affected by a brain disease or mental condition like Alzheimer's.

As we get older, natural brain health deterioration and glitches can lead to delays in recalling information such as names, movie titles, telephone numbers — things that just seemed to always be ready in our memory reserve when we were younger.

These children quickly develop the typical symptoms of old age, such as hair loss, atherosclerosis, loss of eyesight, wrinkles and stiff joints, but the brain seems not to be affected and mental development is normal.7

But the researchers saw different patterns when they broke the group down by age: For patients younger than 65, symptoms worsened when the deep brain stimulation system was turned on; for older patients, the treatment seemed to slow down their decline over one year.

Brain cells are extremely dependent on their mitochondria for energy and most diseases of old age seem to affect the nervous system, giving credibility to Denham's theory.

In the instruction manual, Cranky Kong references Rambi with, «I just hope they've included poor old Winky and Expresso this time instead of that bone - brained rhino that always seems to get in the games.»

It has a provocative premise: a 92 - year - old man discovers he has a brain tumor that seems to be unlocking memories of his past as an Ottoman Army soldier during the Armenian genocide.

Smaller dogs seem to dream more frequently and have shorter dreams than bigger dogs, and puppies tend to have more dreams than older dogs, perhaps due to their developing brains; everything is newer to them, so they have more to process than older dogs, who have become accustomed to things they've been seeing and experiencing for years.

For this list I am going to surpress the nostalgioflian gland of my brain that makes old things seem cooler than they really are, and try to focus on games I am actually likely to enjoy playing today right alongside the cutting edge of current console and PC experiences.

My brain seemed to be ignoring the fact that I handled a full caseload at my old job and I was generally responsible for running my cases from beginning to end.

That said, there's still the fact that some of our fellow passengers seem to have a «surplus» capacity to do brain work, as if during some adaptation the old think - pudding overshot the needful and built some underused capacity.

So when we fall in love, when bells ring and the world seems altogether a better place, our old brain is telling us that we've found someone with whom we can finally get our needs met.

When it comes to brain power and cognitive activity, it seems that old maxim applies: use it or lose it!