Sentences with phrase «about the brain changes»

Using this approach, we have begun to assess a particular theory about brain changes associated with autism, one that could have powerful implications for scientists and clinicians.

According to research, exercise helps bring about brain changes which can protect against cognitive decline in individuals at high risk, which includes Alzheimer's disease.

Yet, little is known about the brain changes that produce these beneficial health effects.

Prepare to naturally weave talk about brain change into therapeutic conversations with those in therapy.

Not exact matches

According to a new scientific study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, subjects who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in gray - matter density in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress.

What is unique about brain process is that it stabilizes change, or «chunks» it into categories.

When the 5 - year - old asks you to tell her about what love is you can crack open an anatomy book and explain about the biochemical hormonal changes that happen in the brain when you fall in love (fact).

Of course she should recall that man has been making up gods since his brain began to wonder about his surroundings and has been changing the characteristics of the god figure, adding and or discarding according to the times and knowledge available.

The one fred is talking about changed his name to Paul after his «unfortunate electrical accident,» although I think it was probably a brain tumor.

The maxim, however, can be affirmed in an interactionist sense: Not only does any change in the brain bring about a change in the mind; but also any change in the mind brings about a change in the brain.

Serious brain science around meditation has emerged only in about the last decade, since the birth of functional MRI allowed scientists to begin watching the brain and monitoring its changes in relatively real time.

But saying the Bible mix messages about common read it and then change your little olive brain, and stop being a dumb.

There was no medical breakthrough that initiated this new way of thinking about brain «injured people, but rather a change of spiritual outlook.

«Explaining complex brain science in a clear - cut manner, Steinberg offers parents and educators practical advice, as well as innovative ideas about how society can better support its youth and adapt to the times... This is a convincing and eloquent call for change.»

Some new mothers may be worried about eating fats as they desire to lose their thick waistline now but you will change your idea if you know how important certain kinds of fats are for your baby's brain growth.

Two days after I had the pleasure of interviewing Paul Tough about his thought - provoking new book Helping Children Succeed, I gave a talk about the explosion of new science showing us how listening changes the brain.

In addition, your tween's body and brain are growing at a rapid pace, and that can be confusing to a child whose not ready for change, or unsure about what all those changes mean.

The marketing text about growth, brain & eye, and immune system development change as well.

One lovely side - effect many fail to mention, is that changing hormones bring about physiological changes to the brain.

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«The more that we learn about this,» Morelle said, «the more sports will be modified to reflect that, and to continue to try to make the most positive changes that we can to limit, to the greatest degree, possible injuries to the brain.»

And although no one knows exactly how these changes come about, in SAD sufferers they are influenced by changes in light exposure, the brain's time - keeping cue.

A new mouse model of a genetically - linked type of autism reveals more about the role of genes in the disorder and the underlying brain changes associated with autism's social and learning problems.

The results are largely consistent with a growing body of research about the neural basis of aggression, and how it is triggered by changes in the way that the prefrontal cortex, the limbic system and reward - related regions of the brain function.

«These results could fundamentally change the way we think about how the brain and immune system inter-relate,» said Walter J. Koroshetz, M.D., NINDS director.

Today's studies, presented at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health, provide new insights into how experience might produce long - term brain changes in behaviors like drug addiction and memory formation.

Those results suggest that something about motherhood — perhaps the stew of hormones and the brain changes that follow — may actually protect the brain as it ages.

I think that cracking them is going to change a lot of things about the mystery of the brain.

But researchers know little about how trauma changes the brain — and whether some people's brains are more susceptible to PTSD to begin with.

Schiff and his colleagues used an electrode implanted in the thalamus to restore some brain activity to a patient who had been in a minimally conscious state for 21 years, they reported last year, though the change did not bring about real - world improvements.

«Once we understand what's happening in our brain,» he says, «we might change our opinions about some long - standing moral issues, challenging that inner voice we've listened to for tens of thousands of years.»

«I was expecting to find that a few genes would be evolving rapidly, while probably the overall distribution would be changing at about the same rate among all the primates, but instead we saw that the brain's gene evolution in the human lineage has actually slowed down,» Wu says.

Researchers say that future studies could look at how changes in these genes may bring about this risk of — or resilience — to brain injury.

Dysfunction in dopamine signaling profoundly changes the activity level of about 2,000 genes in the brain's prefrontal cortex and may be an underlying cause of certain complex neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, according to UC Irvine scientists.

This kind of progressive speech impairment is associated with dysfunction in the cortical - basal ganglia brain circuit in both humans and songbirds, so Liu could make assumptions based on this trial about how the human brain circuit changes.

For instance, one experiment will look at changes in the blood - brain barrier to learn more about why space travel can cause cognitive and visual problems.

«This study could change the way we think about how to repair the brain.»

Elephants and whales have bigger brains, so comparing anatomy or even genomes of humans and other animals reveals little about the genetic and developmental changes that sent our brains down such a different path.

Learning to play an instrument brings about dramatic brain changes that not only improve musical skills but can also spill over into other cognitive abilities, including speech, language, memory, attention, IQ and even empathy.

Everyone trained five days a week for 30 minutes, then returned to the lab for another round of tests to see if anything about their brain or cognitive abilities had changed.

Nor is there anything bad about our brains» being altered by these new technologies, any more than there is something bad about a monkey's brain changing as it learns how to play with a rake.

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.

«This is giving us a better handle both in thinking about treatment and in looking at change or plasticity in the brain.»

Comparing anatomy or even genomes of humans and other animals reveals little about the genetic and developmental changes that sent our brains down such a different path.

Glennerster says this reveals that our brains are so hardwired with assumptions about the world — for example, that rooms do not change size as you move through them — that we completely ignore what we actually see.

Initially we asked patients to think about walking, but at first there was no signal change since their brains had essentially forgotten what it's like to have legs.

«That the positive perceptions of users of brain training apps did not change greatly before and after their use raises concerns about the role of expectations and even marketing in influencing how people experience these apps,» says Dr. Torous.

«This could change the way we think about how our brains work and what reason is.»

Jeremy Manning, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth College, and his collaborators show that people can intentionally forget past experiences by changing how they think about the context of those memories.

But a Dartmouth - and Princeton - led brain scanning study shows that people can intentionally forget past experiences by changing how they think about the context of those memories.