Sentences with phrase «adult brains of people»

The adult brains of people who lived through lots of stress before the age of six — and then became depressed or anxious as teenagers — were different than in adults who had an easier childhood.

Not exact matches

@M1sf1ts I spent most of my adult life as a registered nurse with many of those years as a theatre nurse and I saw that whether a person was a saint or a sinner, gay or straight, black or white and even male ot female their heartsd all looked the same, their brains all looked the same and besides their reproductive system, their bodies looked the same: Believe it or not they all bleed the same.

There are lots of «good» things that I fight for in this world, but the two that could be considered driven by my atheistic views are: 1) No childhood brain washing by religious people, which leads to adults who think it's a virtue to ignore facts (ie, faith).

Healthy people in their 70s have just as many young nerve cells, or neurons, in a memory - related part of the brain as do teenagers and young adults, researchers report in the April 5 Cell Stem Cell.

While most blind adults develop a mature theory of mind, it wasn't clear whether they used the same parts of their brain as sighted people do to reason about the mental states of others.

To test this idea, neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues scanned the brains of 10 congenitally blind adults as they answered questions about the beliefs of people described to them.

In adults, elevated blood mercury levels are associated with impaired brain function [pdf], and acute mercury poisoning has been documented in people who consumed substantial amounts of high - mercury seafood in a short period of time.

The scientists recommend that people with advanced - stage fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, which mostly affects teenagers and young adults, receive regular neuroimaging scans because of the tumor's apparent ability to metastasize to the brain.

According to the American Brain Tumor Association, this type of tumor is the most common in adults, affecting as many as 300,000 people each year.

Using data from brain imaging techniques that enable visualising the brain's activity, a neuroscientist at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and a Parisian ENT surgeon have managed to decipher brain reorganisation processes at work when people start to lose their hearing, and thus predict the success or failure of a cochlear implant among people who have become profoundly deaf in their adult life.

The nationally representative survey of more than 4,700 U.S. adults centered on public views about: gene editing that might give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implantation of brain chips that potentially could give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information, and transfusions of synthetic blood that might give people much greater speed, strength and stamina.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

With an annual incidence of approximately five cases per 100,000 persons, gliomas are the most frequently occurring brain tumor in adults.

A study of 473 adults has found that people who are overweight have less white matter, which connects different brain areas and enables signaling between them.

Brain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account overall brain sizes — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bBrain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account overall brain sizes — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bbrain sizes — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bbrain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bwwg).

Brain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account the differing overall sizes of their brains — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than childrenBrain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account the differing overall sizes of their brains — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than childrenbrain matter in this area than children did.

For a subgroup of elderly adults called «super agers,» key brain regions resemble those of much younger people, according to a new study.

Higher levels of physical activity as a child and young person paves the way for good brain health as an adult and lowers the future risk of dementia.

A large study, says the ACS, discussed cancer rates in over 500,000 older adults and found that «compared to people who did not drink aspartame - containing beverages, those who did drink them did not have an increased risk of lymphomas, leukemias, or brain tumors.»

These themes are directly correlated to the tenets of effective adult learning as stated in the meta - analysis by National Academies Press entitled How People Learn: Brain, Mind Experience, and School.

I specialise in clinical negligence, acting for people with serious injury, mainly brain and spinal injury, involving adults and children and claims arising following the death of a loved one.

A number of psychologists have described some forms of love just as you have: like an addiction; there is intense desire to spend time with the object of our affection, we experience intense cravings, emotional dependence, mood swings, and even loss of control and compulsive behaviors.1 In one study utilizing fMRI technology (brain imaging), subcortical reward systems in the brain were activated when adults viewed photographs of someone who had rejected their love; 2 this part of the brain is the same area that lights up when people experience intense, romantic love3 and is rich in dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter associated with rewards like pleasure.

«It's a form of expressive therapy that allows people to resolve conflicts through engaging the right side — the creative side — of their brain, which for many adults is not dominant.

Because of the still undeveloped adolescent and young adult brain, many of the rehab programs that succeed for adults have to be modified for the younger people.