Sentences with phrase «affect brain chemicals»

Light therapy is thought to affect brain chemicals linked to mood and sleep, easing SAD symptoms.

During pregnancy, hormone changes can affect brain chemicals and cause depression and anxiety.

A diet high in processed carbohydrates affects brain chemicals that influence our mood, particularly serotonin and dopamine.

SSRIs affect the brain chemical serotonin.

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Those chemicals play critical roles in the hormonal health of our body, including affecting our thyroid gland, immune system, reproduction system and brain.

Gagné also took Wie to a health - products store to lecture her on how certain foods can affect the chemicals in the brain.

Neuroscientists have over the past decade uncovered evidence, both in rodent and human studies, that parental caregiving, especially in moments of stress, affects children's development not only on the level of hormones and brain chemicals, but even more deeply, on the level of gene expression.

Emerging studies reveal that cumulative, trace amounts of chemicals may be affecting children's brain development.

«BPA and BPS (substitute for BPA) affect embryonic brain development in zebrafish: Low levels of chemicals linked to hyperactivity.»

Because progesterone and estrogen are necessary for chemical balance in the brain, when they drop in order to produce milk, a mother can feel the affects of sadness and depression.

Changes in the brain's chemicals can also affect how a person feels.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

It's common to have mood swings during pregnancy, partly because of hormonal changes that affect neurotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain).

Computer simulations and hands - on displays allow visitors to Marvelous Molecules — The Secret of Life at the New York Hall of Science to peek inside the molecular structure of living things to see how chemicals affect the brain and how DNA passes on genetic traits.

Researchers suspect that it works directly in the brain to disrupt the addictive power of nicotine by affecting the same chemical messengers in the brain, such as the neurotransmitter dopamine, as nicotine does.

One of your biggest discoveries was how addiction affects the D2 receptor, the protein that determines how sensitive individuals are to the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, a chemical in the brain associated with feelings of reward and pleasure.

«Now that we have more evidence that serotonin is a chemical that appears affected early in cognitive decline, we suspect that increasing serotonin function in the brain could prevent memory loss from getting worse and slow disease progression,» says Gwenn Smith, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Leptin and ghrelin, arbiters of fullness and hunger, affect cells in the brain that produce dopamine — that chemical messenger so often associated with reward — but so do the hormones from the hypothalamus.

The tiny addition of a chemical mark atop a gene that is well known for its involvement in clinical depression and posttraumatic stress disorder can affect the way a person's brain responds to threats, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

Dopamine, commonly known as the chemical in the brain that generates pleasurable feelings, is an important neurotransmitter that affects motor control and movement of muscles in the body.

«This allows us to come up with a platform that we can use to test how chemical agents would affect the brain,» said iCHIP principal investigator Elizabeth Wheeler.

The platform, described in the journal PLOS One, could help scientists understand how brain cells connect and interact, combat brain disorders, determine how soldiers are affected by exposure to chemical and biological weapons and develop antidotes to counteract those effects.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists have profiled key features of the genetic material inside three types of brain cells and found vast differences in the patterns of chemical modifications that affect how the genes in each type of neuron are regulated.

He is interested in how chemical modifications of DNA affect brain function, focusing on a protein nicknamed MeCP2.

Parkinson's disease is caused by loss of the brain signaling chemical dopamine and affects about 1 million people in the United States.

The chemical mimics the hormone estrogen, which in mammalian fetuses affects anatomical development that distinguishes male and female brains.

A new Duke University study in mice links three previous and, until now, apparently unrelated hypotheses about the causes of schizophrenia, a debilitating mental disorder appearing in late adolescence that affects how people think, act and perceive reality.The brains of people with the schizophrenia show various abnormalities, including faulty neural connections or an imbalance of certain brain chemicals.

In the course of this work, he has pioneered several new approaches in the fruit fly that have had important implications for mammalian neurobiology, including: the demonstration that the fruit fly has a sleep - like behavior similar to that of mammals, studies of physiological and behavioral consequences of mutations in a neurotransmitter system affecting one of the brain's principal chemical signals, studies making highly localized genetic alterations in the nervous system to alter behavior, and molecular identification of genes causing naturally occurring variation in behavior.

It is caused by a loss of the brain chemical dopamine, and it affects 1 — 3 % of those over 65, or about one million Americans.

Many of the brain pathways and chemicals affected by Parkinson's are the same as those affected by anxiety and depression.

Perhaps the bacteria produced chemicals that entered the blood, travelled to the brain and affected development of the blood - brain barrier.

Long - term use also causes changes in other brain chemical systems and circuits as well, affecting functions that include:

Furthermore, carb - loaded foods affect the workings of our brains, most notably enhancing the release of «happy» chemicals, which is the reason behind their fascinating ability to soothe emotional pain.

Plus, the vitamin may affect mood - related chemicals in the brain.

According to Dr. Vollenweider, who has conducted brain - imaging studies on the effects of psychedelics and MDMA, these drugs appear to affect levels of serotonin and other chemicals in the body and brain that help regulate mood.

The active ingredient in Meridia, sibutramine, suppresses appetite by affecting levels of the brain chemicals serotonin and norepinephrine.

Naturopathic physician, acupuncturist, and president of the New York Naturopathic Physicians, Peter Bongiorno, ND, explains that the thyroid affects every cell in the body, including the brain receptors for serotonin — a brain chemical that affects sleep.

These meds affect the activity of two key brain chemicals, dopamine and norepinephrine, and this can affect individuals in different ways.

How exactly the drug works is not understood, although it's believed that it calms down hyperactive neurons and could affect the release of neurotransmitters, which are chemicals in the brain that transmit signals from one neuron to another.

Alternatively, a gut that isn't fortified by billions of probiotics can get out of balance and overrun with yeast and bad bacteria, which produce chemicals and by - products that are directly toxic to the brain — leading to brain fog and memory problems that affect every aspect of your professional and personal life.

Her specialty is brain chemical neurotransmitters and how they are affected by the foods that we eat.

Not only do insecticidal treatments douse our children in potentially dangerous endocrine disruptors and brain - affecting chemicals, they aren't even effective anymore!

Several different classes of antidepressant medicines may be used to treat depression by affecting chemical messengers in the brain.

Reestablishing happy activities as simple as walking, swimming, practicing laughter therapy will affect the brain's chemical balance as well as reestablish a sense of connectedness and belonging.

These chemicals can affect the brain, the reproductive system, interfere with lung, respiratory and heart function, affect endocrine function (hormone production), irritate the skin and cause cancer.

On this show you'll learn about monitoring your brain chemical three - some, feeding the gut bacteria you want, and how birth control pills can affect sexual attraction.

Splenda may not penetrate the blood brain barrier as aspartame does, hence entering the brain and creating neurotoxin havoc at the brain center, but Splenda CAN adversely affect the body in several ways because it IS a chemical substance and not natural sugar.

The decrease in sunlight leads to a disruption in melatonin and serotonin, two brain chemicals which affect mood.

This affects dopamine tolerance (note: dopamine is a neurotransmitter, one of those chemicals that is responsible for transmitting signals in between the neurons of the brain) and makes you feel like you have to eat more.

Supporting your neurotransmitters, brain chemicals that affect mood and brain function, can also help you stabilize your approach to eating.