Sentences with phrase «affect on your brain»

Laughing can lower blood pressure and reduce stress, and some research suggests it may even have the same calming affect on the brain as meditation.

The protein and fat help moderate caffeine's affect on your brain, preventing the over-stimulation which leads to fatigue.

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Even though the real maple syrup costs more; I think the taste factor and how it affects ones health including its affect on the brain should be reason enough to use only the real maple syrup.

I know the process can be hard because sugar has the same affect on the brain as cocaine, but just do it for a month and then your body will adjust to the changes nicely.

Not boring in the least, but the onslaught of effects has a mind - numbing affect on the brain.

Research shows that listening to music has a positive affect on the brain, so waking up to the radio is a good way to start the day.

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It turns out bringing your screen to bed with you can have negative impacts on your brain and affect your productivity.

Special thanks to John Gunstad, professor with the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University, for speaking with us about his cutting - edge research on how losing weight affects brain function.

A doctor prescribed me Prozac and that worked quite well but I didn't like the idea of being on a drug that affected my brain, so I stopped.

It's as if... a small group of ultra-rich people... have a disproportionate effect on how... aaaaah, my brain... government can help them stay ultra-rich even in matters that don't affect the... aaaaagggh it burns, help... general population, just by virtue of having powerful friends in... AAGGGH I CAN SEE THROUGH TIME... Congress?

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.

«There may be certain messages that are more likely to encourage athletes to report concussive symptoms, such as focusing on short - term outcomes (concussions affect one's ability to play well) rather than long - term outcomes (playing with a concussion can cause brain damage).

Because nerves in the colon are linked to the brain, things like family problems, moving, taking tests, or even going on vacation can affect how the colon works.

According to Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., psychiatrist and leading expert on trauma and how it affects the brain, as many as 80 % of abused and neglected infants and children develop disorganized / disoriented attachment relationships, which are expressed as unpredictable approach and avoidance patterns towards mother, the inability to accept comfort from caregivers, rage at attachment figures, and pathological self - regulatory behaviors.

So even though spending too much time behind a screen may not take an immediate toll on a child, could it affect his long - term brain development?

Strangely enough, former lovers somehow make an imprint on the brain and possibly affect genes, especially if there was past fluid exchange.

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

For instance, if our children are emotional or if we are emotional we look a certain way on the outside but what's going in the brain is connections, regulatory centers, and the deep limbic system and we use affect to describe the whole thing.

Tests were conducted in Sweden by scientists, curious as to the affects ultrasounds may have on the human brain during development.

I think your brain is seriously affected and seriously need help if you as a Law maker calling a fellow human «monkey» on S. M.

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.

«While previous studies at McLean and elsewhere have focused on the behavioral symptoms produced by such immune activation, this study goes deeper, going to the cellular level to show how the brain's neural circuits are affected.»

We may be on the verge of understanding, treating or even preventing life - crushing brain - based diseases — including one that affects an estimated 23 million Americans: drug and alcohol addiction.

New research involves a lot of different ways to affect the brain: drugs, electrical signals, and, yes, actually shining light on neurons.

Previously, researchers have focused on the role of protein deposits called amyloid plaques that lodge in the brain of Alzheimer's affected people.

Currently, clinical trials are under way to test the effectiveness of mechanically pumping large amounts of these proteins into the affected area of patients» brains on a continuing basis.

«On the other hand, if these seemingly different abilities are carried out by overlapping cognitive mechanisms or brain areas, then experience with musical pitch processing should affect language pitch processing, and vice versa.»

In future experiments, Lahn will insert the human ASPM gene into mice to see what affect it has on brain development.

«Not enough research has been done on the mechanisms driving sensory problems in autism, but it's important because sensory processing probably affects to some degree how the brain develops,» said co-author Yong - hui Jiang, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics and neurobiology at Duke.

I'm interested in doing a film on proton therapy, for example, because I have a tumor in my brain; it's the tumor that affected my eyesight as a child.

A drug used to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease could offer clues on how drugs might one day be able to reverse brain changes that affect learning and memory in teens and young adults who binge drink.

Future studies will focus on using these nanobowls to deliver anle138b to the brain, as well as other diseased tissues and organs affected by toxic amyloid - beta ion channels.

GOOGLING MEMORY I was interested to read «The Google Effect,» by Anne Casselman [Head Lines], which suggests that overreliance on search engines may affect our brain's ability to memorize information.

The researchers» map of the mouse cerebral cortex can be compared to data on disease - affected brains, brains in development and genetic information.

Hall says that the team is also stratifying the study group based on pubertal status, hypothesizing that sex hormones may alter the dose - response, and by children who have severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), noting that neurohormonal influences affect immune function after severe TBI.

If left unchecked, however, harmful bacteria can excrete dangerous metabolites or disturb a balance in metabolites that can affect the gut and the rest of the body, including the brain,» says Dae - Wook Kang of the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State University, an author on the study.

More research on how they affect younger brains is urgently needed.

When the late Robert Sperry was a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he experimented on patients with epilepsy, and noticed that breaking the link between brain hemispheres affected the ability to perform certain tasks.

Plunges in energy use could signal decline in brain function, and the researchers decided to focus on the hippocampus, a part of the brain known to be affected in Alzheimer's.

Dr Siddharth Banka, Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, who led the study, explained: «Our team has identified that this new syndrome is caused by a small deletion on chromosome 6 that affects the function of hypothalamus, a region of the brain that plays a number of important roles in the body.»

He added that the existence of episodic memory in lower animals has implications for research on human diseases that affect memory, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, since the majority of research on the brain — and the drugs used to treat memory diseases and dementia — start out based on insights into how the brain works in rats.

They also plan to examine the potential affect of environmental factors, like stress, on the mouse's brain and symptoms.

Patients affected by Parkinson's disease often show marked changes in body weight: they may gain or lose a lot of weight depending on the stage of the disease, or they may put on up to ten kilos after deep brain stimulation (a treatment to alleviate the symptoms).

Now a team of scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has shed light on how the needs of the body affect the way the brain processes visual food cues.

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

Studying individuals and families who have these eye abnormalities might eventually be able to shed light on the genetics behind the affected parts of the brain, Mosconi notes.

The diagnosis and treatment of female cancers are known to affect fertility for several reasons: some chemotherapy regimens can cause damage to the ovary, and this can occur at any age; radiotherapy can also compromise female fertility through effects on the ovary, uterus and potentially those brain centres which control the reproductive axis.

As a result, they are too broad: They affect more than one type of receptor, on more than one kind of nerve cell, in more than one part of the brain.