Sentences with phrase «affects brain centers»

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However, as American Addiction Centers reminds us, addiction truly is a disease, affecting how the brain's reward centers function.

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.

«Cognitive aging is not a disease or a level of impairment — it is a lifelong process that affects everyone,» explains lead author Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Rosenthal, a physician who treats non-athletes with concussions and other brain injuries at Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center, noted that concussions affect much more than just the ability to play sports.

«A lot of the information that the gut sends to the brain affects well - being, and doesn't even come to consciousness,» says Michael Gershon at Columbia - Presbyterian Medical Center, New York.

The need for ongoing care for hearing - related issues was acknowledged in September 2014 when One Fund Boston, the charity created to accept and distribute donations to help those affected by the bombings, created the One Fund Center, which will serve patients who have had difficulties with tinnitus and other hearing - related problems; mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety; and traumatic brain injury and its associated symptoms such as headache, cognitive symptoms and balance difficulties.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ONLINE For new insights into how eating sugar may affect insulin and therefore the brain's reward centers, see ScientificAmerican.com/sep2013 / kenny

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.

Amygdala is the emotional center of the human brain and is reported to be affected by music.

In the new research, published in Neuron, the scientists found that the apoE4 protein changes the activity of neurons in the hippocampus — an important memory center in the brain that is severely affected by Alzheimer's disease.

The hippocampus, an important memory center in the brain, is particularly affected by this loss of inhibitory neurons, resulting in an increase in network activation that is thought to contribute to the learning and memory deficits characteristic of Alzheimer's disease.

The Neurovascular Center at Rhode Island Hospital has teamed up with the Joe Niekro Foundation to form a support group for patients and family members affected by a brain aneurysm, AVM or hemorrhagic stroke.

What could medicine look like someday if, instead of focusing primarily on the organ affected by a disease — neurologists examining brain diseases, pulmonologists focusing on lung diseases — our system was centered on how cells process energy?

As its name implies, FTD is a fatal disease that destroys cells, or neurons, that comprise the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain — as opposed to Alzheimer's which mainly affects brain's memory centers in the hippocampus.

Her research project at the GRID Lab, which is affiliated with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), investigated how learning to use a BCI affects connectivity in the brain beyond the BCI implantation site.

The Neurovascular Center at Rhode Island Hospital has teamed up with the Joe Niekro Foundation to form a support group for patients and family members affected by a brain aneurysm, AVM or hemorrhagic...

WHAT: The Departments of Neurology Columbia University and at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center are celebrating the opening of the SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) Clinic, a center devoted to the treatment and management of a group of diseases that affect motor neurons of the spinal cord and brainCenter are celebrating the opening of the SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) Clinic, a center devoted to the treatment and management of a group of diseases that affect motor neurons of the spinal cord and braincenter devoted to the treatment and management of a group of diseases that affect motor neurons of the spinal cord and brain stem.

Babies in the womb and young children are most vulnerable to mercury, as it can adversely affect the development of the cognitive, motor, and sensory centers within the brain.

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.

Patients with Alzheimer's disease, Fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, and autism are particularly susceptible to seizures, 12 and the focus of much research at the Waisman Center of Developmental Disabilities has been on the myriad ways drugs, diet and genetic manipulation can affect amyloid beta levels, seizure threshold and behavioral phenotypes.13 In an editorial entitled «Concocting the Right Diet for Brain Health» published December 2011 in Translational Medicine, Dr. Westmark expressed concern about the risks of soy: «The prevailing view is soy is healthy, but much remains to be learned regarding its effects on brain development and function.&rBrain Health» published December 2011 in Translational Medicine, Dr. Westmark expressed concern about the risks of soy: «The prevailing view is soy is healthy, but much remains to be learned regarding its effects on brain development and function.&rbrain development and function.»

He will discuss the generation of, and cutting edge treatments for, many of the brain diseases that are greatly affecting our society, and that he sees daily at his Chiropractic Neurology Center: strokes, autoimmune diseases, Basal Ganglia disorders, Dementia and Alzheimer's.

Sound affects us on a myriad of levels, from lower brain centers to the higher brain centers.

Toxic Stress Affects Children's Long - Term Health; Support Programs May Help Pharmacy Times, 8/6/14 According to [Professor] Jack P. Shonkoff, MD, who serves as director of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, «When bad things happen early in life, the brain and other parts of the body don't forget.

Early Childhood Expert Says Science Shows Impact of Early Experiences on Brain Development Journal Star, January 15, 2013 «Children are born with a certain number of brain cells, but the neural circuitry develops dramatically in the first years of life — and experiences affect how those connections are made, said [Professor] Jack Shonkoff, director of Harvard's Center on the Developing Child.&rBrain Development Journal Star, January 15, 2013 «Children are born with a certain number of brain cells, but the neural circuitry develops dramatically in the first years of life — and experiences affect how those connections are made, said [Professor] Jack Shonkoff, director of Harvard's Center on the Developing Child.&rbrain cells, but the neural circuitry develops dramatically in the first years of life — and experiences affect how those connections are made, said [Professor] Jack Shonkoff, director of Harvard's Center on the Developing Child.»

Children are born with a certain number of brain cells, but the neural circuitry develops dramatically in the first years of life — and experiences affect how those connections are made, said Jack Shonkoff, director of Harvard's Center on the Developing Child.

He found that high cortisol levels affect the hippocampus — a key learning center in the brain — in three ways.

There is mounting evidence from cognitive neuroscientists that financial gain affects the same pleasure centers of the brain that are activated by certain narcotics.

The head trauma that sometimes occurs when pets are hit by cars can affects their ability to breath and expel CO2 due to brain swelling and injury to their brain respiratory centers.

Regardless of the cause, the brain's «balance center» — the vestibular apparatus - is affected and these dogs can not properly sense their body's orientation.

They include diseases of the cornea (keratitis), the lens (cataract), increased pressure within the eye (glaucoma), any disease which reduces retinal sensitivity to light impulses (retinal atrophy), or any disease which affects the optic nerves or the sight - center of the brain (tumours, trauma).

AAHA, AVMA, AAFP, the Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) strongly recommend parasite control for companion animals for many reasons, including prevention of visceral larva migrans, a condition in which parasites within a human «release larvae that migrate anywhere in the body... Organs commonly affected are the eye, brain, liver and lung, where infections can cause permanent visual, neurologic, or other tissue damage.

The arguments against screens usually center on how they affect brain development and the ability to focus.

When you lessen the activation of the emotional centers of our brains, it lets the decision - making centers become activated; then the divorcing persons are freed to make the very important decisions that will affect their lives and their children's lives for years to come.