Sentences with phrase «affects brain systems»

Future work by the group will focus on testing the effectiveness of CAST training in a larger sample using neurophysiological measures to examine how the training affects brain systems.

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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.

Research suggests that about a third of kids are lucky enough to escape trauma, but about a quarter suffer such high doses that it affects brain development, immune and endocrine functioning, and can create mental and physical disease systems that reduce the lifespan by an average of 20 years.

A classical soprano with an MFA in Theatre Education / Outreach and Dramatic writing, she started her blog because having a family gave her a point of view as a cook, and being a mother (to boys, ages 2 & 5, one with sensory - motor problems) made her even more eager to learn about food systems and how the stuff we eat affects little people's bodies and brains.

Animal studies show that low levels of BPA affect the hormones that control the development of the brain, the reproductive system, and the immune system.

Early trauma has been shown to affect the development of the fetal and infant brain, nervous system, neuro - chemistry, organs, physiology, psychology, and consciousness.

It can affect your heart, brain, liver, pancreas and even mess with your immune system.

Disordered stress reactivity can be established as a pattern for life not only in the brain with the stress response system (Bremmer et al, 1998), but also in the body through the vagus nerve, a nerve that affects functioning in multiple systems (e.g., digestion).

Some autopsy data shows that infants of smokers have signs of established hypoxic - ischemic cellular injury in the brain and the heart which probably occurred in antenatal life, may have been caused by suboptimal placental function and may have been sub-clinical, but if the baby continues to be in a vulnerable environment exposed to post-natal passive smoking, this could affect autonomic nervous system function and lead to poor temperature control, and poor heart rate and respiration control.

«Their brains are smaller at birth, they have an immature nervous system, and they may have low muscle tone or jaundice, or be dehydrated, all of which can affect the ability to suck, swallow, and breathe during nursing.»

Because consistently elevated cortisol affects the way the baby's brain develops, the way he responds to stress in the future, his immune system, his risk of obesity and other areas of development.

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.

The government wants a mechanistic way of describing how something hits the central nervous system and then affects mood and thought, but there's no way of documenting that without resorting to talk of «brain» and «mind», and even if there was, plenty of substances we don't want to target - like taurine, nutmeg or incense - would be covered by it too.

Since premature infants are at high risk of neonatal complications, particularly affecting the brain and respiratory and digestive systems, survival rates without serious neonatal disease are lower.

«Sepsis is the leading cause of death in intensive care units in the United States, and patients with the diagnosis of sepsis have a minimum of a 30 percent chance of dying of their disease; if their vital organ systems — brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys — are affected, they have a 70 percent chance of dying.

«Drugs like morphine hijack the body's natural painkilling mechanisms, such as those used by endorphins, but because they act within the central nervous system, they can affect other brain cells that use similar pathways, leading to side effects such as addiction or sleepiness,» says Professor Gamper.

- Our results highlight that exercise intensity affects endorphin release and that the brain opioid system is involved in both positive and negative feelings caused by physical exercise performed at different intensities, says Doctoral Candidate Tiina Saanijoki from Turku PET Centre.

Affecting the central nervous system, it causes neonatal meningitis by multiplying in immune cells, such as macrophages, and then disseminating into the bloodstream to subsequently invade the blood - brain barrier.

«It's the first time you can see the inhibitors of serotonin reuptake, like antidepressants, working in different parts of the brain, and you can use this information to analyze all sorts of antidepressant drugs, discover new ones, and see how those drugs affect the serotonin system across the brain.»

«Right now, we don't know very much about how brain injuries affect women in the correctional system,» said Colantonio.

What they determined after further tests, however, was that she had multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects the brain and central nervous system and was causing optic neuritis, an inflammation of the optic nerve that can cause a partial or complete loss of vision.

HEALTH • A clearer understanding of the barrier between the brain and the circulatory system may lead to better treatment options for diseases that affect the brain, such as cancer or Alzheimer's.

They also affect systems in the brain that control feelings of reward, which makes perfect sense.

But the immune system offers a new way of changing our cognition and treating illnesses affecting the brain.

Poon believes this discovery will spawn a new generation of programmable microimplants — sensors to monitor vital functions deep inside the body; electrostimulators to change neural signals in the brain; and drug delivery systems to apply medicines directly to affected areas.

Second, affected genes may disturb fundamental pathways in the body and lead to chronic inflammation across the brain, immune system, and digestive system.

«Although we are currently looking at neurodegenerative disease, there is potential for the technology to be expanded to psychiatric diseases, chronic pain, seizure disorders and many other conditions affecting the brain and nervous system down the road.»

Ketamine affects the brain's opioid system, which can naturally become active even without drugs when animals are under attack, suggesting trauma might set off this aspect of near - death experiences, Mobbs explains.

Normally, the brain is protected from the immune system, but with infections and inflammation the brain may be affected.

Moreover, it seems that the immune system itself can affect the brain to such an extent that the person's cognitive ability measured by an IQ test will also be impaired many years after the infection has been cured,» explains MD and PhD Michael Eriksen Benrós, who is affiliated with the National Centre for Register - Based Research at Aarhus BSS and the Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen.

This technique, known as «responsive neurostimulation» (RNS), has proved effective for epilepsy and an existing system has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating partial onset seizures (which affect only part of the brain).

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs, also known as prion diseases) are a group of progressive conditions that affect the brain and nervous system of humans and animals and are transmitted by prions.

It is a neurological condition and is part of a group of diseases which affect the brain and central nervous system.

The lab concentrates on specific brain systems because their neural circuits are essential for affect and motivated behavior and become «hijacked» by repeated drug exposure.

«What one has to understand is that where there is poor development of the brain there is undoubtedly poor development of the peripheral nervous system and therefore consequential effects on the balance and functions of any / all peripheral organs and systems affected.

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.

Two recent Kavli Foundation spotlights highlighted the microbiome's powerful influence on the brain — which affects our emotions, our thoughts and even our memory — as well as how new knowledge about microbes is informing the next missions to search for life in our solar system.

As an Associate Professor at OSU, my research has been concentrated in the areas of aging, neuroimmunology, and neurotrauma.Overall, my research aim is to determine the degree to which the bi-directional communication between the brain and the immune system is affected by age, stress, and traumatic CNS injury and to delineate the mechanism by which inflammatory cytokine pathways cause long - lasting complications (e.g., cognitive decline and depression).

Their results, published in Nature Neuroscience, show that the removal of one memory from a rat's brain did not affect other memories there, and that the overall memory system was unharmed.

Why it matters: Parkinson's disease is marked by the loss of dopamine in the brain's nigrostriatal neural pathway, which is one of four major pathways for this hormone and neurotransmitter in the brain; the disease primarily affects part of the motor system involved in the production and coordination of movement.

Miniaturized system could be used to treat neurological disorders that affect specific brain regions.

Diseases that affect the brain or other components of the central nervous system are among the most devastating and complex conditions plaguing mankind today.

Apart from the clear adaptation of dogs» digestive system, the researchers also found many differences in genes that affect how the brain is developed.

When a tumor develops in the brain, spinal tissue, or affecting the nervous system, tumor growth is a significant concern due to the location around delicate tissue and structures.

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

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?

Thus, the endocrine system is crucial for our survival and health, and, because many crucial hormones are secreted in the brain, and our brain activity and response to external stimuli can affect hormone release, your mind and your environment are very important to the health of the individual at large.

We are also exploring the role of the endogenous cannabinoid (endocannabinoid) system in fetal brain development and investigating how prenatal cannabis exposure affects brain development and later behaviors.

For example, your gut system affects the health of your brain, and there's also exciting research that's examining the gut - skin axis and how the health of your microbiome will determine the health of your skin.

Without you knowing it, you will get exposure to unseen elements that are positively affecting your brain and body, like negative ions that improve your immune system and relax your body as opposed to positive ions that are emitted from electronics that can wreak havoc on your system.