Sentences with phrase «affects the human brain»

Matthews says that exposure to soil bacteria may affect human brains too.

MRI scans done on more than 20 astronauts reveal new results on how microgravity can affect the human brain.

This could allude to how sugary sodas and energy drinks could possibly affect human brains.

MRI and other diagnostic modalities have demonstrated actual structural differences in the brains of affected dogs that appear analogous to the structural changes in affected human brains.

Increased understanding about how environmental variations, such as socio - economic disparities, affect human brain development and behavior has significant implications for advancing basic scientific questions such as understanding genetic versus environmental contributions of brain and behavioral development.

Not exact matches

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.

This need stems from the mammalian brain, a commonality that affects cats, dogs, mice... and humans!

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

If contracted by humans, EEE can produce symptoms ranging from mild flu - like illness to inflammation of the brain, coma and death in about a third of those affected.

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.

If contracted by humans, EEE can produce symptoms ranging from a mild flu - like illness to inflammation of the brain, coma and even death in about one third of those affected.

- Cognitive Neuroscience The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.

Because zebrafish have a similar brain chemistry to humans, how they respond to certain drugs might indicate how the same drugs will affect people.

The newly identified gene affects accumulation of amyloid - beta, a protein believed to be one of the main causes of the damage that underpins this brain disease in humans.

Published in Molecular Neurobiology, the study led by Dr Elodie Siney under the supervision of Dr Sandrine Willaime - Morawek, Lecturer in Stem Cells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cells.

Human scent affects our brain differently than other scents.

The loss of a single gene in mice can affect social behavior and impair their brains» ability to filter out distractions — both characteristics of several neurological diseases in humans.

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

The authors point out that as nicotine may disrupt brain development in humans, so neonicotinoids «may adversely affect human health, especially the developing brain».

While Aβ is made in all human brains as they age, differences in the rate at which it is produced and eliminated from the brain and in how it affects neurons, means that not everyone develops dementia.

In their experiments, Prof. Markus Ploner, Heisenberg Professor for Human Pain Research at the TUM School of Medicine, and his team investigated pain perception: How does the duration of pain or the action of a placebo affect activities in the brain?

Unlike many other major findings, the significance of this one can be grasped immediately: humans secrete pheromones that can affect another's thoughts, brain, and biochemistry.

«That might underlie the WS super-social aspect and their gregarious human brain, giving insights into autism and other disorders that affect the social brain.»

By examining brain regions most affected by Alzheimer's disease pathology in humans, the group demonstrated that amyloid beta plaques and blood vessels were present in all 20 aged chimpanzee brains.

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.

In addition, the pigs show degeneration of the striatum, the region of the brain most affected by HD in humans, more than other regions of the brain.

Garcez and her colleagues at the Instituto D'Or in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil are starting experiments in which they will infect so - called cerebral organoids — tiny models of the developing human brain — with Zika virus and see whether their development is affected.

This finding suggests that in human babies, factors that shape the microbiome — natural ones such as breastfeeding, or therapeutic, such as antibiotics — may affect the immune cells in the baby's brain and consequently the brain's development.

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

Tania Singer at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues looked at how three meditation techniques affected the brains and bodies of more than 300 volunteers over nine months.

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.

A region of the gene that produces the PACAP38 protein has held nearly constant, even in humans, presumably because the protein plays diverse roles in neuron communication and is essential for normal development of the cerebellum, affecting brain cell migration, for example.

«But genes tied to autism tend to affect specific functions, such as the connections between brain regions that are essential to many human - specific behaviors, like speech and language.»

The researchers also used viewed the monkeys» brains via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which revealed progressive degeneration of the striatum, a region of the brain known to be affected in humans with Huntington's.

Scientists can now reprogram human skin cells to make working cells that resemble «medium spiny neurons», the type of brain cell that is most affected early in Huntington's disease.

Program seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through time.

Rarely are brain tumors situated in «silent» areas of the brain, and areas often considered «silent» nevertheless can affect complex human functions, such as relationships, employment and decision - making.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

The identification of the genetic mechanisms underlying human - specific brain development during evolution will transform our ability to decipher the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders affecting humans such as autism or schizophrenia.

By determining how changes in gene expression affect the fate of glial cells in mice, we hope to understand the key factors that govern neural cell regeneration in the human brain.

Human HARE5 increases expression of its target gene, Frizzled 8, affecting the size and development of the brain in mice.10

Prion diseases are a group of rare, fatal brain diseases that affect animals and humans.

These knockouts may be important models for human brain diseases that affect working memory including Alzheimer's Disease, schizophrenia, autism, and ADHD.

To see how the two gene versions affect the living human brain, the NIMH researchers scanned 24 healthy young adults twice using PET (positron emission tomography), which uses radioactive tracers to visualize brain function.

The Movement Science Group (MSG) uses fundamental and applied research to evaluate factors affecting optimal human performance in health and disease.The group is based in the Movement Science Laboratories, is multidisciplinary and has excellent clinical links with the Oxford Centre for Enablement, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford Centre for Functional Imaging of the Brain and the Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford.

Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) could serve as an expandable source for neurons production, which could be applied for the treatment of various diseases affecting brain.

Vent: You don't even need a human handy: A report in Psychological Science found that when people scribbled down negative thoughts on a piece of paper and threw it away, they were much less affected by them later; evidently, chucking bad vibes tells your brain they are gone for good.

What we are learning is that the in utero environment may also affect the timing of future pubertal development in offspring, which makes sense since human brains are developed in utero and the brain releases hormones affecting puberty,» said study lead author Ai Kubo.

Thus, sleep does not only affect the brain, but really plays a role in the entire human body.

It sounds only logical that the digestive system, which is the biggest system in human body, affects our brains as well as other parts of our bodies.