Sentences with phrase «biological factor involved»

Breast milk itself contains hormones and other biological factors involved in the regulation of food intake and energy balance which may help shape long - term physiological processes responsible for maintaining energy balance (19).

Not exact matches

Preventing mother - to - child transmission (PMTCT) involves a cascade of factors that is inherently complex, crossing multiple biological phases for women and their infants — during pregnancy and after delivery — and requires deployment of multiple health services.

The use of this approach is especially important when the investigated behavior is complex and very variable across subjects, because this means that many biological factors are involved.»

Involving tangled interactions of biological, psychological and social factors, such complex disorders have long been considered forlorn «outsiders» in the realm of scientific and medical study.

Pain is a very complex phenomenon that involves both biological and psychological factors.

How do social and biological factors interact to affect children's behavior, and what are the brain structures and functions involved?

Other biological variables involve factors that can be controlled when drawing the blood sample, such as ensuring the animal is properly fasted.

Projecting the aftermath of a species introduced to a new place involves sorting through a host of climatic, biological, ecological and human factors, all subject to change without warning.

Another gender difference in biological risk factors involves biological responses to stressful situations.

Membership in a single - parent family or stepfamily is associated with increased levels of significant behavioral, emotional, and academic problems in children.1, 2 The mechanisms underlying this connection are likely to involve, among other factors, financial adversity, increased stress directly related to family transitions, and increased exposure to additional psychosocial risks.3, 4 Compared with the extensive research base connecting family type (ie, membership in a 2 - parent biological family, stepfamily, or single - parent family) and children's psychological adjustment, little is known about the physical health consequences of membership in diverse family types.

Recent developmental neuroscience work suggests that because of its dependence on the maturation of prefrontal - limbic connections, the development of self - regulatory processes is relatively protracted, 24 from the development of basic and automatic regulation of physiology in infancy and toddlerhood to the more self - conscious and intentional regulation of cognition emerging in middle childhood.25 From a developmental perspective, then, opportunities for success and failure of self - regulation are numerous over the course of childhood, particularly given the potential of environmental factors such as parenting to facilitate or disrupt development in these domains.26 The next generation of temperament research will focus a great deal on the complex biological processes involved in these developmental pathways and the way these processes may be modified by the environment.

Considering the complexity of mental illnesses etiology, which involves multiple interacting genetic, environmental and biological factors; large effect sizes are unlikely to be detected; therefore the magnitude of the associations described in this community - based study are noteworthy and possibly indicative of clinical relevance.