Sentences with phrase «brain cell growth»

Vitamin D is more than a benefit for bone health, it impacts heart health, hormone regulation, immune system responses, and even brain cell growth.

, it impacts heart health, hormone regulation, immune system responses, and even brain cell growth.

Other nootropics are even capable of stimulating the production of nerve growth factor where the protein synthesis ultimately results in brain cell growth, especially in the nerve cells» dendrites which enable the communication of electric impulses throughout the central nervous system.

Vigorous physical exercise has positive effects on brain function on multiple fronts — it increases heart rate, which pumps more oxygen to the brain; it helps the body release hormones, which create a nourishing environment for brain cell growth; and it stimulates brain plasticity by increasing the number of connections between cells.

Michael Fox, a developmental neuroscientist at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke, Va., says the results hint that different mechanisms guide brain cell growth, depending on when the cells are born.

Before the 1996 Ames dwarf study, scientists knew that growth hormone and IGF - 1 help preserve muscle and bone, and that they stimulate brain cell growth as well.

Research teams from diverse fields — biomedical engineering, neurology, neuroscience, pharmacology and cell biology — also are working together to demonstrate how the virus destroys vital fetal brain cells, reduces fetal brain cell growth, and wreaks havoc on other parts of the brain, said Hongjun Song, a briefing speaker who is director of the Stem Cell Program at the Institute for Cell Engineering and professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

«Memory decline after head injury may be prevented by slowing brain cell growth: Study questions traditional scientific view that neurogenesis aids recovery.»

While the mechanism of neurogenesis is not fully understood, extra brain cell growth is strongly correlated to learning new things.

Past findings had shown that stressful, unpleasant events could stifle brain cell growth in adults.

Broccoli contains a high amount of choline which is necessary for new brain cell growth.

Physical exercise helps build muscle and stamina, but it also increases the brain's production of neurochemicals that improve memory, attention span, decision - making skills, and nerve / brain cell growth.