Sentences with phrase «brain changes during»

A central facet of our work as teacher educators is teaching about how the brain changes during learning.

Because children without symptoms are not tested for the HD mutation, it is very difficult to obtain enough MRI images to understand how the HD brain changes during early life.

This study is the first to show that testosterone is driving brain changes during puberty, observes Barbara Braams.

Whereas the present study focuses primarily on documenting brain changes during pregnancy, she expects follow - up work to tackle more applied questions such as how brain changes relate to postpartum depression or attachment difficulties between mother and child.

How does the brain change during learning and development, while remaining structurally stable and producing reliable behaviour?

Even the people predicted to be far from onset had specific areas of brain change during the 3 - year duration of the study.

Not exact matches

That's because the brain's «neuroplasticity,» or ability to form new connections in response to new situations or environmental changes, at its highest during infancy.

The city's hipsters learned his name during his years at farm - to - table O.G. Lula Café, then followed him to Nightwood in Pilsen, where his always - changing menu evinced a brain overflowing with ideas.

Publication of the Purdue study sent shock - waves reverberating through the football world, with the findings cited by concussion experts calling on youth sports organizations to take more aggressive action to minimize exposure to RHI, including sub-concussive blows, by changing the way contact and collision sports are played and practiced, and reducing the amount of brain trauma a child incurs by limiting the number of hits they sustain in a sports season, over the course of a year, and during a career.

Noting that in most states football teams typically switch from limited contact levels during the preseason to two practices a day, at least one of which includes contact, they expressed concern that, based on their findings, «the brain may not be able to adjust quickly to this change, leaving players at increased risk for injury» at the beginning of the football season.

We all pass through sleep cycles during the night — we switch from REM to non-REM and the change in our brain activity wakes us up a little bit.

Hormonal changes and brain development during adolescence may put teens at a higher risk of mental health problems.

During the first six months of life, explains Michael Goodstein, neonatologist and director of the York County Cribs for Kids Program at York Hospital in York, PA, a baby experiences rapid brain growth and developmental changes that affect sleep patterns, cardiorespiratory control, metabolism, and physical ability.

Evidence suggests that many of the changes that take place in the brain during and after pregnancy have a beneficial effect on a woman's ability to care for her children.

It also requires no brain - power when you're changing baby during that 3 AM diaper change.

In her developmental psychology work at Yale University, she studied the role of maternal care in childhood on mothers» brain and changes in brain structure among mothers during the first few months postpartum.

It's common to have mood swings during pregnancy, partly because of hormonal changes that affect neurotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain).

During pregnancy, hormone changes can affect brain chemicals and cause depression and anxiety.

In a University of California, San Diego School of Medicine study published July 13 in the online journal Nature Neuroscience, a research team led by Takaki Komiyama, PhD, assistant professor of neurosciences and neurobiology, reports that in mouse models, the brain significantly changed its visual cortex operation modes by implementing top - down processes during learning.

Researchers used MEG to compare the brains of musicians and nonmusicians while the subjects tried to detect small changes in pitch during short clips of classical piano music by composers like Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.

In this study, researchers from the UCLA School of Nursing used the Valsalva maneuver — during which participants breathe hard out through a very small tube to raise blood pressure — to measure brain activity as it controls the blood pressure change.

The analysis revealed that people with schizophrenia showed markedly less brain activity during detection of the tonal changes as compared to the control group, a difference that became more apparent as symptoms worsened.

The brain is changing more rapidly during this time than at any other time in development.

«It is possible that this effect is temporary and only occurs during a «sensitive period» when the brain undergoes developmental changes.»

In previous studies, the UCLA researchers had seen differences in heart rate and blood brain flow during blood pressure changes in men and women with obstructive sleep apnea and wanted to see if cardiovascular responses in brain areas were different in healthy men and women.

Not surprisingly, even healthy individuals show significant changes in brain wave activity during brief exposures to olfactory stimuli that are actually below the sensory threshold and not even consciously perceived.

«Our work suggests that fine - tuning messenger stability is an important mechanism orchestrating gene expression changes during normal brain development.»

Our study tells us that a large proportion of these changes may occur during very short and repetitive brain waves called spindles.

ALTHOUGH A BRAIN INJURY from a car accident or a collision during a football game often seems to cause a sudden change to cognitive ability years later, this change does not just appear out of the blue — the damage has been building up slowly, unnoticed, over time.

Changing brain chemistry Unlike with electroconvulsive, or electroshock, therapy, where patients must be unconscious and administered muscle relaxants in order to prevent seizures, patients receiving rTMS (which involves trains of pulses during each session, hence the «repetitive» modifier) remain conscious and seated in outpatient settings.

It has been particularly difficult to measure changes in electrical functions of cells grown within Organ Chips that are normally electrically active, such as neuronal cells in the brain or beating heart cells, both during their differentiation and in response to drugs.

«This connection between an innate call and the activity of a brain area important to learned vocalisations suggests that during the evolution of songbirds, the role of the song area in the brain changed from being a simple vocalisation system for innate calls to a specialised neural network for learned songs,» concludes Manfred Gahr, coordinator of the study.

In a new study, researchers based at Osaka University reported on their use of brain - machine interface (BMI) training with a robotic hand on 10 phantom limb patients to investigate the association between changes in symptomatic pain and cortical currents during phantom hand movements.

Dramatic changes in DNA methylation, a process that usually quashes activity of nearby genes, occur during the first six months of brain development, researchers report February 3 in Genome Research.

Could cytokines also change MHCI levels in a fetus's brain during the mother's illness, disrupting normal synapse pruning?

One study aims to identify the point during the treatment where the change in the brain occurs.

Scientists have studied brain changes on short terms of seconds and minutes, such as when research subjects complete a task, as well as on the long term of years, documenting cognitive decline during the aging process.

When the team silenced these neurons during stress, they prevented changes in the brain that would normally take place after stress.

Yet the stimulus is perfectly stable, and it is instead the pattern of brain activity that is changing during viewing and producing the perceptual alterations or the illusion of an unstable object.

Because these functions are largely regulated in the frontal brain regions, a portable brain - imaging device (functional near infrared spectroscopy) was used to examine associated changes in the frontal brain function by placing biosensors on students» foreheads during testing.

«Astronauts» brains change shape during spaceflight.»

However, the Nottingham team — which also includes researchers from the Institute of Mental Health — believe it is more likely that tics improve as a result of the changes in brain structure and function that occur during adolescence.

Another is whether women's brains benefit in other ways from the changes that take place during pregnancy.

If doctors knew how the brain structure of a patient will change and reorganize during treatment, they could determine the ideal times for phases of stimulation and rest, thus improving treatment efficiency.

Scientists from Technische Universität München (TUM) have now demonstrated that already during a few minutes of ongoing pain, the underlying brain activity changes by shifting from sensory to emotional processes.

I'm keen to find out the precise sequence of changes to OLs and myelin during learning and whether these changes are needed more in some parts of the brain than others, which might shed light on some of the mysteries still surrounding how the brain adapts and learns throughout life.»

Acetylcholine is infused broadly throughout the brain during intense concentration or arousal, and essentially delivers a wake up call to neurons that can prompt them to change their response properties and physical organization.

And those kinds of random changes during development explain, for example, why the pattern of gyruses in the brain are very different even between identical twins.

Previous research has shown that during puberty these hormones cause dramatic structural and organizational changes in the brain.

There is limited research on the extent to which alcohol effects the developing brain in teens and adolescents, but it's evident that drinking during adolescence causes changes in the brain.