Sentences with phrase «brain changes linked»
Exercising the mind and body may delay the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, but in most people it does not slow underlying brain changes linked to the disease.
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He also said more and larger investigations will be needed to see how fetal brain changes linked to maternal SSRI use might translate into mental health difficulties later in life.
«Veterans with Gulf War Illness show brain changes linked to memory deficits.»
Imaging study shows brain changes linked to trauma, such as the floods and fire in Sendai, Japan, after the 2011 earthquake.
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The brain is rewiring its own circuitry, physically changing itself, to make it easier and more likely that the proper synapses will share the chemical link and thus spark together — in essence, making it easier for the thought to trigger.»
There is now decades of research backed by organizations like the US federal agency the National Institutes of Health that have linked regular meditation to physical changes in the brain.
But I do debate it's ethics and it IS linked to harmful changes in the brain, especially the brain stem.
He also stresses that, «Animal studies have linked the combination of stress and lack of sleep to behavioural problems in teenage years... and changes to the brain brought on by stress hormones may make it more difficult to form relationships later on, leading to problems such as promiscuity.»
Other research indicates that teenage marijuana use may adversely impact the developing brain: it has been linked to changes in neural structure and function, including lower IQ, as well as an increased risk of psychosis in vulnerable individuals.
«Early childhood adversities linked to health problems in tweens, teens: Study is first to point to brain changes that underlie poor health in some children.»
A new mouse model of a genetically - linked type of autism reveals more about the role of genes in the disorder and the underlying brain changes associated with autism's social and learning problems.
The research found a close link between early brain developmental events and changes in cognitive function in adulthood.
The study links fox domestication to changes in gene activity in the pituitary gland, a brain center that kicks out hormones to regulate various bodily functions, including the stress response.
In other research, Gaab and her colleagues have found an intriguing link between children's reading difficulties and neural deficits that prevent them from properly processing fast - changing sounds; they also found that computerized sound - training exercises «rewired» those faulty brain circuits.
It is widely accepted that brain size increase is partly linked to changes in diet over the last 3 million years, and increases in meat consumption and the development of cooking have received particular attention from the scientific community.
The cognitive impairments — which affected a large subset, but far from all, of the animals — appear to be linked to protein changes in the brain, the scientists say.
This pruning changes the relative density of receptors in the circuit linking the area of the brain involved with processing rewards (the basal ganglia) and the area of the brain implicated in inhibition and control (the prefrontal cortex).
Future studies may reveal if changes in brain lactate are linked to neurodegenerative disease in humans, says Ross.
Studies demonstrated that the changes in the brain's dopamine production area, or VTA — though crucial to the development of addiction — also triggered a cascade of biological processes that resulted in permanent changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), the area downstream that is closely linked to motivation and goal - directed behavior.
Tracing how the brain is wired is a great first step but to find out how this linking pattern produces a particular behaviour we need to be able to see how changing these links affects brain function.
University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers have found a two - way link between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and intestinal changes.
The researchers were not able to link the biological changes in the chimps» brains to shifts in their behaviour later in life.
Findings from previous research support the idea that TS is linked to changes in the levels and function of GABA in the brain.
«Our findings are not a reflection of general brain aging but rather of specific neural changes that are linked to specific problems in object but not spatial memory.»
Certain changes in synapses — the junctions between nerve cells in the brain — have been linked with brain disorders.
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«We were able to show that structural changes occur in brain areas linked to self control and emotion regulation,» says Annette Brühl, head physician at the Center for Depression, Anxiety Disorders and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich (PUK).
The new review does not suggest sweeping changes in the use of MRI contrast agents, as at present, there is no evidence linking the brain deposits to health risks.
Now, a new study of Japanese children has linked TV time with changes in the growing brains, effects that have been harder to spot.
«We found sets of genes in young birds whose levels change when they sing, and are linked to learning,» said White, who is also a member of UCLA's Brain Research Institute.
For voles, the profound lifestyle change seems to have occurred when previously separate circuits in the male brain — one for processing social recognition, another for reward — became biochemically linked.
The results showed that while this brain stimulation increased levels of cognitive inhibition, it did not change levels of supernatural belief, suggesting there is no direct link between cognitive inhibition and supernatural belief.
The link between sleep apnea and changes in the state of the brain is important news for clinicians, Macey said.
New research led by UC San Francisco scientists has revealed that mutations in a gene linked with brain development may dispose people to multiple forms of psychiatric disease by changing the way brain cells communicate.
«A growing amount of scientific research has linked BPA exposure to altered development of the brain and behavioral changes, a predisposition to prostate and breast cancer, reproductive harm, diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease,» reports the non-profit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Last year, he discovered that four areas of the brain that are largely linked to inner ear function each showed a broad change in activity when pigeons were exposed to magnetic stimulation.
A team of scientists has linked changes in the structure of a handful of central brain neurons to understanding how animals adjust to changing seasons.
These changes may be linked to atrophy and volume loss in the brain's grey matter, according to the researchers.
When comparing the scan results for brain activity before treatment and after a year of stimulation, the researchers found that there were changes in the regions linked to anorexia, suggesting that deep brain stimulation was able to directly affect the related brain circuits.
Sitting too much is linked to changes in a section of the brain that is critical for memory, according to a preliminary study by UCLA researchers of middle - aged and older adults.
The shifts were often in regions linked to the brain, perhaps explaining the behaviour changes (Science, doi.org/vfs).
The researchers also found they could predict which players had depression by examining images of their brains» white matter, suggesting a link between white matter changes and depression.
More recently, brain scans have directly linked these conditions with changes in levels of neurotransmitters — chemicals that convey messages across neurons — or alterations in the number or structure of neurons in different brain areas.
A dopamine - receptor gene variation is linked to changes in brain function, possibly neurotransmitter signaling
The results of their work, the researchers say, may advance scientific understanding of how genes linked to the risk of human bipolar disorder change neuronal circuits in the brain, and may offer an animal model for testing new treatments.
«The identification of genes linked to brain changes in autism is just the first step,» said Dr Rafael Romero - Garcia.
On the negative side, the researchers found that many of the genes whose activity is unique to modern humans are linked to diseases like Alzheimer's disease, autism and schizophrenia, suggesting that these recent changes in our brain may underlie some of the psychiatric disorders that are so common in humans today.
UNSW Australia scientists have discovered a link between autism and genetic changes in some segments of DNA that are responsible for switching on genes in the brain.
Illnesses like the memory disorder known as Alzheimer's disease are linked to particular changes in the brain.
This large, well - conducted study suggests a link between inflammation and brain changes related to Alzheimer's, but it didn't investigate whether participants actually went on to develop the disease.