Sentences with phrase «brain changes resulting»

«This is the first prospective and longitudinal study to characterize structural brain changes resulting from standard radiation and chemotherapy in patients with malignant brain tumors.

However, the team plan to carry out more studies to see if these brain changes result in enhanced cognitive performance in elderly yoginis.

Not exact matches

While the results can't conclusively prove that all those second screens are causing the changes to the brain (differences in brain structure could also lead people to be more likely to multitask), the researchers suggest that the results should nonetheless serve as a red flag for fans of multiple devices while further studies are carried out to test causality.

Your brain is the only organ that changes as a direct result of and in response to, the connections made.

Chemical disorders are a result of physical changes to the brain.

Many, unlike you, have experienced real physical changes to the brain as a result of trauma.

This very small change in brain size means there's less free room for the brain to move inside the skull, resulting in less damage from hits, where traditionally the brain would slosh around inside the skull.

What's happening, the authors suggest, is that as the gay fathers take on the role of independent, hands - on caregivers, their brains change as a result — the «mentalising» circuit connects with and stimulates the «emotional» circuit more commonly found to be active in mothers.

ADHD medication controls symptoms while a psychological approach results in actual changes in brain function that will continue and increase as your child develops.

A study of elite athletes playing contact sports suggests that the symptoms of depression some experience after a concussion may result from physical changes in their brains caused by the concussions themselves.

The results showed the former players experienced a reduction in fine motor control and abnormal changes in brain function when compared with healthy people of the same age who had never played contact sport.

If oxytocin levels are too low, stress results in elevated levels of cortisol, which can cause changes in brain structure in response to stress that can lead to symptoms such as high blood pressure.

Whatever phrase you prefer, the point is crucial, and thrilling: as a result of the words we use and the actions we take, children's brains will actually change, and be built, as they undergo new experiences.»

Sadly, much of the work focuses on children who have been exposed to neglect where high levels of stress hormones coupled with minimum adult interaction has resulted in permanent changes in their brain structure leading to impaired emotional wellbeing and difficulty in adjusting to stress and anxiety in adulthood (Rutter 1989 et al).

These hormonal changes may produce chemical changes in the brain that result in depression.

Then too, the resulting behavior that's created by the brain may change.»

The results suggest that practicing yoga in the long - term can change the structure of your brain and could protect against cognitive decline in old age.

The thinking goes that most cases of chronic tinnitus result from changes in the signals sent from the ear to neurons in the brain's auditory cortex.

In his disturbing book, The Body Keeps the Score, he explains how trauma and its resulting stress harms us through physiological changes to body and brain, and that those harms can persist throughout life.

The results are largely consistent with a growing body of research about the neural basis of aggression, and how it is triggered by changes in the way that the prefrontal cortex, the limbic system and reward - related regions of the brain function.

Whatever the cause of homosexuality, be it genetic, hormonal, or even sociological, the result is a change somewhere in the brain.

«Future studies will follow the emotional behavior development from infancy to adulthood in a new generation of HD monkeys to confirm whether increased anxiety and irritability is the result of brain or motor behavior changes,» the authors write.

«These results could fundamentally change the way we think about how the brain and immune system inter-relate,» said Walter J. Koroshetz, M.D., NINDS director.

«With this new biomarker, we are measuring the brain's default state for processing sound and how that has changed as a result of a head injury,» Kraus said.

Researchers from Heidelberg University have developed a computer vision technique to analyse the changes in motor skills that result from targeted stimulation of healthy areas of the brain.

The results suggest that the brain exploits changes in visual information, when it's available, to judge time, says Sahani.

A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical substance that acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, mood, consciousness and behavior.

Rondina says the study's results do not immediately change diagnosis or treatment options for age - related cognitive impairments, but it will be interesting to see the long - term implications of these results, as we continue to learn how our brains change as we age.

Those results suggest that something about motherhood — perhaps the stew of hormones and the brain changes that follow — may actually protect the brain as it ages.

Their careful work has shown that this might be because the brain is more sensitive to the regulatory effects of glucocorticoids, resulting in less secretion (rather like making a thermostat more sensitive to minor changes in temperature).

Her results were resisted initially, with one male scientist loudly telling her after a talk: «Young lady, that brain can not change.»

Scientists have long known that Alzheimer's disease is a gradual process and that the brain undergoes functional changes before the structural changes associated with the disease show up on imaging results.

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.

Scientists have long known that the functional neural architecture for perception and cognition strongly depends upon plasticity: in other words, our brain has the capacity to change and adapt as a result of experience.

The results of the study suggest that «people's performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.

Such changes, Li and colleagues suggested while reviewing a number of related studies, are consistent with anatomical changes that can occur in the brain as a result of learning a second language, no matter the age of the learner, as they reported in a recent issue of Cortex.

Evidently, ASPM responded to natural selection, and the resulting changes contributed to our large brains.

Holdcroft believes that the changes in the brain are more likely to be the result of changes in the volume of individual cells, rather than changes in the number of cells in the brain.

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.

He hopes to reconstruct the detailed story of how the human brain grew and changed as the result of natural selection, thereby creating the thing that makes us each unique — the human mind.

«Just four to five brief NET sessions result in significantly less emotional and physical distress, and these improvements are associated with connectivity changes throughout the brain,» said Dr. Monti.

These earlier studies found that changes in the brain that result from loss of hearing persisted even when normal hearing returned.

This drug, which is being called a sex pill for women or «Female Viagra» changes the hormone balance in the brain and in this way increases a woman's sexual desire, thus resulting in more enjoyable sex.

«Female rugby players shows a regular season of play results in changes in brain.»

For decades, clinical and pre-clinical research considered that opiate consumption caused permanent changes in the brain's reward circuits, resulting in a persistent vulnerability to relapse.

The results of the study suggest close interaction between the neck and brain, resulting in changes in blood flow.

That may be a result of Alzheimer's - like brain changes — changes which can be reversed in rats

According to Fotini Koutroumpa, lead author of the study and researcher at the UvA's Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), the results point to future research on the tiny but complex moth brain, which will shed light on how the diverse pheromone systems of the thousands of moth species has changed throughout evolution.

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.

Here the results showed that a single stimulation had different effects on the behavior of neurons in each layer because even when the overall state of the brain changed, layers had distinctive characteristics.