Sentences with phrase «brain functions between»

In adolescence, there are real differences in brain functions between male and female brains.

Most studies on differences in brain functions between men and women have looked at psychological performance.

As Dr. McGonigal presents various scientific studies that show differences in the brain functioning between meditators and non-meditators, she highlights how meditation practice benefits the practitioner in various ways such as higher pain thresholds and reduced depression.

The emerging field of cultural neuroscience reveals fascinating differences in brain function between cultures and environments.

Related studies suggest disparities in brain function between low - income and higher - income children.

Not exact matches

Studies have shown that getting between 7 - 9 hours of sleep per night relieves stress, reduces the risk of chronic diseases and even helps muscles and the brain repair and restore proper function.

A brain, it functions, and I know the difference between trying to prove God right, instead of trying to prove him wrong.

Between the two there is a «penumbra,» a sort of bridge where the brain cells although not functioning are recoverable.

(II) All kinds of brain operations alter the personality of a patient to some degree; many pharmaca, particularly lysergic acid, alter the brain functions to great extents; and the male and female sexual hormones cause the psychic differences between man and woman — injections of the opposite hormone can alter the sexual mentality to a high degree.

Neurobiologists are just beginning to explore relationships between sensory perception's ability and areas of function in the brain.

You may not be familiar with its name, but it's an essential nutrient that's needed for communication between cells, and supporting healthy brain function.

Between them they help to reduce inflammation, support heart health, reduce blood pressure, support brain health, boost immune function and assist with mood disorders.

Is there a relationship between chemical exposure and young people's health, behaviour and brain function?

Between Lonzo's Dad and the situation with Fultz, I don't even know how my brain would have functioned this season

Chosing between Mustafi and Evans should be a no brainer for anyone having a half functioning brain.

DHA is being accumulated in the brain of a child between the 26th and the 40th week of pregnancy and has a crucial influence on the neuron functioning.

While young children sleep, connections between the left and the right hemispheres of their brain strengthen, which may help brain functions mature, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder.

Adam Sutter holds a degree in Neuroscience, with an emphasis on the interrelationship between food, nutritional supplements, and the optimal development and functioning of the human brain.

These clear connections between the capacity to experience particular emotions and brain function, on the one hand, and between brain function and morality on the other, cement the inextricable nature of our neurochemistry and our moral / socio - emotional capacities.

There are visible differences between the way someone's brain functions when they're actively addicted to cocaine or heroin, and a normal person.

By studying this disconnect between perception and reality, scientists can learn about brain function and its relevance to mental health, decision making and the way we view ourselves and others.

The research found a close link between early brain developmental events and changes in cognitive function in adulthood.

Further study revealed that these so - called immune proteins are actually present on the surface of certain nerve cells, but that they functioned differently in the brain than they did in the rest of the body; rather than scouting for germs, they influenced signals sent between neurons.

Rice University researchers have established a metabolic connection between the brain's executive function responsible for inhibition and type 2 diabetes.

The 2009 book The Playful Brain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functBrain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functbrain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functions.

Studies have long documented the connection between the nose and brain function.

Our brain contains billions of cells, each of which need to communicate between each other in order to function properly.

Somehow the rules governing synaptic connections between cells enable such «local» activity to modify the «global» neural circuitry that carries out the brain's many functions.

To achieve automated control, Brown and colleagues built a brain - machine interface — a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device that typically assists human cognitive, sensory or motor functions.

Potentially explaining why even healthy brains don't function well with age, Salk researchers have discovered that genes that are switched on early in brain development to sever connections between neurons as the brain fine - tunes, are again activated in aging neuronal support cells called astrocytes.

But in the case of synapses, which are the connections between brain cells, too many or too few can both disrupt brain function.

When adults learn hierarchical rules, Frank and Collins have combined experimental data with computer models of brain function to suggest, that the key circuit involved is a connection between the PFC and another region called the striatum.

It's the first time scientists have directly measured differences in brain cell formation and function between people with bipolar disorder and those without.

While some research supported a link between prenatal sound exposure and improved brain function, scientists had not identified any structures responsible for this link in the developing brain.

Researchers at Blue Brain Project report groups of neurons bound into such cavities provide the missing link between neural structure and function, in their new study published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.

A multidisciplinary group of scientists from the Sanders - Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky have identified an interesting connection between the health of the brain tissue that supports cognitive functioning and the presence of dementia in adults with Down syndrome.

Although the relationship between mastication and brain function is potentially important, the mechanism underlying is not fully understood.

«Handedness and language are controlled by different genetic systems, but there is a weak relationship between the two because both functions originate on the left side of the brain,» he said.

In order to prevent disorders of brain functions including that related to memory and learning, it is an urgent task to elucidate the linkage between masticatory function and brain function.

«What makes the results even more persuasive is the remarkable agreement between the cognitive function restoration and the changes in brain functionality as detected by the SPECT scans,» explained Prof. Ben - Jacob.

Over decades, the researchers have documented correlations between the ability to delay gratification and life outcomes as diverse as SAT scores, body - mass index, the frequency of drug abuse, and measurable differences in brain functioning, which are visible thanks to modern functional MRI techniques.

The Mind's Eye By Oliver Sacks (Alfred A. Knopf) Sacks dips into his case files again, this time to find the peculiarities in the brain that can hijack its functions somewhere between the eye and the mind.

«Given the solid epidemiologic evidence supporting a link between cannabis exposure during adolescence and schizophrenia, we investigated whether the use of cannabis during early adolescence (by 16 years of age) is associated with variations in brain maturation as a function of genetic risk for schizophrenia,» said senior author Tomas Paus, MD, PhD, the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Professor and Chair in Population Neuroscience at Baycrest, University of Toronto, and the Dr. John and Consuela Phelan Scholar at Child Mind Institute, New York.

It is possible that the relationship between genetics, brain function, and behavior differs by gender, age, and ethnicity.

A finding, that is of great importance for the future of especially paraplegic patients where the connection between the brain and limbs no longer functions.

«We hope this atlas will be a roadmap for the field to explore the relationship between specific cell types, signaling pathways, receptors, and the physiological function of brain circuits,» Kriegstein added.

The work also highlights a connection between gut microbes and brain function that scientists are only just beginning to understand, says Ted Dinan of the Microbiome Institute at the University College Cork, Ireland.

Many of our everyday cognitive functions such as learning and memory rely on normal communication between the two regions of the brain - the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.

They provide the energy needed for communication between brain cells, which is crucial for transmitting stimuli and signals and thus for optimal functioning of the body.

Moreover, their results shed light on a postulated link between two important functions of the brain: optimizing action selection in decision - making and in movement execution.