Sentences with phrase «brain levels»

For years, scientists have debated how best to assess brain levels of oxytocin, a hormone implicated in social behaviors.

Chronic stress relies on production of the hormone cortisol, which on its own can disrupt brain levels of happy hormones, like serotonin and dopamine.

Bupropion increases brain levels of dopamine, the notorious «feel good» chemical that is also released when cocaine or amphetamines are taken.

Past research has attributed at least part of the «love effect» of Ecstasy to an increase in brain levels of the natural antidepressant serotonin.

«Instead of effect sizes of 100 % for progranulin levels, we ask you to provide effect sizes of 20 - 30 % change for power calculations in progranulin brain levels for Figure 3 to determine whether the power value is 0.70.

New research has linked increasing symptoms of anxiety in older adults to higher brain levels of beta - amyloid, a protein linked to Alzheimer's disease.

Zheng - Xiong Xi, a pharmacologist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore, explains that the main receptor in the endocannabinoid system, CB1, interferes with brain levels of dopamine, a chemical associated with reward - seeking behavior, pleasure, and motivation.

Researchers at the Gladstone Institutes have shown that reducing brain levels of the protein tau effectively blocks the development of disease in a mouse model of Dravet syndrome, a severe intractable form of childhood epilepsy.

Instead of effect sizes of 100 % for proganulin levels, we ask you to provide effect sizes of 20 - 30 % change for power calculations in progranulin brain levels for Figure 3 to determine whether the power value is > 0.70.

Thanks to Moore's Law, we're nearly up to mouse brain level.

Interestingly, patients with schizophrenia have lower than normal brain levels of KMO, which may be linked to lower levels of glutamate.

We also found that lowering brain levels of the protein tau improves memory and other cognitive functions in mice genetically engineered to mimic Alzheimer's disease.

The pharmacokinetic properties of J147 after a single dose of 20 mg / kg in mice show brain levels of about 600 nM at 2 h, over 10-fold above its EC50 in some cell culture neuroprotection assays [7], with a brain to blood ratio of approximately 0.5.

The formation of synapses depends on sufficient brain levels of three key nutrients — uridine, omega - 3 fatty acids, and choline.

Galantamine works by boosting brain levels of acetylcholine, which helps brain cells communicate.

On a raw lizard brain level it's fun to swing a big sword at an endless amount of bad guys.

Unfortunately, traditional play therapies are very powerful in treating higher brain level dysfunction but have little impact on brain regions that are unresponsive to language, insight, and logic.

Geared to the pre-verbal, social, right brain level of development and utilizes concepts of experience - dependent brain development, primacy of right brain development in early life, and co-regulation of physical and emotional internal states

It appears that, during breastfeeding, elevated blood levels of oxytocin are associated with increased brain levels; women who exhibit the highest plasma oxytocin are the sleepiest (Klaus and Kennel, 2001).

Researchers were able to measure levels of the Huntingtin protein in the spinal fluid - which they'd previously showed correlated very well with brain levels (which, remember, we can't measure directly).

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Researchers at the Gladstone Institutes have shown that reducing brain levels of the protein tau effectively blocks the development of disease in a mouse model of Dravet syndrome, a severe intractable form of childhood epilepsy.

But, they found no link between higher brain levels of that neurotoxin and the kind of brain damage that is typical of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

It is of upmost importance to consider this as we see that in neurodenerative diseases we typically see elevated levels of copper and iron in the brain

Studies have shown that exposure to light can increase brain levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter associated with mood.

Do you honestly think that Ramsey is on the brain level that can understand what to do?

The study also found that mothers who were breastfeeding were more responsive on a brain level than mothers who were formula feeding; that's not to say that they were «better» mothers, but only that there were slight hormonal differences, perhaps necessary for milk production and regulation.

In the dominant deafness model, gene therapy with a related gene, TMC2, was successful at the cellular and brain level, and partially successful at restoring actual hearing in the startle test.

«It is known from previous studies in animals that the active neural pattern during a certain experience is reactivated once this experience ends, so the idea was to observe in a group of volunteers what happened at the brain level when a certain episode ended,» explains researcher Ignacio Soles.

Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) have increased brain levels of a marker of microglial activation, a sign of inflammation, according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry by researchers at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

Henderson added that the findings don't «necessarily mean that estrogens are irrelevant to cognition, since we have no way of measuring estrogen directly at the brain level.

What I think, and I've had sort of this bias for a long time and seen a lot of those patients, that this is something that really starts at the brain level, possibly, most likely early in life.

«We thought it might be involved in memory problems of Alzheimer's disease because it is a master regulator of neurotransmission and its brain levels are decreased in the disease.»

But a small, recent study from a group of Stanford researchers suggests hypnosis sparks real changes at a brain level.

[3] When L - dopa crosses the blood - brain barrier, it helps to increase brain levels of dopamine, an essential neurotransmitter associated with regulating mood and cognition.

Expaining the increase, there was a 36 % increase in luteinizing hormone (LH), a compound which stimulates testosterone production at the brain level.

However, aspartame, according to the Mayo Clinic, can cause «a rapid increase in the brain levels of phenylalanine» in large doses.

These potential benefits include better regulation of inflammation, oxidation, cell signaling, blood sugar levels, blood fat levels, and brain levels of the omega - 3 fatty acid called DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), among its many benefits.

Sunny - side up Natural sunlight can increase the brains levels of the calming chemical serotonin and also help suppress the sleep - inducing hormone melatonin.

It is obviously important to keep the brain levels within a nice healthy range, and the moment we start changing things up (as with an SSRI such as Prozac), the body starts changing the number of serotonin post-synaptic receptors.

On a lizard - brain level, The Conjuring 2 taps into the universal childhood fear of the dark, and some of its simplest moments — like a little girl hiding under the covers with a flashlight — are its most effective, bolstered by skillfully executed sound design and Don Burgess» gloomy cinematography.

If the unusualness of this procedure inhibits experimentation, the best antidote is to recollect what is happening at the brain level.

This occurs independent of whether or not the pain is perceived at the brain level (you already learned this at the beginning of this page in the spinal cord anatomy section).

If you manage to solve all those riddles, the challenge is not yet over: Grid Mania generates random levels which might prove even more puzzling to wrap your head around.Game features: 4 game modes 170 custom - crafted levels Randomly generated levels Chilly music Great for short gaming sessions Real challenge for your brain

As we were sharing with each other our goals for the next few months, I had the realization that these people were functioning at a whole - brain level.

A text, email or IM chat is not the same, on a brain level, as an in - person interaction between two people.