Sentences with phrase «brain research suggests»

Kids are slower at these sorts of tasks, and brain research suggests why.

Brain research suggests that the part of the brain that processes an emotional assault is the same part that processes a physical assault, so when an individual is verbally assaulted by a partner, the brain responds as though he or she is being punched in the stomach, prompting the same toxic mix of fear and rage.

New brain research suggests that the urge to laugh is the lubricant that makes humans higher social beings

Bird brain research suggests that when male plain - tailed wrens sing duets with females they pay more attention to her contribution to the melody than their own.

Findings published in Behavioural Brain Research suggest certain hormones, which are increased during exercise, may help improve memory and processing speed.

Not exact matches

Other research suggests that the perceived passage of time is related to the amount of new perceptual information you absorb; when you're young, everything seems new, which means your brain has more to process... which means the perceived passage of time feels longer.

But cognitive research suggests something deeper — that the human brain has evolved in such a way that it's more likely to see visuals as «true» and words as, literally, «debatable.»

Yawning cools down the brain, research suggests.

As Gallup notes, previous research has tied well - being scores to health outcomes including life expectancy and a lower risk of obesity, while some studies suggest that taking time off positively impacts the brain and heart.

Plus, new research suggests that disrupting sleep during certain parts of the night can quickly raise levels of Alzheimer's - related proteins in the brain and spinal fluid.

New research published in the journal Nature suggests that examining babies» brain scans through age two can help predict an autism diagnosis.

A wealth of recent research, including a new study published this month in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, suggests that any type of exercise that raises your heart rate and gets you moving and sweating for a sustained period of time — known as aerobic exercise — has a significant, overwhelmingly beneficial impact on the brain.

But a growing body of research suggests that a meal plan focusing on vegetables, protein, and healthy fats has key benefits for losing weight, keeping the mind sharp, and protecting the heart and brain as you age.

This new research suggests that games with a little more problem solving and a few more spatially complex tasks may help train the brain's hippocampus for things like remembering lost keys and recalling new names.

Recent research also suggests that certain plant - based diets could help protect the brain from some types of age - related decline.

Brain research shows the brains of men and women are organized differently, and these gender - related but not always gender - specific differences could be construed as suggesting new stereotypes, another «dichotomy.»

According to The Financial Times, her research suggests that our brains give us a tiny chemical hit each time someone affirms us online.

For example, Wild Blueberries have double the antioxidant capacity of regular blueberries and recent research is suggesting that they may play an important role in gut and brain health and also lower the incidence of diabetes and certain cancers.

This research noticed a strong correlation between insulin resistance in the brain and early Alzheimer's Disease, suggesting that Alzheimer's might be considered a neuroendocrine disorder of the brain or so - called «type 3 diabetes».

The research stated that there is mounting evidence which suggests that a defect in cholesterol metabolism in the brain may play an important role in Alzheimer's Disease.

The journal Neurology published preliminary research suggesting that cacao may improve cognitive function and the flow of blood to the brain.

After reading David Epstein's essay about Junior Seau and brain trauma (SCORECARD), I was left wondering if players and coaches are paying attention to the growing research that suggests that the combination of big - impact hits and constant smaller hits to the head play a major part in the trauma to a player's brain?

The well - publicized lawsuits by former players against the N.F.L., the suicide of Junior Seau, a «Chicken Little - sky is falling» mentality by some prominent concussion experts and former athletes, some of whom suggest that the sport is simply too dangerous to be played at all at the youth level, and continuing research on the short - and long - term effects of concussion on cognitive function and brain health, have created a pretty toxic environment for the sport.

The National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research suggests the following four measures to reduce or prevent serious injury (concussion, traumatic brain injury, spinal paralysis) or death in football:

Research suggests that about a third of kids are lucky enough to escape trauma, but about a quarter suffer such high doses that it affects brain development, immune and endocrine functioning, and can create mental and physical disease systems that reduce the lifespan by an average of 20 years.

While not a lot of research can tell us the effects of BPA on humans, studies on animals suggest it may be dangerous to brain development, the reproductive system, and the immune system.

Recent research suggests that the brains of good early readers use all four of the brain regions associated with each of these functions.

Although the causes of SIDS - related deaths are often unexplained, research suggests that there may be certain brain abnormalities present that make certain babies more susceptible.

Some research suggests that music helps to ready the brain for learning new skills.

Recent research suggests that inadequate levels of the brain chemical serotonin can make an infant more vulnerable to SIDS.

There is no medical research to suggest our brains are altered during pregnancy but a number of factors could contribute to these lapsed memory moments, like when we walk upstairs for something and forget what it is we were going to get, or lose an entire bag of shopping on the way back from the supermarket or a best friend's birthday goes completely out of our head.

New research suggests that these techniques can have detrimental physiological effects on the baby by increasing the stress hormone cortisol in the brain, with potential long term effects to emotional regulation, sleep patterns and behavior.

Research has uncovered evidence that suggests secondhand smoke may be related to childhood leukemia, lymphoma, and brain tumors.

Together, the two lines of research suggest that an unusually high degree of connectivity in certain brain regions might predispose people to have synesthesia, Fisher wrote in an email to Science.

Around the time of the origins of our species 300,000 years ago, the brains of Homo sapiens had about the same relatively large size as they do today, new research suggests.

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory tests.

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory...

«Research suggests high - fat diets during pregnancy could influence brain functioning, behavior of children.»

Research into natural chemicals that mimic marijuana's effects in the brain could help to explain — and suggest treatments for — pain, anxiety, eating disorders, phobias and other conditions

An inflammatory protein that triggers a pregnant mouse's immune response to an infection or other disease appears to cause brain injury in her fetus, but not the premature birth that was long believed to be linked with such neurologic damage in both rodents and humans, new Johns Hopkins - led research suggests.

This research suggests that functional brain scans — those that measure damage to the brain's communication network — may help predict recovery and guide treatment.

«These findings suggest that even neurons we previously thought were «useless» because they didn't individually encode information have a purpose when working in concert with other neurons,» said researcher Julio Martinez - Trujillo, based at the Robarts Research Institute and the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University.

Now research in rodents suggests that gut microbes may alter the inventory of microRNAs — molecules that help keep cells in working order by managing protein production — in brain regions involved in controlling anxiety.

Recent research suggests that too many connections in the brain could be at least partially responsible for the symptoms of autism, from communication deficits to unusual talents.

We experience confidence as a feeling, but behind it are objective statistical calculations made by the brain, research by Kepecs and colleagues suggests.

One of the latest lines of research suggests that poisons in the air might accelerate aging in the brain.

Research done by Dr. Christopher Pack, from McGill University, who looked at such waves occurring in a region of the visual cortex of the brain, suggests these oscillations could have a role in resetting the sensitivity of neurons after eye movements.

Research suggests that we empathize by effectively putting ourselves in others» shoes: for example, when we observe someone feeling sad, we simulate their experience by activating the same regions of the brain that are involved when we feel sad ourselves.

The research suggests a novel way that stress might have long - term effects on the brain, says Robert Sapolsky, a neuroscientist at Stanford University.

A toxic Alzheimer's protein can spread through the brain — jumping from one neuron to another — via the extracellular space that surrounds the brain's neurons, suggests new research from Columbia University Medical Center.