Sentences with phrase «brain volume due»

In addition, the 25 percent of the participants who had mild cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's also experienced an increase in brain volume due to the higher amounts of exercise.

Recent studies suggest that the total loss in brain volume due to atrophy — a wasting away of tissue caused by cell degeneration — between our teen years and old age is 15 percent or more, which means that by the time we're in our seventies, our brains have shrunk to the size they were when we were between 2 and 3 years old.

Not exact matches

Human infants are born with a brain that is only a quarter of its adult volume (compared to 50 % for infant chimpanzees and gorillas) due to the constraints of a birth canal that has been modified to accommodate upright walking.

The difference in diet explained 0.5 percent of the variation in total brain volume, an effect that was half the size of that due to normal aging.

The difference in diet explained 0.5 % of the variation in total brain volume, an effect that was half the size of that due to normal aging.