Sentences with phrase «brains of children»

The growing and developing brains of children and teens often take longer to heal from a concussion than adults.

The developing, growing brains of children and teens are so busy already, the brain must work very hard during concussion recovery.

Further restricting fat and calories is not only going to do nothing for the childhood obesity epidemic, it is harmful to developing brains of children.

Understand how alcohol affects the growing brains of children.

To address that issue, the researchers decided to scan brains of children who were not depressed, according to their scores on a commonly used diagnostic questionnaire, but had a parent who had suffered from the disorder.

«Brains of children with a better physical fitness possess a greater volume of gray matter.»

All to save the harvested brains of children doomed to become cyborg killing machines like himself.

The report also says that air pollution can affect the developing brains of children, make other health problems worse and sickness because of air pollution can keep children from attending school regularly, leading to other problems that are not physiological.

The hand that rocks the cradle also puts garbage in the brain of the child.

One sobering quote I just couldn't get out of my head was from Dr. Mariana Chilton, Ph.D., an associate professor of public health at Drexel University and director of Witnesses to Hunger, who said: This recession will be permanently inscribed in the bodies and the brains of children growing up today.

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.

Most flats pots do get rounded with time and do not affect the brain of the child.

Other studies claim an abnormality in the brains of children that prevent oxygen release is to blame.

These toys are tried and true, established as winners in terms of educational toys and quality baby toys for children and the toys stimulate the brain of a child.

The brains of children who were more actively involved in Kraus lab studies saw more robust changes.

Neuroscientist Kevin Pelphrey, director of Yale University's Child Neuroscience Laboratory — and father of two children with autism — scanned the brains of children with autism after they were given a one - time dose of oxytocin.

This type of inflammation between 18 and 32 weeks of gestation in humans has been linked to preterm birth as well as an imbalance of immune cells in the brain of the offspring and even death of nerve cells in the brains of those children.

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the research team also found anatomical changes in the brains of children whose reading abilities improved — in particular, a thickening of the cortex in parts of the brain known to be involved in reading.

We can see it not only in test scores, in educational attainment, but within the brains of these children,» says MIT's John Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology, professor of brain and cognitive sciences, and one of the study's authors.

By scanning the brains of children before and after they learned to read, the researchers found that they could predict the precise location where each child's visual word form area (VWFA) would develop, based on the connections of that region to other parts of the brain.

The findings, which appear in the online issue of the peer - reviewed journal Brain and Behavior, provide insight into how the brains of children and adolescents with ASD might be organized differently than youths without the disorder, says study first author Kay Jann, a postdoctoral researcher in the UCLA Department of Neurology.

«So we want to know exactly what might be happening in the brains of children with ADHD to better refine the interventions for them.»

The brains of children with autism are relatively inflexible at switching from rest to task performance, according to a new brain - imaging study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Researchers also identified structural differences in the brains of children who responded best to tutoring.

Using MRIs, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified areas in the brains of children with Tourette's syndrome that appear markedly different from the same areas in the brains of children who don't have the neuropsychiatric disorder.

Scans of the brains of child musicians before and after musical training have yielded compelling evidence that proficiency and skill relies on hard graft, not innate genius.

Gotsis said VR could have an even bigger impact on the developing brains of children.

Due to differential gene expression associated with stress, the brains of child - abuse victims had lower levels of glucocorticoid receptors, McGowan found.

But we also scanned the brains of the children before and after their training, because for the first time we wanted to know how their brain physiology had changed, and why this resulted in such a memory boost.»

Image 2: MRI of the brain of a child with cerebral palsy: red arrows show scarring over the central gray matter leading to stiffness and problems in the coordination of movements.

A daring attempt to use gene therapy to treat a rare, devastating disorder that destroys the brains of children has shown signs of slowing the disease's progression, according to a new paper.

«Research has shown that there are differences in the brains of children raised in impoverished environments that affect their ability to learn,» said Kraus.

They found reductions in the volume of gray matter in multiple regions of the brains of children with OSA.

«Our work aims at answering questions such as whether the brain of children with better physical fitness is different from that of children with worse physical fitness and if this affects their academic performance,» Ortega explains.

Lee, a psychologist in Drexel's College of Arts and Sciences, conducted the research with colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health who perform structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brains of children and youth to better understand aspects of brain development.

A study comparing children between 7 and 11 years of age who have moderate or severe obstructive sleep apnea to children the same age who slept normally, found significant reductions of gray matter — brain cells involved in movement, memory, emotions, speech, perception, decision making and self - control — in several regions of the brains of children with sleep apnea.

Although there is substantial evidence from neuroimaging studies that the brain of a child with autism is undergoing abnormal development, little is known about the underlying cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms that lead to the onset of autistic symptoms.

It is not a complete protein and I remember reading somewhere that because of that it's not a good for the developing brains of children.

«We found that the brains of children from lower - income families benefitted from conversational interplay just as much as the brains of children from higher income families,» says Gabrieli, the Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT and an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

Often these systems are compromised because of chronic stress that has neurobiologically reprogrammed how the brain of a child or adolescent responds to adversity.

She found that presenting teachers with solid research on what trauma can do to the brain of a child was necessary before she could coach teachers on SEL strategies.

According to Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child, the brain of a child who grows up in a positive emotional environment will be more prepared for complex learning patterns.

An interesting article about the neuroscience of the brain and structural differences in the brains of children who suffer from Dyslexia and other reading difficulties.

Dreaming and fantasising is nowadays considered a chemical imbalance in the brain of the child.

According to researchers at Duke University Medical Center there's a significant chance that a drug commonly prescribed to halt pre-term labor and stave off premature birth might leave the brains of children susceptible to other chemicals widely present

Childhood trauma, or adverse experiences, has very real impacts on the developing brains of children.

This is because the brains of children with ADHD struggle to regulate emotion.