Sentences with phrase «by brain researchers»

It is also known as our reptile brain or my particular favorite expression used by brain researchers — the neural back alley.

Not exact matches

In one of the experiments, the researchers primed some of the participants for feelings of either power or powerlessness by assigning them to roles as bosses or employees in a face - to - face mock task of solving brain - teasers.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of London has revealed some interesting information about neurons in the male brain.

And some studies suggest they're right: In a paper called «Environmental Disorder Leads to Self - Regulatory Failure,» a pair of researchers from UBC and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business found that «being surrounded by chaos ultimately impairs the ability to perform tasks requiring «brain» power.»

In turn, it's helping researchers treat patients in trials earlier since they can be identified by the amyloid in their brains.

According to a study completed by researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, that is exactly how our brains are wired to work.

«If they could figure out a way to streamline, it would be a lot better,» said Kim Janda, a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who leads a team of researchers developing a vaccine that would prevent fentanyl overdoses by keeping the drug from reaching the brain.

In the last year, the technology long used by researchers to measure brain activity has become affordable enough for some toy makers to incorporate it into their toys and video games.

I do not mean to suggest that one group of brain cells mapped out by researchers and excited by electrodes will produce visions of God.

An earlier study by some of the same researchers found that committed meditators experienced sustained changes in baseline brain function, meaning that they had changed the way their brains operated even outside of meditation.

These published studies showed that crude kuzu root preparations or their extracted flavonoids, given as injections or taken orally, Researchers also report that flavonoids lower cholesterol levels, reduce the risk of forming blood clots, protect the heart against cardiovascular disease, and protect the brain by dilating cerebral microvessels to increase blood flow.

On a cognitive level, growing up in a chaotic and unstable environment — and experiencing the chronic elevated stress that such an environment produces — disrupts the development of a set of skills, controlled by the prefrontal cortex, known as executive functions: higher - order mental abilities that some researchers compare to a team of air - traffic controllers overseeing the working of the brain.

Rooted in attachment theory, Attachment Parenting has been studied extensively for over 60 years by psychology and child development researchers, and more recently, by researchers studying the brain.

A number of top concussion researchers also believe that real - time monitoring of impacts could help reduce the total amount of brain trauma from repeated subconcussive blows by identifying athletes sustaining a large number of such hits due to improper blocking or tackling technique.

The study, by researchers at Israel's Bar - Ilan University, measured first - time parents» brain activity when they watched films of themselves playing with their children.

While researchers continue to look for the concussion «holy grail» in the form of specific impact thresholds above which concussions are highly likely and / or the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season that substantially increase the risk of long term brain injury, impact sensor technology is available right now to do what we can to reduce total brain trauma by using impact data to identify kids who need more coaching so they can learn how to tackle and block without using their helmets.

Researchers found that by age 2, babies who had been breastfed exclusively for at least three months had enhanced development in key parts of the brain compared to children who were fed formula exclusively or who were fed a combination of formula and breastmilk.

What continues to be lost, in my view, in much of what the media has reported over the last six years about the results of autopsies conducted by researchers at the Sports Legacy Institute in Boston on the brains of athletes - autopsies which show the presence of the dark splotches of tau protein which are the tell - tale sign of CTE - which is that they provide, at most, anecdotal evidence suggesting a possible connection.

Society isn't happy with single moms; according to a 2011 Pew Research Center study, nearly seven out of 10 said the trend toward single mothers was bad for society (although writer Tracy Mayor in Brain, Child magazine calls out the actual question asked by Pew researchers — how people felt about «more single women deciding to have children without a male partner to help raise them,» not whether they think single mothers per se are bad for society.

* Update: A 2012 study in the journal Neurology by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (2) also found no link between intentional heading and acute brain damage (e.g. concussion), but said that it was at least theoretically possible that it could represent a form of repetitive subthreshold mild brain injury over time and could be the cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

«The study, which the researchers say is the first to link brain activity with maternal behavior, is likely to reinforce the convictions of breast - feeding mothers that they're doing right by their babies».

Ten helmets tested by researchers reduced the likelihood of traumatic brain injury by an average of 20 percent compared with no helmet in a simulation using crash test dummies.

For a time, researchers theorized that attention disorders were caused by minor head injuries or damage to the brain.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

The study, which the researchers say is the first to link brain activity with maternal behavior, is likely to reinforce the convictions of breast - feeding mothers that they're doing right by their babies and make formula - feeding moms squirm a little.

Researchers believe that this is happening because brain development can be impacted by delivery method.

Studying preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children's Hospital, the researchers found that preemies whose daily diets were at least 50 percent breast milk had more brain tissue and cortical - surface area by their due dates than premature babies who consumed significantly less breast milk.

One study found that pregnancy does indeed cause striking changes in women's brains, so much so that researchers are able to tell if a woman has had a child simply by looking at her brain scans.

A study by Luby and other WUSM researchers showed that a mother's love had a physical effect on the size of her child's hippocampus — the area of the brain responsible for memory.

«Unraveling how a brain works, block by high - tech block: Researchers modernizing cognitive skills testing to detect deficits, problem - solving strategies and more.»

A recent study conducted by researchers at the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation looked at differences in brain activity comparing the times children spent on screens (TV, smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers) versus reading a book.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

By analysing the patterns of brain activity when volunteers read or listened to sentences containing hard - to - detect semantic anomalies - words that fit the general context even though they do not actually make sense - the researchers found that when a volunteer was tricked by the semantic illusion, their brain had not even noticed the anomalous worBy analysing the patterns of brain activity when volunteers read or listened to sentences containing hard - to - detect semantic anomalies - words that fit the general context even though they do not actually make sense - the researchers found that when a volunteer was tricked by the semantic illusion, their brain had not even noticed the anomalous worby the semantic illusion, their brain had not even noticed the anomalous word.

Inspired by flatworm memory experiments from the 1950s, researchers are on the hunt for the elusive engram — the physical mark that a memory leaves on the brain — Laura Sanders reported in «Somewhere in the brain is a storage device for memories» (SN: 2/3/18, p. 22).

The researchers mimicked cosmic - radiation exposure by briefly bombarding the brains of lab mice with high - energy particles.

Most recently, he noted, researchers reported in Science that sleep functions as a kind of «sewer system» for the brain, at least in mice, by flushing beta - amyloid, which is known to accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

When the researchers gave the mice a drug called lamotrigine, often prescribed for bipolar disorder, the animals» brain activity mimicked that of their resilient counterparts: The neurons in the already hyperactive VTA started firing even more intensely, followed by a lull and abatement of depression symptoms.

HARD KNOCKS By studying the brains of former football players, researchers are finding clues about how a neurodegenerative disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, progresses, with the hopes of one day preventing it.

Researchers used MEG to compare the brains of musicians and nonmusicians while the subjects tried to detect small changes in pitch during short clips of classical piano music by composers like Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.

The insula, an area of the brain largely ignored by researchers, may hold the key to breaking harmful addictions

In the end all of the researchers interviewed by Scientific American emphasized significance only goes so far in making a case for IAD as a true disorder with discrete effects on the brain.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used a technique recently borrowed from the computer science field by neuroscientists — multivariate pattern analysis — to examine brain scans that were taken while people looked at a picture of someone who had rejected them.

Compared to the brains of people without bipolar disorder, the researchers found that the MRI signal was elevated in the cerebral white matter and the cerebellar region of patients affected by bipolar disorder.

The researchers trialed their system on a female patient who has locked - in syndrome, a form of almost total paralysis caused by brain lesions, at the Royal Hospital for Neuro - disability in London.

This work could guide medical science by pointing researchers in the direction of other molecules that could be used to treat disorders of the brain, Slot said.

Researchers suspect that it works directly in the brain to disrupt the addictive power of nicotine by affecting the same chemical messengers in the brain, such as the neurotransmitter dopamine, as nicotine does.

A new MRI study by USC and a group of international researchers has found that having the opportunity to learn from failure can turn it into a positive experience — if the brain has a chance to learn from its mistakes.

In the study, led by post-doctoral fellow Long N. Nguyen of Duke - NUS, researchers found that mice without the Mfsd2a transporter had brains a third smaller than those with the transporter, and exhibited memory and learning deficits and high levels of anxiety.

Johns Hopkins researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they are exposed in the womb to a maternal immune system kicked into high gear by a serious infection or other malady.

In April, researchers led by Hongkui Zeng of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle assembled the first road map of neural pathways — called a connectome — inside the mouse brain (lBrain Science in Seattle assembled the first road map of neural pathways — called a connectome — inside the mouse brain (lbrain (left).