Sentences with phrase «change in the brain involves»

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Developmental scientists consider it to be one of the most massive reorganizations in the lifespan, changing the brains, endocrine systems, behaviors, identities, relationships, and more, of everyone involved.

The latter study shows that the process of forming and changing opinions is intimately connected to the brain's neural hardware, where different parts of the brain are involved differently in shaping opinions, and the more beliefs are tied to community values, the more difficult it is to change them.

She demonstrated that early experience leads to lasting changes in the molecular structure of the brain and discovered a gene involved in the spread of brain cancer cells into healthy brain tissue.

«I'd be surprised if playing online games for 10 to 12 hours a day didn't change the brain,» says neuroscientist Nora Volkow of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who wasn't involved in the study.

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

They found that one month after training, the children showed increased activation in the intraparietal sulcus and reduced neural activation elsewhere in the parietal lobes — a hint that their improvements in arithmetic were related to changes involving brain areas that respond to number.

«We should go back to the drawing board to understand the brain changes involved in these subtypes of depression.»

Changing brain chemistry Unlike with electroconvulsive, or electroshock, therapy, where patients must be unconscious and administered muscle relaxants in order to prevent seizures, patients receiving rTMS (which involves trains of pulses during each session, hence the «repetitive» modifier) remain conscious and seated in outpatient settings.

This pruning changes the relative density of receptors in the circuit linking the area of the brain involved with processing rewards (the basal ganglia) and the area of the brain implicated in inhibition and control (the prefrontal cortex).

«In particular, the hippocampus — a part of the brain that is involved in the verbal recall memory task — is very sensitive to changes in oestrogen and cortisol.&raquIn particular, the hippocampus — a part of the brain that is involved in the verbal recall memory task — is very sensitive to changes in oestrogen and cortisol.&raquin the verbal recall memory task — is very sensitive to changes in oestrogen and cortisol.&raquin oestrogen and cortisol.»

The results of the study suggest that «people's performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.

This expansion may have involved a kind of snowball effect, in which initial mutations caused changes that were not only beneficial in themselves but also allowed subsequent mutations that enhanced the brain still further.

Each of the defense reactions, she explains, involves activation of motor and arousal centers in the brain and changes in pain and sensory processing.

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.

An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of an octopus, bringing researchers closer to discovering the genes involved in the creature's unusual biology, including its ability to change skin color and texture and a distributed brain that allows its eight arms to move independently.

Scientists not involved in the study noted that not only is it the first to demonstrate widespread anatomical changes in the pregnant human brain, but that it goes further by showing that the changes last for at least 2 years.

The changes occurred primarily in areas of the brain involved in social tasks like reading the desires and intentions of others from their faces and actions.

In the past decade, researchers have used mouse models to unravel how cellular changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a brain structure involved in action selection associated with arousal and reward, may contribute to addiction - related behavioIn the past decade, researchers have used mouse models to unravel how cellular changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a brain structure involved in action selection associated with arousal and reward, may contribute to addiction - related behavioin the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a brain structure involved in action selection associated with arousal and reward, may contribute to addiction - related behavioin action selection associated with arousal and reward, may contribute to addiction - related behavior.

In a second experiment, the team investigated whether the treatment caused changes in chemicals known to be involved in «long - term potentiation» (LTP)-- a type of brain activity key to memory formatioIn a second experiment, the team investigated whether the treatment caused changes in chemicals known to be involved in «long - term potentiation» (LTP)-- a type of brain activity key to memory formatioin chemicals known to be involved in «long - term potentiation» (LTP)-- a type of brain activity key to memory formatioin «long - term potentiation» (LTP)-- a type of brain activity key to memory formation.

The major advancement with the new study is that it demonstrates for the first time that self - repair in the adult brain involves astrocytes entering a process by which they change their identity to nerve cells.

The results show that this therapy induces structural changes in areas of the brain involved in verbal fluency in female - to - male transsexuals.

Since cocaine changes the level of the brain chemical dopamine, this new study may have implications for other mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia — where dopamine may also be involved in how we recognise emotions.

In the brain, germ - free mice had changes in areas involved in the descending pain modulation and its emotional regulatioIn the brain, germ - free mice had changes in areas involved in the descending pain modulation and its emotional regulatioin areas involved in the descending pain modulation and its emotional regulatioin the descending pain modulation and its emotional regulation.

The researchers assessed how the mothers» nutrition affected epigenetic changes (or DNA methylation) of IGF2, a gene involved in fetal development and the brain development of areas implicated in ADHD — the cerebellum and hippocampus.

When the researchers gave depressed people a placebo and told them it might help their symptoms, they saw changes in brain chemistry (left) in patients who responded to the placebo pill, in the areas of the brain involved in emotional regulation.

Romantic love involves a series of complex changes in the brain's reward system that make us crave the object of our affection

Previous studies have found that several years before the disease manifests itself, the brains of people with the mutation undergo subtle changes, with a thinning of the regions involved in motor function.

Other results from the experiment conducted on Medaka and recently published in a PLOS ONE paper identified 11 genes involved in changes in other tissues, including the brain and intestines.

Recordings from neurons in the amygdala, a part of the brain involved in fear learning and implicated in anxiety disorders, showed that individual amygdala neurons responding to the tone changed their preference («tuning») for tones of different pitch following fear learning.

Consistent with its important role in brain function, the team found that cocaine utilizes FMRP to facilitate brain changes involved in addiction - related behaviors.

The George lab has made seminal contributions to the field including: discovering a novel population of neurons in the brain of humans, rats and mice that are involved in nicotine dependence, identifying neuronal ensembles responsible for nicotine and alcohol addiction, and unveiled the cellular and molecular changes associates with long term use of nicotine, cocaine, methamphetamine and alcohol use on the brain.

Stacia Friedman - Hill, Ph.D., a program director at NIH's National Institute of Mental Health, says these findings are particularly relevant to the field of mental health research because many mental health disorders are marked by changes in cognitive function, sometimes years before clinical symptoms become significant, and because mental health disorders often involve changes in the developing brain.

Their work concerned the brain changes involved in the transformation of short - term memories to long - term memories.

«We know that processes involved in damaging the brain in a disease like Alzheimer's can start many years before changes become apparent on brain scans or people experience any symptoms.

To study brain changes involved in IED, Coccaro and his colleagues performed high - resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans in 168 people, including 57 who were diagnosed with IED, 53 healthy control subjects and another 58 control patients with psychiatric diagnoses.

There are established ways to address these questions: we can assess unusual movements, analyze changes in mood and thinking, and take images of the brain areas involved in HD.

Other brain changes are likely also involved in cognitive decline in PD.

While my initial interest lay in the chemico - physical properties of MR imaging probes, I became increasingly involved in their application to functional MRI (fMRI), a method to map hemodynamic responses in the brain as a surrogate for changes in the underlying neuronal activity.

Attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) involve pathological changes in brain structures such as the basal ganglia, which are essential for the control of motor and cognitive behavior and impulsivity.

During hypnosis, there were significant changes in activity across parts of the brain involved in attention, muscle function, and environmental awareness.

«These results suggest that phytoestrogens can interfere with the normal estrogen feedback mechanisms with respect to release of gonadotropin in the ewe... although most studies into the effects of phytoestrogens have concentrated on changes in the reproductive tract, there are indications that they interfere with the hormone balance between the ovaries and the hypothalamo - adenohypophysical system... ewes on phytoestrogens have shown follicular abnormalities such as numerous small follicles, deficient antrum formation and signs of early atresia... it is possible that the permanent changes brought about by phytoestrogens in the brain are a result of these compounds interacting with estrogen receptors in this tissue, and subsequently influencing the re-synthesis or replenishment of cyto - plasmic estrogen receptors... phytoestrogens can interfere with the delicate feedback mechanisms involved in the release of the gonadotrophins.»

In the brain, histamine can keep us awake, is involved in our reflex reaction to pain, temperature changes, vibration, and hormone balancIn the brain, histamine can keep us awake, is involved in our reflex reaction to pain, temperature changes, vibration, and hormone balancin our reflex reaction to pain, temperature changes, vibration, and hormone balance.

This is further compounded by elevations in metabolic efficiency (whereby energy expenditure declines beyond that predicted from the change in metabolic mass) and appetite which accompany weight - loss, and may ultimately predispose to weight re - gain.82 Moreover, changes in neural activity within brain regions known to be involved in regulatory, emotional and cognitive control of food intake have also been observed following weight - loss.83

In the video, Professor Seyfried discusses how, as a metabolic disorder involving the dysregulation of respiration, malignant brain cancer can be managed through changes in the metabolic environmenIn the video, Professor Seyfried discusses how, as a metabolic disorder involving the dysregulation of respiration, malignant brain cancer can be managed through changes in the metabolic environmenin the metabolic environment.

Food addiction involves overpowering cravings and changes in your brain chemistry that make it harder to resist eating certain foods.

Laboratory studies have found that meditation produced changes in brain circuits involved in regulating emotion, Dr. Davidson said, and may reduce markers of inflammation and stress hormones like cortisol.

A 2016 study by researchers from the Buck Institute for Research on Ageing and the UCLA Easton Laboratories for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, showed that memory loss in Alzheimer's patients can be reversed, and improvement sustained, using a complex, 36 - point therapeutic personalized program that involves comprehensive changes in diet, brain stimulation, exercise, optimization of sleep, specific pharmaceuticals and vitamins, and multiple additional steps that affect brain chemistry.

The changes in the brain seen in people who have seizure disorders are very similar in nature to that of chronic pain and thought to involve increased excitability of neurons, both in the central and peripheral nervous system.

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DHA is active in the membrane of ion channels in the brain, making it easier for them to change shape and transmit electrical signals, and is involved in serotonin metabolism (reduced serotonin production and / or activity is a key factor in depression).