Sentences with phrase «cognitive defects in»

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Low levels of choline intake during pregnancy may contribute to poor cognitive development and birth defects, explaining why the AMA recommended evidence - based amounts of choline be included in all prenatal vitamins.

The study broadens the understanding of the brain's memory function and could be used to explain defects in the cognitive development of those with Down's syndrome.

«Our partnership with families who have a child with Down syndrome and our investment in a comprehensive clinical data and biorepository will continue to provide resources to study not only heart defects, but also other Down - syndrome associated medical conditions such as cognitive function, leukemia, and dementia,» says co-author Stephanie Sherman, PhD, professor of human genetics at Emory University School of Medicine.

She suggests that the resulting cognitive defects would endanger mice in the wild.

How might defects in subplate neurons correlate with cognitive deficits and conditions like autism?

The group plans to study Arp2 / 3's role in different parts of the brain and the role it has in the mouse's other symptoms, such as sociability defects and cognitive abnormalities.

In a pair of papers from NASA in 1965 and 1967, researchers found that chimpanzees could survive up to 3.5 minutes in near - vacuum conditions with no apparent cognitive defects, as measured by complex tasks months lateIn a pair of papers from NASA in 1965 and 1967, researchers found that chimpanzees could survive up to 3.5 minutes in near - vacuum conditions with no apparent cognitive defects, as measured by complex tasks months latein 1965 and 1967, researchers found that chimpanzees could survive up to 3.5 minutes in near - vacuum conditions with no apparent cognitive defects, as measured by complex tasks months latein near - vacuum conditions with no apparent cognitive defects, as measured by complex tasks months later.

Mu - Ming Poo of the University of California, Berkeley, agrees, describing the findings as «a very bold link of a molecular defect with a defect in cognitive function.»

What's more, they noticed that mice treated with anti-IFNAR had a reduction in behavioral signs associated with mental illnesses such as anxiety and cognitive defects.

In addition to cognitive problems, patients with X-linked mental retardation (XLMR)-- which includes fragile x syndrome (ScienceNOW, 24 May 2007)-- may also suffer from epilepsy, macrocephaly (an enlarged head), and reproductive defects.

After creating a pathological mouse model deficient for this gene, through the Gencodys Consortium (Genetic and Epigenetic Networks in Cognitive Dysfunction; http://www.gencodys.eu/), scientists from PHENOMIN and the IGBMC showed major memory defects, as well as significant symptoms of hyperactivity on this model.

This laboratory studies aspects of one - carbon metabolism, namely the micronutrients folate and vitamin B12, which serve as substrate and cofactor, respectively, in the methionine cycle and homocysteine, which is a branch - point metabolite in the methionine cycle and an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (coronary artery, cerebrovascular and peripheral vascular disease), cognitive impairment (Alzheimer's disease) and complications of pregnancy (neural tube defects).

In 2013, a team led by Gerard Karsenty, the Paul A. Marks Professor and chair of the department of genetics and development at Columbia University Medical Center, showed that mice lacking osteocalcin have major cognitive defects.

The cognitive dysfunction syndrome can begin around age 6 - 8, when defects in learning and memory can be documented in the laboratory environment.

In my particular case, I did demand that their article be corrected as it made libelous remarks specifically identifying me by name and implied some form of cognitive defect based on the fabricated opinions.