Sentences with phrase «decreased brain size»
Deficiencies are linked to Alzheimer's disease, anemia, impaired brain function, mental disorders an even a decreased brain size.
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Our brains have actually been decreasing in size for 30,000 years.
Like brain size, the folding of the brain, too, has increased and decreased along the various mammalian lineages.
«Our data suggests that, during development, relative brain parts change their size in response to environmental cues without affecting overall brain size: increasing certain parts forces others to decrease concurrently.
«Since the Bronze Age, the brain shrank a lot more than you would expect based on the decrease in body size,» Hawks reports.
Subsequently, the underlying trend towards increasing brain size in Homo is most strongly correlated with both decreases in lake presence and high levels of dust deposition in the Mediterranean ODP967 record (Table 3), indicating drier conditions in East Africa [43].
Some see rudolfensis as the ancestor of habilis with a decrease in brain size occurring, and others see the two on completely different evolutionary lines.
In fact, improving our breathing could help to lower blood pressure, decrease stress, improve athletic performance, and maybe even increase brain size.
Just think about how you usually feel after a lousy night's rest: you experience brain fog and your body quickly starts to enter catabolism (muscle tissue breakdown), which can further increase stress, decrease muscle size and strength and trigger mood swings.
If we live in a chronic state of survival, then our brains will be surrounded by high levels of cortisol and adrenaline which can eventually cause the size of our hippocampus (memory center) to decrease, and can even shrink our muscles.
The average person's height has reduced by five inches and the average brain size has decreased by 11 per cent since the introduction of grains.
In addition to the decrease in size, the overall number of neurons in the brain, the cells that comprise the brain and central nervous system, decrease in number.
Areas deep in the brain, especially the amygdala and insula, appear to exhibit abnormal function reflected in overall decreases in resting state connectivity and smaller overall size.