Sentences with phrase «during brain development in»

Whitehead Institute scientists have identified conserved, long intervening non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) that play key roles during brain development in zebrafish, and went on to show that the human versions of these RNAs can substitute for the zebrafish lincRNAs.

Changes in lipidome composition during brain development in humans, chimpanzees, and macaque monkeys.

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Another possibility, according to the AAP, is that babies who die of SIDS have an anomaly in the brain stem or a lag in development which causes them not to rouse in the event of «life - threatening challenges during sleep.»

«There are a several factors that inform speech and language acquisition and skill level — one of which is hormonal influences that impact brain development in early childhood, particularly during the first three years of life.»

She found that milestone achievement was abnormal in these monkeys: at six to eight weeks they were slow in starting to manipulate, and at ten months the increase in «motor disturbance behaviors» that normally occurs was prolonged.101 The author concludes, «These effects could occur as a result of effects on vulnerable brain processes during a sensitive period, interference with programming of [normal] brain development by endogenous [internal] agents or alteration in early experiences.»

As Parents» baby expert notes, babies» brains undergo huge strides in development during the last 5 weeks of pregnancy.

«Stimulating your child's brain during this time and providing situations where they can explore helps them to learn things that get them in touch with their environment,» says child and adolescent psychologist Robert Myers, Ph.D., founder of the Child Development Institute and assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.

The growth of head circumference, an indicator of brain development, is not lower during premature hospitalization in infants fed human milk, even when the breastfed infant weighs less.

Your doctor is incorrect about brain development (from what I've read)... but doc is correct in that she will start waking up when it's time to go when she gets thru whatever growth cycles she's processing during sleep.

«Too much alcohol intake during pregnancy can lead to poor growth and improper brain development in the foetus.

You and your baby need a good amount of nutrients during pregnancy for healthy weight gain in you and proper development of brain, bones, organs and immune system in your baby.

During this first development stage, babies» bodies and brains are learning to live in the outside world.

Scientists have uncovered that cells from moms end up in their baby's brain during development, and vice versa during pregnancy.

Even the most state of the art strollers can't provide the warmth that a mother's body does, her comforting smell, the varied movement, and the sensitive motherly responses that are so essential to her baby's healthy growth and development, especially during such a critical period when his brain is growing more than any period in his life.

* Chia seeds offer a good source of omega 3 fatty acids, protein, calcium, fiber and anti-oxidants for healthy brain and eye development in babies during pregnancy and allegedly helps with increasing milk supply in nursing mums (however avoid if you have allergies to sesame seed or mustard seed, if you're not sure, seek professional advice from your GP).

Because babies need the fat in whole milk for normal growth and brain development during the busy early toddler period.

The growth in our babies brains happens incredibly quickly during the first few years of life, along with nerve growth factors including a hormone that facilitates development.

It is the primary activity of the brain during early development and plays an extremely important role in the mental and physical growth of little ones.

No differences in brain development or physical development have been found in infants of women with sleep apnea during pregnancy.

One omega - 3 fatty acid in particular — docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA — is considered essential for the optimal development of an infant's brain and eyes, both during pregnancy and after birth.

Let's see how nutrition and stimulation can help in the child's brain development during the initial years.

DHA for babies is important because it supports brain, eye and nervous system development as they develop — in the womb and during the all - important first few years of life.

Tests were conducted in Sweden by scientists, curious as to the affects ultrasounds may have on the human brain during development.

What's more, these genes are expressed in both the auditory and visual cortices of the brain during childhood development, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

These included sites involved in regulating gene activity during brain development and initiating the transcription of genes.

An Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich study reveals that sound - evoked activity of neurons in the auditory system of the mouse increases the thickness of their myelin sheaths — and enhances the speed of signal transmission — both during development and in the adult brain.

Researchers believe the potential for schizophrenia starts to emerge during early brain development, beginning in the womb.

The scientists believe that immune proteins in the brain may be so significant that disruption during development might also contribute to such conditions as autism and schizophrenia.

The brain is changing more rapidly during this time than at any other time in development.

The LPS was given at a time point that approximates the stage of brain development in humans right at the time of birth, thus mimicking the development of a bacterial infection during delivery.

Knowing how these cells mature during development might lead to a better grasp of just how to replicate that process in the adult brain, which could eventually pave the way to strategies that rejuvenate aging circuits, Donato said.

In the future, she adds, «we might be able to alter the course of brain development» with drugs targeted at the cellular anomalies and delivered during pregnancy.

During normal brain development in the first weeks of life, precursor cells in the SVZ in the piglets give birth to neurons that migrate primarily to the prefrontal cortex, the team reports today in Science Translational Medicine.

«It was believed that astrocytes acquired their properties during the development of the brain and then they were hardwired in their roles,» says senior study's author Dr. Keith Murai, director of the Centre for Research in Neuroscience at the RI - MUHC, associate professor of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University.

Using a mouse model, the team also demonstrated that two processes during neurodevelopment are regulated by the gene: proliferation — the replication of neuronal stem cells that have the potential to become multiple different kinds of cells, including neurons — and migration — the movement of neurons to specific locations in the brain during development.

These findings could be a step in grasping how the brain circuit is shaped during this early stage development and how these neuronal circuits contribute to higher cognitive function in adulthood.

Dramatic changes in DNA methylation, a process that usually quashes activity of nearby genes, occur during the first six months of brain development, researchers report February 3 in Genome Research.

But they were in the dark about the role of endocannabinoids — the kind made by the brain — during fetal development.

However, occasionally germ cells can get trapped in the wrong part of the body during development and may later turn into brain tumours, for example.

Working with an animal model, the researchers found that a type of cell present in the brain's primary processing area during early development, long thought to form structural scaffolding with no role in transmitting sensory information, may conduct such signals after all.

Like misdirected letters and packages at the post office, the neurons made from bipolar disorder patients also differed in how they were «addressed» during development for delivery to certain areas of the brain.

Using a nuclear protein expressed in follicle stem cells (FSCs), the researchers found that castor, which plays an important role in specifying which types of brain cells are produced during embryonic development, also helps maintain FSCs throughout the life of the animal.

Finally, says Evrony, the findings provide a proof - of - principle for a systematic way of studying how brain cells disperse and migrate during development, «something that has not been possible to do before in humans,» he says.

Through the development of a specific part of the brain that experiences the reward of others, social decisions and empathy - like processes may have been favored during evolution in primates to allow altruistic behavior.

During development, subplate neurons are among the first neurons to form in the cerebral cortex — the outer part of the mammalian brain that controls perception, memory and, in humans, higher functions such as language and abstract reasoning.

So, the new findings support the idea that genetic differences expressed early during brain development may have a lot to do with the development of bipolar disorder symptoms — and other mental health conditions that arise later in life, especially in the teen and young adult years.

Their work could lead to the development of new tools to help Tononi untangle what happens in the brain during sleep and dreaming, while Van Veen hopes to apply the study's new methods to understand how the brain uses networks to encode short - term memory.

Most human brain development happens in the womb and during suckling.

Experiments were then performed on real brain tissue in the Blue Brain's wet lab in Lausanne confirming that the earlier discoveries in the virtual tissue are biologically relevant and also suggesting that the brain constantly rewires during development to build a network with as many high - dimensional structures as possbrain tissue in the Blue Brain's wet lab in Lausanne confirming that the earlier discoveries in the virtual tissue are biologically relevant and also suggesting that the brain constantly rewires during development to build a network with as many high - dimensional structures as possBrain's wet lab in Lausanne confirming that the earlier discoveries in the virtual tissue are biologically relevant and also suggesting that the brain constantly rewires during development to build a network with as many high - dimensional structures as possbrain constantly rewires during development to build a network with as many high - dimensional structures as possible.

The new research focused on just nine genes, those most strongly associated with autism in recent sequencing studies, and investigated their effects using precise maps of gene expression during human brain development.