Sentences with phrase «especially young brains»

The Canadian Paediatric Society and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health have publicly stated that marijuana is not harmless and can have negative effects on the brain, especially young brains.

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Parents can work to improve a child's outcome, because the brain is plastic, especially when children are young.

Especially important for young athletes who's brains are still developing.

When you think about the fact that very young children especially can't exactly tell you that their head hurts or may make an exam difficult because they get cranky or tired or act out in a way that you can't determine «normal» behavior, it makes sense that a CT scan could be especially helpful in diagnosing brain injuries.

Obviously a young woman earning millions of dollars a year for not much more than posting selfies of her derriere is hard to decode in ways that the teenaged brain, especially ones with limited data on earning money themselves, can comprehend.

It is difficult to meet our babies sleep needs, especially at a very young age, as they need so much, but think of good sleep like food for their brain - we wouldn't feed our babies junk food so we shouldn't feed them junk sleep either.

The experts are especially concerned about the effect of brain drinks on young people.

According to recent literature, older people employ a different brain network than younger people when performing this task, especially when squeezing with their less - dominant hand, which loses strength faster than the other.

Researchers have long thought that the region of the brain involved in some of the highest forms of cognition and reasoning — the prefrontal cortex (PFC)-- was too underdeveloped in young children, especially infants, to participate in complex cognitive tasks.

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.

«Ultimately, this could show the benefits of exercise for mental development in humans, especially young children with constantly growing brains.»

This work is a step towards the possibility of better treatment, but we need more research in this area, especially with younger subjects where we might expect more brain plasticity.»

These findings, especially the remarkably young age of the positively selected variant, suggest that the human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution.

As the legalization of marijuana spreads across the country, more people — and especially young people whose brains are still developing — are being exposed to the drug.

Sure enough, when the researchers examined the brains of PD patients, they found more cells exhibiting signs of senescence than in people without the disease — and especially astrocytes, as they had expected.7 This was true even after matching patients for age, meaning that PD subjects had even more senescent astrocytes in their SNcs than is typical for people their age (ranging in this case from 50 — 92 years at autopsy)-- and remember, aging already drives an increase in the burden of these cells as compared with young people, even in those who have yet to develop Parkinson's disease.7

Interestingly, the post-meal brain activity in response to romantic cues was especially strong in the young women who had reported dieting in the past.

They — they must look — they must be healthy because they look, you know, stereotypically healthy but they have a lot of internal health issues and they may even have brain fog and fatigue, so they're health challenges may be manifesting more internally especially as they're younger, and then will sometimes express more externally especially once they hit menopause where their hormones significantly shift.

Dr. Greger, I'd be thrilled to see some data and suggestions on increasing blood flow to the brain for those who have had TBI / concussions, especially for young adults with history of concussions from sports.

Especially important for developing brains, iodine is critical for babies in utero and young children.

For young people especially, regular exercise allows their brains and bodies to grow, heal, and become stronger.

New research is revealing that poverty and stress not only affect the cognitive skills of young children but actually result in significant differences in brain maturation - especially in areas important for language and reading.

But in the case of Courtney's work, the question has a very profound answer: ANYONE with a brain, and even the slightest measure of concern for society, especially its young people.

Vaccines also contain aluminum, which is also neurotoxic and can cause degeneration of the brain and nervous system, especially in young dogs.

Todd Morgan, lead author of the new study and a research professor in gerontology at USC explained his findings thusly, the Times reports: «Our data would suggest that freeway pollution could have a profound effect on the development of neurons and brain health in children and young kids, especially those who attend schools built alongside freeways.»

Traumatic Brain Injury is a major cause of death and disability worldwide, especially in children and young adults.

And especially in young children, the right brain and its emotions tend to rule over the logic of the left brain.

I recently read that neuroscientists (people who study the way the brain works) are speculating that ongoing exposure to the Internet may actually alter the wiring of people's brains — especially all those young developing brains that spend hours being inundated with multiple streams of information.

The advocacy group says poverty is especially harmful to young children, whose brains are still developing.

«It very much impacts on a child's developing brain, especially in very young children as their brains are developing in amazing ways, so something like trauma is going to impact on their ability to developmentally progress as a normal child of their age.»