Sentences with phrase «even brain function»

Athletes typically address both carbohydrate replacement and fluid replacement during the course of a race, but sometimes neglect the importance of maintaining the proper balance of electrolytes, fluids, and carbohydrates (fuel) in the body to maintain blood flow, muscle contraction, and even brain function.

There are many different kinds of bacteria... and the type (different species) of bacteria can have a dramatic effect on various aspects of health, including weight, blood sugar control, immune function and even brain function (3, 4, 5, 6, 7).

Aside from the development of the jaw, it aids our digestive system, immune system, and even brain function.

Diabetes damages fat, muscles, blood vessels and even brain functioning, and the growing epidemic of diabetes is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States.

Not exact matches

After six months of training, the subjects showed not only improved cognitive function, but even growth in key areas of their brains.

According to David Randall, the author of Dreamland, even a short nap «primes our brains to function at a higher level, letting us come up with better ideas, find solutions to puzzles more quickly, identify patterns faster and recall information more accurately.»

Studies have shown that getting between 7 - 9 hours of sleep per night relieves stress, reduces the risk of chronic diseases and even helps muscles and the brain repair and restore proper function.

Even the most manageable dose of activity will have a very real impact on your brain function.

The Canadian researchers wanted to know if these reluctant exercisers were missing out on a chance to experience some of the brain benefits of working out — could even a short, one - time bout of exercise temporarily improve brain function?

Plant - filled spaces «inspire creativity and even improve brain function,» Amazon explains on a company blog.

It can turn off the higher functions of even the most brilliant brains.

Even those who demand their own sartorial freedom from symbolism would not hire a defense lawyer who wore pajamas (which would serve the practical function of covering the body as well as a suit) to court, or submit to an operation by a brain surgeon who wore a Dracula sweatshirt in his consulting room.

In the ancient world in general, such ideas held sway and even Aristotle conceived no function for the brain except to cool the blood.

But it had by then become possible to sustain heart and lung activity (with a respirator) for days or even weeks after a patient had irreversibly lost all brain function.

Yet, of course, even if we agreed that irreversible loss of whole brain function established that the person was dead, we would be reluctant to bury a corpse until its heart had ceased to beat.

It's a wonder their brain has cycles remaining even for involuntary functions like breathing.

An earlier study by some of the same researchers found that committed meditators experienced sustained changes in baseline brain function, meaning that they had changed the way their brains operated even outside of meditation.

I must show you that the fatal consequence is not coercive, as is commonly imagined; and that, even though our soul's life (as here below it is revealed to us) may be in literal strictness the function of a brain that perishes, yet it is not at all impossible, but on the contrary quite possible, that the life may still continue when the brain itself is dead.

You call yourself a nurse - hahahahaha... any nurse with a half functioning brain would know that no - one returns from the dead after 3 days, not even your imaginary friend jesus.

Heck, early animal studies show that losing a little weight may even increase life - span and have potential benefits for brain function.

They're important for brain function, skin, hair and nails, and have been shown to reduce inflammation and even help lower risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.

Between Lonzo's Dad and the situation with Fultz, I don't even know how my brain would have functioned this season

Because I'd bet a shiny nickel that the «classified briefing» revealed that this administration has no coherent policy with respect to Syria and that no member of Congress with a functioning brain could think that this administration would adhere to any policy, to the extent any exists, even in pieces.

No Gunner fan with even half a functioning brain would argue that Sanchez isnt Arsenals energizer bunny, team catalyst and best player.

In part because some important functions of the brain are not fully developed, even in late adolescence, young people tend to act impulsively, aggressively and make risky decisions.

Many patients who are diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury have diminished brain function, headaches and other symptoms that last for weeks or even months.

Yet until she proved otherwise, few scientists thought MHCI or other so - called «immune molecules» were even present in a normally functioning brain.

Steve: And there's one of the researchers you quote in the article talks about, there may be genes that are not directly responsible for some aspect of brain function even at a biochemical cascade level; there might be a gene that is responsible for the width of the birth canal and that that could be associated with ultimately with intelligence.

The ability to stimulate more robust neurogenesis could lead to faster healing times or perhaps even more complete recovery of cognitive functions, a potentially life - changing prospect for the millions of people who suffer from traumatic brain injury every year.

This finding is important because it demonstrates the potential for broad applications of such models to study brain function, even for people with visual deficits.

The new report shows that even in a very low functioning brain «a shift in observable behaviors from none, a vegetative state, to some limited ones — a minimally conscious state — can occur,» said Dr. Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College who was not involve in the current case.

Potentially explaining why even healthy brains don't function well with age, Salk researchers have discovered that genes that are switched on early in brain development to sever connections between neurons as the brain fine - tunes, are again activated in aging neuronal support cells called astrocytes.

Even among people of normal weight, individual differences in brain functioning can directly affect eating behaviors, according to a 2009 study by Michael Lowe, a research psychologist at Drexel University.

With the left or right parietal cortex numbed, the test subjects were less able to detect objects placed in the visual field controlled by the numb side of their brain and did even worse still if there was also an object in the functioning half of the field.

Treatments targeted to enhance brain neurotrophic factor signalling could improve memory functions in Alzheimer's disease even though they don't alter brain amyloid burden, according to recent research from the University of Eastern Finland.

Sleep deficits reduce brain function, further disturbing areas in which even well - rested adolescents struggle: executive function, self - control and judgment.

Their end goal is to identify specific populations of neurons in the fruit fly brain that are necessary for emotion primitives — and whether these functions are conserved in higher organisms, such as mice or even humans.

«What makes the results even more persuasive is the remarkable agreement between the cognitive function restoration and the changes in brain functionality as detected by the SPECT scans,» explained Prof. Ben - Jacob.

Lead author Dr Alex Serb, from Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, said: «If we want to build artificial systems that can mimic the brain in function and power we need to use hundreds of billions, perhaps even trillions of artificial synapses, many of which must be able to implement learning rules of varying degrees of complexity.

The key difference is that Paramys was relatively smaller than even the most primitive primates in the neocortex region, the part of the brain that deals with «higher» brain functions like sight and hearing.

What he found troubled him: There were few studies examining statins» side effects on memory, even though cholesterol, he says, plays an important role in brain function.

«Even among patients with advanced Parkinson's disease and freezing of gait, it is apparently possible to improve brain function via non-invasive brain stimulation, at least in the short - term, and this has positive, functional consequences.»

One even showed greater dopamine activity in the injured side of the brain than on the normal side, indicating, says Jaenisch, that «these IPS cells could be used also for generating function of dopaminergic neurons that could have therapeutic value.»

Efrati's earlier trials found HBOT induces neuroplasticity that leads to repair of chronically impaired brain functions and improved quality of life for post-stroke and mild traumatic brain injury patients, even years after the initial injury.

«It really highlights that just a small difference in the regulatory regions of human DNA — even ones that don't really make a gene, per se, but help to control genes — can have a big impact on how the brain is built, and ultimately how it functions,» she said.

Some of the other tests of brain structure and function were promising, but overall this study indicates that a specific change in nutrition is unlikely to make a large difference to people with Alzheimer's, even in the early stages.

Researchers have found that even though the heart stops beating, the brain is still functioning.

The goal is to identify compounds that will protect the brain and even restore motor and non-motor functions in Parkinson's patients.

Over hundreds of years, scientists have learned much about the brain, including the countless methods through which information is transferred from neuron to neuron at a junction called a synapse, and how hundreds — even thousands — of neurons can function together to form a larger circuit responsible for any given activity.

In fact, studies show that it may even have cancer - fighting benefits, can reduce pain, and can improve brain, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and lung functions.