Sentences with phrase «find brain changes»

Study Finds Brain Changes in Newborns Exposed to Antidepressants.

9/25/2007 Sense of Taste Different in Women with Anorexia Nervosa Imaging Study Finds Brain Changes Associated with the Regulation of Appetite Although anorexia nervosa is categorized as an eating disorder, it is not known whether there are alterations of the portions of the brain that regulate appetite.

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Spreng and his co-authors found that as we get older, changes to the brain occur in regions that help us decide whether or not to trust someone, leaving us less likely to notice deceit.

One such study published in the journal Neuroimage and highlighted on PsyBlog actually found that some forms of daydreaming cause measurable changes in the brain.

While the researchers found significant changes in eight brain regions, there are two regions that are of particular importance to you.

With all of the intelligent changes Panda and Penguin brought to the table, it was only a matter of time before one of Google's big brained developers found a way to «smarten» search engines up enough to take a question and look at the context rather than seeing the words within the query as separate entities.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure changes in blood flow, she found that as people received more information, their brain activity increased in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region behind the forehead that is responsible for making decisions and controlling emotions.

There have been studies done on long - term meditators, and researchers have found through FMRI's that there are distinct changes in areas of the brain that typically lead to greater levels of peace, well - being and better mental and emotional control.

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.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

Makes a change to find one with a brain.

In rodents, complex brain changes have been found in both males and females that become parents and care for their «pups».

What's happening, the authors suggest, is that as the gay fathers take on the role of independent, hands - on caregivers, their brains change as a result — the «mentalising» circuit connects with and stimulates the «emotional» circuit more commonly found to be active in mothers.

Publication of the Purdue study sent shock - waves reverberating through the football world, with the findings cited by concussion experts calling on youth sports organizations to take more aggressive action to minimize exposure to RHI, including sub-concussive blows, by changing the way contact and collision sports are played and practiced, and reducing the amount of brain trauma a child incurs by limiting the number of hits they sustain in a sports season, over the course of a year, and during a career.

«Taken together, these data add to the growing body of literature providing evidence that a season of play in a contact sport can show brain changes in the absence of concussion or clinical findings,» they wrote.

Using DTI imaging technique, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013 study [16] significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with changes in the white matter.

Noting that in most states football teams typically switch from limited contact levels during the preseason to two practices a day, at least one of which includes contact, they expressed concern that, based on their findings, «the brain may not be able to adjust quickly to this change, leaving players at increased risk for injury» at the beginning of the football season.

Perhaps most concerning, four of the Purdue studies found that damage to the brain from RHI persisted after the football season was over, as did a 2014 study by Bazarian and his URMC colleagues, [23] which found changes in brain white matter in a small group of college football players which persisted six months after the season was over.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

• in rodents, complex neurobiological modifications (brain changes) have been found in both males and females that become parents and care for their «pups».

While many positive changes have occurred in recent years to prioritize the developing brain of youth athletes, we will continue our commitment to finding the best methods of coaching, training and competing to insure that all athletes can enjoy playing the game and the myriad benefits from healthy participation in youth sport.

Some have found altered brain development, precancerous changes in prostates and mammary glands, low sperm counts and damage to the uterus.

One study found that pregnancy does indeed cause striking changes in women's brains, so much so that researchers are able to tell if a woman has had a child simply by looking at her brain scans.

One 2010 study found that women undergo changes in areas of the brain, including the hypothalamus and amygdala, that are critical for emotional regulation.

People who play contact sports show changes to their brain structure and function, with sports that have greater risk of body contact showing greater effects on the brain, a new study has found.

The changes are associated with less - organized communication between the brain's hemispheres and are comparable to the effects found in previous animal studies.

«By studying how education changes the brain, we can find out how this uniquely human experience induces change in both brain structure and function — something we can not do with animal models.»

A study published this week finds that an eight - week meditation course leads to structural changes in the brain.

Using resting - state MRI analysis on thousands of people's brains around the world, the research has found that the areas of the brain which are associated with learning and development show high levels of variability, meaning that they change their neural connections with other parts of the brain more frequently, over a matter of minutes or seconds.

As they studied brain activity in the knockout mice, the researchers also found prominent changes in a receptor in the brain known as mGluR5 and other proteins that support the function of neurons and synapses, said co-lead author Xiaoming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate in Duke's department of pediatrics.

In this older study a different research group found changes in gray matter in brain regions of Internet addicts.

The research found a close link between early brain developmental events and changes in cognitive function in adulthood.

Schwartz believed that this was because his patients were in fact using the power of their minds to rewire their adult brains — a finding at odds with the view in those days that only children's brains could go through such enormous change.

Prion diseases seem to start with changes in the shape of the prion protein found in mammalian brains, which, mysteriously, prompt other identical prions to change shape too.

«Prenatal stress changes brain connectivity in - utero: New findings from developmental cognitive neuroscience.»

They found that one month after training, the children showed increased activation in the intraparietal sulcus and reduced neural activation elsewhere in the parietal lobes — a hint that their improvements in arithmetic were related to changes involving brain areas that respond to number.

In other research, Gaab and her colleagues have found an intriguing link between children's reading difficulties and neural deficits that prevent them from properly processing fast - changing sounds; they also found that computerized sound - training exercises «rewired» those faulty brain circuits.

In the current study, researchers analyzed 48 ethnically diverse patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, looking at symptom sets in patients found to have rare or previously unknown changes in the DNA code of the four genes that disrupted brain function.

The researchers found that the size and location of brain lesions correlated with vision and motor impairments, but problems with memory were better explained by changes to the networks of brain connections.

The findings support other recent rodent studies that showed drugs that enhance the action of BDNF can reduce brain changes and symptoms of Huntington's disease.

But biologists have been unsure whether this is because non-migratory birds need larger brains to cope with the challenges of finding food through the changing seasons, or because migrators need to pare down their weight for travel.

«By finding a new way to detect and track how Parkinson's affects the brain, this study provides an important tool for assessing whether a drug might slow or stop those changes and keep symptoms from getting worse,» said NINDS Program Director Daofen Chen, Ph.D..

Together, Meaney and Szyf have gone on to publish some two - dozen papers, finding evidence along the way of epigenetic changes to many other genes active in the brain.

One study published this year in Neurobiology of Aging, from researchers at the University of Southern California, examined brain changes in mice exposed to particulate air pollution at levels commonly found near freeways.

The SHH pathway was found to induce disparate changes in astrocytes in different brain regions.

Rutledge Ellis - Behnke, a neuroscientist at MIT, would like to change that by finding a way to repair brains.

«We found that if you have a higher functioning dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the imbalance in these deeper brain structures is not expressed as changes in mood or anxiety,» Hariri said.

In 2007 and 2010, other researchers found evidence that the brains of symptomatic veterans showed distinctive anatomical changes.

Tracing how the brain is wired is a great first step but to find out how this linking pattern produces a particular behaviour we need to be able to see how changing these links affects brain function.

The researchers found that male rats have inherently higher levels of endocannabinoids in their brains than females, so trying to give the males a little boost did not cause any measurable changes.