Sentences with phrase «for brain and nerve»

Acetyl - L - Carnitine also promotes biosynthesis of acetylcholine, a key neurotransmitter for brain and nerve function.

This B - vitamin is important for building healthy red blood cells but also for brain and nerve health.

Overall, cell and animal research has shown that flavonoids found in foods and herbs may have beneficial effects for brain and nerve health.

Weight loss aside, exercise is important for brain and nerve function.

Not exact matches

For one, it would give them three specific biological markers to hone in on: The buildup of beta amyloid and tau proteins, which cause brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's, and brain nerve cell death.

Your Vegas nerve runs all the way from your brain down around your heart and then back to your brain for no reason.

The brain, strangely enough, is not mentioned and there are no terms for nerves, for lungs, or for diaphragm.

Lately I've begun to thank God for it, this chemical that — if scientists are right, and they aren't even sure — inhibits my overly efficient reuptake of another chemical (serotonin) that somehow facilitates communication between nerve cells in my brain.

Did it started off as a mass of white ball, then it slowly started developing nerves, retina, a cornea, and essentially a complex apparatus for capturing light and transmitting it via nerve cells to the brain?

For example, the burning of the fire and the passage of heat from it through intervening space is the cause of the body, its nerves and its brain, functioning in certain ways.

Eicosonoids from Omega - 3's are hormone - like compounds that help regulate blood pressure, blood clotting, aid in growth and development of cells, needed for vision and brain development, and maturation of nerves.

As touch sensations, both piquance and coolness are transmitted to the brain via the trigeminal nerve, rather than the three classical nerves for taste.

Dr. Marianne Neifert, a pediatrician and author of «Great Expectations: The Essential Guide to Breastfeeding,» explains that nipple incisions for implants should be avoided if breastfeeding is important to the patient [because] all the milk ducts that drain the different lobes or sections of the breast kind of convene there [and] it's possible to accidentally cut milk ducts or the nerve that sends the signal to your brain to release more hormones that then helps you to produce more milk.»

A study shows, for the first time, how these functional impairments arise: Social isolation during early life prevents the cells that make up the brain's white matter from maturing and producing the right amount of myelin, the fatty «insulation» on nerve fibers that helps them transmit long - distance messages within the brain.

When the nerves under the areola are stimulated, the brain gets signals to release hormones for milk production and distribution.

«For we are an over wrought generation, running to nerves as a cabbage runs to seed; and every hour spent in the open is clear gain, tending to the increase of brain power and bodily vigour, and to the lengthening of life itself.

Research shows that when developing brain tissue is exposed to such hormones for long periods of time, nerves won't form proper connections to other nerves and will even degenerate.

The reason is that egg yolks are filled with choline, cholesterol and other brain - nourishing substances that are vital for the insulation of the nerves in the brain and entire central nervous system.

Week 5 †«The neural tube is now developing for both twinfants, this will form the brain, spine and nerves.

Fats are also essential for the development of your baby's brain — after all, 60 % of the brain and the sheaths surrounding the nerves are actually composed of fat!

«They are special fats that babies need for the development of their brains, nerves, and eyes,» she explains.

Choline which helps in maintaining normal brain development is important for babies muscle and nerve function and healthy metabolism.

Researchers are looking at delays or abnormalities in brain development of nerve cells that are responsible for heart and lung function.

He has contributed to the study of the brain processing of form, symmetry, flicker, motion, color, and stereoscopic depth perception and has developed tests for the diagnosis of retinal and optic nerve diseases.

In 1999 van Praag showed that more new nerves formed in the hippocampus — one of the key centers in the brain for memory and learning — in physically active mice than in inactive ones.

So far, researchers with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilBrain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilbrain tumors or epilepsy.

In addition, compared to mice on a regular diet, brain cells from animals in the olive oil group showed a dramatic increase in nerve cell autophagy activation, which was ultimately responsible for the reduction in levels of amyloid plaques and phosphorylated tau.

In the second century A.D., physician and philosopher Claudius Galen held that the brain was a gland that secreted fluids to the body via the nerves — a view that went unchallenged for centuries.

The extra attention the offspring received in the enriched environments — nursing, licking and grooming — translated to denser nerve growth in the dentate gyrus, which is in the hippocampus, the brain's memory warehouse believed responsible for learning and storing short - term memories.

The problems can be traced to loss of nerve cells in the brain areas responsible for those capabilities — such as the basal ganglia, brain stem and cerebral cortex.

Latin for «tough body,» this mass of more than 200 million nerve fibers helps connect the left and right hemispheres of the cerebrum, our brain's largest and uppermost section.

The transparency made it possible for them to identify peripheral nerves — tiny bundles of nerves that are poorly understood — and to map the spread of viruses across the mouse's blood - brain barrier, which they did by marking the virus with a fluorescent agent, injecting it into the mouse's tail and watching it spread into the brain.

The peripheral nervous system or PNS, is part of the nervous system, and consists of the nerves and neurons that reside or extend outside the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) to serve the limbs and organs, for example.

GABA has been known for decades to be a key neurotransmitter in the brain, a chemical that nerve cells use to communicate with each other, but its role in the pancreas was unknown until the 2011 paper by Drs. Prud «homme and Wang.

Golden retrievers, for example, have many more nerve cells than cats, and brown bears have an unexpectedly low number of nerve cells given the relatively large size of their brain.

As a whole, the findings suggest the proteins act on the gut — brain axis — the collection of two - way nerve and chemical pathways that communicate between the digestive tract and the brain — and that GDF15 might be a clinical target for metabolic disorders.

The team looked for these cells in nonliving brain samples in two ways: molecular markers that tag dividing cells and young nerve cells, and telltale shapes of newborn cells.

Li Li said: «For the first time, we have shown that visual learning can increase the density of nerve connections in this area of the brain and that an enriched environment, where bees are exposed to many colours without learning anything from them, can also affect the synaptic organisation in the brain.»

For one thing, recent studies show that cannabinoids manufactured by our own nerve cells play a crucial role in wiring the brain, both prenatally and during adolescence.

When a spinal cord injury takes place, extensions of nerve cells from the brainstem — the region of the brain where the command and coordination for urination takes place — become disconnected from cells in the spinal cord that control the muscles that squeeze or relax the bladder and open and close the urethra.

When someone suffers a head trauma, sometimes there is damage to the optic nerve that is responsible for passing information between the eyes and the brain.

Next, the researchers looked to the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, where signals from peripheral nerves are routed to the brain, and found the receptors for Nppb in a group of neurons that release a molecule called gastrin - releasing peptide, or GRP.

For example, the fish's skull was made of large, bony plates similar to today's bony fish, but the traces of the nerves and blood vessels around the brain more closely resembled those of cartilaginous fish.

In those early years, and to a lesser degree today, many neuroscientists believed that the brain is compartmentalized — that visual information, for instance, goes straight from the eye to the visual cortex through a fixed network of nerves.

The many functions of astrocytes include protecting the brain from injury and harmful agents and providing essential support for nerve cells.

For more severe cases, some patients turn to invasive, and therefore riskier, approaches such as deep brain stimulation and vagal nerve stimulation.

The gene in question, apolipoprotein E (apoE), codes for a protein in the brain's astrocyte cells that seems to help spur nerve cell growth and clear up debris from neuronal injuries brought by head trauma, stroke, or cerebral hemorrhage.

For the new study, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in Pittsburgh used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), an MRI technique that measures the integrity of white matter — the brain's signal - transmitting nerve fibers — to see if injuries to the nerves may be the root cause of these post-traumatic depression and anxiety symptoms.

In trying to understand the brain, for instance, neuroscientists have focused on synapses — the junctions between nerve - cell endings — as the essential transmitters of thought and feeling.

Biologists have studied individual neurons for years, and they can listen in on the chatter of neurons in nerves and brains.