Sentences with phrase «for brain differences»

Not exact matches

While the results can't conclusively prove that all those second screens are causing the changes to the brain (differences in brain structure could also lead people to be more likely to multitask), the researchers suggest that the results should nonetheless serve as a red flag for fans of multiple devices while further studies are carried out to test causality.

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

If we follow the argument of the previous section, there would be some difference, for whereas the occasions of human experience have considerable temporal breadth in relation to the electronic occurrences in the brain, we have seen that the occasions of God's experience must be extremely thin in their temporal extension.

What a good comment to Andrew Elder, hope all fans can open their brains and see the differences, Ozil ever been criticized for everything, the stats will never lie the boy contribute alot to the team why is he playing for German squard if he is not good enough?

It may take a few weeks for your baby's brain to know the difference between night and day.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

For the baby, instrumental delivery can increase the short - term risks of bruising, facial injury, displacement of the skull bones, and cephalohematoma (blood clot under the scalp).24 The risk of intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding inside the brain) was increased in one study by more than four times for babies born by forceps compared to spontaneous birth, 25 although two studies showed no detectable developmental differences for forceps - born children at five years old.26, 27 Another study showed that when women with an epidural had a forceps delivery, the force used by the clinician to deliver the baby was almost twice the force used when an epidural was not in placeFor the baby, instrumental delivery can increase the short - term risks of bruising, facial injury, displacement of the skull bones, and cephalohematoma (blood clot under the scalp).24 The risk of intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding inside the brain) was increased in one study by more than four times for babies born by forceps compared to spontaneous birth, 25 although two studies showed no detectable developmental differences for forceps - born children at five years old.26, 27 Another study showed that when women with an epidural had a forceps delivery, the force used by the clinician to deliver the baby was almost twice the force used when an epidural was not in placefor babies born by forceps compared to spontaneous birth, 25 although two studies showed no detectable developmental differences for forceps - born children at five years old.26, 27 Another study showed that when women with an epidural had a forceps delivery, the force used by the clinician to deliver the baby was almost twice the force used when an epidural was not in placefor forceps - born children at five years old.26, 27 Another study showed that when women with an epidural had a forceps delivery, the force used by the clinician to deliver the baby was almost twice the force used when an epidural was not in place.28

The study also found that mothers who were breastfeeding were more responsive on a brain level than mothers who were formula feeding; that's not to say that they were «better» mothers, but only that there were slight hormonal differences, perhaps necessary for milk production and regulation.

[1] See for example: Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain, Harmony, New York, 2007 or Simon B. Cohen, The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the extreme male Brain, Penguin, London, 2012.

A recent experiment, for example, showed that six weeks of cognitive training could produce detectable differences in brain microstructure.

This approach allowed researchers to look for differences in the brain that are not a consequence of the depression itself, since the disorder had not yet manifested in most of the individuals.

Young animals that were separated from their mothers for controlled, short times turned out to have lower hormone responses to later stresses, more curiosity about a new object and even differences in their brains.

The study of gender differences in the brain and the resulting differences in behavior dates back to the mid-1800s, with the classic experiment of German physician Arnold Berthold, who showed that testicular secretions were essential for the normal expression of male actions.

«This raises several questions for us, such as why is there a difference in brain pattern and might it reflect differences in health issues for men and women, particularly in cardiovascular disease variations,» Macey said.

The researchers performed further experiments in the mice to look for differences in the affected brain cells and the circuits in which they were connected.

Besides differences in genes linked to brain development, Erik Axelsson of Uppsala University in Sweden and colleagues found three genes in dogs that are vital for digestion and extend their ancestral carnivorous diet to include starch (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature11837).

«We know that breast milk contains the optimal nutrients for development of the brain and central nervous system,» says Oddy, but the gender differences were surprising.

Such differences in learnability might mean that mosquito brains have shortcuts for picking up information about certain odors that can make learning easier.

This confirmed that variations in PKRCA are linked to the capacity for emotional memory, and further revealed that they were also associated with differences in brain activity during memory encoding.

Rather than search for changes in genes themselves, Pipes and her colleagues took an indirect approach, looking for differences in the activity of genes in the foxes» brains.

To prepare for the class, Joel spent a year reviewing much of the extensive and polarized literature on sex differences in the brain.

The differences in fear sensitivity are likely to be innate, at least in part: dysfunction in the amygdala, a brain area important for processing fear, has previously been linked to psychopathic behaviour, and genetic factors must underlie some of these differences.

When they measured the concentrations in the same area in chimp brains, the team found that the differences between chimps and normal humans were much greater for those nine than for the 12 metabolites not implicated in schizophrenia, suggesting that energy pathways implicated in schizophrenia were also altered by human evolution, the team reports this week in Genome Biology.

When a person looks at an object, for example, the brain immediately estimates its distance by analyzing the subtle differences between the two images on his retinas (computers programmed to do this require extreme memory and speed).

This study did not explore possible reasons for these differences in brain anatomy.

«Our differences from each other, and our imperfections, should make it impossible to decode the brain completely,» says Mirko Ilić, who created the cover and opening illustrations for «The Myth of Mind Control.»

Based on the resulting differences in intracranial pressure, the team developed an equation, or scaling law, to estimate the risk of brain injury for each species.

The researchers found that patients treated with deep brain stimulation survived an average of 6.3 years after the surgery, versus 5.7 years for the non-DBS patients after the date they might have gotten surgery based on their match to a surgery patient — a difference of eight months.

For instance, a previous study discovered significant differences between male and female brains in four regions of white matter — and that female - to - male trans individuals who hadn't had sex reassignment surgery had white matter in these regions that more closely resembled a male brain.

We want to examine in more detail how individual differences, for example in empathy, are linked to the functioning of the emotional systems of the brain.

«Our research team examined a potential explanation for this phenomenon, the sex differences in brain microglia.»

However, significant differences emerged when the researchers looked at sodium concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid, the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, providing a cushion for the brain while also helping to ensure chemical stability for proper brain function.

The quantifiable differences we identified between men and women are important for understanding gender - based risk for brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

In looking for methylation differences, «we decided to start with the serotonin transporter because we know a lot about it biologically, pharmacologically, behaviorally, and it's one of the best characterized genes in neuroscience,» said senior author Ahmad Hariri, a professor of psychology and neuroscience and member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.

A study by Florian Krause from the Donders Institute in Nijmegen shows for the first time that these individual differences have a structural basis in the brain.

For example, it can tell us that race and gender differences in brain size are unrelated to intelligence.

An article, «Smaller amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex predict escalating stimulant use,» published online on May 13 in Brain: A Journal of Neurology has found that individual differences in brain structure could help to determine the risk for future drug addicBrain: A Journal of Neurology has found that individual differences in brain structure could help to determine the risk for future drug addicbrain structure could help to determine the risk for future drug addiction.

«Researchers will spend the majority of their life examining a very small piece of an entire specimen, say the inner ear or the interior of the brain cavity, looking for morphological differences.

Clyde Francks, head of the MPI research group «Brain and behavioral asymmetries» and Research Fellow at the Donders Institute at the Radboud University, explains, «We think that these very early left - right differences in the spinal cord may act to trigger some of the later asymmetries of the brain, such as the eventual dominance of the left hemisphere for language functions in most adults&raBrain and behavioral asymmetries» and Research Fellow at the Donders Institute at the Radboud University, explains, «We think that these very early left - right differences in the spinal cord may act to trigger some of the later asymmetries of the brain, such as the eventual dominance of the left hemisphere for language functions in most adults&rabrain, such as the eventual dominance of the left hemisphere for language functions in most adults».

The differences in football players» versus cross-country runners» brains were specifically seen in regions of the brain responsible for visual processing.

For treatment, that knowledge could make a huge impact: not only should researchers be better about testing potential migraine drugs on men and women separately, Maleki says, but they may be able to design new treatments based on these brain differences — giving both sexes a better chance at relief.

Differences in brain tissues create specialized environments for nerves that alter the meaning of the impulses they generate.

Good genes may account for some of the differences in ability, but even the most genetically well - endowed prodigy clearly needs practice — lots of it — to develop the brain of an athlete.

Your call for caution in the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as a research tool for assessing and explaining brain function was timely (19 October, p 32), particularly as it is widely used to pinpoint male - female differences in cognitive abilities and performance.

«While it's clear that sex differences in varenicline efficacy exist, we don't yet know why varenicline is particularly effective for women,» McKee said, adding that sex differences in the nicotine receptor system in the brain may be a key factor.

«Wired for gaming: Brain differences in compulsive video game players: Brain scans reveal new connections that are potentially beneficial, harmful.»

The differences, as revealed by MRI scans, were striking: For example, brain regions known to be involved in control of emotions and impulsivity, such as the anterior cingulate cortex, were on average 8 % smaller in subjects with low levels of MAO - A.

For example, some twins who had undergone the operation and had apparently normal brains when screened using ultrasound showed differences in brain volume when screened using the more sensitive MRI technique.

«If you're looking for very specific molecular targets or pathways in the brain, and how drugs might act on them, the difference between human cells and mouse cells is significant.»

In autism, for example, his preliminary work suggests that there are more pronounced differences in brain processing involved in distinguishing faces from objects; in schizophrenia, there are greater differences related to decoding emotions.