Sentences with phrase «important brain cell connections»

After a baby is born, there continues to be a building of important brain cell connections and the introduction of stimulants like sound, color, touch and toys greatly enhances that development.

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Color can play an important role in your baby's development, stimulating the brain and creating important nerve cell connections.

Your baby's brain cells make important connections during sleep, which help with learning, movement, and thought.

But for neurons, birth date plays an important role in how these cells find their connections in the brain, a new study finds.

Shaw and others believe sleep helps the brain reinforce connections between brain cells that encode important memories and cut back connections that encode useless information.

NRXN1 and CNTN6 are important during brain development and produce molecules that help brain cells form connections with one another.

The team, led by Stephen Liberles, Harvard Medical School associate professor of cell biology, has effectively deconstructed the vagus nerve, a key connection between body and brain that is important because it controls not only breathing but also heart rate, feeding behavior and responses to illness.

The researchers, chiefly from the Broad Institute, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, found that a person's risk of schizophrenia is dramatically increased if they inherit variants of a gene important to «synaptic pruning» — the healthy reduction during adolescence of brain cell connections that are no longer needed.

Omega - 3 fats play an important role in proper function of the brain, eyes, the connection between cells in the nervous system, regulation of the fat levels in blood etc..