Sentences with phrase «in brain volume does»

Although such a small increase in brain volume doesn't sound impressive, it halved the risk of Alzheimer's over five years.

Not exact matches

Recall that breastfed infants wake up much more frequently and at shorter intervals than do bottle fed infants since cows milk is designed for cow brain growth (much less volume compared with human brains) and body growth rates while breast milk has just the right composition which means fast burning sugars and much less protein and fat... for that ever - growing human infant brain which triples in size in the first year.

Compared to people who did not have diabetes, people who developed diabetes in middle age had a total brain volume average of 2.9 percent smaller.

Better aerobic fitness however does not appear to impact hippocampal volume, another area in the brain responsible for memory.

The MRI scans showed that obese subjects with binge eating disorder have lower grey matter volumes — a measure of the number of neurons — in the orbitofrontal cortex and striatum of the brain compared to those who do not binge eat; these brain regions are involved in keeping track of goals and rewards.

«An appetite suppressant must either work by providing volume so we don't feel hungry in the stomach, or through the bloodstream on appetite centres in the brain.»

However, muscular strength didn't showed any independent association with gray matter volume in any brain region.

«MRI scans give us a bird's eye view of the apnea - related difference in volume of various parts of the brain, but they don't tell us, at the cellular level, what happened to the affected neurons or when,» said co-author David Gozal, MD, professor of pediatrics, University of Chicago.

One study documented participants who got 120 minutes of moderate intensity exercise every week did see improvements in the volume of their brain.

Volume of discrete brain structures in florid and recovered DID, DDNOS, and healthy controls.