Sentences with phrase «in brain volume in»

Only the aerobic exercisers had significant increases in brain volume in what are known as the white and gray matter regions of the brain, areas related to age - related decline in brain structure and cognition.

Using a new MRI technique, researchers found that adults with mild cognitive impairment who exercised four times a week over a six - month period experienced an increase in brain volume in specific, or local, areas of the brain, but adults who participated in aerobic exercise experienced greater gains than those who just stretched.

Scientists have also investigated changes in brain volume in initial versus sustained abstinence in one set of subjects.

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Perhaps it's because your brain is still working on low - volume, cobbling together connections that eluded it when your focus was too rigorously directed in one place.

Omega 3 fats also reduce inflammation in the brain and increase brain volume.

Infants grow new synapses, or neural connections, at a rate of 40,000 new synapses a second, and the brain more than doubles in volume across the first year.

Volume II, Number 2 A New Educational Paradigm — Michaela Glöckler, M.D. Changes in Brain Formation — Michael Kneissle Organology and Physiology of Learning — Wolfgang Schad New Health Problems of Children and Youth — University of Bielefeld (Germany) Rudolf Steiner's Efforts to Encourage Cultural Diversity — Detlef Hardorp The Middle Passage?Out of Diversity We Become Whole — Cindy Weinberg

Volume IV, Number 1 ADHD: the Challenge of Our Time — Eugene Schwartz Helping Children: Where Research and Social Action Meet — Joan Almon Computers, Brains, and Children — Stephen Talbott Movement and Sensory Disorders in Today's Children — Peter Stuck, M.D. Can Waldorf Education Be Practiced in Public Schools?

While the bulk of brain development occurs before the teenage years — at least in terms of volume — there's one section that's still in progress as your little one becomes an almost - adult: the prefrontal cortex.

Their brain has grown a lot too: it's now reached 60 per cent of its adult size and has doubled in volume since birth.

In this slim volume, Tough pulls together decades of social science research on the impacts of poverty and trauma on kids» brains and behavior, and makes a cogent, convincing argument for why this research should lie at the center of any discussions about reform.

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.

Recall that despite dramatic cultural and technological changes in the industrialized west, human infants are still born the most neurologically immature primate of all, with only 25 % of their brain volume.

Chronic stress during pregnancy has been linked to an increase in the risk of premature delivery and low birth weight, and of the baby having reduced grey matter volume in areas of the brain involved in learning, memory, attention, and emotional regulation.

Using brain scans to compare the gray matter of children with RAD to typically developing children, the researchers found significantly reduced volume of gray matter in the area of the brain known as the left primary visual cortex.

Resulting from the shrinking in the overall volume of brain cells, baby brain is an extremely common condition for pregnant women in their third trimester.

Comparison images taken and two and four weeks postpartum revealed a small but significant increase in gray matter volume in specific areas of the brain.

This increase in blood volume is intended to minimize the sloshing of the brain inside the skull.

The band is designed to address mTBI through the application of light pressure on the neck, which in turn mildly increases blood volume in the vein structure of the brain.

«By increasing the volume of blood in the cranial cavity, there's less room for the brain to move which reduces the overall slosh effect which we believe reduces mTBI.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

There is shrinkage in volume in parts that control judgment, impulsiveness, emotion, and memory «in a way that no other disorder affects the brain.»

The researchers found that when kids had three or more adverse experiences, they also had smaller brain volumes that, in turn, were associated with lower scores on a scale that measures how well a child expresses emotions.

He is planning to conduct a prescribed exercise intervention in a population of healthy older adults with genetic and other risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and to measure the impact on hippocampal volume and brain function.

These neurons, he believed, somehow turned up or down the «volume» of the neurons he'd recorded in other areas of the brain.

When Thompson's team looked at brain scans of 206 healthy people aged 70 to 80, they found that those with at least one copy of the FTO variant had 8 per cent less volume in their frontal lobes and 12 per cent less in the occipital lobes, compared with their counterparts lacking the variant.

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.

In the hippocampus area of the brain, the volume was 4 percent smaller.

In women not taking the pill, the team found an increase in the volume of grey matter in the right parahippocampal and fusiform gyri, areas of the brain involved in spatial location and facial recognition (Brain Research, DOI: 10.1016 / j.brainres.2010.06.019In women not taking the pill, the team found an increase in the volume of grey matter in the right parahippocampal and fusiform gyri, areas of the brain involved in spatial location and facial recognition (Brain Research, DOI: 10.1016 / j.brainres.2010.06.019in the volume of grey matter in the right parahippocampal and fusiform gyri, areas of the brain involved in spatial location and facial recognition (Brain Research, DOI: 10.1016 / j.brainres.2010.06.019in the right parahippocampal and fusiform gyri, areas of the brain involved in spatial location and facial recognition (Brain Research, DOI: 10.1016 / j.brainres.2010.06.brain involved in spatial location and facial recognition (Brain Research, DOI: 10.1016 / j.brainres.2010.06.019in spatial location and facial recognition (Brain Research, DOI: 10.1016 / j.brainres.2010.06.Brain Research, DOI: 10.1016 / j.brainres.2010.06.019).

A volume decrease in specific parts of the brain's hippocampus — long identified as a hub of mood and memory processing — was linked to bipolar disorder in a study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

Molecules in the blood might diffuse into the brain and affect neurotransmitter release, or changes in the volume, pressure or temperature of blood vessels may stress neuronal membranes to regulate transmission.

The research team used a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and a state - of - the - art segmentation approach to discover differences in the volumes of subfields of the hippocampus, a seahorse - shaped region in the brain.

The sheer volume of blood moving through makes this region susceptible to aneurysms, weaknesses in arterial walls that can lead to stroke and debilitating brain damage.

Language is one of those areas in which scientists observe neural entrainment: When people listen to speech, their brain waves lock up with the volume - based rhythms they hear.

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

In the last few years, however, some neuroscientists have begun to look at the bigger picture, generating magnetic resonance images of PTSD patients» brains and carefully measuring the volumes of the organs» many bewildering regions.

Recent studies suggest that the total loss in brain volume due to atrophy — a wasting away of tissue caused by cell degeneration — between our teen years and old age is 15 percent or more, which means that by the time we're in our seventies, our brains have shrunk to the size they were when we were between 2 and 3 years old.

«The difference in ape cerebellar volume, relative to a scaled monkey brain, is equal to 16 billion extra neurons,» says Barton.

The difference in diet explained 0.5 percent of the variation in total brain volume, an effect that was half the size of that due to normal aging.

These two types of brain oscillations engage in a neural seesaw: When beta waves are strong, akin to a stereo blasting, gamma waves are weak, as if the volume had been dialed down, and vice versa.

«In our study, eating habits were measured before brain volume was, which suggests that the diet may be able to provide long - term protection to the brain,» said Luciano.

These fossils, dating from 1.77 million years ago, had brains between 600 and 775 cubic centimeters in volume, whereas H. erectus is generally thought to have had an average brain size of around 900 cubic centimeters.

The researchers found that in patients with SAD, brain volume and activity in the amygdala decrease as a result of ICBT.

The eyes are so big that each eyeball, at 16 millimetres in diameter, takes up the same volume as the entire brain.

After controlling for factors known to influence brain volume and cognitive test scores, such as age and gender, the researchers found that a higher self - reported frequency of game playing was significantly associated with greater brain volume in several regions involved in Alzheimer's disease (such as the hippocampus) and with higher cognitive test scores on memory and executive function.

The study also suggests that the reduction in volume drives the reduction in brain activity,» says doctoral student Kristoffer NT Månsson, who led the study together with Linköping colleague Gerhard Andersson and researchers from the Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala University, Umeå University and Stockholm University.

After just nine weeks of internet - delivered cognitive behavioral therapy, the brain of patients suffering from social anxiety disorder changes in volume.

The researchers also found increases in gray matter volume in regions that control leg movement and process sensory information from legs, which may reflect changes related to the brain learning how to move in microgravity.

Previous studies have shown that people diagnosed with emotional instability disorders exhibit a decrease in the volume of certain brain areas.

Holdcroft believes that the changes in the brain are more likely to be the result of changes in the volume of individual cells, rather than changes in the number of cells in the brain.