Sentences with phrase «in cognitive function of the brain»

This highlights a potential role for ecRNAs in cognitive function of the brain.

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After six months of training, the subjects showed not only improved cognitive function, but even growth in key areas of their brains.

Rich in zinc, which can help boost memory and cognitive function, pumpkin seeds also contain plenty of magnesium, B vitamins and tryptophan, which is a precursor to serotonin, a mood - boosting brain chemical.

In our success - worshiping left - brain society, we overvalue rationality, cognitive knowledge, control, analysis, and work, and separate these from aspects of ourselves that we undervalue — feelings, intuition, synthesis, body awareness, play, and other right - brain functions.

Most of us grew up fearing the fat, but good fats are not only beneficial for your body, but they are also absolutely necessary for good health, especially brain health as the type of fat in coconuts has been shown to improve cognitive function and memory.

On a cognitive level, growing up in a chaotic and unstable environment — and experiencing the chronic elevated stress that such an environment produces — disrupts the development of a set of skills, controlled by the prefrontal cortex, known as executive functions: higher - order mental abilities that some researchers compare to a team of air - traffic controllers overseeing the working of the brain.

Some studies also suggest that the type of fatty acids available in breast milk enhances brain growth and development in infants, giving them earlier visual acuity and cognitive function.

Studying mice, investigators from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed that a specific energy source called NAD is important in cells responsible for maintaining the overall structure of the brain and for performing complex cognitive functions.

The cortex is the outer layer of the brain in which critical cognitive functions such as memory, language and perception take place.

The study adds to a growing body of research highlighting other cognitive functions affected by aphasia, and indicates that the consequences of brain damage in aphasia patients may be more extensive than originally thought.

Senior study author Katsuhiko Yanagisawa, director general of the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology in Japan, is convinced that enough amyloid penetrates the blood — brain barrier to make its way into the bloodstream to be a useful measure of cognitive function.

Cognitive neuroscientists are especially interested in understanding sensitive periods of time when the environment has the largest influence on future brain functions.

The potential for mind - boosting drugs and technologies has increased stunningly over the past decade as neuroscientists have unlocked the secrets of neuronal circuits, neurotransmitters, and specific molecular events triggering brain functions in three interconnected cognitive domains — attention, memory, and creativity.

Patients showing gadolinium in the vitreous chamber at the later timepoint tended to be of older age, have a history of hypertension, and have more bright spots on their brain scans, called white matter hyperintensities, that are associated with brain aging and decreased cognitive function.

However, whole - brain radiation has been associated with a decline in cognitive functions that can negatively affect a patient's quality of life.

«Now that we have more evidence that serotonin is a chemical that appears affected early in cognitive decline, we suspect that increasing serotonin function in the brain could prevent memory loss from getting worse and slow disease progression,» says Gwenn Smith, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Weight loss surgery can curb alterations in brain activity associated with obesity and improve cognitive function involved in planning, strategizing and organizing, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

«Understanding how a healthy brain works is important in terms of knowing its impact on cognitive functions such as memory, learning and in this case attention,» Noudoost said.

The study broadens the understanding of the brain's memory function and could be used to explain defects in the cognitive development of those with Down's syndrome.

The cerebral cortex of the brain is layered like an onion, with neurons in different layers responsible for distinct levels of cognitive function.

These similar kinds or synchronized signals were found in brain areas that are connected with the early - stage processing of visual stimuli, detection of movement and persons, motor coordination and cognitive functions.

The preserved areas of cognitive function in an MCS patient's brain will be stimulated when he is shown a family portrait or touched or spoken to, indicating at least some mental process.

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 areas in the brain linked to this type of decision making were the dorsal portion of the medial prefrontal cortex, which is known to support higher cognitive functions such as planning, and the premotor cortex, which is more involved in the execution of real or imaginary movements.

In addition to revealing the functions of different areas within the prefrontal cortex, studies have also demonstrated the flexibility of the region, which has helped experts optimize cognitive therapy techniques to enable patients with brain damage to learn new skills and compensate for their impairments.

«However, engagement in effective and challenging brain exercises targeting specific cognitive abilities may be required to immediately improve cognitive and everyday function of older adults,» she says.

In addition to its effect on chronic tics, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can change the brain function of people with Tourette syndrome.

The neuron - packed brain region — it's tucked underneath the cerebral hemispheres and plays a role in motor control and cognitive functions, such as attention and language — seemed to stop aging at the 80 - year benchmark, which meant it remained fully functional but somehow impervious to deterioration of time for decades.

What they found is that the in utero environment was linked to the development of the cortex, a part of the brain that has many functions including regulating emotions and is involved in various cognitive abilities.

Named after the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer it relies on, the Blue Brain Project has started modelling — in every detail — the cellular infrastructure and electrophysiological interactions within the cerebral neocortex, which represents about 80 % of the brain and is believed to house cognitive functions such as language and conscious thoBrain Project has started modelling — in every detail — the cellular infrastructure and electrophysiological interactions within the cerebral neocortex, which represents about 80 % of the brain and is believed to house cognitive functions such as language and conscious thobrain and is believed to house cognitive functions such as language and conscious thought.

The visceral exploration of living brain tissue is, in many cases, still the best way to unravel cognitive functions as diverse as language, memory, vision, and movement.

In both cases, the prefrontal cortex — the control center for most cognitive functions — appears to take charge of the brain's attention and control relevant parts of the visual cortex, which receives sensory input.

In addition to collecting scans of brain structure and function, the research teams at 21 study sites around the country will regularly gather a trove of other information from each youngster, from psychological, cognitive, and environmental data to biological specimens such as DNA.

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.

And in some of the most dramatic evidence of the technique's potential, a research team reports this week in Science Translational Medicine that they used it to rid mice of abnormal brain clumps similar to those in Alzheimer's disease, restoring lost memory and cognitive functions.

A multidisciplinary group of scientists from the Sanders - Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky have identified an interesting connection between the health of the brain tissue that supports cognitive functioning and the presence of dementia in adults with Down syndrome.

«We believe estradiol, a form of estrogen, is very important in normal brain function, specifically in the pre-frontal cortex, which regulates executive function — organization, recall, memory and other cognitive functions,» Epperson says.

«These findings extend our present knowledge of functional brain connectivity, specifically linking brain regions previously established to function in self - referential cognition to regions indicated in the cognitive process of self - disclosure.»

Particularly interesting was the discovery that the thickness of the gray matter in the brain's temporal and prefrontal regions — the structures that are critical for language and for higher - order cognitive functions like self - control and problem - solving — were the most promising candidate traits for genetic mapping, based on both their strong genetic basis and association with the disease.

At a press conference there today, researchers reported that there was evidence of moderately advanced CTE in several regions of Duerson's brain, including the frontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus, which play roles in impulse control, mood, memory, and other cognitive functions.

Now, researchers argue that the competing noise of other partygoers is filtered out in the brain before it reaches regions involved in higher cognitive functions, such as language and attention control.

«In previous research, we showed that patients with Parkinson's disease use cognitive function, which is reflected in activation of the pre-frontal cortex of the brain, to compensate for impaired motor function,» Prof. Hausdorff sayIn previous research, we showed that patients with Parkinson's disease use cognitive function, which is reflected in activation of the pre-frontal cortex of the brain, to compensate for impaired motor function,» Prof. Hausdorff sayin activation of the pre-frontal cortex of the brain, to compensate for impaired motor function,» Prof. Hausdorff says.

When the researchers looked at brain size, they found that for fighters who had increasing levels of tau over time, there was a 7 percent decline in the volume of their thalamus, which is located in the center of the brain and regulates sleep, consciousness, alertness, cognitive function and language while also sending sensory and movement signals to other portions of the brain.

«The emphasis at NSF,» the announcement says, «will be placed on integration of the cognitive sciences, social and economic sciences, and engineering in service of insights into healthy functions of brain, cognition, and behavior.»

«This article makes big claims out of a single negative finding,» says Torkel Klingberg, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and founder of a company that makes computer brain - training programs to improve working memory and other cognitive functions.

Once evolutionary relationships were factored in, the data showed that animals with big brains for their body size need a significantly higher percentage of REM sleep — supporting a role in intelligence and cognitive function.

The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of brain tissue, a folded region about 2 - 4 millimeters thick, that is involved in many important aspects of brain function including sensory and cognitive processes.

A study published in Neuron in February revealed that the variety of fat molecules found in the human neocortex, the brain region responsible for advanced cognitive functions such as language, evolved at an exceptionally fast rate after the human - ape split.

More recently we have been funded by the NIH and Simon's Foundation (USA) to study the interactions between systemic inflammation, brain metabolism and cognitive function in models of hypocholinergic function, brain amyloidosis and autism.

There is one insula on each side of the brain, and they are thought to be involved in emotion, perception, self - awareness and cognitive function.