Sentences with phrase «increased brain response»

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«Chronic stress and overexposure to cortisol — which increases sugars in your bloodstream, alters your immune system responses, suppresses your digestive and reproductive systems, and communicates with that part of your brain that controls mood, motivation and fear — puts you at risk for mental health problems like anxiety and depression, and a whole host of physical health issues,» writes Levy.

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More praise for the yummy stuff resulted from brain researcher Todd Parrish of Northwestern University in 2009, when he examined functional magnetic resonance images of gum chewers and found increased activity in areas of the brain associated with memory and emotional responses.

Music has the power to increase intellectual ability by stimulating electrical responses in the brain, endorsing creativity, increasing receptivity to learning by bringing mind to a relaxed state, and capitalizing on instinctive body rhythms which stimulate conceptual ability.

There is increasing evidence that some approaches to «teaching babies to sleep» that advise leaving babies to cry, can cause stress responses that may lead to long term, adverse changes to a baby's developing brain.

Introducing music and words while your baby is still growing inside of you may increase your baby's intelligence; many expectant parents can start talking to their babies in the womb, reading to them and playing soothing music to generate a response from their developing brains.

Introducing music and words while your baby is still growing inside of you may increase your babys intelligence; many expectant parents can start talking to their babies in the womb, reading to them and playing soothing music to generate a response from their developing brains.

There is increasing evidence that high levels of stress hormones are toxic to infant brains and may have lasting effects on your child's response to stressful experiences.

The bans were in response to increasing evidence of the chemicals» harm: including effects on fertility, immune systems, hormones and brain development.

They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

In a study published today in Cell Metabolism, UT Southwestern researchers identify a hormone that acts on the brain to increase the desire to drink water in response to specific nutrient stresses that can cause dehydration.

This time, they found that young men and young women responded differently, with males showing a greater increase in electrical activity in the brain in response to a TMS pulse.

«Our data suggests that, during development, relative brain parts change their size in response to environmental cues without affecting overall brain size: increasing certain parts forces others to decrease concurrently.

The brain changes in response to the environment, and you can in fact increase the amount of willpower you have by practicing something.

Mansuy says the behavioral changes were associated with an increased level of the glucocorticoid receptor in the hippocampus — the part of the brain that contributes to stress responses.

Now, scientists at University of Utah Health report they can rejuvenate the plasticity of the mouse brain, specifically in the visual cortex, increasing its ability to change in response to experience.

«We now have the first marker for the capacity of brain immune cells to remove toxic materials,» says Haass, «and its increase long before full Alzheimer's dementia shows that there is early neuronal injury that does not yet affect memory, but already triggers a microglia response.»

By pinpointing increases in blood oxygenation in the brain in response to different events — a sign that specific groups of neurons are active — fMRI is responsible for some of the hottest findings about the brain.

A previous study, published in 2013 in PLOS Biology by auditory neuroscientist Andrew King and his laboratory at the University of Oxford in England, showed that brain cells can enhance the gain of their responses, increasing the signal corresponding to the sound of interest, while tuning out the noise.

Instructed to attend to only one of two competing stories — «The Blue Kangaroo» vs. «Harry the Dog,» for example — the children whose parents had received additional attention instruction showed a 50 percent increase in brain activity in response to the correct story compared to children in the other two groups, the authors report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; their responses matched those seen in adults and children of higher socioeconomic status.

«We can, however, conclude that brain responses to near - misses resemble those to actual wins; that brain responses to near - misses are associated with increased theta activity in gamblers and that gamblers» level of reported gambling severity and susceptibility to thoughts about gambling predicted activity in brain regions are responsible for the near - miss effect.»

It emerged that theta activity increased in response to near - misses relative to other losses in brain regions such as insula and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which was linked to gambling severity.

Immune cells called microglia activate as part of the body's inflammatory response, so the researchers used a brain imaging technique to measure a substance that increases in activated microglia.

These rogue genetic elements pepper the brain tissue of deceased people with the disorder and multiply in response to stressful events, such as infection during pregnancy, which increase the risk of the disease.

This decreased reward response to alcohol arose via two mechanisms: an initial activation of stress hormone receptors and a subsequent increase in inhibitory signaling in the brain.

Likewise, certain brain regions of these optogenetically stimulated, post-stroke mice showed increased levels of proteins associated with heightened ability of nerve cells to alter their structural features in response to experience — for example, practice and learning.

It works by detecting the changes in blood oxygenation and flow that occur in response to neural activity — when a brain area is more active it consumes more oxygen and to meet this increased demand blood flow increases to the active area.

Moreover, the increase in leukocyte infiltration is most striking when considering the total numbers of CD4 and CD8 T cells, providing further evidence for a T cell - mediated immune response in the brain and / or meninges following infection with attenuated Type I parasites (Figure 3F).

They showed that stress also increases the responses of nAChRs within the brain's reward areas.

The technique measures changes in the magnetic properties of blood as it transports oxygen to brain tissue in response to increased activity.

The gray matter of the brain regions increases in volume and helps in regulating certain responses related to the reward system.

Although vaccination induces an inflammatory response during pregnancy, the magnitude and the duration of response is much lower and shorter, respectively, for influenza vaccination than viral infection.27 Like infection, influenza vaccination during pregnancy has been reported to induce a transient increase in the levels of a number of proinflammatory cytokines, including interleukin 6, tumor necrosis factor α, and C - reactive protein.27 - 30 Studies on mice found an association between high interleukin - 6 levels during pregnancy and abnormal behavior and brain structure.19 However, in epidemiological studies, associations between maternal cytokine levels and ASD have been mixed.

This pattern of decreases is consistent with previous studies that suggest heightened vulnerability of EM - related brain regions in AD, whereas the observed increases in FC may reflect a compensatory response.

In the previous decade, an increasing number of studies have applied fMRI to investigate brain response to acupuncture stimulation.

LOWRY: There are certain psychiatric disorders like post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and depression that seem to be associated with increased inflammation, a ramped - up immune response in the body and in the brain.

Analyses of amplified bacterial 16 s rRNA sequences disclosed that Proteobacteria was the principal bacterial phylum in all human brain samples with similar bacterial rRNA quantities in HIV and ODC groups despite increased host neuroimmune responses in the HIV group.

The expression of ifn - α, il - 1β and il - 12 (mouse) transcripts was examined in the brains of the both groups of recipient mice; these analyses revealed implantation of untreated brain homogenates did not evoke increased or sustained neuroimmune responses compared to animals» brains that received the heat - treated brain homogenates (Figure 6B).

The benefits of fasting and calorie restriction also has some nice little research such as: — increased longevity — reducing oxidative stress — reducing inflammation — reduce risk of heart disease — improving neuroendocrine responses — increasing GH secretion — protective effects on heart, lung, brain — decrease in insulin resistance and other overall disease prevention and life extension factors....

Whenever the adrenal glands, which sit atop the kidney, are stimulated by stress, they excrete hormones including cortisol, adrenaline, and testosterone, which play a role in increasing heart rate and blood pressure, slowing digestion, and shutting down executive brain functions, among other physiological changes collectively known as the stress response.

In their report they found that essential oils cause a positive emotional response supported by the chemical change of an individual's brain and increase in blood flow.

In another study, Harvard Medical School researchers found that people age 50 or older who drank several cups daily of flavanol - rich cocoa had a «striking blood flow response» that evolved over several weeks — a 10 - 15 % increase in blood flow to the brain.

''... microglial proliferation can be induced under inflammatory responses in the brain with an increased production of ROS; therefore, microglia accumulate 8 - oxoG in nuclear DNA.»

Within the amygdala of their brains, CRH also increased — a hormone and neurotransmitter that is related to stress responses.

When the brain's output signals alarm bells for pain, this can result in increased tension of the muscles as a survival response.

Extensive research has shown that relaxation practices like restorative yoga have tangible effects: They lower cortisol (a chemical messenger involved in the stress response), can support subcutaneous fat loss, increase immunity, and promote digestion in the belly brain, our mood regulator.

Furthermore, deleterious stress responses are associated with a decrease in the expression of brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a response quite the opposite of calorie restriction and intermittent fasting, where increased concentrations of BDNF have been observed in numerous studies (4).

The 45 exercise bout not only produced lower brain responses to the food images, but also resulted in an increase in the total physical activity that same day, for the rest of the day regards of the condition of the woman.

Further, evoking your hearts intelligence facilitates brain function, balances the nervous system, lowers blood pressure and your heart rate (for longevity) lowers stress hormones and increases the immune response leading to a paradigm shift from incoherence to coherence.