Sentences with phrase «influences aging of the brain»

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These influences, along with hormonal ones — such as levels of estrogen and testosterone — affect brain development, shaping male and female differences in physiology and behavior that continue to unfold as we age.

Results from a series of studies involving thousands of participants from birth to age 90 suggest that the brain's ability to process sound is influenced by everything from playing music and learning a new language to aging, language disorders and hearing loss.

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.

Aging is also associated with inflammation driven by microglia in specific regions of the brain, but it is unclear whether diet or lifestyle can influence this process.

Although much research has examined traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a possible risk factor for later life dementia from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known regarding how TBI influences the rate of age - related cognitive change.

Many scientists have hypothesized that exercising the brain helps reduce the mental effects of aging, but there may be a second influence at work.

Preece, P. & Cairns, N. J. Quantifying mRNA in postmortem human brain: influence of gender, age at death, postmortem interval, brain pH, agonal state and inter-lobe mRNA variance.

This study investigated the influence of chronically administered curcumin on normal ageing - related parameters: lipid peroxidation, lipofuscin concentration and intraneuronal lipofuscin accumulation, activities of the enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and Na (+), K (+), - adenosine triphosphatase (Na (+), K (+), - ATPase) in different brain regions (cerebral cortex, hippocampus, cerebellum and medulla) of 6 - and 24 - month - old rats.

A major focus of the lab is to elucidate the mechanisms by which neuromodulation by neuropeptides encodes long - term changes in the brain that influence behavior and aging.

This program has provided the first comprehensive picture of how a gene normally associated with cancer can influence development, survival and normal function of brain cells central to age - associated neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

«Although we do need to accept that some of these changes are influenced by genetic predispositions and are part of the normal ageing process, there are ways to delay and even prevent age - related changes to your brain,» says clinical psychologist Dr Lillian Nejad.

The influence an active lifestyle had on the brain structure of 876 individuals with an average age of 78 years was examined.

To get a better understanding of how physical activity positively influences the brain, sports physicians and gerontologists recruited 60 participants between the ages of 65 and 85 to explore how regular exercise affects memory and brain metabolism in a randomized controlled trial.

In a 2007 study entitled Dietary Influences on Cognitive Function with Aging, the authors describe how diet can affect brain function, and reason that ``... [diets] high in fruits, vegetables, cereals, and fish are associated with better cognitive function and lower risk of dementia (1).»

Reading at home from an early age may also encourage the development of a neural detour from the left to the right hemisphere of the brain, compensating for the genetic influence.

The period from conception to 6 years of age has the most influence of any period of time on brain development, behaviour and health.

Because most of the brain's core neural networks and primary associations develop at such a young age, early developmental trauma and neglect have a disproportionate influence on the brain's organization and functioning.