Sentences with phrase «involved in learning and memory»

«Participation in Mindfulness - Based Stress Reduction is associated with changes in gray matter concentration in brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self - referential processing and perspective taking.»

Yet Mattson believes that such evolutionary pressures selected for genes that strengthened brain areas involved in learning and memory, which increased the odds of finding food and surviving.

Flavonoids that penetrate and accumulate in the brain regions are involved in learning and memory, especially the hippocampus.

DMAE (dimethyl amino ethanol) is a choline precursor that helps promote the synthesis of acetylcholine, a primary neurotransmitter involved in learning and memory.

A study conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital found that mindfulness meditation, over the short period of only eight weeks, increased the amount of gray matter in regions of the brain involved in learning and memory, regulation of one's emotions, and self - awareness.

Brain regions involved in learning and memory, emotion regulation, sense of self, and perspective taking!

This process, adult neurogenesis, however, is tightly linked to brain function in the hippocampus, a brain area centrally involved in learning and memory processes.

The evidence against neonicotinoids now exists in key bee brain cells involved in learning and memory, in whole bees, entire colonies and now at the level of whole populations of wild bees.

Plaques decreased substantially in mice treated with gene therapy to increase activity of the enzyme neuraminidase 1 (NEU1) in a region of the brain involved in learning and memory.

Studies at the cellular level help us to understand how the gene products involved in learning and memory mediate physiological changes in the neurons that encode memories.

Klotho's benefits may be due to its effect on a certain type of neurotransmitter receptor in the brain, called NMDA, that is crucially involved in learning and memory.

This is involved in learning and memory, especially when attention is heightened through fear, or anticipation of reward, and involves the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.

One brain region in which new neurons are born in adults, the hippocampus, is involved in learning and memory and affected severely by Alzheimer's disease.

Those key cells are called GABAergic interneurons in the hilus of the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in learning and memory and affected by Alzheimer's disease.

Their compound, which is intended to repair brain damage that has already occurred, is a significant departure from current Alzheimer's treatments, which either slow the process of cell death or inhibit cholinesterase, an enzyme believed to break down a key neurotransmitter involved in learning and memory development.

As the mice developed, Verma's team found that the rodents» brains were only a third of their normal size, with particularly striking reductions in brain areas involved in learning and memory.

Some evidence suggests, for example, that neurogenesis (the production of new neurons) in the hippocampus — a brain region involved in learning and memory — may ease depression.

The researchers tested whether HDACis, which promote long - lasting activation of genes involved in learning and memory, could help replace old traumatic memories with new memories.

In addition, the ability to transmit electrical signals involved in learning and memory — a sign of a healthy brain — was impaired, even in mice that had been joined for just four months.

«These hormones have been shown in the non-pregnant state to be intimately involved in learning and memory, Glynn says.

So they turned to living, anesthetized mice, attached electrodes to their scalps, and directed 2000 and 2010 hertz signals so that they produced a low - frequency, 10 hertz stimulation at the hippocampus, a deep - brain structure involved in learning and memory.

Another study, this time of exclusively older women with MCI, found that aerobic exercise was tied to an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

A study of older women with MCI found a tie between aerobic exercise and an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

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«In animal studies, exercise has been shown to specifically affect the hippocampus, significantly increasing the growth of new neurons and cell survival, enhancing memory and learning, and increasing molecules that are involved in the plasticity of the brain,» Chaddock saiIn animal studies, exercise has been shown to specifically affect the hippocampus, significantly increasing the growth of new neurons and cell survival, enhancing memory and learning, and increasing molecules that are involved in the plasticity of the brain,» Chaddock saiin the plasticity of the brain,» Chaddock said.

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.

What's more, the gene codes for a chemical receptor involved in many brain functions, such as learning and memory, so the gene might also be involved in behavioral disorders.

To find out more about what underlies the cognitive decline that occurs with ageing, André Fischer of the European Neuroscience Institute in Göttingen, Germany, and colleagues analysed DNA from the brains of both young and old mice that had been set tasks involving learning and memory.

The hippocampus — a region crucially involved in forming «episodic» memories (event recall) and spatial memory (for physical navigation)-- is especially affected by aging, with accompanying declines in the ability to learn and remember; it also deteriorates early on when afflicted by Alzheimer's.

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham report the discovery of a novel mechanism in the brain involved in the formation of memory and learning.

Researchers have found that the hippocampus of poor learners has less CREB (a protein involved in memory and learning) and more alpha5 subunit of GABAA receptor or GABRA5 (a protein that generates tonic inhibitory conductance in the brain) than good learners.

Caffeine potentiated responses of mushroom body neurons involved in olfactory learning and memory by acting as an adenosine receptor antagonist.

The researchers measured the levels of a number of proteins involved in memory and learning and found that levels of the protein deltaFosB strikingly increase in the hippocampus of Alzheimer's disease mice that had seizures.

A different possible mechanism, proposed by Juan Salinas, a lecturer specializing in the neuropharmacology of learning and memory at the University of Texas at Austin, resembles the neurobiological hypothesis, given that ADHD involves a dysfunctional release of dopamine in the brain.

As with animals, they were mostly found in the entorhinal cortex, responsible for navigation and memory, and the cingulate cortex, involved in learning.

In particular, obesity has been linked with dysfunction of the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in memory and learning, and of the frontal lobe, the part of the brain involved in decision making, problem solving and emotions, suggesting that it might also affect memory; however, evidence for memory impairment in obesity is currently limiteIn particular, obesity has been linked with dysfunction of the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in memory and learning, and of the frontal lobe, the part of the brain involved in decision making, problem solving and emotions, suggesting that it might also affect memory; however, evidence for memory impairment in obesity is currently limitein memory and learning, and of the frontal lobe, the part of the brain involved in decision making, problem solving and emotions, suggesting that it might also affect memory; however, evidence for memory impairment in obesity is currently limitein decision making, problem solving and emotions, suggesting that it might also affect memory; however, evidence for memory impairment in obesity is currently limitein obesity is currently limited.

Given that lot of those brain cells seemed to form down in the area of the hippocampus, which is involved with the memory and with learning, it was an easy jump to naturally assume that they must be involved with that in some way.

The chemical labels newly divided cells, and in their brain tissue, it showed up in a sprinkling of neurons in the hippocampus — a seahorse - shaped structure involved in memory and learning.

NMDA glutamate receptors, which function as receptors that bond with glutamates, are known to be deeply involved in animal memory and learning.

The cells were located in a part of the hippocampus — a pair of seahorse - shaped structures located deep within the brain and involved in memory and learning.

Learning and memory involve modifications in the distribution and strength of synapses, which are the points of connection between neurons.

The parasite could also directly alter neurons involved in memory and learning, or it could trigger a damaging host response, as in many human autoimmune diseases.

Episodic memory involves the ability to learn, store, and retrieve information about unique personal experiences that occur in daily life.

Dr. Amaral's interests include research involving multidisciplinary studies directed at determining the neuroanatomical, behavioral and electrophysiological organization and functions of brain systems that are involved in learning, memory, emotion and social behavior carried out on the human brain and on animal models.

«Scientists knew that Arc was involved in long - term memory, because mice lacking the Arc protein could learn new tasks, but failed to remember them the next day,» said Dr. Finkbeiner, who is also a professor of neurology and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), with which Gladstone is affiliated.

Harding, a medicinal chemist, and Wright, a neuroscientist, have been working on their compound since 1992, when they started looking at the impact of the peptide angiotensin IV on the hippocampus, a brain region involved in spatial learning and short - term memory.

One of the features of Alzheimer's disease is that the tangles start in one part of the brain (areas involved in memory and learning), but they infect new regions and spread through the brain, contributing to the worsening of the disease.

The dentate gyrus, part of the hippocampus, is involved in learning, episodic memory formation and spatial coding.

The prefrontal cortex is critical for motivation, learning in response to reward, and working memory — functions impaired in schizophrenia, which is thought to involve a dopamine imbalance.

In the 2007 - 2008 academic year, for instance, awards supported research on topics such as the imaging of brain regions involved in the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autisIn the 2007 - 2008 academic year, for instance, awards supported research on topics such as the imaging of brain regions involved in the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autisin the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autisin adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autisin the brains of infants at risk for autism.

The new research found that the negative health effects of tobacco exposure in the womb can last for years, taking a toll on teens» executive function — learned skills involving memory, reasoning, problem - solving and planning — that are important in school and life.