Sentences with phrase «larger brain volume»

Eating healthy amounts of omega - 3 fatty acids is associated with larger brain volume and better function.

Studies looking at DHA and EPA levels in red blood cells have shown a correlation between higher omega - 3 status and having a to 2 cm larger brain volume.

Actually I just realized I mistated what I read — the study showed somewhat larger brain volume in certain areas including the hippocampus.

With MRI scans, we found that babies fed more breast milk had larger brain volumes.»

Not exact matches

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.37

When the investigators analysed MRI studies of the brain, they found that participants with MCI, particularly those with non-amnestic MCI, had larger white matter lesion volumes and worse microstructural integrity of normal - appearing white matter compared to controls.

They have brains no larger than a chimpanzee's — with a volume around 400 — 500 cm3 -, but walk upright on two legs.

A research group led by Ryota Hashimoto, an associate professor at Osaka University, Naohiro Okada, a graduate student at the University of Tokyo, and Kiyoto Kasai, a professor at the University of Tokyo, replicated prior findings that the volume of globus pallidus (one of the basal ganglia in the brain) in schizophrenia was larger than that in healthy subjects.

His team found that people who scored highly on a questionnaire rating distractability had larger than average volumes of grey matter in a brain region called the left superior parietal lobe, or SPL (Journal of Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1523 / jneurosci.5864 - 10.2011).

On average, males had larger absolute volumes than females in the intracranial space (12 %; > 14,000 brains), total brain (11 %; 2,523 brains), cerebrum (10 %; 1,851 brains), grey matter (9 %; 7,934 brains), white matter (13 %; 7,515 brains), regions filled with cerebrospinal fluid (11.5 %; 4,484 brains), and cerebellum (9 %; 1,842 brains).

They found that males on average have larger total brain volumes than women (by 8 - 13 %).

«The skull was found along with the lower jaw, showing a significant disproportion between the large and prominent jaws and the smaller brain volume — a combination that gives it a primitive and apish appearance,» Rak said.

Since the brain shrinks as we age, intracranial volume is thought to represent the size of the brain at its largest point.

They found that volume of both gray matter and white matter in the brain was larger in those who were bilinguals.

The reconstruction of a non-human primate brain, with a volume 100 times larger than a mouse brain, is being considered for a later study.

This man also showed a large increase in the volume of the hippocampus, which is a part of the brain connected with memory.

A healthier brain is found with a larger gray matter volume, and a shrinking volume is found in Alzheimer's.

Analysis of the results showed a link between increased exercise and larger volume in parts of the brain related to memory.

Scientists at the University of Texas discovered that to some extent the loss of brain volume is balanced by larger numbers of connections between neurons.

While males tend to have larger brains than females, the function of this increased brain volume is not certain (Burgaleta, Head Alvarez - Linera, Martinez, Escorial, Haier, & Colom, 2012).

«Right now my clients are multinationals, simply because they are the ones with the largest volumes of data, the ones that risk the most by not going digital,» says Inma Martinez, Chief Data Scientist at AI agency Right Brain Future and Venture Partner at Deep Science Ventures, an investor for science start - ups.

Because human gray matter follows a nonlinear developmental trajectory, we established a reference for typical development in focal brain areas and constructed an index that measured whether regional gray matter volume was larger or smaller than expected, comparing children with others of the same sex and age.