Sentences with phrase «less brain volume»

People with low fitness levels in their 40s had less brain volume two decades later, per research from Boston University.

Coles told the meeting that magnetic resonance imaging showed that subjects taking alemtuzumab had also lost less brain volume than those taking Rebif, a proxy measure for overall tissue damage.

Not exact matches

Recall that breastfed infants wake up much more frequently and at shorter intervals than do bottle fed infants since cows milk is designed for cow brain growth (much less volume compared with human brains) and body growth rates while breast milk has just the right composition which means fast burning sugars and much less protein and fat... for that ever - growing human infant brain which triples in size in the first year.

Compared with infants born full term, the late preterm brain has lower brain volume and less distinct patterns of neural connectivity.

«By increasing the volume of blood in the cranial cavity, there's less room for the brain to move which reduces the overall slosh effect which we believe reduces mTBI.

When Thompson's team looked at brain scans of 206 healthy people aged 70 to 80, they found that those with at least one copy of the FTO variant had 8 per cent less volume in their frontal lobes and 12 per cent less in the occipital lobes, compared with their counterparts lacking the variant.

College football players with and without a history of concussions have less volume in the hippocampal region of the brain that relates to memory and emotion, according to a study published Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

College football players with and without a history of concussions have less volume in the hippocampal region of the brain that relates to memory and emotion.

Co-authors Fred Spoor of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Lauren Gonzales of Duke University calculated its brain volume to be about 36 cubic centimeters, which is less than half the volume of monkeys of the same body size living today.

«That brain volume (about 500cc), implies significantly less brain power than recent humans,» added Stringer, who authored a paper commenting on the finds.

OBJECTIVE Previous studies have shown smaller brain volume and less gray matter in children with attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

They also had smaller total brain volume, and less white matter, which is mostly made up of the myelin that coats neurons.

Those who followed the diet less closely were more likely to have a higher loss of total brain volume over the 3 years than those who adhered to the diet more closely.

Thus, several lines of research link hypoactivity, less grey matter volume, and less cortical thickness within the region identified in our whole - brain analyses as affected or altered in SUD.