Sentences with phrase «lesser brain matters»

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A matter more so of te heart, less of the brain!

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

When it comes to matters of the heart, love has less to do with the heart and more to do with the brain.

Gaab and her colleagues have found that preschoolers with a family history of dyslexia tend to have less gray matter in brain areas involved in mapping the sounds of language onto their written counterparts — areas known to differentiate older children with and without dyslexia.

Their brains weighed significantly less than those of their counterparts that did not have CHD, and their cortexes had less of the gray matter that processes information.

People who are overweight have less white matter in their brains, making them look a decade older — an effect that doesn't seem to kick in until middle age

Researchers report that people with stiff achy hands have less gray matter in three areas of the brain (the cerebellum, thalamus, and sensorimotor cortex) that coordinate sensation and movement for the affected hand.

In a new study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, neuroscientists from the University of Chicago show that white matter in a region of the brain called the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) has less integrity and density in people with IED than in healthy individuals and those with other psychiatric disorders.

The DTI images — taken at an average of 20 days after birth — were used to associate maternal iron intake during pregnancy to differences in cortical gray matter and, to a lesser extent, in major axonal pathways within the underlying white matter of the brain.

«Neurons become increasingly more complex in their extensions and connections as the brain matures, and the maturational delays reported previously in animal models and human behavioral studies of iron deficiency would predict that lower iron intake would produce neurons in cortical gray matter that are structurally less complex and more immature.

However, it's unclear whether less grey matter causes female addictive behaviours, or if addiction might shrink these brain regions.

Those in the group with 22q deletion, which carries the risk for schizophrenia, had thicker gray matter, but less brain surface area — a measure which relates to how folded the brain is — compared to those in the duplication group.

Lithium treatment was associated with less thinning of gray matter, which suggests a protective effect of this medication on the brain.

A study of 473 adults has found that people who are overweight have less white matter, which connects different brain areas and enables signaling between them.

Different brain tissues impede the current in characteristic ways: blood, for instance, impedes less, and grey matter more.

«A healthy brain has high entropy, but people with injuries to the white matter from trauma may lose some of that complexity and have less entropy,» she explained.

A comparison of Neanderthal and human brains has revealed it was a matter of allocation: Neanderthal brains focused more on vision and movement, leaving less room for cognition related to social networking.

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

In a recent study in the journal Brain, young to middle - aged adults who'd had at least one concussion and had genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's had less gray matter in parts of the brain associated with dementia, compared to other study participBrain, young to middle - aged adults who'd had at least one concussion and had genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's had less gray matter in parts of the brain associated with dementia, compared to other study participbrain associated with dementia, compared to other study participants.

And, to confuse matters even further, the brain becomes less responsive to the hormones that your body does still produce.

To confuse matters even further, the brain becomes less responsive to the hormones that your body does still produce.

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

A study published in PLOSone showed that people who frequently use several media devices at the same time tend to have less gray matter in a part of their brain involved with thought and emotion control.

Recent brain research has shown youth have different sleep needs than adults, while it's been popular to say that students in the US have less «seat time» than students around the world (as a matter of fact, this is incorrect: while students in some countries have more days of school than the US, most of those countries have shorter school days that actually results in less seat time).

They scanned people's brains using MRIs, and found that the action video game players, who reported spending an average of 19 hours playing action video games each week, had less gray matter in the hippocampus than non-video game players.

They had less white and cortical gray matter, and smaller - sized hippocampi and amygdale — brain structures that play a key role in spatial learning, memory consolidation, stress reactivity, and the processing of emotion.

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.