Sentences with phrase «losing brain cells»

(It feels like I'm losing brain cells even as I write this.)

Is it just me or am I losing brain cells by reading the first two comments?

Also, isn't it nice to know that while you might feel like you're losing brain cells from all those sleepless nights, at least some good things are happening up there in that noggin'to balance it out.

«As we age the brain shrinks and we lose brain cells, which can affect learning and memory,» says Michelle Luciano at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

That's because starting in your 20s, you begin to lose brain cells, a few at a time.

«As we age, the brain shrinks and we lose brain cells, which can affect learning and memory,» said study author Michelle Luciano, PhD, of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

It makes us lose brain cells.

Not exact matches

Your posts have only made the rest of us more dumb and we recovering alcoholics can not afford to lose more brain cells.

Because any grownup with more than 2 brain cells to rub together and who's lost someone in Aurora should tell you to go shove your all - mighty, all - knowing, all - caring, compassionate Lord who thinks we will be better people by having our children massacred.

I'm now convinced I've actually lost a few brain cells because of it, although it's most likely a combination of the mindlessness and the daily tequila consumption.

As I said, if you have a very clean diet, losing a few brain cells by occasionally eating a bit of xanthan or guar gum may not cause you to develop Alzheimer's.

You would rather Arsenal lose than win, to push Spurs out of a competition that can only damage their next Premier league season, I think somebody has borrowed your only brain cell!

Others, like the heart and the brain are unable to replace lost or injured cells.

Redmond and colleagues report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA that only some of the stem cells implanted in the monkey's brains went on to replace the lost dopamine neurons.

They noticed, however, that other brain cells, which had shrunken in size as a result of their lost neighbors, seemed to normalize.

Scientists have long suspected that Alzheimer's patients lose their memories and their wits when amyloid beta proteins form needlelike aggregates that punch holes in brain cells and kill them.

USE it or lose it: a class of immune cell demolishes idle circuits and connections in the brain, even a healthy one.

The only consistent effect he could find was that the animals» overall capacity for memory fell in proportion to the number of neurons destroyed: The more brain cells lost, the more memories — all memories — weakened.

«It's not that whole brain cells are lost, as is the case with Alzheimer's disease,» Cannon explains.

Raghanti says that the researchers are now counting the neurons in the chimp brains they studied to determine whether the cells are lost with age, and studying inflammation in the brains.

«It's the elements that brain cells use to communicate with each other that are lost.»

An inherited disorder that results in the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain, Huntington's leads people to lose control of their speech and movement, as well as to cognitive decline.

Neurodegenerative disorders devastate the brain, but doctors hope one day to replace lost cells

In people with RP and AMD, the photoreceptors have been damaged and lost, so the ganglion cells do not receive signals and the brain can not produce an image.

The findings, published today in the journal Cell, give new insights into how the brain regulates body fat and may lead to more effective ways to lose weight and prevent obesity by promoting the conversion of white fat to brown fat.

Unfortunately, taking up cardiovascular exercise upon, say, retirement, won't restore those brain cells you've already lost.

By the time people show signs of dementia, their brains have lost neurons and no current therapy can revive dead cells.

Parkinson's disease arises because for some reason the dopamine cells in the brain are lost, and it is known that the stop signal is being over-activated somehow or other.

Some of these cells lost their star shape and began to form new nerve cells in a brain region responsible for smell.

Kipnis has recently started to investigate what happens to people's brains when they start losing T cells.

Importantly, individual classes of inhibitory neurons are quite sparse in the brain, so any unique features of those cells would likely have been lost in earlier studies that looked at the tissue as a whole.

Even healthy brains lose some cells over time, but the image on the right reveals how dramatic cell loss in the brain of an Alzheimer's victim can be.

Brain cells are lost and shrink.

Patients lose certain brain cells in the hypothalamus, leading to a deficiency of hypocretin, a molecule that helps regulate the sleep - wake cycle.

Because stem cells have the ability to develop into many different cell types in the body, researchers at USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery & Brain Repair have focused on using stem cells to restore function lost through neurodegenerative disorders or injuries.

Mouse embryonic stem cells injected into rat brains express the AHD2 protein marker (yellow) characteristic of cells lost in Parkinson's disease.

Researchers in the US and Sweden say that the protein can prevent the destruction of brain cells that are lost in Parkinson's, and protect the motor neurons which control muscles.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the need for stem cell transplants to replenish lost cells.

«The scans don't have the resolution to determine whether brain cells have shrunk or been lost completely,» he added.

«We know that people with Alzheimer's lose brain volume, which may be a poor replacement of nerve cells.

If these «jumping genes» lose their normal controls as a person ages, they could start to wreak havoc on the machinery that supplies energy to brain cells — leading to a loss of neurons and ultimately dementia, the researchers say.

We're still a long way off from being able to replace the brain cells that are being lost in HD, but this research is an important step down that path, and is a great tool to study HD.

These studies are yielding novel ways to keep this network functional when relevant brain cells and chemicals are lost as a result of the disease.

The brains of aging humans are prone to neurodegenerative disorders and we are unable to counteract neuronal loss by regenerating lost cells.

Caused by a mutation in the gene for a protein called huntingtin, the disease damages brain cells so that people with Huntington's progressively lose their ability to walk, talk, think and reason.

The transplants helped to replenish the brain by replacing cells lost due to apoE4, regulating brain activity and improving learning and memory abilities.

For example, during a stroke, brain cells are irreparably damaged; stem cells could kick - start the regenerative process and undergo specialization to replace the lost cells.

Mice with a single insult temporarily lose 10 - 15 percent of the neuronal connections in their brains, but no inflammation or cell death resulted.

How the other great apes lost the cells remains unknown, but the researchers theorize genetic disruptions affecting the cells» migration to different parts of the brain, differentiation, or survival could have led to the loss.

Thanks to recent technological developments, new insights into brain health, and some creative thinking, two Gladstone scientists are embarking on research to replace lost or malfunctioning brain cells with new ones created from stem cells.