Sentences with phrase «make new brain cell»

They also stopped making new brain cells, something that has also been seen in other animal models of depression.

They had more inflammation - causing immune cells in their brains, as expected, but they also stopped making new brain cells.

The virus selectively infects cells that form the brain's cortex, or outer layer, making them more likely to die and less likely to divide normally and make new brain cells.

Its assault made those cells more likely to die and less likely to divide normally and make new brain cells.

They're not making new brain cells but they may be enhancing the repair processes and reducing inflammatory damage.»

Dan Peterson of 80percentmental does a nice job of summing up some of the benefits here: increasing blood flow to the brain, making new brain cells, managing glucose.

Most people with major depressive disorder (MDD) have higher levels of inflammation in the brain and have trouble making new brain cells (neurogenesis).

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And you'll also feel smarter; exercise creates new brain cells and makes those new cells more effective.

Yang said the study not only indicated which genes are affected by traumatic brain injury and linked to serious disease, but also might point to the genes that govern metabolism, cell communication and inflammation — which might make them the best targets for new treatments for brain disorders.

In another group, the disabled gene made it difficult for fly brain cells to reinforce new connections that encode memories.

A single genetic mutation made the Zika virus far more dangerous by enhancing its ability to kill nerve cells in developing brains, a new study suggests.

Study casts doubt on whether adult brain's memory - forming region makes new cells.

The debate over how long our brains keep making new nerve cells heats up.

Scientists at Barrow Neurological Institute have recently made discoveries about use of a new technology for imaging brain tumors in the operating room — a finding that could have important implications for identifying and locating invading cells at the edge of a brain tumor.

«Cocaine makes brain cells cannibalize themselves, new evidence in mice shows: Compound counteracts the process.»

«Everybody else hopes that you can make use of that [nerve cell production] to treat neurodegenerative diseases,» such as Parkinson's disease, or even to encourage the aging brain to regenerate by stimulating the production of new nerve cells, he says.

Young mice paired with old mice (left chart, two - toned) made fewer new cells in the brain's hippocampus than when paired with another young mouse (yellow).

Old mice made hundreds more new brain cells when paired with a young mouse (right chart, two - toned) than when paired with an old mouse (teal).

A new study of brain cells in this area finds that firing these neurons at one frequency makes the brain treat novel images as old hat.

«This work is exciting because they've shown that pre-stimulating an area of the brain necessary for the task makes processing faster,» says Arnd Pralle of the State University of New York at Buffalo, who uses magnetism instead of light to activate brain cells in worms.

Steve: We've got some other fun stuff, saving new brain cells, it turns out that when you challenge your brain, you do a really good job of making sure that the brain cells that are forming to deal with that information also stick around longer.

Steve: I suggest that to really encourage your brain to be nimble, just keep reading that article on the quantum threat to special relativity, that'll just light up your brain and make new cells and keep them young and keep them fast.

«In those that didn't learn, three weeks after the new brain cells were made, nearly one - half of them were no longer there,» said Shors, professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers.

To make impressions last, however, brain cells have to run a specific genetic program and synthesize new proteins.

Studying a new type of pinhead - size, lab - grown brain made with technology first suggested by three high school students, Johns Hopkins researchers have confirmed a key way in which Zika virus causes microcephaly and other damage in fetal brains: by infecting specialized stem cells that build its outer layer, the cortex.

New techniques combining various staining methods with electron and light microscopy make it possible to investigate in detail the connections among nerve cells and the circuitry of the brain

But new research on the brain's blood supply has uncovered changes in HD that could be making it harder for the brain cells to cope with the disease.

«We needed to find a way to make millions of new cells in the lab, and then get them into the human brain,» said Studer.

The scientists implanted neural stem cells into the hippocampus, which is a brain region involved in making new memories and connecting them to emotions.

Now researchers at UC San Francisco have taken the first step toward a comprehensive atlas of gene expression in cells across the developing human brain, making available new insights into how specific cells and gene networks contribute to building this most complex of organs, and serving as a resource for researchers around the world to study the interplay between these genetic programs and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, intellectual disability and schizophrenia.

Surprisingly, the new brain cells made appropriate connectionions with the adult brains they were born in.

We are using a new technique, called single cell RNA sequencing, to isolate thousands of single neurons from human brain tissue, study all the genes that are expressed in each individual cell, and make cell - to - cell comparisons between normal, early stage and late stage AD.

And within the brain the synapse maps are constantly being revised and rearranged as the cells make new connections and break others.

Describing the brain as a big circuit board in which each new experience creates a new circuit, Hopkins neuroscience professor Richard Huganir, Ph.D. says that he and his team found that during emotional peaks, the hormone norepinephrine dramatically sensitizes synapses - the site where nerve cells make an electro - chemical connection - to enhance the sculpting of a memory into the big board.

Our scientists have made vital contributions to finding new and better ways to diagnose and treat brain and nerve cell tumours.

But the central nervous system, meaning the brain and spinal cord, is different, and medical wisdom held that no new brain cells, neurons, are made after early childhood.

In general, old and young brains were capable of making the same number of new neurons from more primitive «progenitor» cells in the hippocampus.

One of Frankland's own studies in mice, for example, found that as new brain cells are formed in the hippocampus — a region of the brain associated with learning new things — those new connections overwrite old memories and make them harder to access.

Vitamin B6 helps with new cell formation, making it essential for brain, cardiovascular, nervous system, and skin health.

Brain cells pick up the labeled leucine over the course of hours and it's incorporated into new copies of amyloid - beta and other proteins they make.

Prior research had developed a number of new compounds making use of a novel drug discovery paradigm which begins with natural products extracted from plants; it then entails selecting synthetic derivatives which demonstrate efficacy in multiple assays testing protection against different factors of the nerve cell damage and death which take place in brain injuries and in age - associated neurodegenerative conditions.

In this episode Rhonda talks about how heat stress from using the sauna makes the body more resilient to the stresses of aging, possible reasons why one study associated sauna use with up to a 40 % lower all - cause mortality as well as a 50 % lower cardiovascular disease related mortality, how it enhances athletic endurance, staves off muscle atrophy, improves regrowth of muscle after disuse, and some of the profound effects on the brain, including the growth of new brain cells, improvement in focus, learning, and memory, and even potentially ameliorating depression and anxiety.

Chronically high cortisol levels, which are associated with stress, have been shown to kill brain cells, cause premature aging in the brain, and decrease the rate at which new brain cells are made.

Lastly, we also have studies that have shown that cortisol decreases the rate at which new brain cells are made.

This is, of course, to be expected, since the body will begin the process of gluconeogenesis (making of new glucose) in order to supply the brain and certain other parts that need glucose (renal medulla and red blood cells).

Brain cells can form new connections and grow bigger, so we can make new memories and learn new skills at every age.

It makes way for new nerves to form, enhancing communication between brain cells.

For decades, researchers believed that aging brains stop making new cells.

A recent study at Princeton University has shown that, while it's making us happy, sex can also promote the growth of new brain cells and reduce stress [2].