Sentences with phrase «marker of brain health»

A key marker of brain health is gray matter volume.

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High content of long - chain omega - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in blood is a marker for high intake of fatty fish, so the results from the current study support the beneficial effects of fish consumption on brain health.

«There is a tendency to think of depression as a purely «psychological» or»em otional» issue, but it also has physical effects and changes in inflammatory and immune markers have been reported in depressed people,» commented Scott Patten, MD, PhD, the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, Cumming School of Medicine.

Olfactory health — how well we are able to smell — is a reliable marker of the health of the brain, but the «smell identification tests» commonly used in studies of olfactory health do not offer a complete picture of what is happening.

«Finding this association with a strong marker of Alzheimer's disease risk reinforces the idea that being underweight as you get older may not be a good thing when it comes to your brain health,» he added.

Some studies have shown decreased inflammation markers, improved blood markers of heart health, decreased risk of cancer (in animals), increased BDNF hormone in the brain (which may aid in brain health), and extended lifespan (in animals).

Studies have shown that exercise is linked to improvements in virtually every health marker you can think of — cardiovascular health, brain health, blood sugar, weight, emotional health, etc..

Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity (AoPWV) is proven to be a marker of heart health, brain health, and risk of death from all causes

A 2012 study showed blunted cortisol response and higher inflammatory markers at blood mercury levels well below the EPA's established level for potential health risks (5.8 micrograms per liter).10 In addition, four neurodevelopmental disorders (attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder, autism, seizures and stutter) affect almost 11 percent of all U.S. births, up 30 percent over the past decade.11 Subclinical decrements in brain function are even more common, affecting up to 15 percent of births.12

«We think that these brain changes provide a neurobiological marker for improved executive control and stress resilience, such that mindfulness meditation training improves your brain's ability to help you manage stress, and these changes improve a broad range of stress - related health outcomes, such as your inflammatory health,» Creswell said.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10