Sentences with phrase «measuring brain health»

The result was — completely unexpectedly — a new method for measuring brain health.

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Affordable three - stage head health management system that measures and records head impact data, profiles an athlete's head health over time, and provides diagnostic tools to detectand help prevent traumatic brain injury from undetected cumulative concussions.

In this study, Faculty of Health researchers were looking at fMRI brain scans of professional ballet dancers to measure the long - term effects of learning.

Data on the intensities of physical activity were then statistically analyzed to determine how they corresponded with glucose metabolism — a measure of neuronal health and activity — in areas of the brain known to have depressed glucose metabolism in people with Alzheimer's disease.

Sound processing in the brain really is a measure of brain health.»

«This diagnostic advancement provides us with a more precise ruler for measuring the effectiveness of diagnosis, treatment and progression of TBI,» says Mony J. de Leon, EdD, director of the Center for Brain Health at NYU Langone, professor of psychiatry and an investigator with NYU's Steven and Alexandra Cohen Veterans Center.

If the trend is driven by midlife factors such as building «brain reserve» and maintaining heart health, as some experts suspect, this could lend credence to staying mentally engaged and taking cholesterol - lowering drugs as preventive measures.

With colleagues, and in collaboration with the Department of Health, we have devised a practical way to measure the incidence rate of brain injury in babies.»

The research, commissioned by the Department of Health, is the first to present estimates for the number of babies with brain injuries based on a definition that includes multiple conditions in one measure.

Lead author Nora Volkow, a psychiatrist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health, recruited 47 healthy volunteers and used positron emission tomography (PET) scans to measure glucose metabolism in the brain while cell phones were placed over the right or left ear.

They looked at whether a chemical change (methylation) in the function of the SKA2 gene measured in blood predicted the thickness of brain cortex (a measure of neuronal health) and psychological symptoms, specifically PTSD and depression.

The volume of gray matter is a measure of brain health, but the amount of gray matter in the brain often begins to decrease in late adulthood, even before symptoms of cognitive dysfunction appear.

Moreover, it seems that the immune system itself can affect the brain to such an extent that the person's cognitive ability measured by an IQ test will also be impaired many years after the infection has been cured,» explains MD and PhD Michael Eriksen Benrós, who is affiliated with the National Centre for Register - Based Research at Aarhus BSS and the Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen.

The new approach, published today in the International Journal of Stroke, can quantify visible brain injury from cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) and brain atrophy by translating the million plus bits of information stored in brain scans into a single measure, the «brain health index.»

Patients were then given memory and other cognitive tests to measure brain function, allowing scientists to establish strong correlations between exercise, brain health, and cognition.

By using fMRI, the researchers were able to measure people's brain activity in real time as they viewed the headlines and abstracts of 80 New York Times health articles and rated how likely they were to read and share them.

Deposits of tau in the brain have played a key role in CTE diagnoses, and the protein's link to concussions was bolstered by a recent study from the National Institutes of Health, which the agency said in a news release showed that «measuring tau levels could potentially be an unbiased tool to help prevent athletes from returning to action too soon and risking further neurological injury.»

It's important for artery and brain health, and when elevated, it may be due to a genetic defect in the MTHFR gene, which is also easily measured.

Although a few studies in the past have examined the link between brain health and trans fats, this study by Oregon Health and Science University in Portland was the first to measure blood levels of trans fats in relation to brain volume using MRI brain health and trans fats, this study by Oregon Health and Science University in Portland was the first to measure blood levels of trans fats in relation to brain volume using MRI brain Health and Science University in Portland was the first to measure blood levels of trans fats in relation to brain volume using MRI brain scans.

Much like a stethoscope or EKG would provide a gauge of the health of your cardiovascular system, REBA can gauge emotional blockages via a cord which is attached to your wrist, By sending a spectrum of brain wave frequencies that interfere with the coordination of the right and left side of the brain, a reaction profile and pattern is created and correlated with the four energetic levels — Vital, Emotional, Mental and Causal are measured.

But studies show that healthy, short - term, intermittent fasting triggers protective measures over brain cells, and results in other tremendous benefits to our health.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Successfully rehabilitated a patient who was suffering from altered brain activity due to drug abuse • Implemented a core mental health plan, which successfully treated a family suffering from mass hysteria • Intervened in a crises situation involving a 10 year old child threatening to jump off a third floor apartment and managed to talk him out of it • Formulated a system which dynamically measured the effectiveness of each mental health treatment plan and provided suggestions for improvement

Participants were recruited from two hospital sites in Melbourne (Australia), and were administered the standard QOLIBRI (Quality of Life after Brain Injury) questionnaire plus two different measures assessing depression (the recent World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and the much older Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)-RRB-, a measure of demoralization (Demoralization Scale (DS)-RRB- and psychological distress (K10).

ECD programmes can take many forms, including promotion of good health and nutrition, support for safe and stimulating environments, protection from risks such as violence or abandonment, parenting support and early learning experiences, media, preschools and community groups.4 Poverty is the key underlying cause of poor child development; children living in poverty are exposed to many negative influences, including poor physical environments, inadequate nutrition, parental stress and insufficient cognitive stimulation.5 Undernutrition can influence brain development directly by affecting brain structure and function, or indirectly via poor physical or motor development, in addition to other pathways.6 — 8 Exposure to multiple co-occurring risks most likely contributes to greater disparities in developmental trajectories among children with differential exposure.9 — 12 This paper focuses on associations between specific aspects of children's physical environments — access to improved water and sanitation (W&S)-- and childhood development as measured by performance on a test of receptive language.

Primary outcome measures are: carer preparedness measured by the Preparedness for Caregiving Scale28 and carer distress measured by the Distress Thermometer (DT).29, 30 Secondary outcome measures are carer anxiety and depression measured using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), 31 carer quality of life measured by the Caregiver Quality of Life Index — Cancer, 32 carer competence measured by the Carer Competence Scale, 33 carer supportive care needs measured by the «Partner and Caregivers Supportive Care Needs Scale ’34 and «Brain Tumour Specific Supportive Carer Needs for Carers Survey ’35 and health economic cost - consequences measured using a checklist of services used.