Sentences with phrase «more brain volume»

The researchers obtained brain MRI scans on participants before and after the study, and found that resveratrol - treated patients lost more brain volume than the placebo - treated group.

A new study shows that older people who followed a Mediterranean diet retained more brain volume over a three - year period than those who did not follow the diet as closely.

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Infants grow new synapses, or neural connections, at a rate of 40,000 new synapses a second, and the brain more than doubles in volume across the first year.

Recall that breastfed infants wake up much more frequently and at shorter intervals than do bottle fed infants since cows milk is designed for cow brain growth (much less volume compared with human brains) and body growth rates while breast milk has just the right composition which means fast burning sugars and much less protein and fat... for that ever - growing human infant brain which triples in size in the first year.

With MRI scans, we found that babies fed more breast milk had larger brain volumes.»

The researchers found that when kids had three or more adverse experiences, they also had smaller brain volumes that, in turn, were associated with lower scores on a scale that measures how well a child expresses emotions.

Recent studies suggest that the total loss in brain volume due to atrophy — a wasting away of tissue caused by cell degeneration — between our teen years and old age is 15 percent or more, which means that by the time we're in our seventies, our brains have shrunk to the size they were when we were between 2 and 3 years old.

Holdcroft believes that the changes in the brain are more likely to be the result of changes in the volume of individual cells, rather than changes in the number of cells in the brain.

Among their goals for this system are: a higher density electrode array to allow for more precise targeting on neurons, new recording circuits that vastly increase the volume of data captured, and a new wireless power and telemetry technology that allows for real - time data transmission from the brain.

«It was particularly exciting to see plasticity in the neurons impaired by mHTT,» said Davidson, noting that in the HD mice, brain areas that had begun to atrophy recovered volume and permitted better motor function after the researchers restored mTORC1 activity to more normal levels.

For example, some twins who had undergone the operation and had apparently normal brains when screened using ultrasound showed differences in brain volume when screened using the more sensitive MRI technique.

But where Galen passed down only words — and often grossly inaccurate ones — Vesalius produced a volume of more than 200 woodcuts of human skeletal structure, brain tissue, and more.

As the sound gets louder, more neurons fire simultaneously, which in turn allows the brain to detect the change in volume.

Compared to the people with no elevated levels, people with elevated levels on three or more biomarkers had on average 5 percent lower volume in the hippocampus and other areas of the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease.

More specifically, the researchers have confirmed that physical fitness in children (especially aerobic capacity and motor ability) is associated with a greater volume of gray matter in several cortical and subcortical brain regions.

«We wanted to learn more about how the brain is different in Down Syndrome compared to typical development, so we measured surface area and thickness, which both contribute to cortical volume but are determined by different genetic factors.»

Myelin enables neuronal signals to be transmitted more rapidly, and neuronal fibers to be connected to distant targets in a more organized way, with minimal volume expansion of the brain.

Erickson's more recent work looks at whether the hippocampus volume gained through exercise leads to improved memory, and what kinds and intensities of exercise are most beneficial for the brain.

More than half the infants had microcephaly, brain calcifications, loss of brain tissue volume, and other brain structural abnormalities, the researchers found.

Researchers from the Wake Forest School of Medicine found that aerobic exercise appears to boost thinking skills and brain volume in adults diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, a condition that sits in between normal age - related memory decline and more serious dementia.

Those with greater symptoms of depression also had smaller brain volume and were 55 percent more likely to have small vascular lesions in the brain.

Whether staying hydrated reduces other types of headaches, including tension headaches, isn't clear, but keeping your blood volume high helps deliver more oxygen to the brain.

Those who followed the diet less closely were more likely to have a higher loss of total brain volume over the 3 years than those who adhered to the diet more closely.

Cavaliers have a similar skull volume to other Toy breeds but more brain tissue within the skull.

[11] Some research has indicated that smaller hippocampal volumes are genetically determined, and certain genes can increase the chances of someone's brain being more adversely affected by stress.

The researchers found that when kids had three or more adverse experiences, they also had smaller brain volumes that, in turn, were associated with lower scores on a scale that measures how well a child expresses emotions.

Increased volume in this brain region is associated with more optimal development of a number of psychosocial factors (e.g., stress reactivity).15 Links between early responsive parenting and increased volume in the hippocampal region also suggest that the early developmental period is an important time to facilitate responsive parenting practices, especially in high risk families, in order to enhance the parent - child relationship.