Sentences with phrase «more white matter»

Generally, a woman's brain is more complicated than a man's because it contains more white matter than a man's.
What they've found so far shows that older adults who are lifelong bilinguals have more white matter in their frontal lobes (important to executive function) than monolinguals, and that their temporal lobes (important to language function) are better preserved.
In areas of the brain previously linked to IQ, the star percussionists also had more white matter — the fatty material that sheathes connections between neurons and boosts signal speed — indicating a larger amount of neural hookups there.
Bad navigators, on the other hand, have more white matter — which connects gray matter areas with each other — in a brain area called the caudate nucleus.
The male brain, by contrast, is filled with more white matter, which consists of longer neuron fibers coated with a fatty myelin sheath that communicate with more distant regions of the brain.
When Jan Scholz and his colleagues at the University of Oxford looked at brain scans of new jugglers they found that the 24 young men and women had grown more white matter after six weeks of juggling training.
(Females have more white matter, the tissue that connects different parts of the brain while men have more grey matter, which handles information processing.)

Not exact matches

It's a white lives matter more when we actually look at how the death penalty is applied and that should be very troubling to all of us.»
White announced in a late March speech that «in order to more fully inform the commission's decision on this matter,» she had directed SEC staff to compile a list of all those options, including, she said, «a uniform fiduciary standard for broker - dealers and investment advisors when dealing with retail customers, and other measures that may be more targeted and achievable in the shorter term.»
They think voters are fed up with the chaos in the White House and Trump's behavior, and that will matter more when voters enter the polls than the level of the stock market or how many jobs there are.
An April 5 Associated Press story followed by a similar April 7 Washington Post story both asserted that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was suffering from diminished clout in the White House, as a more confident President Trump feels comfortable taking matters directly to new hires like John Bolton and Larry Kudlow, chatting on the phone with outside advisers, and firing Cabinet secretaries over Kelly's objections.
White evangelicals and black Protestants are more likely to say that it «really matters» who wins the election and to follow the news about the candidates closely.
To really affirm that black lives do matter is to say we all agree that white lives don't matter more than black lives.
To really affirm that black lives do matter is to say we all agree that white lives don't matter more or less than black lives.
For if a husband may lord it over his wife, then it is only a matter of establishing additional categories as the human race increases and civilization becomes more complex: chiefs and little people, conquering tribe and conquered tribes, white people and dark people, rich and poor, the «civilized» and the «barbarians.»
It's more than just not believing in something, it's a constant reminder that no matter what you do that is good in this world, you are considered, by the majority, a piece of trash if you don't believe in white apples.
Two - thirds of white evangelicals (64 %) said they would be more likely to vote for someone who had served in the military, while 29 percent said it didn't matter.
It really doesn't matter what time of day, month (haha), or year it is; if it's dark, milk, or white; whether it's melted or chunked or mixed with nuts or fruits or more sugar... I want it all.
The plot to remove him from such matters was hatched by Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig, Chicago White Sox mogul Jerry Reinsdorf and PRC president Richard Ravitch, who apparently isn't satisfied that he makes $ 100,000 more annually than Vincent ($ 750,000 to $ 650,000).
Yet, for now, getting through to the Group Stages is all that matters, and that is more than achievable for the Blue - White - Sky Blues.
Indeed, the 2014 University of Rochester study [23] suggests that, «rather than monitor total head hits, as [was initially suggested [by Sports Legacy Institute in its much publicized Hit Count program], it may be more effective to monitor those hits that are most likely to produce [white matter] changes, which Bazarian and his colleagues found were when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration of 4500 rads / sec2exceeded 30 - 40 for the season, and when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration.6000 rads / sec2 exceeded 10 - 15 for the season.
The concept of a passive, «we just want to help ourselves,» white nationalism is forever tainted by its associations with white supremacy, much like the passive ends of the Black Lives Matter movement and their more violent ends, or progressive protestors and Anti-Fa.
Social skills matter much more than before, especially given the changing labour market and more jobs appearing in white collar work.
March 5, 2010 Pomona hearing 1:00 - 4:00 PM Health and Mental Health Transportation, Economic Development, Environmental Conservation Rockland County Fire Training Center Auditorium 35 Firemen's Memorial Drive, Pomona, NY 10970 Contact: Dan Moscato at (845) 425-1818 or [email protected] March 12, 2010 Bronxville hearing 4:00 - 7:00 PM Education, Labor and Family Assistance Public Protection and General Government Concordia College Sommer Center for Worship & the Performing Arts 171 White Plains Road, Bronxville, NY 10708 Contact: Shelley Andrews at (518) 455-3595 or [email protected] The Hudson Valley Delegation of the New York State Senate In an effort to ensure the Hudson Valley is fairly represented in all legislative matters before the Senate, nine local Senators representing the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester have formed a bipartisan delegation to more effectively advocate for the needs and concerns of their constituents.
After four more weeks without juggling, the extra white matter remained, suggesting that the change is permanent.
Learning itself seemed to matter more than the skill attained, because white matter increased similarly in good and bad jugglers.
Patients showing gadolinium in the vitreous chamber at the later timepoint tended to be of older age, have a history of hypertension, and have more bright spots on their brain scans, called white matter hyperintensities, that are associated with brain aging and decreased cognitive function.
Matter falling from a companion star onto a white dwarf might have induced a thermonuclear chain reaction that forced the dwarf to expand radically without exploding into a more common nova, Bond notes.
The neocortex, the convoluted structure that covers much of the mammalian brain like a sheet and controls motor actions, language, and sensing, is more than just a tangle of gray and white matter.
For instance, a previous study discovered significant differences between male and female brains in four regions of white matter — and that female - to - male trans individuals who hadn't had sex reassignment surgery had white matter in these regions that more closely resembled a male brain.
«We now have white matter tracts that allows for faster, more effective communication from one region in the brain to another after injury.»
If you're one of the 5 per cent of the population who has severe insomnia — trouble sleeping for more than a month — then your brain's white matter might be to blame.
Those scans showed that players who reported heading the ball the most had more changes to the white matter.
Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).
DTI has been shown to be a more sensitive method of measuring white matter damage and may provide images that better correlate with cognitive dysfunction.
Migration of hGDAs in white matter was more extensive than in gray matter, with both types of hGDAs showing extensive migration both rostral and caudal to the injury site, with maximum rostral / caudal migration distances of 3.24 mm / 3.96 mm recorded for hGDAsCNTF and 2.52 mm / 2.16 mm recorded for hGDAsBMP respectively.
Many, many more specialized cells called «glia» protect and support neurons in gray matter, and provide insulation for their delicate interconnections (called axons) in the «white matter
A second grant funds a pilot study using diffuser tensor imaging to identify whether damage to the brain's white matter correlates with cognitive decline in individuals with MS. Dr. Genova's aim is to develop more effective strategies for maintaining cognition and quality of life.
Using a mouse model for this disease, which in humans involves the destruction of white matter in the brain, a research team led by Albee Messing, director of the UW — Madison Waisman Center, found that a protein behind the symptoms of the disease, called GFAP, is broken down more rapidly in the body than researchers previously found in cell culture studies.
He then describes a few more problems: organoids don't display white matter (a prominent component of human brains), lack some cells types and don't have sensory input.
However, a more thorough analysis of the data revealed that the risk was being driven by women with signs of cerebrovascular disease — either a previous stroke or signs of white matter damage in their brains.
In one study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, students who learned a new language grew more complex white matter, aka the communications network.
No matter how advanced a trainee or how much of a «know it all» you consider yourself, I'll bet a white elephant when backing my opinion that Nick knows something more - which fortunately he is willing to share.
A diagnosis of MS requires evidence of two or more lesions involving different regions of the central white matter, occurring at different times.
No matter what, you can't really go wrong with wearing a little white dress more than once throughout the week.
Pocketed, patterned with kitties, and made all the more lovable with white ears on the top of its hood, this ModCloth - exclusive loungewear is so comfy that the way which you pass the time doesn't really matter.
Only making matters seemingly more difficult, some of the best dresses only come in white.
Growing acceptance of black white interracial dating, is expected to blend our country even more in the coming decades, «In a matter of years we'll have Interracial Match otherwise sexed ourselves into one giant amalgamated mega-race.»
No matter you are black or white, do not worry about the difference of the races, enjoy your first date and other more date in the future.
«Get Out» makes black lives matter far more than they traditionally have in movies, particularly in the horror genre, simply by depicting the reality of being a marginalized minority in white - dominated spaces.
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