Sentences with phrase «normal adult brains»

Determination of transporter distributions and densities around select synapses in normal adult brains and how these parameters change during development, ageing, drug use and disease

The Zika virus can cross the blood - brain barrier, and could target cancer cells, sparing normal adult brain tissue and opening a potential new way to attack the disease.

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«Is this pathway of the normal developing brain somehow reactivated in the adult brain in the case of neuro - injury or neurodegenerative disease?»

Within older adults who scored below the normal benchmark on a dementia screening test, but have no noticeable communication problems, scientists have discovered a new potential predictor of early dementia through abnormal functionality in regions of the brain that process speech (the brainstem and auditory cortex).

Investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital examined the association of brain amyloid beta and longitudinal measures of depression and depressive symptoms in cognitively normal, older adults.

Infants can sustain massive brain damage, up to the loss of an entire cerebral hemisphere, and still develop into nearly normal adults; any adult who loses half the brain, by contrast, is a goner.

These optimal outcomes include increased IQ, increased adaptive and social behaviors as well as promoting the normal development of the brain and behavior that optimizes a child's potential to participate meaningfully in the community into their adult years.

What brain imaging has made possible is being able to take live human beings — we call them normal human adults; in my lab they're MIT undergrads — put them in a scanner, and get them to do all kinds of things.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, could help explain how some older adults with beta - amyloid deposits in their brain retain normal cognitive function while others develop dementia.

For the study, Frank Lin, M.D., Ph.D., and his colleagues used information from the ongoing Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging to compare brain changes over time between adults with normal hearing and adults with impaired hearing.

With clinical trials underway, it's all the more important to understand the role of normal huntingtin in the adult brain.

Scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have discovered how HIV / AIDS disrupts the normal replication of stem cells in the adult brain, preventing new nerve cells from forming.

We find that if neurogenesis occurs in the adult hippocampus in humans, it is an extremely rare phenomenon, raising questions about its contribution to brain repair or normal brain function.

The six tumors with matched normal DNA harbored 15 somatic mutations on average (range 3 - 31), a mutation rate lower than adult GBM but higher than another pediatric brain tumor, medulloblastoma.

It may stave off dementia Among patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (age 60 and older), those with lower physical fitness levels (measured by cardiovascular tests on a treadmill) had four times more brain shrinkage when compared to normal adults than those who were more physically fit, according to a recent study from the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

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.

That means I need to find ways to increase BDNF more than in someone with the normal gene in order to preserve my cognitive function, memory, and emotional regulation.8 Mu, J.S., et al. «Deprivation of Endogenous Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor Results in Impairment of Spatial Learning and Memory in Adult... continue 9Cirulli, F., et al. «Intrahippocampal Administration of BDNF in Adult Rats Affects Short - term Behavioral Plasticity in the Morris Water Maze and... continue

For example, Mcdonald claimed that healthy, moderately active adults require at least 200 g of carbohydrate daily to sustain normal brain metabolism and muscle function [17].