Sentences with phrase «normal brain processes»

These changes affect normal brain processes, such as development or memory, and abnormal brain processes, such as depression, drug dependence, and other psychiatric disease — and can pass down to subsequent generations.

Early life stress, such as an extreme lack of parental affection, has lasting effects on a gene important to normal brain processes and is also tied to mental disorders.

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She found that milestone achievement was abnormal in these monkeys: at six to eight weeks they were slow in starting to manipulate, and at ten months the increase in «motor disturbance behaviors» that normally occurs was prolonged.101 The author concludes, «These effects could occur as a result of effects on vulnerable brain processes during a sensitive period, interference with programming of [normal] brain development by endogenous [internal] agents or alteration in early experiences.»

A baby at the breast is getting their immune system developed, activating their thymus, staying warm, feeling safe from predators, having normal sleep patterns and wiring their brain, and (oh by the way) getting some food in the process.

DAWN THOMPSON: By the way that also helps establish breast milk guys, it also helps all those oxytocin, we release all these other things in your brain, we are just messing with the process way too much so every opportunity that we can to get back to the normal natural process of childbirth is important and that includes how we treat the babies when they come out.

These are completely normal and reasonable physiological characteristics of this age: during the shallow sleep the brain is actively developing, information obtained during his waking time is being processed and analyzed; the body is storing energy and strength for the next day.

He also has been arrested several times (for very good reason) as you are not suppose to threaten the life of your ex and offer harm to your own children in the process... As for MJ, he sounds like a normal citizen with half a brain and who knows, maybe he is a cop maybe he isn't who cares?

The latest findings show that genetic defects in the body's ability to manufacture carnitine might be associated with an increased risk of autism because carnitine deficiency interferes with the normal processes by which neural stem cells promote and organize embryonic and fetal brain development.

As Harvard University psychologist Alfonso Caramazza will explain in a lecture, scientists often make inferences about how the normal language system works by examining people who have damage to the areas of the brain that process language.

Surviving axons may compensate for the damage by increasing electrical signaling and thus restoring the normal speed of information processing in the brain.

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).

«When we hear a sound, the normal aging brain keeps the sound in check during processing, but those with MCI have lost this inhibition and it was as if the flood gates were open since their neural response to the same sounds were over-exaggerated,» says Dr. Gavin Bidelman, first author on the study, a former RRI post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor at the University of Memphis.

Understanding how threat is processed in a normal brain versus one altered by PTSD is essential to developing effective interventions.

«As opposed to the normal process of gradually linking up different centers in the brain after a stimulus, chronic pain patients have conditions that predispose them to linking up in an abrupt, explosive manner,» says first author UnCheol Lee, Ph.D., a physicist and assistant professor of anesthesiology at Michigan Medicine.

Using magnetic stimulation to temporarily disrupt normal processing of the areas of the human brain involved in the production of actions of human participants, it is demonstrated that these areas are also involved in the understanding of actions.

Glioblastoma is the most lethal form of primary brain tumor and leads to death in patients by invading the brain tissue in a process that allows single cells to move through normal brain tissue, which makes complete surgical removal of the tumor impossible.

This approach parallels our study of «normal» illusions — by understanding misperceptions, whether for intact or damaged systems, we gain insight into brain processes involved in perception.

Activity in the amygdala, a brain region associated with emotional processing, was lower in the tinnitus and hearing - loss patients than in people with normal hearing.

Patients with persistent ringing in the ears — a condition known as tinnitus — process emotions differently in the brain from those with normal hearing, researchers report in the journal Brain Resebrain from those with normal hearing, researchers report in the journal Brain ReseBrain Research.

So if we can understand synapses a little bit better, we'll be able to understand the normal function of the brain, how it processes information, how it learns, and what goes wrong when you have, say, schizophrenia.»

The researchers concluded that TN possessed a rare form of «blindsight» wherein a brain - damaged person with normal eyes can't process visual information but can still subconsciously react to it.

Throughout our lives the brain's junctions are trimmed and pruned — a process that is crucial to normal development.

They suspected that MSI1 — an RNA binding protein — might be important in this process because it is involved in regulating the pool of neural stem cells that are required for normal brain development.

It may explain why we sometimes see adverse effects on brain development in those born only slightly prematurely as we now know that this process is happening right up to the normal time of birth.

It's known that the human brain process upside - down images in a different way than normal facial images.

«The dose - dependent and strong positive relationship between these two findings suggest that the psychosis - like effects of cannabis may be related to neural noise which disrupts the brain's normal information processing,» added first author Dr. Jose Cortes - Briones, a Postdoctoral Associate in Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.

Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, McGill University, have made important discoveries about a cellular process that occurs during normal brain development and may play an important role in neurodegenerative diseases.

«We were able to use a set of cutting - edge tools to gain insight into a critical cellular process for normal brain development, the dysregulation of which may be a manifestation of a genetic predisposition for schizophrenia,» says senior author Dr. Guo - li Ming, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Patients with persistent ringing in the ears — a condition known as tinnitus — process emotions differently in the brain from those with normal hearing, researchers report in the journal Brain Resebrain from those with normal hearing, researchers report in the journal Brain ReseBrain Research.

«We discovered that these fatty acids are produced by the brain, that they build up slowly with normal aging, but that the process is accelerated significantly in the presence of genes that predispose to Alzheimer's disease,» explained Karl Fernandes.

Treatment of the mice with insulin, either by normal injection or injection into the fluid surrounding the brain, reversed the process.

Raichle's most recent research has helped in the development of a much better understanding of those areas of the normal human brain responsible for language, thought processing and emotion.

Using a new imaging technique, the scientists monitored the formation of insulating layers around nerve cells, a process called myelination, which is vital for normal brain function.

Such changes in neuronal function are likely to play important roles in all normal physiological processes in the brain and are critical for development of a variety of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, epilepsy, drug dependence and other neurological and psychiatric disorders.

For the study, Hill compared brain tissue from normal and Parkinson's - like rats using ion mobility — mass spectrometry (IMMS), a process that analyzes both the weight and speed of chemical molecules.

Palop studies how normal processes in the brain are impaired by neurological diseases, particularly Alzheimer's disease.

389/12: 00 WD - repeat 47 is essential for the normal brain development through interaction with SCG10 in tubulin - associated processes.

«Although we do need to accept that some of these changes are influenced by genetic predispositions and are part of the normal ageing process, there are ways to delay and even prevent age - related changes to your brain,» says clinical psychologist Dr Lillian Nejad.

This suggests the importance of zinc in the normal and pathological processes of the cerebral cortex.37 Furthermore, age - related tissue zinc deficiency may contribute to brain cell death in Alzheimer's dementia.38

Formation of free radicals can affect the normal processes such as brain functioning.

In a normal brain, vitamin B12 allows cells to form new connections, a process that allows memory formation.

«Clinically and cognitively normal individuals with and without AD risk factors, following dietary patterns characterized by high intakes of whole grains, fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, fish, and low - fat dairy products (which provide higher intakes of vitamin B12, vitamin D, and n - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids) and by low intakes of refined sugars, French fries, high - fat dairy products, butter, and processed meat, show lower accumulation of Aβ in the brain and higher cerebral glucose metabolism, as evidenced by neuroimaging analysis of gray matter volumes (a marker of brain atrophy), C - Pittsburgh compound B (to measure the accumulation of fibrillar Aβ), and F - fluorodeoxyglucose (to assess brain glucose metabolism.»

For nearly 2800 years the Chinese have used extracts from the ginkgo biloba tree to treat a variety of conditions to maintain the healthy normal function of the brain, cardiovascular, blood and blood vessels, circulatory, and metabolic processes.

The trauma from the injury causes brain tissue to swell, which can halt normal processes like breathing and digestion.