Sentences with phrase «normal development of the brain»

Many researchers still suspect that whether light sleep is vital for the normal development of the brain in all young mammals and infants.

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.

Researchers are using stem cells to help them understand normal development of brain tissue and what goes wrong in MS. Stem cells are also enormously useful for testing new drugs and treatments and for learning more about the body's natural repair mechanisms.

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According to the University of Maryland Medical Center polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)-- also known as omega - 3 fatty acids — play a crucial role in human brain function, as well as normal growth and development, with research showing that they can also reduce inflammation in addition to helping lower the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.

The loss of breastfeeding not only contributes to increased illness but also damages normal development, especially brain and neural development.

Another is that breast feeding promotes normal brain development and it's the baby's brain that controls function such as breathing and the heart rate and all those kinds of things.

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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.»

Following a nutritionally sound diet can better the chances of a normal birth - weight, improved fetal brain development, and decrease the chances of pregnancy complications.

A growing catalogue of peer - reviewed studies clearly assert that CIO harms normal brain development and damages a child's capacity to develop secure attachment bonds — essential to the cultivation of empathy, pro-social behavior, and future, healthy long - term relationships.

A psychologist friend of ours assured us that it's often just a normal part of brain development, and we employ a lot of the techniques you mentioned above.

The most recent evidence for an effect of infant feeding on cognitive development will be reviewed, but it will go beyond IQ, beyond just a number, and will look at the normal brain development that happens when infants are breastfed and what developmental, educational and social consequences occur when infants are artificially fed.

These oils are vital for the normal development of the retina, fetal nervous and immune systems and are essential for normal development of the fetal brain (70 % of all EFA»S go to the brain), They also help reduce your chances of developing preclampsia, reduce postpartum depression and minimize the chance of preterm labor.

Whole milk with 3 % or 2 % fat are most recommended for toddlers at this age, because this is the optimal percentage of fat necessary for normal brain development.

Folate is essential to the normal development of your baby's spine, brain and skull, especially during the first four weeks of your pregnancy.

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.

During normal brain development in the first weeks of life, precursor cells in the SVZ in the piglets give birth to neurons that migrate primarily to the prefrontal cortex, the team reports today in Science Translational Medicine.

Just before the teenage years, «the rate of growth for many skills kind of slows down,» says Deborah Waber, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School's Children's Hospital Boston and the lead author of a paper that reports the results of the behavioral component of the NIH Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Study of Normal Brain Development.

Work on animals has suggested that ultrasounds can in fact interfere with fetal brain development, derailing the normal movements of cells that populate the brain.

At the University of Southern California, researchers have isolated the two proteins in the Zika virus that seem to be the culprits «that block normal fetal brain development,» says Jae Jung, the study's lead author and a microbiologist at USC's Keck School of Medicine.

For example, brain anatomy could be more closely monitored in those people where there is suspicion of an increased risk of developing a mental disorder (the children of parents with mental health problems, for example), so that the probability of developing a pathology that interferes with their normal development can be estimated.

That's part of the challenge for clinicians who may not be familiar with ALD: «How do you know when this is a critical brain disease versus just a normal part of development?»

Lambs at a gestational age equivalent to that of a 23 - or 24 - week - old human fetus had normal lung and brain development after a month in the artificial womb, the researchers discovered.

Dozens of studies have shown, however, that MHCI is not only present throughout the healthy brain, but is essential for normal brain development and function, Boulanger said.

The new technique is equally important for neuroscientists who want to study normal brain development and the developmental origins of diseases such as autism, Thomason says.

Cortical thinning is a normal aspect of brain development during early childhood, so Lebel says the findings suggest that the brain may be developing prematurely in children whose mothers experience more depressive symptoms.

Preclinical studies suggest that Cdk5 is a gene that is important for the normal wiring of the brain during early development and may be involved in some neurodegenerative disorders, including ALS, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

A novel drug screening platform for zebrafish brain tumors was then designed to identify drugs that could eliminate brain tumors without affecting development of the normal brain.

The study supports the importance of the serotonin which is specified and maintained by a specific gene, the Pet - 1 gene — for normal functioning of the neurons, synapses and networks in the cortex, as well as proper development of brain circuitry.

«Normal maternal thyroid hormone levels are essential for normal fetal growth and brain development, so our findings could have significant public health implications,» said Jonathan Chevrier, a University of California, Berkeley epidemiologist and lead author of the study, which was published in the journal Environmental Health PerspecNormal maternal thyroid hormone levels are essential for normal fetal growth and brain development, so our findings could have significant public health implications,» said Jonathan Chevrier, a University of California, Berkeley epidemiologist and lead author of the study, which was published in the journal Environmental Health Perspecnormal fetal growth and brain development, so our findings could have significant public health implications,» said Jonathan Chevrier, a University of California, Berkeley epidemiologist and lead author of the study, which was published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

BDNF was then shown to be one of the most important factors that regulate the development of a normal brain circuit.

«Given our previous studies, we wondered whether Arc is essential for controlling the critical period of plasticity during normal brain development,» says Shepherd.

Researchers at the University of Montreal and its affiliated CHU Sainte - Justine Hospital found that the amino acid is essential for normal brain development.

In this case, prenatal brain development is initially normal, but then disrupted by the viral infection of neural progenitors.

This could, for example, be a normal brain and a diseased brain, or the same brain at two different stages of development.

The investigators reached this conclusion by comparing the integrity and development of the blood - brain barrier between two groups of mice: the first group was raised in an environment where they were exposed to normal bacteria, and the second (called germ - free mice) was kept in a sterile environment without any bacteria.

«A lot of work that initiated this project stemmed from what we learned about how these pathways work in normal brain development, and as we learn more about how it normally works we think it'll provide us with novel insight about how to target it in disease.»

The new strategy enables investigations into both normal brain development and the effects of a mother's diet or environment on the functional development of the fetal brain.

They have studied how «secondhand sugars» found in breast milk might negatively affect a baby's future body weight, how a concussion might interrupt a child's normal brain development and how teens in military families are at higher risk of depression and suicidal thoughts.

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.

A region of the gene that produces the PACAP38 protein has held nearly constant, even in humans, presumably because the protein plays diverse roles in neuron communication and is essential for normal development of the cerebellum, affecting brain cell migration, for example.

The research continues Hudziak's work with the National Institutes of Health Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Study of Normal Brain Development.

«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.

A major target of such poor development is the gut and thus any abnormality in gut nerve development (the gut contains more neurones than the spinal cord) would have a significant effect not only on gut functions and probably gut microbiome, but also on information flowing back to the brain that may cause interference in normal brain functions, perhaps precipitating ASD - like behaviour in a developmentally challenged brain.

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.

The researchers hope that their new imaging technique will allow doctors to directly measure whether the treatments given to premature infants encourage normal brain development, while also shedding light on the biological roots of a host of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Recapitulating features of the cerebral cortex in a dish opens up a window to explore the impact of drugs that, if added at the right time and at the right concentration, could potentially restore normal brain development.

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

In addition to the risk of second cancers decades later, radiation to growing bones and organs could impede normal development, and radiation to the brain, a common site of pediatric cancers, often resulted in impairments to learning and other cognitive brain functions.