Sentences with phrase «of decreased memory»

The mechanistic basis of decreased memory establishment secondary to enhanced TCR signaling is an area of ongoing investigation.

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The endless list of powers attributed to the Peruvian maca root (it's pronounced mah - cah) includes increased libido, decreased stress and enhanced memory.

We spoke with Neurotrack CEO Elli Kaplan, whose company recently launched an online assessment that helps people understand the state of their memory health, to learn about some of the ways you can potentially decrease your risk for Alzheimer's and cognitive decline more broadly.

With all these nutrients the dragon fruit can help improve memory and digestion, prevent formation of cancer causing free radicals, decrease bad cholesterol, strengthen bones and teeth, assist in healing cuts & bruises and... moisture & smoothen your skin.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

A study reported in the December issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology found that violent TV can «decrease viewers» memories of brand names and commercial messages.»

Lack of DHA in the body leads to serious consequences: inflammation of the skin, decreased learning ability, as well as disorders of concentration and memory, and these are some of the consequences.

A volume decrease in specific parts of the brain's hippocampus — long identified as a hub of mood and memory processing — was linked to bipolar disorder in a study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

In regions that had undergone improvements in living conditions and expansion of gender - equal educational opportunities, women displayed superior memory to men, men's advantage in mathematical abilities decreased, and equivalent abilities in category fluency were observed.

And the decrease in oxygenated blood flow and lower test performance were detected during certain, more cognitively strenuous aspects of neurocognitive testing: word memory, design memory and symbol matching.

After a two - week course of this multimodal regimen, males showed a dramatic increase in sensorimotor function (50 percent to 75 percent), working memory (decreases in path length to a platform: 375 cm to 300 cm) and a decrease in animals presenting with severe brain injury volumes (80 percent to 36 percent) compared to hypothermia and NAC treatment.

In humans, memory capacity decreases beginning around the age of 50.

Difficulty remembering new information represents one of the most common complaints in aging and decreased memory performance is one of the hallmark impairments in Alzheimer's disease.

Once again, decreasing the number of receptors improved memory, even in the presence of amyloid plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's.

«We found that seizures can increase the levels of deltaFosB in the hippocampus, which results in a decrease in the levels of calbindin, a regulator of memory processes.

MCI, which is thought to be a preliminary stage of Alzheimer's, is a state in which cognitive functions, such as memory or thinking ability, decrease at a level that do not affect daily life.

Using imagery is an effective way to improve memory and decrease certain types of false memories, according to researchers at Georgia State University.

«In all memory devices, there is a gradual relaxation, or decrease, of this polarization,» he said.

Like computer memory, genome sequencing capacity has been rising exponentially and decreasing in cost, making possible the deciphering of ever - larger genomes.

Because lack of sleep at night has been linked to decreased memory and concentration during the day, Salas and her colleagues suspected that the brains of good sleepers could be more easily retrained.

Decrease in this specific ecRNA prevented formation of a long - lasting fear memory, where rats learn to associate mild electrical shocks with a particular place.

Moreover, in conjunction with these results, they found decreased protein synthesis, known to be required for long - term potentiation — a form of long - lasting synaptic plasticity — and for long - term memory.

In humans, memory capacity decreases beginnning around the age of 50.

The overall goal of the A4 study is to test whether decreasing amyloid with antibody investigational treatment can help slow the memory loss associated with amyloid buildup in some people.

«Since cholesterol is required by neurons to form synapses (connections) with other cells, this decrease in cholesterol could affect how nerves function for appetite regulation, behavior, memory and even pain and motor activity,» says Dr. Kahn, who is also Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

When compared to the control group, type 2 patients showed decreased integrity in the white matter of two different areas in the brain — the cingulum bundle, which is a fiber tract that connects regions in the default - mode network, and the uncinate fasciculus, which connects regions important for executive function and memory.

The volume of the hippocampus appears to decrease during the aging process, and this decrease might be related to the memory deficits that some older people experience.

DKO mice, however, have a decreased percentage of memory precursor cells and an increase in short - lived effector cells compared with WT mice.

Consistent with prior reports on effector cells (35), we observed that, among CD8 + T cells specific for the dominant epitope of LCMV (GP33), the percentages of short - lived effector cells (KLRG1 + CD127 −) were increased, and the percentages of memory precursor cells (KLRG1 + CD127 +) were decreased in the peripheral blood of DGKζ − / −, Cbl - b − / −, and DKO mice relative to WT mice after acute infection (Fig. 5A).

This alteration likely can be attributed to a combination of decreased persistence of memory T cells (41) and enhanced homeostatic proliferation resulting from increased strength of signal downstream of the TCR (16).

Unfortunately, the treatment did not improve the specific memory and thinking tests that were the primary outcome of the study, nor did it decrease the chances of progressing to full dementia symptoms.

In this region, apoE4 decreases two types of brain activity that are important for memory formation: sharp wave ripples (ripples) and coincident slow gamma activity.

The aging brain has a decreased ability to lay down new memories, and this decrease is exacerbated in diseases of aging such as stroke and Alzheimer's disease.

Plaques decreased substantially in mice treated with gene therapy to increase activity of the enzyme neuraminidase 1 (NEU1) in a region of the brain involved in learning and memory.

The functional activity of the herpesvirus - specific immune response decreases in elderly donors, although the characteristic phenotypes of CMV - and EBV - specific memory populations are retained.

It is active only in the dentate gyrus, its activity decreases throughout a person's life, and, most tellingly, it is part of a molecular switch that converts short - term memories to long - term ones.

«We thought it might be involved in memory problems of Alzheimer's disease because it is a master regulator of neurotransmission and its brain levels are decreased in the disease.»

So morning sunlight helps you out in two major ways: It makes you feel alert and cheery now, and it promotes sleep later, which itself is associated with a bevy of benefits (from better memory and brain development to decreased risk of diabetes, colds, heart disease, and obesity).

Chronic stress, and the depression that often follows it, have been found to decrease the functioning and number of cells in the hippocampus, an area of the limbic system, the emotional brain, involved in memory.

At the more extreme end of the scale, sleep deprivation can cause cognitive impairment, memory lapses, decreased reaction times and, ultimately, an impaired immune system.

Poor memory function, lowered immune function, increased risk of disease, decreased cell regeneration, behavioral problems, skewed insulin and blood sugar numbers and more.

While some cortisol is absolutely necessary to live — this is the hormone that is released from your adrenal glands in a cyclic manner during the day or during times of stress — most of us exist in a state of nearly constant exposure to this compound, resulting in lowered blood sugar response, abdominal weight gain, decreased memory, reduced cellular energy production, and diminished immunity.

Fatigue, weight gain, low sex drive, muscle loss, decreased bone density, and memory issues are all part of the warning signs that will lead to blood analysis to determine HGH levels in men.

Now, when your brain's production of insulin decreases, your brain literally begins to starve, as it's deprived of the glucose - converted energy it needs to function normally.This is what happens to Alzheimer's patients — portions of their brain start to atrophy, or starve, leading to impaired functioning and eventual loss of memory, speech, movement, and personality.

So it's no surprise that we often experience brain fog during a time of life when estrogen levels wax and wane: A study published in the journal Neurology found that 60 % George Doyle / Getty of women going through perimenopause, when estrogen levels are sputtering out, reported decreased memory.

There are lots of studies on coffee and its effect on decreasing Parkinson's, also decreasing Alzheimer's or dementia - like memory symptoms.

If we live in a chronic state of survival, then our brains will be surrounded by high levels of cortisol and adrenaline which can eventually cause the size of our hippocampus (memory center) to decrease, and can even shrink our muscles.

These include altered and / or decreased immune system function (possibly linked to infections and allergies), collagen loss (think wrinkles), decreased muscle synthesis, increased abdominal fat, bone breakdown, decreased intestinal immunity (possibly leading to GI infections), damage to the lining of the intestines (or leaky gut syndrome), increased stomach acid secretion (think heartburn and ulcers), hippoacampus destruction (leading to problems with circadian rhythm, memory, and causing a feed - forward vicious stress cycle), increased blood pressure, thyroid hormone imbalances, «shutdown» of the reproductive system (possibly leading to miscarriage or infertility), and more.

In a study involving dietary ketosis via a low carbohydrate diet (less than 10 percent of total calories), compared to subjects on a 50 percent carbohydrate diet, the low - carbohydrate subjects demonstrated better performance on memory tests, with higher scores being correlated to higher serum KB levels.14 A study using cultured mouse hippocampal cells showed that addition of the KB β - hydroxybutyrate (β - OHB) to cells exposed to Aβ resulted in no decrease in the numbers of dendrites or total neurons — two of the noted pathological changes in AD.

Clinically, AD patients have decreased cognitive function and lapses in memory that decline progressively and ultimately affect performance of tasks involved in everyday living.