Sentences with phrase «of increased brain size»

The combination of increased brain size and a mother's narrower pelvic outlet (due to standing), caused a major change in human's gestation length.

Numerous other creatures, especially some whales and birds, also show a pattern of increasing brain size relative to their bodies over the past tens of millions of years.

Not exact matches

A study of older women with MCI found a tie between aerobic exercise and an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

Another study, this time of exclusively older women with MCI, found that aerobic exercise was tied to an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

Blakemore argues that a single gene mutation could in fact have been the cause of this increase - for in fact only one extra cell - division step would cause a doubling of brain size.

But whatever the immediate reasons, the enlarged brain could perform (as a consequence of its improved structure) all manner of operations bearing no direct relation to the original impetus for its increase in size.

Exhausting muscles to increase strength and muscle size is necessary to stress the body to adapt, but the same concept doesn't apply in balance training, the goal of which is to develop sensory - motor processes so that the brain sends signals down to the muscles to maintain balance and body awareness.

An infant's brain increases from a mere 25 % adult size at birth to 60 % of the volume of the adult brain by the end of the first year alone.

Page and his colleagues, who use animal models to understand how autism risk factors impact the developing brain and to identify potential treatments for the condition, have found that animals with mutations in the autism risk gene phosphatase and tensin homolog (Pten) mimic aspects of autism, including increased brain size, social deficits and increased repetitive behavior.

It is widely accepted that brain size increase is partly linked to changes in diet over the last 3 million years, and increases in meat consumption and the development of cooking have received particular attention from the scientific community.

The increased brain size and prolonged dependency of evolving humans have each catalyzed the other.

The pituitary gland at the base of the brain — which releases a wide range of hormones, including some responsible for regulating reproduction — showed the opposite effect, apparently increasing in size during pregnancy.

As well as raising IQ by 1.29, it increases the overall volume of the brain — but only by 0.58 per cent of average brain size, adding around 9 cubic centimetres of tissue.

This article was originally published with the title «Brain size has increased for most of our existence, so why has it started to diminish for the past few thousand years?»

Like brain size, the folding of the brain, too, has increased and decreased along the various mammalian lineages.

Use of the spears may have developed as the brain of Homo heidelbergensis increased in size, she says.

The conclusion also questions Wrangham's hypothesis that an increase in human brain size was tied to the invention of cooking.

As the colony size increased, the leaf ants showed a marked increase in the regions of the brain concerned with learning and memory, the scientists report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

These results collectively suggest that neural stem cells need MSI1 to generate enough neurons for normal brain size, but the presence of MSI1 also increases the vulnerability of these cells to Zika infection, leading to the death of the population which ultimately results in microcephaly.

«This new timeline has significant implications in helping us to understand this period of human evolution — cooked food provides greater energy, and cooking may be linked to the rapid increases in brain size that occurred from 800,000 years ago onwards.

When the researchers looked at brain size, they found that for fighters who had increasing levels of tau over time, there was a 7 percent decline in the volume of their thalamus, which is located in the center of the brain and regulates sleep, consciousness, alertness, cognitive function and language while also sending sensory and movement signals to other portions of the brain.

MRI scans show that memorizing ancient mantras increases the size of brain regions associated with cognitive function

So when you think about our pride in our brains, you know, in our big brains and then here is a case where, well actually that's an accident and you know, wasn't the increasing size of the brain that gave the pressure that women with larger pelvises that could accommodate bigger heads survived.

The new paper «Extinction Reverses Olfactory Fear Conditioned Increases in Neuron Number and Glomerular Size» highlights the results of a first of its kind study in which researchers reveal that the olfactory system in the brain is biologically and structurally more sensitive to trauma cues than previously thought, and that it's possible for fear behaviors associated with emotional learning to be reversed through exposure - based talk therapy.

«HARE5 seems to promote the ability to create more neurons and increase brain size, which allows human brain development to take advantage of that,» Silver said.

He hinted that gestural theory could clear up another mystery about this period as well: why the stone tools of these early hominids show little evolution for almost two million years, despite increases in brain size.

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Human HARE5 increases expression of its target gene, Frizzled 8, affecting the size and development of the brain in mice.10

Subsequently, the underlying trend towards increasing brain size in Homo is most strongly correlated with both decreases in lake presence and high levels of dust deposition in the Mediterranean ODP967 record (Table 3), indicating drier conditions in East Africa [43].

Not only was there a dramatic increase in brain size, but also in life history (shortened inter-birth intervals, delayed development), body size, shoulder morphology allowing throwing of projectiles [45], ecological flexibility [46] and social behaviour [47].

In line with the behavioral data, our whole brain TissueCyte ® based analyses suggests that younger mice (∼ 4 - 5 months) exhibit very sparse parenchymal plaques while aged mice (> 7 months) show a clear progression in the number / size of plaques and display differential increases in regional plaque load number / size.

Meditation improves memory, increases brain size, improves cooperation between brain hemispheres and enhances emotional intelligence according to the Exploration of Consciousness Research Institute.

Researchers found that cardiovascular exercise increases the size of the hippocampus, which is the area of the brain that supports memory and learning.

Meditation improves your memory, increases brain size, makes both brain hemispheres work together and enhances your emotional intelligence, according to the Exploration of Consciousness Research Institute.

And it does not take much: Just a slow jog with proper warm up and cool down can do this, and actually increase the size of the brain.

Studies have revealed that aerobic exercises that got the heart pumping, actually increased the size of a part of the brain known as the hippocampus.

Lead exposure in childhood is known to result in reduced brain size, increased aggression, and a greater likelihood of criminality as a teen and adult.

The Brain of a four - month - old puppy has increased up to 10 x larger than it was at birth and yet still retains the same number of cells, so what accounts for this huge increase in size?

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