Sentences with phrase «older brain structure»

This new finding suggests that the coarse, primitive numerical ability shared across many species stems from the subcortex, an evolutionarily older brain structure.

Our older brain structures that evolved to serve us well in the era of early human existence are essentially designed for fight or flight functions, which served us very well for thousands of years, and still do for some aspects of modern day life.

Not exact matches

The results suggest that practicing yoga in the long - term can change the structure of your brain and could protect against cognitive decline in old age.

On the bright side, some people appear to overcome the ravages of a rotting brain by recruiting new brain systems or structures to take over functions of old ones.

These targets include the limbic system, a group of evolutionarily old structures deep in the brain, «which is where viruses like to reactivate,» Jacobson explains.

When the children reached about 2.5 to 5 years old, the researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to measure their brain structure.

In a related research project, Timiras injected young and old rats with overdoses of adrenocortical hormones to test how the treatment altered their brain structure; the brain hemorrhaged and swelled, more so in the elderly animals.

The findings, which appear online in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, are the first to show a relationship between fitness and brain structure in older adults, but not younger adults.

According to the researchers these results provide evidence of a positive association between fitness and brain structure in older adults.

«Most of the previous research on brain structure was conducted with healthy younger or older adults,» says Natalie Phillips, a professor in the Department of Psychology.

Authors of a new study suggest that 520 - million - year - old structures, previously identified as the brains of ancient arthropods, are instead preserved microbial biofilms.

Complex brains evolved much earlier than previously thought, as evidenced by a 520 - million - year - old fossilized arthropod with remarkably well - preserved brain structures.

The cortex, he explained, is the outermost part of the brain that is wrapped around the older evolved structures sort of like the bark of a tree.

Taken together, scientists may be on the verge of finally understanding how a 500 million - year - old marine organism that lacks basic bone structure consistently ranks higher than most mammals when it comes to brain size, neuron count and learning ability.

Interestingly, one particular region of the cortex that promotes integration of emotional and cognitive processes was stronger in older meditating participants, suggesting the more you meditate the stronger the brain's structure becomes.

Regular physical activity is especially important in older adults since aging — combined with oxidative stress and inflammation — promotes changes in brain structure and function (33, 34).

A suggestion for future studies is to take into account measures of past and current physical fitness when comparing cognition, brain structure and function in different groups of older subjects, once it is possible that better fitness is related to healthier brain aging.

According to Prensky, one of the more radical consequences of this technology - rich environment is a hypothesized change in the brain structure that means young people think, use and process information [2] in different ways compared to older generations, the digital immigrants.

The IMYC responds to the specific development needs of 11 - 14 year olds, providing structures and systems that support the needs of the adolescent brain

The primary way to avoid trading with the «old» more primitive fight or flight brain structures, and make sure that you trade with the «new» objective thinking frontal lobe part of the brain, is to make 100 % certain you plan out your trade before you enter it.

Studies have shown that children younger than seven years old easily pick up new languages because their brains are wired to readily incorporate the words, grammar and structure of multiple languages.

The study found that head injury sufferers» brains had actually changed in structure to resemble those of older healthy people.

A three year old's brain is estimated to be 90 % the size of the adult brain in terms of structure and function.

Although for those older children experiencing violence later in their childhood raised cortisone does not have the same long - term impact on brain structure, fearful highly aroused children are also distractible, inattentive, overactive and impulsive.

Children as young as 4 years old with symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have been observed to possibly have significant differences in brain structure, compared to children without such symptoms.