Sentences with phrase «other brain related»

«There is no proof of transmission from wild animals and plants to humans,» said lead author Claudio Soto, Ph.D., professor of neurology at UTHealth Medical School and director of the UTHealth George and Cynthia W. Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Brain Related Illnesses.

My husband died by suicide and I'm appalled at the number of ignorant people in the world and in the church who believe «you just have to change your thinking» to overcome depression, anxiety or other brain related diseases, and even take to blaming the family for the problem.

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Other research suggests that the perceived passage of time is related to the amount of new perceptual information you absorb; when you're young, everything seems new, which means your brain has more to process... which means the perceived passage of time feels longer.

When asked to select the articles they'd share, activity in the brain regions associated with assessing value, self - related thinking, and, crucially, considering other people's perspective showed a flurry of activity.

Overall, if you include the medical uses of neurotech, other devices, and all the businesses that can benefit from brain - related technologies, this is a field that's generating well over $ 150 billion in revenues annually.

The dominant occasion of experience is related not only to the other occasions jointly constituting the physical organism, such as the entities making up the brain, but also to past dominant occasions of experience in the same organism.

Not that it can enhance emotional or psychological well - being where prayer did not; rather, that it reveals to us more than ever just how inextricably interwoven the biochemistry of the brain is to who we are and how we relate to each other.

Research has shown over the last decade that brain disorders such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, memory loss, ADD, some forms of seizures, and many other forms of neurological disorders are directly related to what we eat.

«Our hope is that this bill will reduce the risk of long - term damage for student athletes who suffer concussions or other brain - related trauma while participating in sports.»

Concussion and Sports Related Head Injury: Code 280.13 C requires the Iowa high school athletic association and the Iowa girls high school athletic union to work together to distribute the CDC guidelines and other information to inform and educate coaches, students, and parents and guardians of students of the risks, signs, symptoms, and behaviors consistent with a concussion or brain injury, including the danger of continuing to play after suffering a concussion or brain injury and their responsibility to report such signs, symptoms, and behaviors if they occur.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: HB108 (2011) requires the governing body of each sport or recreational organization to develop guidelines and other pertinent information and forms to inform and educate youth athletes and their parents of the nature and risk of concussion and brain injury, including continuing to play after a suspected concussion or brain injury.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB 200 (2011) requires the Department of Health and the Department of Education to develop and post on their website guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students participating in or desiring to participate in an athletic activity, their parents and coaches, about the nature and risk of concussion and traumatic brain injury.

Others related to claims about the fatty acids DHA or ARA and improving visual acuity or supporting brain development

We know that our earliest relationships actually build the brain structures we use for relating to others our whole lives.

There are recent studies that say people who read a substantial amount are more able to empathize with others, and also that the brain is engaged in several different areas by particular words, such as areas related to the senses of taste, touch, or smell especially.

They also found that newborns spend a greater part of their time in REM sleep than at any other time in life and that this is highly related to their development of their brain & sensory system (vision, hearing, touch, smell, etc).

Today the concussion debate centers around the NFL and the numerous stories of players committing suicide or suffering form dementia and other brain - related illnesses.

This is thought to be related to a human baby's rapid brain growth in infancy, compared to other mammals.

Now I believe the headaches, insomnia, and fatigue were all related to that big hit injuring his brain and other hits in hockey continuing to injure his head.

Last week's report said that among people 19 and younger, 250,000 were treated in emergency rooms for concussions and other sports - or recreation - related brain injuries in 2009, up from 150,000 in 2001.

Disruptions to the ability of developing brain cells to form branching connections with other cells, using a specific microRNA — miR - 9, was associated with an increase in the strength of fear - related memories in adulthood.

In the most famous example of cannibalism - related disease transmission, the Fore people of New Guinea were nearly driven to extinction as a result of their ritualized consumption of brains and other tissues cut from the bodies of their deceased kin — kin who had been infected by kuru, an incurable and highly transmissible neurological disease.

The scientists are not sure if the newly discovered pathways are connected or if they relate to a previously identified system that helps clear amyloid beta and other toxins out of the brain.

For them, the discovery of how an individual becomes gay is likely to shed light on how sexuality - related genes build brains, how people of any persuasion are attracted to each other, and perhaps even how homosexuality evolved.

«We can also see how other interventions such as gently stroking the baby changes pain - related brain activity or whether different experiences such as a vaginal birth or C - section alters pain sensitivity in the newborn infant.»

Probably not: the brain regions identified in this new study, in particular right DLPFC, have previously been highlighted in a number of other studies addressing related but slightly different questions.

Adult mice and other rodents sprout new nerve cells in memory - related parts of their brains.

The team's results may begin to answer an outstanding question from the Zika epidemic: Why have Zika - related microcephaly and other brain abnormalities been seen in areas hard - hit by outbreaks in the past few years but not in the decades following the virus's discovery in 1947?

This week in Science we profile Yale School of Medicine neuropathologist Laura Manuelidis, who has spent her career fighting the consensus that misfolded proteins called prions cause «mad cow disease» and other related brain diseases.

Many people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other stress - related disorders show increased activity in the right hemisphere of the brain — and in emotional, nonverbal processing — and decreased activity in the left, according to neuroimaging studies.

They also applied it to human brain tissue collected by the Genotype - Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project, finding that they could a) identify expression signatures unique to neurons, glial cells, and other cell types in the brain (including rare types), and b) differentiate between closely related cell subtypes.

Aging is associated with the gradual loss of brain cells, sleep disturbances and declining memory function, but how these factors are related to each other has been unclear.

In a related study, Salvatore Aglioti of Sapienza University assembled a group of people, some of whom were professional basketball players, and scanned their brains as they watched movies of other players taking free throws.

These findings raise the intriguing possibility that sleep - related developmental processes in the brain contribute to the link between melanism and other traits observed in adult barn owls and other animals.

But overlaps on a brain scan don't necessarily mean the two function through identical pathways — the shared brain areas could relate to attention or emotional arousal, among other things, rather than pain itself.

The need for ongoing care for hearing - related issues was acknowledged in September 2014 when One Fund Boston, the charity created to accept and distribute donations to help those affected by the bombings, created the One Fund Center, which will serve patients who have had difficulties with tinnitus and other hearing - related problems; mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety; and traumatic brain injury and its associated symptoms such as headache, cognitive symptoms and balance difficulties.

«When other portions of the brain circuit related to speech were also affected according to our blood flow measurements, we saw more severe stuttering in both children and adults,» said first author Jay Desai, MD, a clinical neurologist at CHLA.

When a person activates related words in his or her brain, this activation spreads to other related items and leads to memory errors.

«The distinct neural markers associated with cognitive performance and GWI revealed in our study can be useful for future research to objectively measure the efficacy of treatments for GWI as well as other brain disorders related to the same neurotransmitter system, like Alzheimer's disease.»

While the Pentagon has yet to release hard numbers on brain - injured troops, citing security issues, brain - injury professionals express concern about the range of numbers reported from other military - related sources like the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs brain - injured troops, citing security issues, brain - injury professionals express concern about the range of numbers reported from other military - related sources like the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs brain - injury professionals express concern about the range of numbers reported from other military - related sources like the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Brain Injury Center, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Vilayanur Ramachandran, a behavioral neurologist and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California (UC), San Diego, advised spending as much as 20 % of grant money «on other exciting stuff as long as you tell them it's vaguely related.»

Although some physiological brain changes are similar in new moms and dads, other changes seem different and could relate to the roles of each parent, says senior author James Swain, a psychiatrist at the University of Michigan (brain diagrams below).

The study of human astrocytes has faced issues related to access (samples of living tissue must be obtained from brain cancer or epilepsy surgeries or fetal tissue) and purification (breaking apart astrocytes away from other cells often killed them and many experiments ended in failure).

Though their purpose and function are still largely unknown, mirror neurons in the brain are believed by some neuroscientists to be central to how humans relate to each other.

In the new study, the researchers discovered that during the second trimester of human brain development, oRG cells express genes related to a fundamental signaling pathway called mTOR, defects in which have previously been implicated in autism and several other psychiatric disorders.

Though some relapse triggers can be consciously avoided, such as people, places and things related to drug use, other subconscious triggers related to the brain's reward system may be impossible to avoid — they can gain entry to the unconscious brain, setting the stage for relapse.

Many of these «genetic suspects» have been identified in other brain - related disease, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and autism.

One symptom related to this skewed brain activity is the sensation of all sounds competing against each other to be heard.

«People want words that are related to each other in a sentence to be close together,» says Richard Futrell, a PhD student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, and a lead author of a new paper detailing the results.

... The FOXP2 gene has been around for a very long time, found in similar form in distantly related vertebrate species, and it may be important not only for brain development and function but also in other tissues.»