Sentences with phrase «permanent brain changes»

• The brain has mechanisms for assessing and responding to threat, and chronic threat may cause permanent brain changes — When the stress response system of the brain is activated by a traumatic experience, the brain makes an association between the traumatic experience and the accompanying sensory stimuli (sights, sounds, etc.).

The effects of steroid may last for at least two years, and cause permanent brain changes, the Behavioral Neuroscience study warns.

However, there are some permanent brain changes and behaviors, thanks to what moms go through physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Not exact matches

Animal testing indicates that pesticides can cause permanent changes in brain chemistry that may lead to behavioral disorders, learning disabilities, and even long - term damage to the brain and nervous system.

Sadly, much of the work focuses on children who have been exposed to neglect where high levels of stress hormones coupled with minimum adult interaction has resulted in permanent changes in their brain structure leading to impaired emotional wellbeing and difficulty in adjusting to stress and anxiety in adulthood (Rutter 1989 et al).

Football might be synonymous with impact, but such technology combined with the measures and changes being passed throughout the country will decrease the risk of serious, perhaps permanent, brain damage to athletes while enabling them to keep on playing the sport they love.

Magnetic resonance imaging lets them monitor the location and intensity of the procedure in real time, an important safety feature when making permanent changes to the brain.

Since neurons don't regenerate, brain damage is often permanent — but scientists would like to change that.

Studies demonstrated that the changes in the brain's dopamine production area, or VTA — though crucial to the development of addiction — also triggered a cascade of biological processes that resulted in permanent changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), the area downstream that is closely linked to motivation and goal - directed behavior.

For decades, clinical and pre-clinical research considered that opiate consumption caused permanent changes in the brain's reward circuits, resulting in a persistent vulnerability to relapse.

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During the first six years of life, children's brains develop significantly, and many of these changes can be permanent.

A mother's stress can alter brain development in the fetus, and it is believed these changes may be long - lasting or permanent, said Dr. Colman.

It is possible that T. gondii causes a permanent change in the brain during acute infection, thereby not requiring continued parasite presence and an ongoing immune response.

«These results suggest that phytoestrogens can interfere with the normal estrogen feedback mechanisms with respect to release of gonadotropin in the ewe... although most studies into the effects of phytoestrogens have concentrated on changes in the reproductive tract, there are indications that they interfere with the hormone balance between the ovaries and the hypothalamo - adenohypophysical system... ewes on phytoestrogens have shown follicular abnormalities such as numerous small follicles, deficient antrum formation and signs of early atresia... it is possible that the permanent changes brought about by phytoestrogens in the brain are a result of these compounds interacting with estrogen receptors in this tissue, and subsequently influencing the re-synthesis or replenishment of cyto - plasmic estrogen receptors... phytoestrogens can interfere with the delicate feedback mechanisms involved in the release of the gonadotrophins.»

In this excerpt from his new book The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads, Daniel T. Willingham argues that the brain is always changing, so the effects of web activities aren't likely to be permanent.

In 2009, veterinarian Dr. Marty Becker attended a presentation where veterinary behaviorist Dr. Karen Overall said something that changed his life: «Fear is the worst thing a social species can experience, and it causes permanent damage to the brain.»

Your child may have no external signs of injury, but brain injury and permanent impairment can change your child's life and your life forever.

These types of brain injuries are life changing and often permanent.

* Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke, CVA, Transient Ischemic Attack, TIA): A disruption of blood flow to the brain resulting in neurologic changes, either permanent (CVA) or temporary (TIA).