Sentences with phrase «physiological changes in the function»

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In addition, the researchers will examine the physiological function of the cerebral cortex to see if brain plasticity changed after training.

Yet with aging, physiological changes (e.g., changes in diet, lifestyle, immune system function) induced by the ageing process will likely affect the abundance of an individual's bacteria at every bodily niche (Biagi et al., 2012).

Interests: Physiological ecology of plants, role of plant species in Arctic ecosystem function, climate change; lead principal investigator at Arctic LTER.

Proteins undergo continual spontaneous modifications in physiological systems leading to change in their structure and function.

Such changes in neuronal function are likely to play important roles in all normal physiological processes in the brain and are critical for development of a variety of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, epilepsy, drug dependence and other neurological and psychiatric disorders.

«Vertical integration of gene function» describes how gene expression initiates a series of biochemical, cellular, and physiological changes that ultimately culminate in an observable behavior.

However, when we're exposed to significant or lasting stress (divorce, death, serious financial worries) or big hormonal changes (such as during menopause or the post-pregnancy period), this may spark a change in our body's routine physiological functions and cause temporary or even permanent hair loss.

Whenever the adrenal glands, which sit atop the kidney, are stimulated by stress, they excrete hormones including cortisol, adrenaline, and testosterone, which play a role in increasing heart rate and blood pressure, slowing digestion, and shutting down executive brain functions, among other physiological changes collectively known as the stress response.

I stuck my head in the sand and thought I could just throw herbs and other therapies at it without changing what I was actually doing myself and addressing the root cause (insufficient energy for my body to function, and too much physiological stress).

This gentle, noninvasive healing process manifests in profound physiological changes, including: alleviating pain / spasm, facilitating recovery from injury / illness, relieving stress / anxiety, enhancing immunity, and bringing the body - any body (from infancy onwards)- to an optimal level of functioning.

CDS is believed to be caused by physiological and chemical changes in the brain of aging dogs that affect brain function.

Stress exposure in mature rodents is associated with immediate, but not lasting, changes in stress response systems (5, 6), suggesting the presence of an early sensitive period when exposure to adverse environments results in long - term changes in physiological stress response system functioning.

Thus, a series of studies have shown that marital conflict alters physiological functioning, and hostile behavior, particularly during conflict, markedly enhances adverse physiological changes; moreover, women appear to be more adversely affected than men.5 In this study, we extended this line of research to assess how hostile marital behavior modulated an important health outcome, wound healing, as well as local and systemic proinflammatory cytokine production.