Sentences with phrase «produce larger brain»

2 - whether certain emotions are recognized more quickly through vocalizations than others and produce larger brain responses; and

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The placenta secretes a large amount of corticotrophin - releasing hormone (a stress reducing hormone) in the third trimester, and may trigger the hypothalamus in the brain, which normally secretes the hormone, to stop producing it.

It may also ultimately inform the methods that will be used for producing large quantities of cells for therapeutic use and other applications such as the high - throughput screening of chemicals for brain toxicity or therapeutics.

Running produced a large increase in the number of new neurons in the hippocampus — a brain region shown to regulate anxiety — of a mouse that ran for six weeks (above).

Today's studies, presented at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health, provide new insights into how experience might produce long - term brain changes in behaviors like drug addiction and memory formation.

At the meeting, attendees discussed four broad goals for the proposed Observatory: expanding access to large scale electron microscopes; providing fabrication facilities for new, nanosized electrode systems; developing new optical and magnetic resonance brain activity imaging technologies; and finding new ways to analyze and store the staggering amount of data detailed brain studies can produce.

b - secretase acts like a pair of molecular scissors, snipping a piece off a large protein to produce b - amyloid, a smaller protein that builds up in plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and is thought to kill neurons.

Neurobiologist Arturo Alvarez - Buylla of The Rockefeller University in New York City got interested in the adult mammalian brain's capacity to produce new cells after he and others discovered in the 1980s that songbirds renew large parts of their brains every year.

But in many ways, we're not like other apes: Our brains are at least three times larger, and we produce more babies in shorter intervals — both of which consume more energy.

«We discovered that this new treatment produced larger changes in the brain and that the interval between pulses also had an effect.

We would like to consider doing it on a larger scale, maybe having several universities studying patients with different diagnostic categories to see how a controlled psychotherapy trial produces physical brain changes as a result of treatment.

Sabunciyan has found that an unexpectedly large amount of the RNA produced in the brain — about 5 percent — comes from seemingly «junk» DNA, which includes endogenous retroviruses.

A Powerful Tool for the Entire Scientific Community «We have developed a cost - effective technology to produce large quantities of human brain cells in two simple steps,» summarized Gan.

While it would normally take several months to produce brain cells, Gan and her team can now engineer large quantities of them within 1 or 2 weeks, and have functionally active neurons within 1 month.

Researchers have known for some time that exercise produces these chemicals in rodents, and that more exercise leads to a larger hippocampus — a brain region important for memory.

«This grant enables us to bring our bench - to - bedside treatment program to larger numbers of people recovering from right brain stroke, and produce systematic information supporting its impact,» said A.M. Barrett, MD, director of Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Foundation.

Cortisol is recognized as a chemical that when produced in large doses, can literally shrink the human brain.

Soft tissue containing the highest concentrations of magnesium in the body include the brain and the heart — two organs that produce a large amount of electrical activity, and which can be especially vulnerable to magnesium insufficiency.

One of the largest organs in your body is the brain, with neurons in the brain only able to produce energy with glucose or ketones.

You need very little Vitamin C to survive; however, you can store and use large amounts of Vitamin C. Your body requires it to produce stable collagen or else your skin falls apart; your brain uses it to control prolactin and produce catecholons like dopamine and norepinephrine; and Vitamin C can convert blood - plasma lead and mercury to lead ascorbate and mercury ascorbate, allowing the liver to ship them into bile and clear them from your body.

When this happens, your liver starts producing large amounts of ketones to supply energy for your brain.

The Center on the Developing Child is pleased to participate in the collaborative effort to refine, test, and produce professionally crafted sets of the Brain Architecture game, ready to be played in large - or small - group settings.

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

When couples are in the early stages of relationship, their brains produce large doses of certain chemicals and hormones that make sex frequent and passionate.