Sentences with phrase «reduced number of neurons»

When Rivera examined the brains of the offspring, she found that monkeys whose mothers ate high - fat diets may have a reduced number of neurons that release the chemical messenger dopamine.

And then also reducing stress both before and during pregnancies has been shown to alter, say, the structure of your baby's brain, increases the risk of asthma, reduces the numbers of neurons in a number of parts of the brain and is linked with autism and ADHD.

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Defects in mitochondria, and as a consequence reduced energy levels, are a factor in a number of diseases that affect the nervous system including Parkinson's and Motor Neuron Disease.

In the oxygen - deprived piglets, the generation of neurons from precursors in the SVZ was severely impaired, and the number of neurons and interneurons in the frontal cortex was also significantly reduced.

Previous brain autopsies have shown that patients with TSC, as well as patients with ASD, have reduced numbers of Purkinje cells, the main type of neuron that communicates out of the cerebellum.

The number of neurons activated in the pre-frontal cortex is also reduced in response to the same combination.

Instead, most stem cell divisions produce offspring fated to develop into neurons, reducing the number of stem cells remaining.

In a series of electrophysiological studies, Zoghbi's team further found that neurons from animals with depleted MECP2 levels have reduced electrical activity due to a smaller number of excitatory synapses, whereas cells from animals carrying an extra copy of the gene have increased electrical activity because of an increase in synapse number.

''... persistently elevated glucocorticoid levels during chronic stress may reduce synaptic plasticity and the number of neurons in the hippocampus.