Sentences with phrase «related brain change»

The field has experienced monumental challenges developing new and effective drug therapies, not the least of which was the discovery that — until recently - clinical trials were conducted where up to 30 % of participants did not have the Alzheimer's disease - related brain change targeted by the experimental drug.

As the Alzheimer's Association notes, until recently, «clinical trials were conducted where up to 30 % of participants did not have the Alzheimer's disease - related brain change targeted by the experimental drug.»

While there has been a lot of research on hypertension - related brain changes in the grey matter, Carnevale proposed that a look into the brain's white matter could tell if high blood pressure was having an effect even earlier than what is known.

«Our research found that the cancer and chemotherapy cause three separate, but related brain changes,» says Dr. Winocur.

The investigation compared early attitudes on aging expressed by dementia - free adults to Alzheimer's - related brain changes nearly 30 years later.

The study, which has not been published in a peer - reviewed medical journal, also found that African Americans seem to be most at risk for stress - related brain changes.

Not exact matches

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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.

Additionally, recent research has also shown that intermittent fasting also triggers a variety of health - promoting hormonal and metabolic changes similar to those of constant calorie restriction — including reduced age - related brain shrinkage.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

Violence - related content in video game may lead to functional connectivity changes in brain networks as revealed by fMRI - ICA in young men.

The results are largely consistent with a growing body of research about the neural basis of aggression, and how it is triggered by changes in the way that the prefrontal cortex, the limbic system and reward - related regions of the brain function.

As we move into adulthood, parenting also generates brain changes along sex - related lines.

They found that one month after training, the children showed increased activation in the intraparietal sulcus and reduced neural activation elsewhere in the parietal lobes — a hint that their improvements in arithmetic were related to changes involving brain areas that respond to number.

«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.»

Rondina says the study's results do not immediately change diagnosis or treatment options for age - related cognitive impairments, but it will be interesting to see the long - term implications of these results, as we continue to learn how our brains change as we age.

They charted the small changes in voltage generated by the areas of the brain responding to these stimuli, a process known as event - related potentials (ERPs).

The lingering question, however, is whether those brain changes relate to a mother's smarts.

But the analysis shows that these changes are not directly related to initial loss of flight because they are not shared by the ancient penguin brain.

But contrary to earlier studies, eating more fish and less meat was not related to changes in the brain.

The researchers also found that fish and meat consumption were not related to brain changes, which is contrary to earlier studies.

Such changes, Li and colleagues suggested while reviewing a number of related studies, are consistent with anatomical changes that can occur in the brain as a result of learning a second language, no matter the age of the learner, as they reported in a recent issue of Cortex.

The researchers also found increases in gray matter volume in regions that control leg movement and process sensory information from legs, which may reflect changes related to the brain learning how to move in microgravity.

He hypothesized that changes can occur at the cellular level within the brain and may be related to myelination, the process of building the protective sheath around the nerves.

The paper, published in the journal Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes), found for the first time that dementia - related complications within the brain can also lead to changes in glucose handling and ultimately diabetes.

It has long been known that Alzheimer's produces changes in the brain, which can stimulate genes relating to conditions like stress and inflammation.

Whereas the present study focuses primarily on documenting brain changes during pregnancy, she expects follow - up work to tackle more applied questions such as how brain changes relate to postpartum depression or attachment difficulties between mother and child.

Using this imaging technology, we may be able to capture more precise and objective measurements of olfactory dysfunction and better understand how changes in these sensory neurons relate to overall health and neurodegeneration in the brain.»

«There is a huge gulf separating our understanding of what kind of brain injuries develop because of mild blast and how they relate to the neuroimaging changes many research groups have detected,» said Dr. David Cook, VA scientist and UW research associate professor of medicine and pharmacology «The similarities we see in the pattern of neuron injury in the cerebellum of mice, the neuron loss previously seen in boxers, and our neuroimaging findings in veterans is a step toward reducing this knowledge gap.»

The results could suggest that a history of minor but repeated blows to the head can result in compensatory changes to the brain as it relates to eye movement function.

In the past decade, researchers have used mouse models to unravel how cellular changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a brain structure involved in action selection associated with arousal and reward, may contribute to addiction - related behavior.

Thus, this study found that women who have recovered from anorexia nervosa show two related patterns of changes in brain circuit function that may contribute to their capacity to sustain their avoidance of food.

«Though the «blind brain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Cabrain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - CaBrain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada.

«We know people report feeling fuller after eating walnuts, but it was pretty surprising to see evidence of activity changing in the brain related to food cues, and by extension what people were eating and how hungry they feel.»

The changes in genes related to brain development and function are especially intriguing, Barrès says.

When comparing the scan results for brain activity before treatment and after a year of stimulation, the researchers found that there were changes in the regions linked to anorexia, suggesting that deep brain stimulation was able to directly affect the related brain circuits.

They are also exploring how the patterns they've found relate to structural changes in the babies» brains.

Although much research has examined traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a possible risk factor for later life dementia from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known regarding how TBI influences the rate of age - related cognitive change.

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).

Over the very period that the brain shrank, our DNA accumulated numerous adaptive mutations related to brain development and neurotransmitter systems — an indication that even as the organ got smaller, its inner workings changed.

Hawks notes that such changes would be consistent with the many brain - related DNA mutations seen over the past 20 millennia.

The results in his thesis show that improved motor timing of both female elite level soccer players and experienced male golfers leads to improved outcome accuracy, with associated changes in motor performance, as well as in the brain's activity patterns related to these performances.

Most published research on sports - related concussions has been conducted in adults, and IOM says it's dangerous to assume that these findings can be mapped onto children because of the changes that occur during brain development.

«But exercise incorporating cognitive components also stimulates changes in brain regions related to cognition.

Schizophrenia may be related to neurodevelopment changes, including brain's inability to create the appropriate vascular system, according to new study resulted from a partnership between the D'Or Institute for Research and Education, the University of Chile and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

«Bilingualism could offset brain changes in Alzheimer's: A study sheds light on how language history relates to brain plasticity.»

New insights about the brain are changing the way the law handles cases related to adolescent decision making, the effects of drugs on the brain, memory and lie detection, and states of consciousness, among others.

Structural and functional brain changes related to different types of physical activity across the life span.

Over-activation of the inflammatory protein nuclear factor κB (NF - κB) in the brain region leads to a number of aging - related changes in mice, from cognitive decline to muscle weakness.

Consistent with its important role in brain function, the team found that cocaine utilizes FMRP to facilitate brain changes involved in addiction - related behaviors.