Sentences with phrase «thinner brain cortex»

A thinner brain cortex is associated with adult cognitive decline.

«We found that current and ex-smokers had, at age 73, many areas of thinner brain cortex than those that never smoked.

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Years ago, children were warned that smoking could stunt their growth, but now a major study by an international team including the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University and the University of Edinburgh shows new evidence that long - term smoking could cause thinning of the brain's cortex.

«Smokers should be informed that cigarettes could hasten the thinning of the brain's cortex, which could lead to cognitive deterioration.

So in the outer layer of the brain, the cerebral cortex gets thicker faster in intelligent kids, and it gets thinner compared to an average kid.

When they examined these participants» brain images, one pattern in particular stuck out: People who got earworms more often had a thinner right frontal cortex, which is involved in inhibition, and a thinner temporal cortex, which processes sensory stimuli like sound.

Young adults with thinner cortex in particular brain regions are more impulsive during a decision - making task than teens with thicker cortex, according to a large correlational study of adolescents from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort.

The cortex of the smart children also thins faster during the late teens, which could reflect withering of unused neural connections as the brain streamlines its operations.

Avram Holmes, a psychologist at Yale University, and a team of researchers from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, found that increased impulsivity and sensation - seeking in healthy young adults was linked to distinct differences in their brain structures: the areas involved in decision - making and self - control had a thinner cortex, the brain's wrinkled outer layer or gray matter.

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«The brain's cortex, where complex reasoning occurs, can begin to thicken with the approach of adolescence, then thin again toward its end.

The cortex is the thin layer of cells on the surface of the brain that governs many functions, and in elephants it contains a greater variety of cell types (such as the extensively branched neuron pictured above) than is found in more frequently studied animals such as rodents and primates.

Exposure to fine particles during fetal life was associated with a thinner outer layer of the brain, called the cortex, in several regions.

The patients, doctors found, usually had widespread brain damage, but two injured areas were especially noteworthy: the thin outer rind, called the cortex, and the thalamus, a pair of walnut - size lumps in the brain's central core, along with the neural fibers that connect these regions.

Those mouse pups born after an early infection were likely to have thinner cortexes and have inflammatory cells in the brain, while those born to mothers who had a later infection were much less likely to suffer those effects.

Growth was slower, and the cortex was thinner than in noninfected brains.»

[Previously: U.S. scientists find virus selectively infected cells forming the brain's cortex, the thin outer layer of folded gray matter]

Working with lab - grown human stem cells, scientists found that the virus selectively infected cells forming the brain's cortex, the thin outer layer of folded gray matter.

We also have a cerebral cortex — a thin layer on the outer portion of the brain that controls higher cognitive functions.

The normal effects of aging, such as the thinning of the frontal cortex (an area of the brain that is essential to cognitive functioning), was also more prominent among those who experience burnout.