Sentences with phrase «thinner brain structures»

This study does not prove that too much sitting causes thinner brain structures, but instead that more hours spent sitting are associated with thinner regions, researchers said.

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These thin, tubelike structures transmit electrical and chemical signals that are vital for carrying information among different regions of the brain.

Fat cells release that «diet» hormone — today named leptin, from the Greek leptos, meaning thin — to begin a journey across the blood - brain barrier to the hypothalamus, the pea - size structure above the pituitary gland.

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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They then kill the animal and slice its brain tissue thin enough so that light can shine through it under a microscope, revealing the structure within each slice.

Inside the tumour, doctors found clumps of hair, and a 3 - centimetre - wide brain - like structure covered by a thin plate of skull bone.