Sentences with phrase «underlying brain changes»

Exercising the mind and body may delay the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, but in most people it does not slow underlying brain changes linked to the disease.

A new mouse model of a genetically - linked type of autism reveals more about the role of genes in the disorder and the underlying brain changes associated with autism's social and learning problems.

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These include the clarity regarding the number of blows, the effects of subclinical impact, the influence of other noxious influences on the brain, potential underlying genetic susceptibility and specificity of such histological changes to sport.

«Early childhood adversities linked to health problems in tweens, teens: Study is first to point to brain changes that underlie poor health in some children.»

Multiple seemingly disparate changes — for instance to the brain and skull — could actually have one underlying cause and represent only a single, manifold transformation.»

Changes in levels of a brain chemical called serotonin, which underlies depression in people, may have help coordinated these transformations, they report.

In drug addiction — my field — rodents will self - administer and addict themselves to the same drugs that humans self - administer and addict themselves to, which makes it possible to identify the neural circuits in the brain, and the molecular changes within those circuits caused by drug exposure, that underlie states of addiction.

If it is true that epigenetic changes to genes active in certain regions of the brain underlie our emotional and intellectual intelligence — our tendency to be calm or fearful, our ability to learn or to forget — then the question arises: Why can't we just take a drug to rinse away the unwanted methyl groups like a bar of epigenetic Irish Spring?

Brain - based computers could help emergency department doctors render elusive diagnoses even when science has yet to recognize the collection of changes in body temperature, blood composition or other variables associated with an underlying disease.

They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

Visible changes in brain chemistry may underlie behavioral fluctuations, he says.

Scientists from Technische Universität München (TUM) have now demonstrated that already during a few minutes of ongoing pain, the underlying brain activity changes by shifting from sensory to emotional processes.

Dysfunction in dopamine signaling profoundly changes the activity level of about 2,000 genes in the brain's prefrontal cortex and may be an underlying cause of certain complex neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, according to UC Irvine scientists.

«The loss of fMRI signal means there is less blood flow to the region, but we believe the underlying basis for this loss has to do with the fact that the structural integrity of that part of the brain is changing,» Yassa said.

The new research also gives insight into the mechanisms underlying the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to detect blood flow changes in the brain.

«On a normal clinical MRI scan, you typically see the structural images of the brain, and for a mild brain injury like a concussion, we aren't able to see the underlying changes we were able to see using these advanced methods.»

These strategies, new evidence suggests, drive changes in neural pathways that underlie learning and may actually beef up the brain.

The critical role these changes play in brain development highlights the importance and urgency in understanding neural circuits in more detail and suggests new avenues for investigating the underlying causes of developmental disorders such as autism.

Changes in the severity of symptoms were compared in objective tests of ability to concentrate and underlying brain wave patterns.

This indicates that the underlying cause for the changes is not the impact of GDNF on brain development.

The atlas was able to pinpoint changes in patients» brain structure that can be an underlying sign of the condition, researchers say.

While it has been known that there are considerable differences in how the brain clock of different individuals responds to changing shift cycles, we have known very little about the mechanisms that underlie these differences between people.

On the negative side, the researchers found that many of the genes whose activity is unique to modern humans are linked to diseases like Alzheimer's disease, autism and schizophrenia, suggesting that these recent changes in our brain may underlie some of the psychiatric disorders that are so common in humans today.

Conversely, experiences that produce maladaptive changes in brain circuitry underlie many neuropsychiatric disorders, and age - related decreases in brain plasticity contribute to age - related memory disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

«Chronic exposure to drugs of abuse causes changes in the brain that could underlie the transition from casual drug use to addiction.

Kinney is seeking to understand cellular and molecular changes in the brain that underlie these disorders.

Researchers have discovered a new form of synaptic plasticity, the changes to nerve cells in the brain that underlie learning and memory.

Investigators will use the advanced brain imaging technology at the Rocco Ortenzio Neuroimaging Center at Kessler Foundation to examine the neurofunctional changes underlying potential improvement with the mSMT.

While my initial interest lay in the chemico - physical properties of MR imaging probes, I became increasingly involved in their application to functional MRI (fMRI), a method to map hemodynamic responses in the brain as a surrogate for changes in the underlying neuronal activity.

Hypnosis has proven clinical utility, yet changes in brain activity underlying the hypnotic state have not yet been fully identified.

The processes in the brain that underlie these behavioural changes have

«This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing.»

15 In fact, type 2 diabetes (T2D)-- a condition stemming from broken glucose metabolism and insulin signaling — has been identified as an additional risk factor for developing AD.16, 17 Moreover, the pathological changes that occur in AD in the brain physically resemble those seen in the pancreas and vasculature in T2D.9, 18 Type 2 diabetics who carry ApoE4 alleles are at the greatest risk for AD, with an even more severe risk reserved for those treated with exogenous insulin.19 This suggests that either T2D or related features of the metabolic syndrome bring about AD, or that they are separate consequences of the same underlying cause — and moreover, that insulin is a key factor.

Intriguingly, according to reporting in The New York Times, «block printing, cursive, and typing each elicit distinctive neurological patterns,» implying a deep, underlying sensitivity in the brain to even minor changes in the way letters are rendered on the page.

According to SatC authors Christina Hinton and Kurt Fisher, neuroscientists have shown that neural changes that underlie lasting learning occur when experiences are active and when the brain tags experiences as positive and worth approaching.

Developing skill in accessing the somatic experiences that underlie schemas is essential for corrective emotional experiences that lead to changes in the brain.