Sentences with phrase «which brain maturation»

We know that this is a period in which brain maturation takes place and so it is important to consider the impact of moving into adulthood.

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Holding baby on your skin increases the development of essential neural pathways, which accelerates brain maturation.

The stress hormone cortisol plays a role in brain maturation, which may help explain the result (Child Development, vol 81, p 115).

Scientists from King's College London and Imperial College London used diffusion MRI — a type of imaging which looks at the natural diffusion of water — to observe the maturation of the cerebral cortex where much of the brain's computing power resides.

Girls have been shown to have earlier brain maturation, eye contact, and joint attention, which may in turn influence greater maternal responsiveness.12, 25,26 A significant gap in language input from fathers may have long - term implications.

Ongoing work examines adolescents longitudinally, to identify the role of GABA in brain maturation, which may contribute to risky behavior and could in turn interfere with healthy neurodevelopment and compromise health and safety.

The team used genetically engineered mice to study the effects of different human apoE variants on the maturation of neural stem cells or progenitor cells, from which new neurons develop in the adult brain.

Because of the effective use of the ketogenic diet in reducing seizures (see above), it has been suggested that it may also improve the clinical status in brain injury, especially by reducing the incidence of long - term consequences, such as epilepsy.79 Positive effects of a ketogenic diet have also been reported in reducing the cortical contusion volume in an age - dependent manner in an animal model of cortical injury, which is related to the maturation - dependent variability in brain ketone metabolism.92 These findings were also supported by the demonstration that a ketogenic diet reduced post-traumatic cognitive and motor function impairment, at least in a rat model.93

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.

The mechanism by which adverse life events may affect ODD is still unclear, and may vary between types of event; potential explanations include (a) negative effects on maturation of cerebral brain structures in the child due to stress, (b) teaching individuals to use antisocial strategies to cope with stressful situations, and (c) causing an overactive sympathetic nervous system [7, 29].