Sentences with phrase «which early brain»

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The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bBrain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bbrain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bbrain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brainbrain.

Even if you have an interesting story to tell, most investors won't want to go through the brain damage of doing a «down round,» which creates tension between them and early investors.

It was a way to explain incomprehensible forces of nature to our early ancestors, which evolution had given a surplus of imagination from oversized brains, without the discipline to use that brain power wisely.

Not like a dawg, which he had done earlier, missing a 23 - yard gim me that would have put the brain - dead New York Jets out of their misery way back in the fifth quarter.

Genetic factors drive this early overproduction of neurons, Schore explains, but the brain awaits direction from the social environment, or epigenetic processes, to determine which synapses or connections are to be pruned, which should be maintained, and which genes are turned on or off.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

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One is early childhood when the brain is malleable, so plastic... and the other is in adolescence that is because of a phenomenon which scientists call meta cognition which means thinking about thinking.

«There are a several factors that inform speech and language acquisition and skill level — one of which is hormonal influences that impact brain development in early childhood, particularly during the first three years of life.»

The difficulties some children are facing later on in life can only partly be blamed on their parents» failure to instill «good character» — which Tough defines as curiosity, perseverance and generosity of spirit — in those early years when the prefrontal cortex (the part of the brain where character develops) is at its most plastic.

But when children are intensely stressed, the prefrontal cortex of the brain (which in early childhood is an under - developed, mushy «ball of playdoh» waiting to be formed) is flooded with cortisol, aka the «stress hormone.»

These complications are the medically - indicated reasons for supplementation, which require hospitalization to limit and prevent further brain injury, and they are nearly all preventable with ethically responsible monitoring, patient education and earlier supplementation.

And like the womb, it offers a protective and safe environment and a superb position to view the world, which is especially important considering that the brain is growing faster in early infancy than any other time in life.

Morning naps help REM (dreaming) sleep, which is important for early brain development.

There are unique considerations regarding the needs of infants during the first three years of life which are highlighted by contemporary knowledge, underscoring the impact of early experience on the development of human infant brain and mind»

The thyroid interestingly is thought to help in transferring heat to the baby and affects the woman's metabolism and how she handles the pregnancy and the brain is where the tissue affects neural circuitry which is directly responsible for the Mom / baby bonding and bonding and attachment in the early days and beyond.

For example, morning naps have more dreaming, or REM sleep, which makes them important for young babies who require it for early brain development.

A baby's nerve pathways in the ears and neural system in the brain start developing as early as the twenty - sixth week, which is when the baby will begin responding to sounds and voices regularly.

He explains how early adversity causes stress which damages young children's developing brains,

«The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self - regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive.

A babys nerve pathways in the ears and neural system in the brain start developing as early as the twenty - sixth week, which is when the baby will begin responding to sounds and voices regularly.

Lewis, Thomas, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon A GENERAL THEORY OF LOVE Random House, 2000 A serious discussion of the importance of attachment to brain development which underscores the value of early nurturance.

The BHA has made its comments in light of a new legal case launched by Tony Nicklinson which seeks clarity in the law on murder and assisted dying, and ahead of an appeal later today in the case of Frances Inglis, who was given a life sentence earlier this year after being found guilty of murder after giving her permanently brain - damaged son a lethal heroin overdose.

«The human organoids are good for studying the very early stages of brain development, but may not reveal much about later, more mature stages on which things like sociality depend,» says John Mason at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

«The organoids are good for studying the very early stages of brain development, but may not reveal much about later stages on which things like sociality depend.»

Although amyloid clogs the brain early on, memory loss tracks much better with a different protein, tau, which forms so - called «tangles» within nerve cells.

Scientists from the Universities of Bath, Oxford and Edinburgh have now identified one such non-coding RNA, called Paupar, which influences how healthy brains develop during early life.

An earlier study using that model showed that the algorithms in the model can predict where in the brain a seizure will originate and which groups of neurons it will likely spread to as it grows.

In the early 1970s, psychologists Daniel Kahneman, now at Princeton University, and Amos Tversky, who passed away in 1996, began investigating the way people make decisions, identifying a number of biases and mental shortcuts, or heuristics, on which the brain relies to make choices.

«We refer to this as the battle for the brain, in which early on in the disease, the microglia are trying to destroy the brain tumor initiating cells,» says Yong.

When it reaches the brain, Zika virus infects neuronal stem cells, which will generate fewer neurons, and by inducing chronic stress in the endoplasmic reticulum, it promotes apoptosis, i.e. the early death of these neuronal cells.

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

The Human Brain Project, which won a billion - euro research prize earlier this year, aims to do it by creating a computer simulation of the entire bBrain Project, which won a billion - euro research prize earlier this year, aims to do it by creating a computer simulation of the entire brainbrain.

«Instead of one neurogenesis - based rule, we suspect that the evolution of brain parts, including the huge human cerebral hemispheres, results from a complex combination of factors including the early molecular processes which divide the brain long before it starts growing,» she said.

It is, however, clear that cocaine is taken up rapidly and continuously by zebrafish larvae, which at this early stage have not yet a fully developed blood - brain barrier.

The researchers found they could have predicted which adults were likely to incur such costs as early as age 3 based on assessments of «brain health,» giving them hope that early interventions could avoid some of these social costs.

People who can't recognise faces have massive differences in how their brains are connected, which could be identified early in life to help kids circumvent the disorder

This finding is in accordance with earlier animal model studies, which have shown that physical activity increases the amount of growth factors in the brain and improves synaptic plasticity.

Neither set of pups developed microcephaly, which Diamond says could be because the researchers infected the mothers so early during pregnancy that not much brain development had yet occurred.

Archaeological excavations along the coastline of South Africa, Marean suggested, show that early humans obtained energy - dense foods by adopting a diet of shellfish, which afforded strong nutritional benefits for the brain.

Until now, the «seizure - generating area» of the brain — in which the earliest signs of seizure activity can be observed — was considered the most important of these regions.

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

* The NIH says its candidate vaccine — which contains the S139N mutation — did not damage brain tissue in earlier monkey tests.

In this inherited malady, the brain is typically just 400 cc — roughly the same size as that of the early hominid Australopithecus africanus, of which «Lucy» is the best - known specimen.

The test could enable earlier diagnosis of a group of degenerative brain diseases called synucleinopathies, which include Parkinson's disease, Lewy Body dementia, and multiple system atrophy.

Professor Aneta Stefanovska from Lancaster University, who has been studying the physics of biological oscillations for over 20 years, said: «Combining the technique to noninvasively record the fluctuation corresponding to cerebrospinal fluid and our sophisticated methods to analyse oscillations which are not clock - like but rather vary in time around their natural values, we have come to an interesting and non-invasive method that can be used to study aging and changes due to various neurodegenerative brain aging may begin earlier than expected.»

The results contradict a study of 11,000 people earlier this year, carried out by Adrian Owen at the University of Cambridge and colleagues, which found that brain training didn't help improve cognitive skills outside the game itself.

The researchers found that a 10-fold increase in PBDE concentrations in early pregnancy, when the fetal brain is developing, was associated with a 4.5 IQ decrement, which is comparable with the impact of environmental lead exposure.

In a new Yale School of Medicine study, researchers examined MRI brain scans to identify children at high risk of developing MS before symptoms appear, which may lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment.