Sentences with phrase «with brain and behavior»

Newly hatched fruit flies deprived of sleep end up with brain and behavior problems later in life, scientists report in the April 18 Science.

The findings, he hopes, might lead to treatments that let players get back on the field with their brains and behaviors intact.

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The prefontal cortex (that section of the brain right behind your forehead) is the part that helps us with things like decision - making and regulating our behavior.

With a guest on each episode, he aims to give listeners some answers to any questions they may surrounding the behavior, mind, brain and creativity.

The prefrontal cortex (that section of the brain right behind your forehead) is the part that helps us with things like decision - making and regulating our behavior.

Changing your digital habits starts with understanding how technology changes your brain and behavior.

In MacLean's original schema, each evolutionary episode is reflected in the physical makeup of the brain and the behaviors associated with those brain regions.

Brain - wave biofeedback training involving learning to increase one's alpha waves (associated with a relaxed, tranquil feeling state) has been used with some success in treating neuroses, psychoses, and behavior problems.

Berne's second major concept is that of ego - states; he says that our behavior patterns, with their associated feelings, are «a limited repertoire... which are psychological realities... [the products of] the human brain... are organized and stored in the form of ego - states.»

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

«The widespread media attention to these reports,» writes lead author Hal Wortzel «appears to have primed the public to accept highly reductionist formulations regarding the neuropathological bases of neuropsychiatric illness and complete human behaviors among persons with remote histories of [brain trauma].»

Concussion and Sports Related Head Injury: Code 280.13 C requires the Iowa high school athletic association and the Iowa girls high school athletic union to work together to distribute the CDC guidelines and other information to inform and educate coaches, students, and parents and guardians of students of the risks, signs, symptoms, and behaviors consistent with a concussion or brain injury, including the danger of continuing to play after suffering a concussion or brain injury and their responsibility to report such signs, symptoms, and behaviors if they occur.

One of the things that happens when you flood the brain with high arousing material like pornography, or very specific behaviors that are choreographed and ritualized like with a prostitute?

Through her own personal life experience, in combination with several years of intense training with Dr. Stephanie Mines (http://tara-approach.org), Jeanice has come to a deep understanding of how early overwhelming experiences can influence one's health and personality throughout life and can cause a variety of disorders later in life including, but not limited to, repetitive relationship problems, chronic health issues, drug and alcohol addiction, uncontrollable violence and criminal behavior, chemical imbalances in the brain, fertility issues, severe depression, and an inability to lead a joyful, healthy life.

One study looked at behavior among mice, and concluded that males with new offspring develop new brain cells and neurons when they are physically present with their pups that do not form when they are absent.

Work with a toddler's immature brain development and natural desire to explore by finding appropriate alternatives to inappropriate behavior.

Growing evidence suggests that repetitive concussions — or even sub-concussions, mild brain injuries that can't be diagnosed clinically — can occasionally produce long - term problems with thinking, behavior, and psychiatric problems.

Observed parenting behaviors interact with a polymorphism of the brain - derived neurotrophic factor gene to predict the emergence of oppositional defiant and callous — unemotional behaviors at age 3 years

The panel will also share the current state of screening volunteers prior to allowing them to interact with kids and how specific behaviors can cause serious damage since neuroscientists can now document the intensity and fragility of adolescent brains.

Armed with a deeper understanding of brain development and the impact on a child's behavior who has had a tough start in life, parents can better explore how to best help their child heal.

With a basic understanding of brain science and some simple tools, we can help our boys overcome unworkable behaviors, and create a more peaceful world.

She found that milestone achievement was abnormal in these monkeys: at six to eight weeks they were slow in starting to manipulate, and at ten months the increase in «motor disturbance behaviors» that normally occurs was prolonged.101 The author concludes, «These effects could occur as a result of effects on vulnerable brain processes during a sensitive period, interference with programming of [normal] brain development by endogenous [internal] agents or alteration in early experiences.»

With such an undeveloped little brain, they are about as close to their genes as any human will ever get and have little control over their behavior.

It can cause problems with the babies» developing brains including behavior, memory and judgment problems.

The study, which the researchers say is the first to link brain activity with maternal behavior, is likely to reinforce the convictions of breast - feeding mothers that they're doing right by their babies and make formula - feeding moms squirm a little.

«Stimulating your child's brain during this time and providing situations where they can explore helps them to learn things that get them in touch with their environment,» says child and adolescent psychologist Robert Myers, Ph.D., founder of the Child Development Institute and assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.

The Mayo Clinic states that the risks associated with products containing BPA include brain, behavior, and prostate gland issues.

This is the first paper to examine the underlying neurobiological mechanisms as a function of breastfeeding, and to connect brain activity with maternal behaviors among human mothers.

The research shows that up to three or four months after delivery some of the brain regions originally observed at one month postpartum (amygdala, putamen, globus pallidus, and superior frontal gyrus) continued to activate and were correlated with maternal, sensitive behavior among the same group of mothers.

The fMRI - based findings suggest that breastfeeding and factors associated with breastfeeding, such has high levels of hormones (oxytocin, prolactin), stress, and culture may all play an important role for mothers» brain activity and parenting behaviors during the early postpartum period.

With a thorough understanding of brain development, parents are better prepared to learn how to more successfully intervene and shape their child's troubling behaviors.

New research suggests that these techniques can have detrimental physiological effects on the baby by increasing the stress hormone cortisol in the brain, with potential long term effects to emotional regulation, sleep patterns and behavior.

Of course, reality is a lot more complicated than this rough caricature — biology is NOT destiny for animals with a complex brain, and human instincts are filtered through layer upon layer of culture and other learned behavior.

Advances in neuroscience have enabled researchers to learn more about how the adolescent brain functions, from the everyday behavior of teenagers to how they cope with the challenges of disease, learning problems, and social cues.

These influences, along with hormonal ones — such as levels of estrogen and testosterone — affect brain development, shaping male and female differences in physiology and behavior that continue to unfold as we age.

Often the most prominent characteristic in ADHD adults is difficulty with executive functioning, which is the brain activity that oversees the ability to monitor a person's own behavior by planning and organizing.

Scientists at Duke Health who developed the new model also discovered that targeting a brain receptor in mice with this type of autism could ease repetitive behaviors and improve learning in some animals.

The team's analyses, which covered 90 species, revealed that brain size was best predicted by a score based on various social behaviors such as cooperation with other species, group hunting and complex vocalizations.

So I started to volunteer in a research laboratory involved with pharmacology and the responses of drugs in the brain and how they influence behavior.

«Understanding of complex networks could help unify gravity and quantum mechanics: When the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior.»

When injected into mice engineered with a tau mutation that makes the protein clump abnormally in brain cells, triggering memory and motor problems, the antibodies reduced the clumping and improved the animals» behavior.

Page and his colleagues, who use animal models to understand how autism risk factors impact the developing brain and to identify potential treatments for the condition, have found that animals with mutations in the autism risk gene phosphatase and tensin homolog (Pten) mimic aspects of autism, including increased brain size, social deficits and increased repetitive behavior.

The study of gender differences in the brain and the resulting differences in behavior dates back to the mid-1800s, with the classic experiment of German physician Arnold Berthold, who showed that testicular secretions were essential for the normal expression of male actions.

«With training, animals stopped producing overt behavior and started relying on brain activity.»

Notre Dame Associate Professor of Psychology James Brockmole, who specializes in human cognition and how the visual world guides behavior, conducted the research at Notre Dame with Adam Biggs, currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Jessica Witt, associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State University.

Researchers are not sure what is causing the peculiar behaviors but Munday suspects that elevated CO2 levels interfere with a neurotransmitter called GABA, which plays a key role in modulating activity in the brain and nervous system of virtually all animals, including humans.

Now, UCLA researchers have developed a way to use brain scans and machine learning — a form of artificial intelligence — to predict whether people with OCD will benefit from cognitive behavior therapy.

The lesson is that human behavior is complex and a brain lesion is neither necessary nor sufficient for criminal behavior: after all, there are nearly 700,000 people living with brain tumors in the US and approximately 800,000 people have strokes every year, but the known cases leading to criminal behavior number in the dozens.

Many children with congenital heart disease (CHD)-- the most common major birth defect in the United States — sustain brain damage that often leads to problems with behavior, thinking, and learning.

«Scientists identify specialized brain areas for feeding and egg - laying in hawkmoths: Activity in specific areas in the olfactory center of female Manduca sexta correlates directly with different behaviors.»