Sentences with phrase «young brain»

This growth of new connection spots is something that typically occurs in young brains.

Yes: Chronic, toxic stress is bad for young brains.

But filling young brains with useful facts has to start early if they are to read.

Back then, it referred mainly to the major developmental leaps seen in very young brains.

Too much time in front of the TV or computer can affect young brains and make sleep difficult.

Some scientists think that these bursts of brain activity help young brains form the right connections between regions.

Rather than regarding young brains as immature and less functional, a better perspective may be to regard them as constantly adapting to meet the key challenges they face.

Children and females need more recovery time Research suggests that younger brains actually heal slower than adult brains.

Building a secure, supportive classroom environment is essential to allow young brains to learn.

What seems obvious to adults is not recognized as an effort to goal - progress correlation by young brains without explicit evidence.

In young brains, the neurons and their feedback controls grow and link up to each other.

For young brains to retain information, they need to apply it.

More research on how they affect younger brains is urgently needed.

The study, led by Guo - li Ming, M.D., Ph.D., and Hongjun Song, Ph.D., of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and described online Aug. 17 in the journal Nature, used stem cells generated from people with and without mental illness to observe the effects of a rare and pernicious genetic variation on young brain cells.

Rosser describes new studies planned for 2017 - 2018 with transplantation of young brain cells into the brains of 2 - 3 HD patients.

When young brain stem cells split in two, they can wall off damaged proteins in one daughter cell, leaving the other spry and ready to divide again, researchers report in the Sept. 18 Science.

«It's educating British students for science in Britain rather than educating the best young brains in Europe.»

Earlier this year, Lerner, Xie and their colleagues reported using the new method to find an antibody that can perform the remarkable trick of turning bone marrow cells into young brain cells, via a previously unknown signaling mechanism.

On Wednesday, the center will publish a report that calls for an online and in - person network that uses recent advances in scientists» understanding of the way young brains grow to create and test early - childhood interventions.

THE GREAT DIVIDE Young brain stem cells (one shown dividing, left) pack old proteins tagged with ubiquitin (red) into one daughter cell.

THURSDAY, April 5, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- Contrary to popular thought, older adults» brains can churn out just as many new cells as younger brains do, a new study suggests.

Vietnam's tech startups are emerging as a force to be reckoned with as foreign private equity funds bet the country's talented young brains will yield more successes like the international hit game Flappy Bird.

Recent research on the human brain indicates how much more adequately the flexible young brain is able to cope with problems than the more compartmentalized older one.14 Similarly, transcending traditional compartmentalization with the cosmic vision may be just what is required to give fresh life to human society.

«We don't know which substance in tobacco smoke might be responsible, but at this point there is strong evidence that smoking is damaging young brains.»

But the new finding suggests that while young brains have an extraordinary capacity to recover, there might be limits on which areas can pinch - hit.

While e-cigarettes are touted as a means to help adult smokers quit, the devices might prime young brains...

Some efforts to protect young brains may actually backfire.

In particular, younger brains seemed short on prefrontal cortex, the seat of so - called executive functions that, among other things, enable us to switch our attention from what we are learning now to something we learned earlier.

The biggest trick that older brains employ is to use both hemispheres simultaneously to handle tasks for which younger brains rely on predominantly one side.

The Canadian Paediatric Society and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health have publicly stated that marijuana is not harmless and can have negative effects on the brain, especially young brains.

Her research translates existing studies from an adult population with cognitive disabilities to children with traumatic brain injury to investigate how an injured young brain heals and how it organizes itself around learning.

In most young brains, that happens easily, but as we get older and our brain gets older, we have trouble with that.»

He's now at work on a novel about her life as a fanatically dedicated young brain scientist.

Early - age interventions frequently have higher benefit cost ratios, presumably because younger brains are more malleable, and early learning tends to build on itself and create future learning.

Jensen researched special needs and gifted children, and how poverty can place young brains at risk.

It's an impressive, clear - headed primer on the startling changes going on within young brains.

Many young brain injury victims suffer from headaches, loss of motor functions, issues with spasticity of muscles, paralysis, seizures, balance issues and fatigue.

«These features might be down to the particularly harmful effects of alcohol on young brains that are still in development, perhaps by delaying neuromaturational processes,» says López - Caneda.

It's a bizarre, thrilling Mario game that, admittedly, was especially impactful on my very young brain when it was first released back in 1989.

Molecules may help young brain cells forge the right connections — but only at the right time and place

Why relaxed, unscheduled playtime and exploration is actually better for young brains than cramming it with activities and information.

One such antibody agonist, which can turn stem - like cells in bone marrow into young brain cells, was described in a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last month.

Thus, the detrimental effects seen in young brains, in which cannabinoids are already plentiful, may turn out to be beneficial in older brains that have a dearth of them.

The young brain literally changes shape in response to everything it encounters, from new experiences to people to relationships.

«It will be interesting to determine whether these factors make a mature brain more resistant to mild traumatic brain injury than a young brain,» says Gu.

Even if your teen is regretting their decision to pick up a cigarette, it's important to understand that nicotine is a very powerful, addictive drug that can have a profound effect on a young brain.