Of course there are some uncontrollable factors that affect the brain as you age.
Not surprisingly, but unfortunately, inflammation can also affect the brain, and when it does, it seems to lead to some dire consequences.
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Another finding of the report is that depression and other disorders which affect the brain have a major impact on a person's physical health.
The impairment that begins to affect the brain of a person with dementia very early in the process may be both hidden and subtle.
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But Dr Robert Green, who led the study, suggested depression could adversely affect the brain or could be a very early symptom of the disease.
Since nerve cells use electrical signals, and magnetic fields can induce and disrupt such signals, a strong, well-aimed magnetic stimulation can affect the brain's operation.
Several investigational compounds have been shown to be toxic to the liver, a challenge that highlights the difficulty in developing drugs for conditions that affect the brain.
After an initial evaluation, your doctor may refer you to a doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions that affect the brain and nervous system (neurologist).
As for environmental factors that affect the young brain, lead is neurotoxic and particularly damages the prefrontal region, which regulates behavior.
She said the study did not "get us any further since it does not present a convincing mechanism by which pollutants could affect the developing brain to result in autism".
The way Ritalin works is not fully understood, but it seems to affect the part of the brain which controls attention and the organisation of behaviour by modifying levels of key chemicals such as dopamine.
These reports suggested that religiosity originates specifically in the brain's temporal lobe, and that religious visions are the result of epileptic seizures that affect this part of the brain.
The teeming trillions of bacteria in the digestive tracts of mice have been shown to affect the animals' brain development and behaviour.
It may be that loneliness may affect systems in the brain dealing with cognition and memory, making lonely people more vulnerable to effects of age-related decline in neural pathways, he suggested.
"This was not, we think, a psychiatric problem or a characterological defect because there is substantial evidence that during this same time, there was a tumor growing in her brain, in the centers of the brain that affect and control, logic, reasoning and, most importantly, judgment, " attorney Eugene Iredale said at a news conference Thursday.
In rich countries, five men in every 200, 000, and twice as many women, develop tumours called meningiomas that affect the membranes surrounding the brain.
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Sapra and Zak began by analyzing the genes of 60 professional traders working in five major Wall Street firms. (They collected the DNA samples in 2008 only three of the firms are still in business.) The scientists focused on a short list of genes that are known to affect the activity of dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain.
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Sales increased in the wake of fears that electromagnetic radiation from the mobile could affect brain tissue.
And many of the nutrients associated with brain function are known to affect transmission at the synapses.
"These chemicals have been shown to affect the foraging behaviour of bees and damage bee brain function, " said Rachel Sharp, the chief executive officer of Wildlife Trusts Wales.
Serotonin is a chemical released in the brain that can affect mood and behavior.
DeBethizy calls this the sledgehammer approach, because these drugs affect such a broad swath of the chemical activity throughout the brain.
Low serotonin levels in the brain are known to affect mood and sleep.
On the contrary, reducing our stress levels is something that we should take very seriously, since chronic stress can affect the ways in which our brains function in the present, and it may seriously alter our brain health in the years to come.
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If, as the Times says, these influences are powerful enough to affect brain development in young people, they surely must have some impact on sales force productivity for adults.
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Although the TMS currently used for depression doesn't reach all brain regions, the new type may be able to affect the insula.
However, the team found that eventually both methods of memory retrieval were as effective in the tasks, meaning that while sleep deprivation affects brain function it does not affect overt behaviour, as previously thought.
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