Sentences with phrase «brain responses found»

«Brain responses found to originate from previously unknown source: Discovery will inform further research into hearing disorders, brain training.»

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Recent research from the Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany found that exposure to stimuli that cause strong negative emotions - the same kind of exposure you get when dealing with toxic people - caused subjects» brains to have a massive stress response.

Recent research from the Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany found that exposure to stimuli that cause strong negative emotions — the same kind of exposure you get when dealing with difficult people — caused subjects» brains to have a massive stress response.

But research published in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that «when people viewed pictures of others being loved or cared for, their brains» threat response became muted,» writes Inc.com's Jill Krasny.

But during «standstill», Pam's brain was found «dead» by all three clinical tests — her electroencephalogram was silent, her brain - stem response was absent, and no blood flowed through her brain.

More praise for the yummy stuff resulted from brain researcher Todd Parrish of Northwestern University in 2009, when he examined functional magnetic resonance images of gum chewers and found increased activity in areas of the brain associated with memory and emotional responses.

The researchers found that the areas of the brain that lit up in response to the grossest pictures — like mutilated bodies and burn victims — depended on whether the participant was more liberal or more conservative, based on a survey of political beliefs.

«Though no such treatment yet exists, this finding will lead to experiments to better understand the specific mechanisms of the inflammatory response in the neurodegenerating brain, which may in turn lead to new treatments.»

Neurons that fire in response to horizontal and vertical movements had already been found in the retinas of mammals, but the only cells known to be sensitive to approaching objects were in the brain.

A new study finds stress - response differences in the brains of foxes bred to be more or less aggressive toward humans.

While measuring brain activity with magnetic resonance imaging during blood pressure trials, UCLA researchers found that men and women had opposite responses in the right front of the insular cortex, a part of the brain integral to the experience of emotions, blood pressure control and self - awareness.

«We found that the participants» brains became intimately coupled during the course of the «conversation», with the responses in the listener's brain mirroring those in the speaker's,» says Uri Hasson of Princeton University.

Interestingly, the researchers found that the brain began to prepare the motor areas to respond very early, during initial stimulus presentation, suggesting that we get ready to respond even before we know what the response will be.

A research team based at Princeton University found that physical activity reorganizes the brain so that its response to stress is reduced and anxiety is less likely to interfere with normal brain function.

Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

They found that the depressed women had less activity in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex — an area of the brain thought to pick up on emotional cues and mediate emotional responses — than the non-depressed women (The American Journal of Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1176 / appi.ajp.2010.09081235).

Previous findings from Hariri's group show that people whose brains exhibit a high response to threat and a low response to reward are more at risk of developing symptoms of anxiety and depression over time.

Not all of the research was animal focused: one winner found that 6 per cent of its French subjects hated cheese, making it an excellent candidate for studying the brain's disgust response.

Findings about the brain circuits that control the behavioral and physiological responses are assumed to explain how humans experience fear.

They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

Christianson said the findings set the stage for a large - scale investigation of the brain circuits that work together to orchestrate responses to social emotional information with the hope that such research will lead to better treatment for people with conditions marked by aberrant social cognition, such as autism or schizophrenia.

A study conducted at the Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR) has found that the brain responses of infants with an inherited risk for dyslexia, a specific reading disability, predict their future reading speed in secondary scBrain Research (CIBR) has found that the brain responses of infants with an inherited risk for dyslexia, a specific reading disability, predict their future reading speed in secondary scbrain responses of infants with an inherited risk for dyslexia, a specific reading disability, predict their future reading speed in secondary school.

The scientists also found that the cellular responses persisted long after each of the photographs disappeared, further suggesting that the amygdala cooperates with other brain regions to create awareness of the emotional content of faces.

The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, found that when microglia, the brain's resident immune cells, were blocked, female response to opioid pain medication improved and matched the levels of pain relief normally seen in males.

Froemke says his team's latest findings reveal that while mammals recognize sounds in the auditory cortex of their brains, the signaling levels of nerve cells in this brain region are simultaneously being strengthened or weakened in response to surrounding context.

In line with prior research, the NIH team had found that fearful or angry faces triggered a strong response from the amygdala, a region of the brain that helps us recognize threats.

Mamelak and Rutishauser found that if a neuron's response to an image synchronizes with a type of brain wave called a theta rhythm, the person is much more likely to remember what was shown.

This time, they found that young men and young women responded differently, with males showing a greater increase in electrical activity in the brain in response to a TMS pulse.

In a new study published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, researchers found that inosine, a naturally occurring purine nucleoside that is released by cells in response to metabolic stress, can help to restore motor control after brain injury.

Perusing the literature, he found earlier experiments that demonstrated a crucial part of the amygdala known as the central nucleus contained links to the key brain stem areas that control the autonomic functions involved in the fear response, like acceleration of breathing and heart rate.

The MSU study, which appears online in the journal Biological Psychology, offers what could be the first physiological evidence to support those findings, in the form of a positive brain response.

Reiss also found that women showed a stronger response in the nucleus accumbens, the brain's reward center, suggesting that they ultimately derived bigger pleasure hits from punch lines.

Miller says the response in this study, published in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology, may confirm other research findings about polyunsaturated fats: «Recent data suggest that PUFA (but not MUFA) activates signaling in the brain to reduce appetite, so this may be one reason for the bigger weight drop between the groups.»

These are found in genes that are central to memory and learning, many of them part of the CREB (cyclic - AMP response elements binding protein) system in the brain.

By pinpointing increases in blood oxygenation in the brain in response to different events — a sign that specific groups of neurons are active — fMRI is responsible for some of the hottest findings about the brain.

Researchers at Penn Medicine's Center for Studies of Addiction have now found that the drug baclofen, commonly used to prevent spasms in patients with spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders, can help block the impact of the brain's response to «unconscious» drug triggers well before conscious craving occurs.

«These findings suggest that the brain response to drug cues presented outside of awareness can be pharmacologically inhibited, providing a mechanism for baclofen's potential therapeutic benefit in addiction,» says Young.

The researchers found that both men's motor cortexes — the region of the brain responsible for carrying out muscle movement — had reorganized themselves in response to the new hands.

One nuance in the findings was that the brain area that appeared to predict response to SSRIs — the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex — was not the exact area that appeared to be affected by SSRI treatment.

«We have found that nicotine weakens the sleep - inducing effects of alcohol by stimulating a response in an area of the brain known as the basal forebrain.

This finding told the researchers of nSMase2's involvement but still didn't tell them about the signal sent from the brain to activate the body's immune response.

What's more, a follow - up study found that more typical brain responses correlated «with near perfect accuracy» with higher scores on a range of cognitive tests at age 4, and even higher scores at age 6, Kuhl says.

Dr Lawrence, of Psychology, said: «Our findings show for the first time that gamblers have an exaggerated theta response to almost winning in brain regions related to reward processing, which could contribute to them continuing to gamble despite their losses.

In tests using human neural progenitor cells (NPCs)-- self - renewing, multipotent cells that generate neurons and other brain cell types — the scientists found that exposure to sofosbuvir not only rescued dying NPCs infected with the Zika virus, but restored gene expression linked to their antiviral response.

An international group led by Vanderbilt University researchers has found cannabinoid receptors, through which marijuana exerts its effects, in a key emotional hub in the brain involved in regulating anxiety and the flight - or - fight response.

By examining the hippocampus — a portion of the brain associated with the process of learning — after the rats learned to associate a sound with a motor response, scientists found that the new brain cells injected with dye a few weeks earlier were still alive in those that had learned the task while the cells in those who had failed did not survive.

In addition, the researchers found that brain cells in the protected, caudal portion of the brain have a less toxic response to Aβ than their rostral counterparts.

They found that microglia, the first and primary immune response cells in the brain and spinal cord, are essential for dealing with TDP -43-associated neuron death.

In fact, no associations were found between early brain responses and long - term outcomes, which could relate to the small size of the study or the fact that several patients were sedated during the fMRI and EEG tests.

Various biological factors at baseline appear to predict response to rTMS, including levels of certain molecular factors, blood flow in brain regions implicated in depression, electrophysiological findings, and specific genetic polymorphisms.