Increased reward response would seem to be in line with this.
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The increased reward response to alcohol we see when estrogen levels are high is mediated through receptors for estrogen in the VTA,» said Mark Brodie, professor of physiology and biophysics in the UIC College of Medicine and a co-author on the paper.
Not exact matches
Selective reinforcement consists of helping couples or family members identify the specific
responses that
reward desired and undesired behaviors and then teaching them to
increase the reinforcement of desired behavior and to terminate reinforcement of undesired behavior.
Overall, they found that adolescent girls with greater BMI showed
increased reward region activation in
response to food images.
This decreased
reward response to alcohol arose via two mechanisms: an initial activation of stress hormone receptors and a subsequent
increase in inhibitory signaling in the brain.
They showed that stress also
increases the
responses of nAChRs within the brain's
reward areas.
The gray matter of the brain regions
increases in volume and helps in regulating certain
responses related to the
reward system.
The NAS and Annenberg group identified several ways to change incentives for quality and correction, including
rewarding researchers for publishing high - quality work rather than publishing work more often; mentoring young peer - reviewers to
increase clarity and quality of editorial
responses during the journal publishing process; and using «voluntary withdrawal» and «withdrawal for cause» instead of the blanket «retraction» term, which has negative connotations that can prevent some researchers from taking action when a paper is wrong, but not as a result of fraud or misconduct.
The good news is if you
reward your dog, you WILL
increase his
responses.
When this sequence is repeated a number of times, the
reward will reinforce the desired behavior which will
increase in frequency and also, the
reward will reinforce the associations between the Request and the Lure - movement (handsignal) and between the Lure and the relevant
Response.
Conduct - disordered youth exhibit a decreased dopamine
response to
reward and
increased risk - taking behaviors related to abnormally disrupted frontal activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), orbitofrontal cortices (OFC), and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) that worsens over time due to dysphoria activation of brain stress systems and
increases in corticotropin - releasing factor (CRF).
We also explored whether depressed youth would show altered reactivity to peer acceptance or rejection relative to controls in regions typically associated with
reward processing, such as the NAcc and mPFC, but were unsure whether to expect blunted or
increased reactivity given conflicting initial findings on
response to monetary and social
reward in depressed youth (Forbes et al., 2006, 2009; Davey et al., 2011).