Sentences with phrase «activate reward circuits»
«We know that drugs of abuse activate reward circuits that are built for food rewards, so you could see that they could be similar, and there are some aspects of obesity which seem comparable to drug addiction.»
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The brain encourages these contortions, activating reward circuits in response to biased reasoning that gives a high akin to a junkie's.
«Binding to these opioid receptors activates this reward circuit and basically every substance abuse activates this circuit.»
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In that third round, the participants responded positively, activating areas in their brains that some scientists call the «reward circuit» — or the «ventral striatum.»
This work provides an insight into the areas of the brain that are activated when an individual is presented with an aversive food and suggests that the reward circuit may also encode disgust.
Even more surprisingly, the researchers observed that areas of the brain, the globus pallidus and the substantia nigra, which participate in the reward circuit (activated when we love something), were more involved in people who do not like cheese than in those who do.
Dr. Childress and colleagues previously found that subliminal drug «reminder cues» (the sights, sounds, smells, and memories of the drug) could activate the brain's reward circuit.
«Since many reward - circuit - activating drugs such as amphetamines that work by stimulating dopamine secretion also keep users awake, it's natural to ask if dopamine plays a key role in the sleep - wake cycle as well as in reward,» Eban - Rothschild said.
It is only when the brain perceives a reasonable possibility of success for achieving a desirable goal that it invests the energy and activates the dopamine reward circuit.
«New experiences activate the brain's reward system, flooding it with dopamine and norepinephrine - which are the same brain circuits that are ignited in early romantic love».