Sentences with phrase «activates brain areas»

Finally, the team used functional MRI scans of subjects» brains to show that contemplating God's beliefs activates the same brain areas as thinking about one's own views, while thoughts about other Americans» views activate a brain area used for inferring other people's mental states.

An August 15 functional MRI study in NeuroImage shows that in CG patients reminders of the deceased activate a brain area associated with reward processing, pleasure and addiction.

Furthermore, androstadienone has been shown to maintain increased levels of salivary cortisol in women [7], activate hypothalamus in a sex [8] and sexual orientation dependent manner [9], [10], and activate brain areas related to social cognition and attention [11].

In earlier studies androstadienone has been reported to increase attraction, affect subjects» mood, cortisol levels and activate brain areas linked to social cognition, among other effects.

The fMRI results (event - related design) show that chemosensory anxiety signals activate brain areas involved in the processing of social emotional stimuli (fusiform gyrus), and in the regulation of empathic feelings (insula, precuneus, cingulate cortex).

Believing that a drink contains more calories can also activate the brain areas linked to feeling full (27).

Not exact matches

Social media use directly activates the areas of the brain linked to pleasure.

In addition, facts and stats typically stimulate only two areas of the human brain, but stories can activate up to seven, and trigger emotional responses within listeners.

Studies shows that when people are presented with facts and figures, smaller areas of the brain are activated which indicates that information is being processed.

Inhaling essential oils activates the hypothalamus — the area of the brain which sends messages to other parts of the body.

The same areas of our brain become activated when we experience rejection as when we experience physical pain,» writes Winch in the post.

In that third round, the participants responded positively, activating areas in their brains that some scientists call the «reward circuit» — or the «ventral striatum.»

More experiments with the rats showed that OEA activates the same areas of the brain that mediate the formation of emotionally charged memories in humans, which are more vivid than typical memories.

Now the team is trying to activate these areas of the brain.

If the brain area linked to that task was activated every time a person was asked to think of it, they were deemed to be conscious.

Playing tennis and moving around your house were chosen as they activate different areas of the brain, making it easy to distinguish between the two in a functional MRI scanner.

Researchers specifically analyzed how different areas of the brain activate in sync with each other — a property called functional connectivity — during a period of rest.

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

The stimulation volume (red), i.e. the area of the brain immediately adjacent to the electrode, which becomes «activated» when stimulation occurs.

If certain areas of the brain that process visual information are activated — by a blow to the head, for example — tiny stars of light appear.

In a healthy brain, these responses are easy to tell apart on a scan: Tennis activates motor - related brain areas, while navigating activates spatial regions.

«You can see which area of the brain is activated when you see Ben Stiller's face,» says Carlsen.

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.

In the realm of relationships, this mingling of the less and more - concrete means that attachment experiences with specific others, their unconscious emotional tone, and the temperatures they actually feel activate and are stored in overlapping networks of brain areas.

Pain and itch even activate similar sensory areas in the brain.

The real - time fMRI scans revealed that when the volunteers successfully got the avatar to follow their gaze, brain areas involved in reward and motivation were activated.

Newberg and D'Aquili also argue that activities often found in religious rituals — like repetitive chanting — activate (and deactivate) similar areas in the brain, a finding that helps explain some of the more puzzling out - of - body experience reports, like those of the airplane pilots suddenly floating outside their planes.

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.

The brain areas that showed greater activation on warmer days were regions typically activated by MS patients during task performance: the frontal, dorsolateral, prefrontal and parietal cortex.

The fNIRS scans indicated that the concussed brain activated at a lower threshold and drew from a wider area — a sharp contrast from earlier functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies using concussion patients.

As the name implies, the technique involves electrical currents flowing through electrodes in random pulses, activating neurons in multiple brain areas.

One study of eight easily hypnotized individuals found that when they were simply asked to perceive a color, the color areas in the brain were activated — even if they were looking at a gray scale.

Though vigilance is essential for safe police work, for a hypervigilant officer an action as innocuous as reaching for a wallet may activate the brain's subcortical reactive emotion areas, which leap to the conclusion that the person is going for a weapon.

«Even the primary visual cortex, the first visual area of the brain that registers input from the eyes, is activated by imagery with the eyes closed.

«There are multiple areas in the brain that activate because there are a lot of processes that have to take place.»

An fMRI scanner recorded what areas of their brains were activated as they chose.

Yet the pons, an area of the brain just above the spinal cord, prevents motor neurons, the controllers of muscles, from activating movements.

The odors activated reward - related areas of the brain, the same regions that trigger a pleasurable rush of dopamine when we get our hands on a desirable bit of food.

They want to use brain imaging to see if pain areas are activated in the brain when ears are exposed to loud noises.

Brain networks associated with social pain became activated in all women, but in the CG patients reminders of the deceased also excited the nucleus accumbens, a forebrain area most commonly associated with reward.

They analyzed the data to determine exactly what was happening in the ventral sensory motor cortex (vSMC)-- how that area of the brain region was laid out, and in what order the neurons activated.

The preceding imagery already activates the auditory areas once, and when the same brain regions are needed for perception, they are «tired» and will respond less.»

«This is because imagery and perception activate the same auditory brain areas.

For the first time ever, a team of medical researchers led by Richard Davidson, director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, showed that meditation activates an area of the brain associated with positive emotions.

Previous studies have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans to show that similar areas of the brain are activated when someone is in pain and when they see another person in pain.

The brain researchers observed that nerve cells in the sensory cortex that con - nect to distinct brain areas are activated differentially depending on the task to be solved.

They found that the areas stimulated by salt and spice overlapped, and that spice further increased brain activity in areas activated by salt.

In humans, anxious sweat activates a cluster of brain areas known to be involved in empathy.

CVS activates the balance organs which are believed to alter activity in the area of the brain, known as the brainstem, associated with the onset of migraine headaches.

«This work is exciting because they've shown that pre-stimulating an area of the brain necessary for the task makes processing faster,» says Arnd Pralle of the State University of New York at Buffalo, who uses magnetism instead of light to activate brain cells in worms.