Sentences with phrase «activates reward areas»

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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.»

Areas involved in motivation and reward were activated when the avatar followed their gaze, while following the avatar's gaze activated an area involved in imagining what other people are thinking (Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1162 / jocn.2009.21401).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Despite being objective losses, near - misses activate a particular reward - related area in the middle of our brain: the striatum.

«We have found that UV light activates areas of the brain and chemicals in the brain that are known to be involved in other rewards and other addictions,» he said Adinoff, who also directs of mental health research at Dallas VA Medical Center.

Here's Arthur: «When you're in love with someone romantically, the areas of the brain that are activated when you think about them are what we call the dopamine reward system.

A number of psychologists have described some forms of love just as you have: like an addiction; there is intense desire to spend time with the object of our affection, we experience intense cravings, emotional dependence, mood swings, and even loss of control and compulsive behaviors.1 In one study utilizing fMRI technology (brain imaging), subcortical reward systems in the brain were activated when adults viewed photographs of someone who had rejected their love; 2 this part of the brain is the same area that lights up when people experience intense, romantic love3 and is rich in dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter associated with rewards like pleasure.