Sentences with phrase «alter their behavior in»

«I'd want to know more about the mechanism» by which the bacteria altered behavior in the mice before beginning to translate the findings to humans, he says.

In a paper published in April, research revealed oxytocin stimulates key neural circuits that permanently alter behavior in lab mice.

The composition of the gut microbiome can even alter behavior in mice; treatment with particular probiotics can also improve anxiety behaviors (mostly in rodents, but there are limited findings in humans as well).

The young person Cassie is paired with will help Cassie stop jumping on people out of excitement, for instance, by teaching her how to alter that behavior in a positive way.

Though you can't control them directly, you can issue orders to your ally that alter their behavior in combat.

Even if one buys into the premise that the government should be forcing businesses and consumers to alter their behavior in the name of fighting climate change (or «oil dependency»), it is still an unavoidable conclusion that CAFE standards are absurd.

To exert that influence, Cambridge Analytica — which claims to have 5,000 data points on every American — used people's data to psychologically nudge them to alter their behaviors in predictable ways.

A therapist is trained to recognize codependent behavior and, more importantly, to help the patient recognize and alter those behaviors in order to develop healthy boundaries and relationships.

The success of this relatively brief intervention demonstrates the importance of using ecological theory and ethnographic research to design interventions that enable participants to alter their behavior in the face of contradictory cultural norms.

Not exact matches

Instead they'll be able to learn tasks on their own and alter their behavior based on what on what's happening around them in their environment, like an autonomous vehicle that knows to drive more slowly during a sudden downpour.

When discussing how weather affects human behavior in his book Drunk Tank Pink, New York University marketing and psychology professor Adam Alter said, «Sunshine dulls the mind to risk and thoughtfulness.»

Covering, in this case, includes altering your appearance, limiting conversation topics, or changing your behavior.

Second, the physical space you live in and the arrangement of the things you come across can dramatically alter your behavior.

It would be interesting to have a control group and see if there are things in that environment that alter their risk - taking behavior.

Following the publication of a report in July 2017, North Korea's elites, some of the country's few citizens allowed on the Internet, have greatly altered their online behavior, and are now obfuscating their browsing activity, and have ditched US websites like Facebook or Instagram for alternative Chinese social networks.

What we can expect is that new world events, social technologies, market conditions, and buyer behaviors will not only alter values but alter the way business is conducted in the future.

Yet, it's only the latest in a string of events that risk fundamentally altering norms that have dictated economic behavior for the past 70 years.

Both changes in reader technologies and reader behaviors are altering previous business models significantly.

Now, the direct, short - term impact of pricing mistakes may be zero - sum, but the long - term effect can be negative, particularly if the mistakes cause people to alter their future behaviors in undesirable ways.

The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.

Indeed, Dr. Gerald C. Davison, who developed and popularized the «orgasmic reorientation» technique, recently disavowed his own treatment, calling upon behavior therapists to «stop engaging in voluntary therapy programs aimed at altering the choice of adult partners.»

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«Time and again, allergies have been proven to alter activities and behavior in somewhat predictable ways,» said Rapp.

Similarly, the Affordable Care Act's mandated calorie counts in restaurants have been shown to do little or nothing to alter diners» behavior.

When babies are formula - fed, this alters their sleep behavior so that they do not spend as much time in light sleep.

While other parenting styles may be effective in altering your child's behavior in the short term, they are not associated with the long - term benefits of authoritative parenting.

Infants with untreated torticollis may be at increased risk for early motor delay, global delay, impaired balance and coordination, delay in acquisition of gross motor skills, and reinforcement of altered movement patterns due to adaptive motor behavior.

Here are eight examples of common behavioral scenarios in children and how you can use «negative punishment» to alter the child's behavior and avoid future problems.

Here's my popular interview (originally published on March 31, 2011) with Dr. Brian Wansink of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab about the various tricks he's discovered — some of them deceptively simple — that alter consumer behavior in the lunch room.]

There is no doubt that gastrointestinal pain can alter a child's behavior in many ways.

Another reported altered brain development and behavior in fish (SN: 4/4/15, p. 10).

Here's some good news if you are female: Research published online in The FASEB Journal, shows that in mice, what is eaten during adolescence or childhood development may alter long - term behavior and learning, and can even «rescue» females from the negative effects on behavior resulting from a poor maternal diet during pregnancy.

We're funding researchers to investigate how drugs alter what genes are activated such that they modify the function of the cells, and how this, in turn, modifies the functions of brain circuits, and how that modifies behavior.

Because the prion - forming protein identified in the study normally functions as a regulator of gene activity, the researchers say their discovery raises the possibility that when it switches to a prion state, it could alter genetic expression and bacterial behavior.

For instance, zapping the temporal lobe using deep - brain stimulation can improve spatial memory, and using a powerful magnet to alter activity in the right temporoparietal junction can make our moral compass go haywire, causing behaviors we think of as immoral to become permissible.

One concern raised by the human brain organoid implants «is that functional integration [of the organoids] into the central nervous system of animals can in principle alter an animal's behavior or needs,» said bioethicist Jonathan Kimmelman of McGill University in Montreal.

A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical substance that acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, mood, consciousness and behavior.

The press release combined and altered two of the committee's statements — «Homosexuality is not a disease» and «Homosexuality is not an abnormality» — to read, «Homosexuality is not a disease but merely an abnormal behavior which may be learned through experiences in life.»

As in any good marriage, moreover, the attachment of the methyl groups significantly altered the behavior of whichever gene they wed, inhibiting its transcription, much like a jealous spouse.

Because neural crest cells contribute to so many tissues in the body, altering their function could change an animal's behavior, appearance and biology, the researchers reasoned.

A 2009 study found that an anti-prejudice campaign in Rwanda aired on the country's radio stations successfully altered people's perceptions of social norms and behaviors in the aftermath of the 1994 tribally based genocide of an estimated 800,000 minority Tutsi.

Second, he describes evidence that parasites, bacteria and viruses that infect humans in a way that alters their emotional behavior.

The first is changes to the environment that significantly alter habitat, in effect» «altering the rules of the game,»» as Arens puts it, so that physical characteristics and behavior that once proved adaptive for certain organisms — dinosaurs, for instance, that relied on flowering plants for food — no longer work as well.

Though the earlier JSATS tag provided a very detailed picture of fish migration, researchers worried that the mere presence of their tag — which was about three times heavier in 2007 than today's injectable tag — could alter fish behavior and make tag - gathered data less reliable for small fish.

Spawned when the researchers mixed two elements in a thin film and let it cool, the worms might one day serve to mass - produce chip patterns so tiny that they would alter the quantum behavior of the electrons they confine.

Fuse suggests this might be due to differences in pheromone signaling when the flies select their mates, or to altered circadian rhythms of mating or sleep behaviors.

However, surprisingly, the researchers found that when shark - turtle overlap in the study region was high, turtles did not alter surfacing behavior to risk avoidance.

Education could be instrumental in altering their interpretations of their behavior after the fact, reducing their shame and guilt.

New research has found that the pharmaceuticals, which are frequently showing up in U.S. streams, can alter genes responsible for building fish brains and controlling their behavior

Even short - term blockages of this kind can lead to remarkable changes in the auditory system, altering the behavior and structure of nerve cells that relay information from the ear to the brain, according to a new University at Buffalo study.