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A 2008 study found that areas in the brain associated with mood are flooded with feel - good endorphins after running.

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Research has linked the positive feeling we often experience while talking about ourselves to higher levels of activation in areas of the brain associated with reward.
We wanted to expand the area associates» functions so they could use their brains, in addition to their clerical skills.»
More praise for the yummy stuff resulted from brain researcher Todd Parrish of Northwestern University in 2009, when he examined functional magnetic resonance images of gum chewers and found increased activity in areas of the brain associated with memory and emotional responses.
Other research shows that ADHD children with a particular gene variation have thinner tissue in the area of the brain that's associated with attention.
The extra myelin growth was greatest in areas of the brain «associated with language, emotional function and cognition.»
Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37
The differences were seen in areas of the brain associated not only with disgust, but also with memory retrieval, attention, pain, and innate «gut responses.»
Scientists in Brazil have imaged elderly female yoga practitioners» brains and found they have greater cortical thickness in the left prefrontal cortex, in brain areas associated with cognitive functions like attention and memory.
The super-agers also had developed increased thickness in an area of the brain associated with decision - making, impulse control and emotions and other functions that was not found in the brains of their peers or of healthy younger people.
The brains of the super-agers showed less cortical thinning, or neuron loss in certain areas, said lead researcher Emily Rogalski, research associate professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.
The experiments highlighted an area of the brain known as the «nucleus accumbens», which has been long - associated with motivation, reward and depression — in humans too.
Whereas amyloid may show up in various brain areas, tau appears more restricted to regions associated with the cognitive deficits.
That's why the MRIs of the memory contestants showed activation in the brain areas associated with visual imagery and spatial navigation.
The Disney ad stoked big responses in the orbito - frontal cortex and ventral striatum, two areas associated with feelings of reward, the parts of the brain that say, «I like that!»
She also found tau in areas of the brain associated with depression as well as memory formation and retention.
18 The stressed rats» brains showed shrunken neurons in the dorsomedial striatum (an area associated with goal - directed behavior) and growth in the dorsolateral striatum (related to habitual behavior).
They detected little or no MHCI expression in some areas of the brain, but they found it in several other places, including the visual cortex while the ocular dominance columns were forming, and in the hippocampus — an area of the brain associated with learning and memory — at all ages.
«Increased activity in brain areas such as the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex is associated with an increased experience of social pain.
In the hippocampus and the amygdala, areas of the brain thought to be associated with episodic memory, researchers had shown that the chemical signaling agent called glutamate acts like a key in the lock of some of these protein «flood gates.&raquIn the hippocampus and the amygdala, areas of the brain thought to be associated with episodic memory, researchers had shown that the chemical signaling agent called glutamate acts like a key in the lock of some of these protein «flood gates.&raquin the lock of some of these protein «flood gates.»
The causes of blindness in children are varied, but cerebral visual impairment (damage to areas of the brain associated with vision) is among the most common.
GABA is believed to have an inhibitory function in the areas of the brain associated with higher motor function and that a decrease in this inhibiting factor leads to the tics experienced by people with TS.
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.
This coil permits the targeted stimulation of areas of the brain which, according to the latest research, play a major role in MS - associated fatigue.
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.
Non-spatially oriented brains have more grey matter in the left angular gyrus, an area associated with semantic and conceptual processing.
Spatially oriented brains have an above - average grey matter volume in the right precuneus, a small area of the brain associated with processing visual - spatial information.
The chronic dieters showed activations in areas of the brain associated with desire and expectation of reward, however.
The brains of the nondieters, he found, lit up just as one would expect, showing activations in areas associated with satiation and memory, as if saying, «Mmmm, that was good.»
After an eight - minute training period, the subjects showed heightened levels of activity in areas known to be part of the brain's reward circuitry, the amygdala and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), associated with the pictures alone.
Having observed this behavior and shown that odors make larvae overcome their natural tendency to moderate the risk associated with searching for food, we want to understand the brain areas involved in this process of balancing cost and benefit.
Now, experiments with rats and mice have shown that insulin increases dopamine levels by 20 % to 55 % in the striatal region, a brain area associated with pleasure and decision - making, according to a study published on 27 October in Nature Communications.
The researchers traced these changes to a decrease in brain cells that release the hormone oxytocin in the hypothalamus, an area of the brain associated with food intake.
«Stuttering linked to reduced blood flow in area of brain associated with language.»
Previous studies have found that exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides can cause changes in the brain, more specifically in the areas associated with learning and memory in honeybees.
Surgery to remove areas of the brain associated with epileptic activity can help prevent seizures in these patients.
«The idea is that if you can couple those motor signals that are associated with moving the same - sided limb with the actual movements of the hand, new connections will be made in your brain that allow the uninjured areas of your brain to take over control of the paralyzed hand,» Leuthardt said.
This lever - pressing routine was associated with increased activity in the dorsolateral striatum, an area of the brain associated with habitual behaviors.
By testing cycling time to task failure (TTF) in a group of 12 active participants in a placebo controlled study, Dr Mauger discovered that stimulating the brain by passing a mild electrical current (transcranial direct current stimulation or tDCS) over the scalp to stimulate it increased the activity of the area associated with muscle contraction.
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.
The knockout mice also did better on tests of behaviors associated with the brain's prefrontal cortex, the area that regulates complex thinking, emotions, and behavior in humans.
The brain images also showed that exercise after a time delay was associated with more precise representations in the hippocampus, an area important to learning and memory, when an individual answered a question correctly.
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Andersen was studying the activity of neurons in the hippocampus — a brain area associated with memory — and the two students wanted to try to link this precise activity of cells with the behaviour of animals.
Last month, Ursula Voss of Bonn University in Germany and colleagues reported that even during lucid dreaming — a state in which some people claim to be able to control their dreams — some areas of the brain associated with intent stayed offline, while other areas associated with consciousness were active.
Researchers have long known that in patients with Alzheimer's, the areas of the human brain clogged with senility - associated plaques also bristle with inflammatory cells and cytokines.
«The brain at rest» is actually a hive of activity and what it's doing is trying to sort out information that comes in; I mean this is another, another thing that made Marcus Raichle curious about this, is we know, for instance, that six million bits of data go flowing in through your optic nerve from the environment around you, and then only 10,000 of those bits actually get to the brain's visual processing area and only a few hundred of those are involved in consciousness, and you know, the conscious processing associated with that visual activity.
However, this increased activity also extended to the areas in the brain that represent the relevant associated position of the same object, despite the fact that the subject was not concentrating on it.
A 2012 study using PET scans found that when crows viewed human faces that they associated with threat or care, the birds had increased activity in the amygdala, thalamus and brain stem — areas related to emotional processing and fear learning.
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