Sentences with phrase «as brain response»

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Results showed those who were especially anxious fared better after viewing the images (i.e., showed a milder response in the amygdala, the part of the brain that helps process emotions), just as the images helped those who weren't even paying attention to them.

This acclimation process gives the software a chance to record your brain waves and trains you to use them consistently before it throws a series of increasingly difficult challenges at you, such as reconstructing simply via thought a fallen bridge needed for a mystical journey while a fiery sky changes hue in response to your emotional state.

Your brain is the only organ that changes as a direct result of and in response to, the connections made.

If you are one of the few retards blaming Soledad O'Brien for her hard line interview, SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!! I guess your empty brains did not pay attention to the responses of this so called Imam using scare tactics as reasons to build a mosque.

You might not realize someone is looking at you on a conscious level, but your eyes in your peripheral vision or any other stimuli might still go into your brain and get processed and outputted as a response before you are consciously aware.

The health benefits include cardiovascular, brain and immune system support, as well as support of a healthy inflammatory response.

In addition, Red Star Nutritional Yeast contains other beneficial components, such as beta - 1,3 glucan and mannan, complex carbohydrates known to improve the immune response and help maintain cholesterol levels that are already within a healthy range; trehalose, a disaccharide that helps maintain the health of brain cells; and glutathione, an antioxidant that plays an important role in cellular defense mechanisms.

Patients with suspected concussive injury are categorized as having mild traumatic brain injury, or mTBI if, when they are first seen by an emergency medicine provider, they receive a score of 14 - 15 on the 15 - point Glasgow Coma Scale, which is used to determine level of consciousness based on responses to various stimuli:

To read more about the effects of parenting on a child's developing stress response system, see my Parenting Science article, «The health benefits of sensitive, responsive parenting» as well as my blog posts, «Positive parenting protects kids from brain - shrinking stress?»

Disordered stress reactivity can be established as a pattern for life not only in the brain with the stress response system (Bremmer et al, 1998), but also in the body through the vagus nerve, a nerve that affects functioning in multiple systems (e.g., digestion).

But babies born prematurely don't demonstrate that type of brain response to expectations, known as top - down processing.

If oxytocin levels are too low, stress results in elevated levels of cortisol, which can cause changes in brain structure in response to stress that can lead to symptoms such as high blood pressure.

The breastfeeding mothers surveyed for the study showed greater responses to their infant's cry in brain regions related to caregiving behavior and empathy than mothers who relied upon formula as the baby's main food source.

Is it only me or does it look like some of these responses look as if they are coming from brain dead folks?

As a response, the brain's stress response takes over the mind.

When in a stressful situation, these lower centers of the baby's / toddlers brain go into a primal survival response commonly known as fight / flight / freeze.

Jones says that the effects of stress on the brain response didn't come as a surprise.

Today's frantic new media systems can generate huge waves of alarmist communications which invade countries and alarm the citizens about two main issues that bypass the logical part of the brain: racial threat and sex... both topics are used by media to command human attention because they bypass conscious brain structures to ensure a fast response, the same as a deja vu is seen before it is noticed, so to speak.

Dr. Saper's research has explored circuitry of the brain that controls basic functions such as wake - sleep cycles, feeding, and immune response, and how these circuits are disrupted in neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, in sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and sleep apnea, and during aging.

As prescription opioid painkillers claim an alarming number of lives every year, researchers are racing to better understand the brain's response to stress, and to identify alternate interventions, speakers said 18 September at AAAS.

The EEG signal can be processed quickly, allowing fast response times, and the instrument is cheaper and more portable than brain - scanning techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging and positron - emission tomography.

A number of individual genes have been linked to suicide, such as those involved in the brain's response to mood - lifting serotonin, and a signalling molecule called brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which regulates the brain's response to stress.

This experience mimicked the brain's reward - based learning response — as opposed to an avoidance - learning response, an experience that involves different parts of the brain that together comprise the «anterior insula.»

The cause, at a neurological level, is hyperconnectivity between two brain regions, the orbitofrontal cortex and the caudate nucleus, creating a tidal wave of unfounded mortal fear and triggering habitual response as the only way to attain calm.

The basal ganglia are structures deep within the brain, thought to be responsible for control of movements and responses to rewards as well as cognitive functions.

By observing research subjects» brain activity as they were exposed to auditory stimuli, Kraus and her team discovered a distinct pattern in the auditory response of children who suffered concussions compared to children who had not.

The result is the moodiness that often accompanies exhaustion, described by the team as an amplified response from the brain's emotion hub.

When they next measured responses in the auditory regions of the brain, a more sensitive test, the mice responded to much quieter sounds: 19 of 25 mice heard sounds quieter than 80 decibels, and a few could heard sounds as soft as 25 - 30 decibels, like normal mice.

In some trials the volunteers had to press a button whenever they saw a smiling face; in other trials they were asked to resist the happy faces and instead respond to the calm ones, even though the sight of a happy face summons up the same reward - seeking responses in the brain as the sight of a dollar sign or the prospect of tasty food.

They showed that ZIKV infection of cortical progenitors (stem cells for cortical neurons) controlling neurogenesis triggers a stress in the endoplasmic reticulum (where some of the cellular proteins and lipids are synthetized) in the embryonic brain, inducing signals in response to incorrect protein con - formation (referred to as «unfolded protein response»).

It has been particularly difficult to measure changes in electrical functions of cells grown within Organ Chips that are normally electrically active, such as neuronal cells in the brain or beating heart cells, both during their differentiation and in response to drugs.

The research, published in the current issue of the journal Science, demonstrates that brain cells, known as astrocytes, which play fundamental roles in nearly all aspects of brain function, can be adjusted by neurons in response to injury and disease.

Surprisingly, the second round of gene therapy further strengthened the brain's response to the initially treated eye, as well as the newly treated one, perhaps «because the two eyes act in concert, and some aspects of vision rely on binocularity,» she says.

The researchers used a technique called magnetoencephalography, which detects the firing of neurons as changes in the brain's magnetic field, to monitor the responses of the auditory cortex to the tones.

Music training, begun as late as high school, may help improve the teenage brain's responses to sound and sharpen hearing and language skills, suggests a new Northwestern University study.

«When we hear a sound, the normal aging brain keeps the sound in check during processing, but those with MCI have lost this inhibition and it was as if the flood gates were open since their neural response to the same sounds were over-exaggerated,» says Dr. Gavin Bidelman, first author on the study, a former RRI post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor at the University of Memphis.

For instance, his clear, lively writing reveals how our emotions, such as the fight - or - flight response and the suite of thoughts and actions associated with stress, provide strong evidence for a brain - body connection.

Much of the current confusion in neuroscience research on fear stems from the conflation of two separate phenomena that are both labeled «fear»: behavioral and physiological fear responses elicited by threats, such as a snake or a mugger, and conscious feelings of fear, which occur in the same situation but are controlled by a different brain system.

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.

They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

To regulate mood, the prefrontal cortex acts as a pacemaker to coordinate the actions of the amygdala, which governs stress responses, and the ventral tegmental area, which plays a role in the brain's reward circuitry.

Christianson said the findings set the stage for a large - scale investigation of the brain circuits that work together to orchestrate responses to social emotional information with the hope that such research will lead to better treatment for people with conditions marked by aberrant social cognition, such as autism or schizophrenia.

Animal studies show that a critical region of the brain, known as the amygdala, is intricately involved in fear responses, especially the amygdala on the right side of the brain.

The longitudinal study looked at the electrical brain responses of six - month - old infants to speech and the correlation between the brain responses and their pre-literacy skills in pre-school-age, as well as their literacy in the eighth grade at 14 years of age.

The left cortex seems to falter in mustering and maintaining positive feelings in response to outside stimuli as well as in dampening the outpouring of negative feelings in response to negative stimuli that are generated by another part of the brain: the amygdala.

Magnetic resonance imaging scans pinpointed the right insular area as the culprit, a region deep inside the brain linked with the part of the nervous system that sets off stress - related responses.

The artificial neural networks serve as «mini-brains that can be studied, changed, evaluated, compared against responses given by human neural networks, so the cognitive neuroscientists have some sort of sketch of how a real brain may function.»

But the same brain cells showed little or no response to other objects, such as images of vegetables, radios or nonfacial body parts.

He has shown that dogs have a positive response in the caudate region of the brain when given a hand signal indicating they would receive a food treat, as compared to a different hand signal for «no treat.»

One of the biggest questions in the field of neuroscience is how the brain rewires itself in response to changing behavioral conditions — an ability known as plasticity.