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Previous imaging studies, she notes, show no difference in brain activation when homosexual and heterosexual participants viewed pictures of their loved ones.

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These babies» brains showed more activation when they heard emotionally neutral human sounds, such as coughing, sneezing, or yawning, than when they heard familiar non-human sounds like their toys or running water.

Mothers who breastfeed have been found to report lower levels of perceived stress and negative mood, higher levels of maternal attachment, and tend to perceive their infants more positively than mothers who formula - feed.9, 19 - 21 There is evidence to suggest that breastfeeding mothers may also spend more time in emotional care and be more sensitive to infant emotional distress cues than bottle - feeding mothers.22, 23 Relatedly, a small fMRI study of 17 mothers in the first postpartum month, found that breastfeeding mothers showed greater activation in brain areas involved in empathy and bonding than formula - feeding mothers when listening to their own infant's cry.24 These brain areas included the superior frontal gyrus, insula, precuneus, striatum and amygdala.

When he and a control subject, another sensation - seeking rock climber, viewed gruesome, high - arousal photographs during functional magnetic resonance imaging brain scans, Honnold's amygdala ─ the brain's fear center ─ showed zero activation while the other climber's lit up like a neon sign.

And when people respond well to placebos, they show stronger activation in brain circuits that control pain compared with those who are less susceptible to the placebo response.

The specifics have yet to be ironed out, but the Amgen team has uncovered a few clues in their rodent studies: They found treated animals had increased activation of certain neurons in the brain that detect blood sugar, and this may have helped them sense when it was time to stop eating.

When the familiar word order (komi oku josa) was repeated, brain activation decreased in language - related regions.

When teenagers successfully resist an urge in a common test of impulsivity, they show increased activation in a brain region associated with restraint (above), suggesting that their brains have to work harder to avo

Imaging studies have shown that when autistic children see a familiar face, their pattern of brain activation is different from that of normal children.

«When people are instructed to imagine events that might happen in their personal future and then to remember actual events in the past, we find extensive and very striking overlap in areas of brain activation,» he says.

When a person activates related words in his or her brain, this activation spreads to other related items and leads to memory errors.

An international research team led by Carnegie Mellon University has found that when the brain «reads» or decodes a sentence in English or Portuguese, its neural activation patterns are the same.

This image compares the neural activation patterns between images from the participants» brains when reading «O eleitor foi ao protesto» (observed image) and the computational model's prediction for «The voter went to the protest» (predicted image).

Looking at brain activity, fNIRS revealed that boys showed increased activation with proficiency in the front of the brain when they heard a correct sentence, while girls showed more at the back.

When the team compared brain slices from the two groups of rats, they discovered that in the intact animals, more CREB molecules carried a phosphate group — a crucial step for their activation.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging has shown that mothers, but not fathers, have increased brain cortical activation in specific language processing areas when listening to infant - directed speech, suggesting that mothers have an intent to communicate and the difference in neural processing is experience - dependent.24 The mothers spoke more to infant girls than boys in early infancy.

They found that individuals with genetic variations to the RASGRF2 gene had higher activation of the ventral striatum area of the brain (closely linked to the VTA and involved in dopamine release) when anticipating reward in a cognitive task.

Three recent experimental studies focused on low consumption / exposure.949596 In one study, 29 smokers each consumed a single cigarette, immediately after which they had a significant decrease in blood vessel output power and significant increase in blood vessel ageing level and remaining blood volume 25 minutes later, as markers of atherosclerosis.94 In another study, human coronary artery endothelial cells were exposed to the smoke equivalent to one cigarette, which led to activation of oxidant stress sensing transcription factor NFR2 and up - regulation of cytochrome p450, considered to have a role in the development of heart disease.95 These effects were not seen when heart cells were exposed to the vapour from one e - cigarette.95 A study exposed adult mice to low intensity tobacco smoke (two cigarettes) for one to two months and found adverse histopathological effects on brain cells.96

The brains of football players, left, showed significantly higher areas of activation when presented a visual task compared to the brains of cross-country runners, right, who are not typically exposed to subconcussive blows to the head.

Higher activation of this brain region has been found in obese compared with normal - weight subjects when anticipating food, suggesting that the rewarding quality of food is enhanced in obesity.

fMRI imaging revealed activation in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC), a part of the brain's core emotion network, when rooms with a curvilinear design were viewed.

Researchers have detected increased activation in this area at the front of the brain when people are involved in thinking and problem solving that engages working memory.

When confronted with a threat or a potentially dangerous scenario, adults will typically demonstrate strong activation within an area of the brain called the insula.

When students» brains become anxious, highly confused, or overwhelmed, the activation of the amygdala surges until this filter becomes a stop sign.

When the datasets of both dogs were combined by spatial warping, activation of the caudate cluster was significant at p < 0.05 after correcting for FDR over the search volume of the ventral brain from olfactory bulb to internal capsule (p < 0.01 height and cluster extent > 6).

For example functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), children with a history of preschool - onset depression demonstrated distinct patterns of brain activation, which were similar to those of adults with depression.34 Other research documents that DSM - IV criteria for depression do not adequately capture the disorder's course in preschool - aged children.35 Similar to the heightened awareness regarding preschool depression, evidence suggests that young children can also suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder when age - adjusted diagnostic criteria are employed.36

The research found that «the patterns of brain activation in these people mirrored those seen in the brains of drug addicts when they were exposed to drugs.

Fathers, relative to non-fathers, showed more activation in an area of the brain generally believed to be (partially) responsible for emotion processing but only when looking at child faces.

When you lessen the activation of the emotional centers of our brains, it lets the decision - making centers become activated; then the divorcing persons are freed to make the very important decisions that will affect their lives and their children's lives for years to come.

When we are lucky enough to have secure attachment experiences in which we feel seen, safe, soothed, and secure — the «four S's of attachment» that serve as the foundation for a healthy mind — these relational experiences stimulate the neuronal activation and growth of the integrative fibers of the brain.

While reduced empathic brain activation relative to the controls was observed in the control condition, the empathic reaction of the psychopathic offenders initiated the same way it did for controls when they were instructed to empathize with the harmed individual, and the area of the brain relating to pain was activated when the psychopathic offenders were asked to imagine how the harmed individual felt.

Because of the associated sensitivity to potential rejection and a strong desire for closeness, anxious attachment, rather than secure attachment, should trigger stronger neural activation in response to negative emotional faces in the brain regions implicated in processing social rejection (i.e., dorsal ACC, anterior insula, Gillath et al., 2005) and regions implicated in threat detection (i.e., amygdala, Vrtička et al., 2008) when primed with neutral schema.

When we compared the group effects of the secure priming and neutral priming conditions, the contrast (task > baseline) revealed a significant activation in the whole brain analysis.

Children who are relatively less affected by conflict receive higher parental ratings of EC and higher scores on laboratory measures of inhibitory control.12 Moreover, using experimental tasks is particularly effective when it comes to understanding the brain basis underlying children's control skills, because the child can perform those tasks while neural activation is registered with brain imaging techniques.