Sentences with phrase «brain and behavior involved»

«I hope moving ahead «functionally» will preserve some of the best of what was proposed — that there is so much overlap in the basic questions of brain and behavior involved in both alcohol and substance abuse,» he says.

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Or does it pull in contributions from other parts of the cerebral cortex and even from areas that are involved in emotional behavior, like the amygdala, which lies deep in the brain's core?

Brain - wave biofeedback training involving learning to increase one's alpha waves (associated with a relaxed, tranquil feeling state) has been used with some success in treating neuroses, psychoses, and behavior problems.

Developmental scientists consider it to be one of the most massive reorganizations in the lifespan, changing the brains, endocrine systems, behaviors, identities, relationships, and more, of everyone involved.

So I started to volunteer in a research laboratory involved with pharmacology and the responses of drugs in the brain and how they influence behavior.

Graybiel suspected the rats» habitual behavior was maintained by an area in the front part of the brain known as the infralimbic (IL) cortex, believed to be involved in memory retrieval and habit performance.

Neurons in the shell surrounding the established vocal centers of the parrot brain play a part in vocal learning and other complex motor behaviors, resolving controversies over the size of brain areas involved in song and speech imitation.

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.

Scientists have long accepted that our ability to abruptly stop or modify a planned behavior is controlled via a single region within the brain's prefrontal cortex, an area involved in planning and other higher mental functions.

In the past decade, researchers have used mouse models to unravel how cellular changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a brain structure involved in action selection associated with arousal and reward, may contribute to addiction - related behavior.

In order for the rat to take a step, the stimulus has to go not to the central nucleus but to the basal nucleus, and then out to the parts of the brain that are involved in active behavior.»

A study out of none other than the University of Cambridge found the same engagement of several brain areas — all involved in reward and motivation — in people with compulsive sexual behavior as previously found in people struggling with drug addiction.

«Human feeding behaviors involve areas of the brain responsible for cognitive control and decision - making,» said Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, Director of the Human Nutrition Unit in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have shown for the first time that ensembles of genes within the striatum — a part of the brain that coordinates many primary aspects of our behavior, such as motor and action planning, motivation and reward perception — could be deeply involved in the disorder.

According to Halassa, the new research sets the stage for ever more detailed studies on the complex behavior involved in how the mammalian brain pays attention to what's important, and especially how those neural circuits are broken in cases of attention - deficit diseases, such as ADHD, autism, and schizophrenia.

The possibility that subconscious networks in the brain sense pheromones and alter our behavior is very interesting but challenging to prove, says Ivanka Savic - Berglund, a neurologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm who was not involved with the work.

This decrease in blood glucose was associated with excessive hunger and intense activation of the nucleus accumbens, a critical brain region involved in addictive behaviors.

Sounds, such as music and noise, are capable of reliably affecting individuals» moods and emotions, possibly by regulating brain dopamine, a neurotransmitter strongly involved in emotional behavior and mood regulation.

Specifically, they tested levels in the striatum, a brain region involved in social behaviors and interactions.

The autism mutation exerted its effects early in development, primarily in a part of the brain known as the striatum, which is involved in coordinating motor planning, motivation, and habitual behavior.

Much recent attention has focused on a brain region called the basal ganglia that is involved in repetitive behaviors and on the neurotransmitter dopamine.

In the brain, RSG6 is involved in alcohol craving by controlling levels of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with addiction and reward - seeking behavior.

«The current results provide the evidence for a novel concept that some circadian genes and their regulatory machinery in the brain may be involved in the generation of infradian rhythm behavior,» Miyakawa explains.

Dr. Amaral's interests include research involving multidisciplinary studies directed at determining the neuroanatomical, behavioral and electrophysiological organization and functions of brain systems that are involved in learning, memory, emotion and social behavior carried out on the human brain and on animal models.

This work involves behavior, immunohistochemistry (of brain tissue from mouse models of Alzheimer's), cell culture, and in vitro biochemistry.

FRIDAY, March 30, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- Neurons in a brain area involved with social and emotional behavior normally increase as children become adults, but this does not occur in people with autism, new research contends.

Using mouse recombineering techniques, she is working to unravel the complicated circuitry of the hypothalamus and connected brain areas involved in food intake behavior, neuroendocrine, and autonomic responses to stress.

To truly understand and treat complex neuropsychiatric disorders, we need to know what behaviors are affected, which brain regions are involved, which genes, molecules, and cell types in these regions might be involved, and how the environment affects the propensity to develop these disorders.

Attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) involve pathological changes in brain structures such as the basal ganglia, which are essential for the control of motor and cognitive behavior and impulsivity.

In short, the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus had a marked effect on GABA [an inhibitory neurotransmitter that is significantly involved in regulating many physiological and psychological processes] levels in certain brain regions and lowered the stress - induced hormone corticosterone, resulting in reduced anxiety - and depression - related behavior.

Serotonin receptors, which are distributed widely throughout the brain, are well known to be involved in mood, and compounds that activate the 5HT1A subtype also produce anxiety - like behaviors.

Prior research has also shown that the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus had a marked effect on GABA (an inhibitory neurotransmitter that is significantly involved in regulating many physiological and psychological processes) levels in certain brain regions and lowered the stress - induced hormone corticosterone, resulting in reduced anxiety - and depression - related behavior.5

This is supported by previous studies in both humans and animals, but this is the first study to show that propionate affects brain regions involved with food reward - driven behavior in humans.

In one of the studies that involved a pain experiment, the scientists at the Center for Healthy Minds and Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior examined how meditators responded to pain and the anxiety often associated with the anticipation of a painful event.

DAVIDSON: We know from research that engaging in acts of generosity activates circuits in the brain that we know to be involved in positive emotion, and one of the most powerful ways of activating that circuitry is through prosocial, generous behavior.

We know from research that engaging in acts of generosity activates circuits in the brain that we know to be involved in positive emotion, and one of the most powerful ways of activating that circuitry is through prosocial, generous behavior.

How do social and biological factors interact to affect children's behavior, and what are the brain structures and functions involved?

High amounts of cholesterol may clog cell membranes at the microscopic level, affecting flows of brain hormones involved in mood and behavior.

In humans, decisions relating to the present involve regions of the brain (viz. limbic and paralimbic cortical structures) that are also consistently implicated in impulsive behavior and cravings such as heroin addiction, whereas decisions that pertain to the future involve brain regions (viz. lateral prefrontal and parietal areas) known to support deliberative processing and numerical computation.

Because even though teens understand intellectually that driving poorly can have a potentially fatal outcome, it's not until about age 25 that parts of the brain involved in restraining impulses and risky behavior truly approach maturity.

Through Sapienza University, Dr.Giannandrea has taught MBSR, MBCT and MSC to hundreds of individuals and is currently involved in numerous research studies investigating the effects of mindfulness practices on health, behavior and brain functioning.

But researchers writing in the journal Neuroscience found that human behavior that is exceptionally flexible, responsive and capable of navigating complexity requires something beyond a strong and active prefrontal cortex: strong and agile runners must link that seat to brain regions involved in perception, memory, language and mobility.