Sentences with phrase «brain centers»

For people with a food addiction, these foods are believed to act in a similar way to recreational drugs, activating the same brain centers.

Experts believe that REM sleep triggers brain centers that are critical to learning, and may be vital to healthy brain development in children.

The deep - brain center also releases oxytocin, aka the love hormone.

It turns out that the structure and function of brain centers responsible for learning and memory in a wide range of invertebrate species may possibly share the same fundamental characteristics, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology and performed by University of Arizona neuroscientists Nicholas Strausfeld, Regents» Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, part of the UA's School of Mind, Brain and Behavior, and Gabriella Wolff.

Dr. Kaye knows that conscious control of behavior is often over-ridden by emotion from lower brain centers in what's called the limbic system.

«Cognitive aging is not a disease or a level of impairment — it is a lifelong process that affects everyone,» explains lead author Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

We know that conscious control of behavior is often over-ridden by emotion from lower brain centers in what's called the limbic system.

«Currently, the CAM is the most widely used tool in the world to screen for delirium,» says Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H., Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS)- affiliated Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research (IFAR) in Boston and HMS Professor of Medicine.

But the visions they gave me were not real or true; they were the result of overstimulation of specific brain centers by a chemical.

Alzheimer's disease and related disorders are major disease interests of the Interdisciplinary Brain Center.

Combined with these findings, the present tracing data for the first time suggest a putative magnetosensory compass pathway from the sensory organ (the eye) to its main integrative brain center (Cluster N) in night - migratory birds.

Aerobic activity slashes your lifetime risk of Alzheimer's in half and your risk of general dementia by 60 percent, according to John Medina, PhD, director of the Seattle Pacific University Brain Center for Applied Learning Research.

Researchers have found that the chronic stress of living in chaotic, impoverished environments affects brain centers involved in executive functioning, which controls things like attention, working memory, planning, reasoning, and inhibition.

«In designing brains, nature has two parameters it can play with: the size and number of neurons and the distribution of neurons across different brain centers,» said Herculano - Houzel, «and in birds we find that nature has used both of them.»

Brain imaging shows that food activates an anorectic's brain center associated with anxiety, not with pleasure as in nonanorectics.

But when Montague's subjects knew they were drinking Coke, brain centers linked to emotion and cognitive control were disproportionately stimulated — which suggested that the powerful cultural wallop of the Coke brand can override the taste buds.

«The major advancement of this new tool is the ability to use a low - cost and accessible imaging method such as EEG to depict deeply located brain activity,» said both senior author Dr. Talma Hendler of Tel - Aviv University in Israel and The Sagol Brain Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and first author Jackob Keynan, a PhD student in Hendler's laboratory, in an email to Biological Psychiatry.

When sleep - deprived and waiting in suspenseful anticipation for a neutral or disturbing image to appear, activity in the emotional brain centers of all the participants soared, especially in the amygdala and the insular cortex.

The tone responses in the cochlea are, essentially, «remapped» to the cochlear nucleus, the first brain center to process sounds.

The visual information then flowed via the thalamus to the visual cortex and the amygdala, the key brain center for evaluating threat.

Most lefties, they suggested, are just righties whose specialized brain centers have been reversed in the womb by abnormally high levels of testosterone.

Then they ripple forward to other brain centers, where we use the visual information to make decisions and take actions.

Here at the Boston Children's Hospital Brain Center, our experienced clinicians treat each child as an individual — and involve the entire family in the treatment process.

The Aging Brain Center within IFAR studies cognitive aging and conditions affecting brain health.

The hypothalamus is an essential brain center that maintains multiple physiological homeostatic processes by modulating pituitary hormone secretions.

Complications such as pneumonia, gastrointestinal issues, as well as urinary tract issues due to the destruction of brain centers controlling these organs.

Along with evidence that the protein encoded by fru is present in only 500 of the fly's 10,000 central nervous system cells and that it is a transcription factor — a protein that turns other genes on or off — the finding suggests that fru is a high - level regulatory gene that somehow gets specific brain centers to coordinate male courtship behavior, the scientists say.

The researchers were able to show for the first time that structures higher up in the brain's chain of command directly control the more abstract information, while the component bits are managed by lower brain centers.

At MGH, Dr. Arnold is leading the Interdisciplinary Brain Center, a new collaboration of the Departments of Neurology.

Studies have shown that orgasm and meditation light up the same brain centers and shut off our «chatter mind.»

All of the experiments were performed in the brain scanner at the Life & Brain Center at the University of Bonn.

Inmates who scored the highest on a standard psychopathy test showed a normal response in pain perception and brain centers for emotion when imagining the pain for themselves.

CENTERING: Connect as a group saying «I am thankful,» while simultaneously warming up the hands, activating the parasympathetic nervous system, calming the brain / body, and connecting the right and left hemispheres of the brain

Dr. Sharon Inouye, Director of IFAR's Aging Brain Center was recently quoted in Forbes article which explains the long - term effects of delirium and best practices for reducing delirium risks in older adults.

Lee provides an exceptional educational system and seeks to make his domain a «brain center» providing managerial and technical services throughout the Far East.

«When an old use of a brain center no longer is relevant, it gets hijacked for something new.

The study links fox domestication to changes in gene activity in the pituitary gland, a brain center that kicks out hormones to regulate various bodily functions, including the stress response.

Have we found, then, the brain center for jurisprudence?

The link became firmer after computerized tomography scans of alcoholic people revealed shrinkage in the hippocampus, a brain center that tags information for storage as memories.

But he can reach out and touch it using a parallel pathway that bypasses the visual cortex (which you need for conscious awareness) and projects straight to brain centers that are on a kind of autopilot to guide your hand.

Contreras - Vidal is also site director of the BRAIN Center (Building Reliable Advances and Innovation in Neurotechnology), a National Science Foundation Industry / University Cooperative Research Center.

A centrifugelike device was first flown on Skylab in the 1970s to study the neurovestibular system — the network consisting of the eyes, the inner ear, and the brain centers that govern balance, perceive body position, and activate motion sickness.

A team under Professor Scheffler, consisting of researchers from the Bonn University Hospital, the Life & Brain Center, The German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research, Tufts University Boston / Massachusetts, and other institutes in the USA, has now developed a new method that is expected to combat such complex brain tumors better.

Wang: Some neuroscientists who are studying these processes are interested in the idea that perhaps you could have a brain center that gathers evidence and reaches a threshold for making a commitment.

There might be another brain center that expresses confidence in the decision or even the very awareness of the decision.

During a chat in his office, Strausfeld sketches a mushroom body, pointing out several parallels to the hippocampus, the brain center devoted to memory and place location in mammals.