Sentences with phrase «brain chemistry of»

Studies showing that the brain chemistry of addicts appears to be different from non-addicts is helping us clarify the diagnosis.

The brain chemistry of a person with Pyromania is very similar to one with Kleptomania, gambling addiction, and other addictions.

The brain chemistry of a dog who responds to every stranger or novel object as a terrifying threat is fundamentally different from a dog who accepts these things in stride.

Instead, I wonder about the brain chemistry of singles dating.

For the new study, they studied the brain chemistry of 35 people with untreated major depression, who agreed to try what they thought was a new depression drug, before receiving actual drugs already approved to treat depression.

«I am especially worried about messing with the brain chemistry of people with depression, ADHD, or other conditions that may be made worse by neuroactive chemicals.»

unfortunate (and untreated) brain chemistry of the individual 2.

Not exact matches

Goal - setting actually changes the chemistry of our brains, and studies have shown that that activity can increase motivation and boost achievement levels by approximately 30 percent.

What your brain chemistry has to do with success, why you should do your hardest tasks in the morning, why you should ignore the crowd and more: our best tips of the week.

Meditation is scientifically proven to reduce levels of cortisol in your body (nature's stress hormone), and according to one Harvard neuroscientist, can even change the chemistry in your brain.

Brain - chemistry studies show that, as a species, humans need to be pushed out of their comfort zones in order to grow.

And dozens of other types of monitors might be wheeled to a patient's hospital bedside to look at things such as brain waves and blood chemistry.

«If they could figure out a way to streamline, it would be a lot better,» said Kim Janda, a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who leads a team of researchers developing a vaccine that would prevent fentanyl overdoses by keeping the drug from reaching the brain.

Actually, the infatuation stage at the beginning of a dating relationship is very similar to the brain chemistry in drug users.

Emotions are a product of brain chemistry that we don't have a lot of control over.

I figured if god can't even get the physical biology right, then maybe we shouldn't be so hung up the biology of the brain, it's chemistry and hormones.

And you only appear cute to your mother because of biological chemistry: her brain tricks her into finding you attractive in order to carry on her genes.

Evolution may not have engineered our brains to know everything, but science has widened our knowledge through its stories — Big Bang cosmology writes the scientific story of creation, chemistry writes the story of origins, biology writes the evolutionary epic, neuroscience provides the tales of the mind, and complexity sciences are producing still newer stories that cross traditional disciplinary lines.

While it's possible that the accused is lazy, it's more probable that she's physically sick (depressed), and that relief is only a slight alteration of her brain chemistry away.

The relationship between the conscious awareness of a dream (and its subjective meaning) and the physiological interaction of the brain's chemistry presents, he said, a «hard problem.»

My little brain is capable of fathoming physics, chemistry, trigonometry, Biology etc..

Instead, I began to see alcoholism as a physical disease, the outcome of a powerful physical addiction to alcohol that gradually inflicts mortal damage to brain and body chemistry» (p. 23).

Inherited or acquired abnormalities in brain chemistry create an altered response to alcohol which in turn causes a wide array of physical, psychological, and behavioral problems.

Something a simple as not eating and in particular, not drinking regularly can change the chemistry of a persons brain, it changes the way you perceive things, take in information — extreme cases can cause delusions, false sensory intake...

In other words our actions are the product of the chemistry of our brains and we don't have a choice.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

I believe that evolutionary psychology explains away altruism and debunks love, and that brain chemistry undermines the illusion of free will and personhood.

Although he lives in a world of common sense, he knows that nuclear science, space exploration, and studies in neurology and brain chemistry are changing the picture of the world.

That evidence leads me to conclude that brain chemistry is responsible for «reality» and when you shut that down, all the other stuff shuts down too, including out - of - body, extra-consciousness, god, heaven, whatever, all gone.

We know from cases of brain damage and the effects of psychoactive drugs, that our experiences are caused by physical chemistry acting on our physical neurons in our brains.

Or, moving up to a higher level, if the chemistry of the brain were altered, then the capacity of mental principles to function would be affected also.

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It's safe to say I've been doing quite a bit of procrastibaking lately (those brain cells need energy and baking kiiiiind of counts as chemistry, right?!)

I completely believe the research that says CIO messes with their brain chemistry (cortisol, etc), but of course this will have different effects on different individuals.

The ten percent of already - struggling women out there who will be hearing and reading the reports of this study, especially after they've been filtered through the Daily Mail or its equivalent, are going to hear that their currently out - of - whack brain chemistry is something they could have fixed, if they'd tried harder, or if they'd wanted it more.

We really shouldn't overlook the fact that any time a body is no longer pregnant (regardless of whether the pregnancy ends via healthy childbirth or any other means), there are huge changes to hormones and brain chemistry that happen afterward.

Week 10 — An examination of the significance of mother's emotions during gestation and at birth and how they impact the neurology, brain chemistry, physiology and psychology of the fetus.

Early trauma has been shown to affect the development of the fetal and infant brain, nervous system, neuro - chemistry, organs, physiology, psychology, and consciousness.

Even more troubling, new Yale University research indicates that the regular consumption of artificial sweeteners may interfere with brain chemistry and the hormones regulating appetite and satiety, and may also pose in increased risk of Type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Stress literally changes the chemistry of the brain, thanks to the release of hormones to cope within the body.

Pregnancy hormones plummet, affecting brain chemistry; a history of depression adds to the risk.

The chemistry of the brain can change due to genetics or when exposed to harmful chemicals that can trigger certain feelings and emotions in the person.

Moms push beings out their vagina or have their abdomen cut open, or stretch their emotions through adoption, allow their entire body chemistry to change, sacrificing sleep, hot meals, hot showers, and even have some of their brain invaded for their children.

«But to me, the most profound discovery this new generation of neuroscientists has made is the powerful connection between infant brain chemistry and adult psychology.

From these findings, it follows that morality can be described physically, as a complex interplay of neural structures and neural chemistry in the brain.

A study of fat swimming and running rats indicated that exercise induces brain chemistry changes that decrease appetite

A subject in a study of the effects of hallucinogens on brain chemistry recounts her mystical, life - changing experiences under the influence of psilocybin

The same basic brain chemistry involved in the pleasurable sensations of sex and drugs comes into play with rock»n' roll (and opera).

It's to put the study of the mind back in the study of the brain, says Solms: «What neuropsychoanalysis is all about is this: How does the actual stuff of being a person relate to the tissue and physiology and anatomy and chemistry of the brain?»

Among those already using the program with his students is Gerald Smith, who teaches conceptual physics and advanced chemistry at Bishop McNamara High School in Washington and plans to attend the march.Students who completed the print - out activity sheet illustrated how headphones work through physics — among the examples Smith intends to post to Twitter after spring break, the week after the March for Science «The kids definitely like to probe their brains a lot in terms of seeing science in real life, not just something far - reaching for geniuses to dobut as something that we exist in every day,» said Smith.