Sentences with phrase «brain mechanism activated»

Porn use can become an actual addiction with the same brain mechanism activated in other behavioral addictions, like gambling (see Your Brain on Porn by Gary Wilson).

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Cao even discovered a possible mechanism: A stimulating environment seemed to activate the brain's hypothalamus, which regulates hormones that affect everything from mood to cancer proliferation.

The brain perceives the micrometastatic invasion as tissue damage, activating inflammation — its natural defense mechanism.

«If somebody believes something will work,» says Zubieta, «that positive expectation by itself, through different connections in the brain, activates mechanisms that suppress pain.

Researchers have found that revulsion activates the brain's harm - avoidance center, invoking notions of cleanliness and moral purity as a primal mechanism for avoiding disease.

In disease, the brain seems to activate mechanisms to repair myelin, but can not complete the process.

«In a nutshell: Walnuts activate brain region involved in appetite control: First - of - its - kind study reveals mechanism of walnuts» documented ability to decrease hunger.»

Her aim is to understand, at the molecular level, the mechanisms that control communication between the brain, immune system, and blood vessels — with the ultimate goal of designing new therapies that slow, stop, or reverse the progression of a wide range of neurological disorders, such as MS. Recently, Dr. Akassoglou's lab identified how microglia — a type of immune cell that acts as the brain's first line of defense — are activated when fibrinogen enters the brain or spinal cord.

But there are also healers out there like Ted Kaptchuk, who get results, perhaps not so much because of the needles or the homeopathic remedy or the chiropractic manipulation as for the love they offer, the way they calm the amygdala in the patient's brain, the powerful activating effect on the body's natural self - healing mechanisms, and the efficacy with which the practitioner IS the medicine.

Exercise stimulates the body to secrete the stress hormone cortisol, which helps activate the alerting mechanism in the brain.

• The brain has mechanisms for assessing and responding to threat, and chronic threat may cause permanent brain changes — When the stress response system of the brain is activated by a traumatic experience, the brain makes an association between the traumatic experience and the accompanying sensory stimuli (sights, sounds, etc.).