Sentences with phrase «brain mechanisms»

This program is especially helpful for clinicians and therapists looking to deepen their understanding of the behavioral and brain mechanisms underlying addictive behaviors.

These interactions between the senses, in addition to educating us about brain mechanisms for information processing, may also provide a useful tool in rehabilitation for neurological disorders.

They used this knowledge to generate a model that separates brain mechanisms involved in automatic detection and responding to threats from those involved in the conscious experience of fear as an emotion.

You'll be taken on a journey through the basic brain mechanisms in consumer choice, and how to stay updated on these topics.

However, little is known about brain mechanisms related to dental pain relief.

What brain mechanisms are involved in this cognitive skill?

Both conditions share some clinical symptoms, suggesting the two disorders may have similar brain mechanisms.

Further research is needed to confirm the results and reveal the underlying brain mechanisms at play.

It's a primal survival brain mechanism, designed to keep us alive.

Brain mechanisms underlying the impact of attachment - related stress on social cognition.

The work in her laboratory has broad implications for understanding basic brain mechanisms that control mood and motivated behavior.

Damasio: Those separate layers and multiple worlds depend on diverse performance spaces in the brain and on sophisticated brain mechanisms of integration.

Neurobiological models of self - control usually focus on brain mechanisms involved in impulse control and emotion regulation.

Conventional wisdom holds that language acquisition in adulthood can not rest on the same brain mechanisms used in processing a native languagethat is, a language learned later in life is processed in a fundamentally different and less automatic way than is a mother tongue.

«Is it possible that very different brain mechanisms for complex cognitive processes have developed independently in birds and in mammals in the 300 million years of their existence?»

My group focused on understanding brain mechanisms and the brain's hierarchical organization in controlling the various activities that humans execute, including motor control and behavioural changes upon fluctuations in the environments.

Researchers from the Cognition and Cerebral Plasticity group of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute and the University of Barcelona (IDIBELL - UB), in collaboration with researchers from the University of McGill (Montreal), have published a new study in which brain mechanisms associated to the lack of sensitivity to music are explained.

«We believe that signals carried by the VOF play a role in many perceptual processes, from recognizing a friend's face to rapidly reading a page of text,» said Yeatman, who is now studying brain mechanisms involved in learning to read.

A new study explains brain mechanisms associated to the lack of sensitivity to music.»

«This finding shows that there are multiple brain mechanisms supporting short - term memory, whether it's remembering information based on sound or meaning,» says Dr. Meltzer, who is also a psychology professor at the University of Toronto.

The researchers identified dysfunctional brain mechanisms of sustained attention using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging data and complex modeling of fMRI signals.

Based on Helen Fisher's studies in neuromance and the science of love, Why We Love examines the intersections between brain mechanisms and romantic feelings, discovering that this abstract thing we call «love» is an evolutionary, chemical drive more akin to hunger than to poetry.

Finally, the various elements are managed by defensive operations — essentially shut - off brain mechanisms that make people unaware of that element of conflict.

«Although the impairment of self - recognition in patients implies the existence of cognitive / neurological deficits in self - processing brain mechanisms, our finding raised the possibility that such deficits might be remedied via training,» they write.

So, by your definitiion, a person is only a christian if they believe AND ALSO believe that they have «proof» in whatever brain mechanism makes that decision?

Toddler talk: The «word spurt,» when a toddler's vocabulary seems to explode overnight, is not the result of special brain mechanisms clicking, as scientists have assumed, but rather a snowball effect that results from continuous, cumulative learning, says a study published in the journal Science.

Next, the researchers sought to identify a potential brain mechanism by which disrupted sleep worsens pain.

Crossmodal plasticity in the case of blindness is a vital brain mechanism for compensating for visual deprivation, but the mechanism can have also negative effects on visual restoration, because it might interfere, to a certain extend, with the optimal resettlement of the regained sensory inputs.

This area is associated with brain mechanisms for the control of sensory pain and is thought to implement this control through the release of opioids and cannabinoids,» Muzik added.

«The practice of the Wim Hof Method may lead to tonic changes in autonomous brain mechanisms, a speculation that has implications for managing medical conditions ranging from diseases of the immune system to more intriguingly psychiatric conditions such as mood and anxiety disorders,» said Diwadkar, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences.

«For instance, are there specialized brain mechanisms that just do language?

What belief, what powerful insight, what shared brain mechanism could cause salespeople to hock their clocks with that setting?

The latter requires an inhibitory brain mechanism that declines with age.

Scientists have long believed that humans» ability to form words — basic building blocks of language — emerged as a distinctive brain mechanism to support communication.

Because the same brain mechanisms appear to process real motion (your cat walking across the room) and apparent motion (holiday lights), apparent - motion displays provide a convenient tool for the study of motion perception.

The desire to understand dysfunctional brain mechanisms motivated Diwadkar and his team of colleagues and WSU medical students in the study titled, «Dysfunction and dysconnection in cortical - striatal networks during sustained attention: genetic risk for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and its impact on brain network function,» featured in the May issue of Frontiers in Psychiatry.

Wong hopes future research will address how sleep difficulties and deprivation may affect brain mechanisms, which in turn influence control of affect, cognitive processes, and behavior.

Today at the 93rd General Session and Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research, researcher Michael L. Meier, Center for Dental Medicine, University of Zürich, Switzerland, will present a study titled «Distinct Brain Mechanisms Related to Dental Pain Relief.»

«We have suggested that more advanced brain mechanisms in the prefrontal are needed to exert cognitive control over behavior in these circumstances,» said Michael Frank, associate professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences and the paper's senior author.

Sleepwalking is caused by a partial arousal from slow - wave or deep sleep, however it is not know which functional brain mechanisms are affected by this pathophysiology.

Substance abuse and high - glycemic foods may trigger the same brain mechanism tied to addiction.

The article, «Artificial spatiotemporal touch inputs reveal complementary decoding in neocortical neurons «unveils central brain mechanisms for touch with widespread applications for neuroprostheses design and understanding neurological disease.

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).

Only the second approch may permit correct conclusion regarding brain mechanisms of mental activity.

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

Every night sleep revives our emotional life and reinforces basic brain mechanisms that allow us to fight, flee, feed and procreate.

«It shows that dogs and humans have similar brain mechanisms for processing the social meaning of sound,» Andics says, noting that other research has shown that dogs «respond to the way we say something rather than to what we say.»

«Anorexia nervosa is a devastating illness and this study sheds new light on brain mechanisms that may enable people to starve themselves.