Sentences with phrase «brain mood states»

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One study1 at the University of Miami found that when people have a negative mood state, it interferes with their brain's working memory, causing lapses in critical thinking.

But if you're in a relaxed, cheerful mood, your brain is likely to enter into a creative, exploratory state, seeking out new connections and new experiences in your environment.

«Our hope is that our findings will help other scientists and engineers more precisely capture the emotional states that underlie moods, brain activity and expressive signals, leading to improved psychiatric treatments, an understanding of the brain basis of emotion and technology responsive to our emotional needs,» he added.

The quantities of certain chemicals with known roles in insect learning (octopamine), aversive conditioning (dopamine) and aggression (serotonin) were all reduced by the procedure, suggesting that as with their mammalian counterparts, duress in bees causes sustained, system - wide changes in brain state — a possible analogue of mood.

Dr. Stuart Hameroff, lead author on the new TUS study, said: «This suggests TUS may stimulate natural megahertz resonances in brain microtubules, enhancing not only mood and conscious mental states, but perhaps also microtubule functions in synaptic plasticity, nerve growth and repair.

A Portland State University research team studying concussion has published an interactive diagram showing the many facets of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI)-- from sleep problems to mood disorders to the increased danger of dementia — and how they connect with and affect each other.

Now, researchers at the Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University, and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Japan have succeeded in predicting states of mood - change - like behavior by studying the gene expression patterns in the brain in a bipolar disorder mouse model.

Hosokawa T, Momose T, Kasai K. Brain glucose metabolism difference between bipolar and unipolar mood disorders in depressed and euthymic states.

He uses actigraphy and various imaging technologies to measure changes in brain function that reflect consciousness, sleep, performance, mood states, and reward after drug administration or drug - related cues in adults and adolescents.

To begin, hypoglycemia impairs an amino acid's transport (tryptophan) to the brain, affecting serotonin levels that plays a key role in appetite, depression, restlessness, and other «mood» states.

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John Ratey of the Harvard Medical School and author of the book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (2013) states: «Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning&raBrain (2013) states: «Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning&rabrain in terms of mood, memory, and learning».

Therapist Lisa Damour states, «The changes in your daughter's brain and the events that occur around her are more likely to shape her mood than the hormonal shifts occurring inside of her.»