Sentences with phrase «brain respond to other»

Not exact matches

The Mirror Neurons in our brains cause us to mimic other people in our surroundings in order for us to appropriately respond to our environment.

Now, researchers who have measured the brain responses of 125 infants — including babies who were born prematurely and others who went full - term — show that a baby's earliest experiences of touch have lasting effects on the way their young brains respond to gentle touch when they go home.

This information will help you recognize, respond to, and minimize the risk of concussion or other serious brain injury.

This evidence is presented in depth in The Mommy Brain, which cites research showing that humans and other mammals respond more readily to their second baby than to their first.

When you respond to your child's cries or other communication in an appropriate manner, your baby's brain forms neural connections.

Because consistently elevated cortisol affects the way the baby's brain develops, the way he responds to stress in the future, his immune system, his risk of obesity and other areas of development.

Also, because the treatment is invasive — requiring brain surgeons to drill into the skull and deliver the therapy to the right spot in the brain — it should only be used by severely afflicted patients that don't respond to other drugs.

In some trials the volunteers had to press a button whenever they saw a smiling face; in other trials they were asked to resist the happy faces and instead respond to the calm ones, even though the sight of a happy face summons up the same reward - seeking responses in the brain as the sight of a dollar sign or the prospect of tasty food.

As Columbia University neuroscientist Eric Kandel and others have shown, neurons respond to stimulation by altering their activity and connectivity, remodeling the architecture of the brain.

Brain regions that responded equally to both tasks yielded a difference of zero, while those that responded strongly to one task and not the other showed a high value.

The other opsins might do the trick, but because his goal — putting them into a brain and getting that brain to respond — was so tricky and success so improbable, he needed to try as many options as possible.

«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.»

Previous studies in humans and a variety of animals have shown that the OPFC is part of a network of brain regions that respond to food, sex, and other rewards.

More than a decade ago, Fried discovered that individual brain cells seem to respond when a subject views images of celebrities or other well - known people.

Several of the brain areas that had lost gray matter during pregnancy responded with the strongest neural activity to their own babies as opposed to the photos of other infants.

Unpopular peoples» brains, on the other hand, responded similarly to images of their peers regardless of those peers» social standing.

Other neurons, in the brain, respond to things that appear to lie within arm's reach.

This study is also the first to demonstrate that this repurposed vision center in blind people is not just responding to new functions haphazardly; the region has become specialized and segmented by function, like any other part of the brain.

Some of these regions respond just to the actual features of the face, whereas others respond to how things appear to the viewer, but it is unknown where in the brain this difference arises.

It also showed how that region of a dog's brain responds more strongly to the scents of familiar humans than to the scents of other humans, or even to those of familiar dogs.

It is based on emotionally responding to others, and there's a part of the brain dedicated to that.»

Two locations in the brain's fusiform gyrus respond to faces (red) but not to other objects (yellow).

Others responded only to plosives — sounds that block airflow, like the b in «brain».

Working with Cohen and other scientists at the center, Greene decided to compare how the brain responds to different questions.

Although scientists know that depression affects the brain, they don't know why some people respond to treatment while others do not.

«This is exciting because it represents a direct, rapid pathway in the brain that lets animals respond to anxiety - provoking places without needing to go through the higher - order brain regions,» said Mazen Kheirbek, PhD, an assistant professor of psychiatry and member of the Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF, and study's other senior investigator.

Casey and other researchers believe the adolescent brain specifically evolved to respond to rewards so teens would leave behind the protection provided by their parents and start exploring their environment — a necessary step toward the independence they will need in adulthood.

«In other words, you can take a 150 - pound male light drinker and a 150 - pound male heavy drinker and give them each the exact same dose of alcohol, but their brains respond very differently to this substance, hence the divergent experiences and mood reports after consumption.

«There's a lot of individual variability in how people react to such events, and diet and other lifestyle factors could influence how the brain and body respond over the long term,» he said.

In certain women with PMS, progesterone after ovulation changes the GABA receptor in your brain so that it is no longer able to respond to progesterone and other neurosteroids.

No data exist to support the hypothesis that differences in the brain make some children respond less to intervention than other children do.

A failure to monitor or respond to a change in condition can lead to a stroke, a hypoxic brain injury, or other disabling conditions.

Looking into the brain of a happily married woman faced with a stressful situation, we see when she is holding her husband's hand, brain regions that at other times respond to threat are quieter and less active.