Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the research team, led by Dr. Vinoo Alluri from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, recorded
the brain responses of individuals while they were listening to music from different genres, including pieces by Antonio Vivaldi, Miles Davis, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Shadows, Astor Piazzolla, and The Beatles.
The longitudinal study looked at the electrical
brain responses of six - month - old infants to speech and the correlation between the brain responses and their pre-literacy skills in pre-school-age, as well as their literacy in the eighth grade at 14 years of age.
A study conducted at the Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR) has found that
the brain responses of infants with an inherited risk for dyslexia, a specific reading disability, predict their future reading speed in secondary school.
His team looked at the similarity in
the brain responses of a group of viewers to different types of films.
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.
The results revealed that
the brain response of pairs who were identified as friends was more similar than pairs who were not friends.
Not exact matches
Recent research from the Department
of Biological and Clinical Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany found that exposure to stimuli that cause strong negative emotions - the same kind
of exposure you get when dealing with toxic people - caused subjects»
brains to have a massive stress
response.
Recent research from the Department
of Biological and Clinical Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany found that exposure to stimuli that cause strong negative emotions — the same kind
of exposure you get when dealing with difficult people — caused subjects»
brains to have a massive stress
response.
But research published in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that «when people viewed pictures
of others being loved or cared for, their
brains» threat
response became muted,» writes Inc.com's Jill Krasny.
Just like any filler word, «so» is used by speakers at points
of uncertainty to stretch the time their
brains have to think about the next point,
response, or question.
Results showed those who were especially anxious fared better after viewing the images (i.e., showed a milder
response in the amygdala, the part
of the
brain that helps process emotions), just as the images helped those who weren't even paying attention to them.
«Chronic stress and overexposure to cortisol — which increases sugars in your bloodstream, alters your immune system
responses, suppresses your digestive and reproductive systems, and communicates with that part
of your
brain that controls mood, motivation and fear — puts you at risk for mental health problems like anxiety and depression, and a whole host
of physical health issues,» writes Levy.
Interleukin - 1 is important for developing the killer T cell
response against the virus, but it also affects the part
of the
brain in the hypothalamus that regulates body temperature, resulting in fever and headaches.
In addition, facts and stats typically stimulate only two areas
of the human
brain, but stories can activate up to seven, and trigger emotional
responses within listeners.
Unlike the non-dieters, the dieters tended to show a heightened
response in the areas
of their
brains linked with processing rewards, and a lowered
response in the parts
of their
brains linked with a sense
of control.
Social media and messaging fool the limbic system — the part
of the
brain responsible for survival and
response to emotional stimuli — into rewarding us every time we connect with others online.
The experiment, which Westen wrote about in his book «The Political
Brain,» showed that, when people begin to feel their worldview is under attack, the parts of their brains that handle reason and logic go to sleep, while the parts of their brain responsible for our fight - or - flight response ligh
Brain,» showed that, when people begin to feel their worldview is under attack, the parts
of their
brains that handle reason and logic go to sleep, while the parts
of their
brain responsible for our fight - or - flight response ligh
brain responsible for our fight - or - flight
response light up.
This acclimation process gives the software a chance to record your
brain waves and trains you to use them consistently before it throws a series
of increasingly difficult challenges at you, such as reconstructing simply via thought a fallen bridge needed for a mystical journey while a fiery sky changes hue in
response to your emotional state.
The study showed that the
brain response when a monkey received an award for looking the right way improved its chances
of performing well on the next trial.
The second is norepinephrine, which affects parts
of the
brain that control a person's attention and
response to things in the environment, which could help direct a person's attention to a sexual partner.
The amygdala also links directly to areas
of the
brain that prime our fight or flight
response: breathing rate, heart rate, the release
of corticosterone (a stress hormone), and the release
of norepinephrine for alertness & arousal.
The profiling
of buyers described above is very much a left -
brain response to understanding buyers.
I had to wrack my
brain to think
of an appropriate
response while he stared at me, fuming indignantly.
@AG — Actually, the feeling
of love is invoked by chemical
responses within the
brain.
Once we get to the place where we realize how ill prepared we are to deal with life's intricacies, we'll become a little more skeptical
of the information our
brains spit out in
response to every stimulus.
Your
brain is the only organ that changes as a direct result
of and in
response to, the connections made.
There are times when one feels another persons empathy in a way that suggests a more immediate
response to ones feelings than can be accounted for through the orthodox view
of interpretation
of physically mediated stimulation
of the
brain.
We use the electromyrograph (EMG) to measure muscle tension and the galvanic skin
response indicator (GSR)-- almost a sort
of lie detector — to chart emotional swings, and other instruments to measure
brain waves (electroencephalograph — EEC) and body temperature.
This article is so full
of garbage... I don't want to pick my
brains to dignify it with a
response beyond this post...
On the principle
of control and direction, nature demands that, when a creature emerges with a
brain too powerful for the environment to hold in meaningful stimulation and coordinated
response, something new must be done.
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.
In recent years some
of these Calvinist thinkers have achieved the status
of being something like the theological
brain trust
of American evangelicalism, but that development is now in the process
of being critically reexamined in the light
of responses to «Evangelicals and Catholics Together.»
I discovered that these feelings were physical
responses to the workings
of the
brain when imagining awesome things... not a supernatural being.
The
brain activity for these two tasks is sufficiently differentfor the researchers to be able easily to distinguish the
responses in the functional - magnetic - resonance (fMRI) images
of the patients»
brains.
If you are one
of the few retards blaming Soledad O'Brien for her hard line interview, SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!! I guess your empty
brains did not pay attention to the
responses of this so called Imam using scare tactics as reasons to build a mosque.
Neuroscientist Christian Keysers has done research to show that the
brain of those who see others receiving pain themselves have similar neurological
responses.
My aim to strike an «e» — or even to type a complete word «the» triggers a burst
of physical
responses in my
brain cells, which in turn mediate these «amplified» feelings to adjacent occasions in other
brain cells and in neurons.
-- by Ivanka Savic article in the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences, (PNAS) «
Brain Response To Putative Pheromones In Homosexual Men,» (Vol.
Blueberries can help prevent the release
of cortisol, a hormone produced by the adrenal gland during stressful situations, that travels to the hippocampus (a major portion
of your
brain) and provides emotional
responses.
The health benefits include cardiovascular,
brain and immune system support, as well as support
of a healthy inflammatory
response.
Fish oil: These supplements can improve your heart and
brain health, and according to research in The American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition, boost your body's muscle - building
response to strength training.
The enteric nervous system is a series
of neurotransmitters that send chemical messages to the
brain in order to trigger the release
of enzymes, hormones and inflammatory
responses.
In addition, Red Star Nutritional Yeast contains other beneficial components, such as beta - 1,3 glucan and mannan, complex carbohydrates known to improve the immune
response and help maintain cholesterol levels that are already within a healthy range; trehalose, a disaccharide that helps maintain the health
of brain cells; and glutathione, an antioxidant that plays an important role in cellular defense mechanisms.
Those trainers, doctors, consultants, and spotters are all looking for observable concussion symptoms: things like clumsy movement, loss
of consciousness, or the fencing
response, which is when a player involuntarily extends his arms straight out after suffering a
brain injury.
The FA has rejected claims it was «swept under the carpet» and in March, in
response to growing pressure from the likes
of the family
of ex-West Brom forward Astle who died in 2002 from
brain injuries, the governing body set out its plans to tackle the issue with the most comprehensive study done in this area by any organisation.
Adversity, especially in early childhood, has a powerful effect on the development
of the intricate stress -
response network within each
of us that links together the
brain, the immune system, and the endocrine system (the glands that produce and release stress hormones, including cortisol).
And when their immediate environment is in constant flux — when the adults in their orbit behave erratically or don't interact with them much — the child's
brain and the stress -
response systems linked to it are triggered to prepare for a life
of instability by being on constant alert, ready for anything.
We now know that high levels
of stress early in development change the developing
brain, and these children are likely to have a very heightened stress
response — they can quickly go from being completely fine to being completely out
of control.
More praise for the yummy stuff resulted from
brain researcher Todd Parrish
of Northwestern University in 2009, when he examined functional magnetic resonance images
of gum chewers and found increased activity in areas
of the
brain associated with memory and emotional
responses.
Patients with suspected concussive injury are categorized as having mild traumatic
brain injury, or mTBI if, when they are first seen by an emergency medicine provider, they receive a score
of 14 - 15 on the 15 - point Glasgow Coma Scale, which is used to determine level
of consciousness based on
responses to various stimuli: