Sentences with phrase «brain reward development»
These results, published on April 15, 2014 in Molecular Psychiatry, show a strong link in mice between fluctuations in triglyceride concentration and brain reward development.
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Through the development of a specific part of the brain that experiences the reward of others, social decisions and empathy - like processes may have been favored during evolution in primates to allow altruistic behavior.
The reward center of the brain is much more attuned to the pleasurable effects of alcohol when estrogen levels are elevated, an effect that may underlie the development of addiction in women, according to a study on mice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
They found that the associated regions contained numerous candidate genes, among them genes known to affect ear function, language development, memory, bird song and the brain's reward mechanism.
Scientific research in the past 30 years regarding the neuro - development of the human brain during childhood directly challenges the basic premises of the behaviorist approach to treating children, and the scientific evidence on neuro - development during childhood offers more effective treatment alternatives beyond merely rewarding «good behavior» and punishing «bad behavior.»