Sentences with phrase «centers of the brain light»

Watch out — the pleasure centers of the brain light up and the addiction and compulsion are fed.

Not exact matches

This thin layer of tissue at the back of the eye detects light and then converts it into nerve impulses that travel to the brain's vision centers to form images.

«We knew what brain areas normally should light up,» added Theodore Huppert, Ph.D., assistant professor, Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Pitt Department of Radiology and Swanson School of Engineering.

But when mice were injected with cocaine and also treated with halorhodopsins and light — in this case a yellow pulse sent directly to the brain's reward center — the rush of euphoria was blocked.

If mRGCs are involved in mouse vision, the researchers posited that light would produce activity in the visual centers of the brain in mice that lack rods and cones.

Now a team of scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has shed light on how the needs of the body affect the way the brain processes visual food cues.

MRI scans indicate that love lights up the pleasure center of the brain.

To cast more light on the question, a team led by Rosemary Varley at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. administered a variety of tests to three men with brain damage in their language processing centers.

Researchers from the RIKEN - MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics have found that light stimulation of brain cells can recover memories in mice with Alzheimer's disease - like memory loss.

The team measured the pupils» response to light and examined the brains» visual response centers to show that signals from the eye were going to the appropriate areas of the brain.

As your brain's pleasure center lights up, you simply crave more of that substance that gives you a «high.»

«You slam your door on your finger, and certain areas in the brain light up,» says Robert Bonakdar, MD, director of pain management at the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in San Diego.

«We have found that UV light activates areas of the brain and chemicals in the brain that are known to be involved in other rewards and other addictions,» he said Adinoff, who also directs of mental health research at Dallas VA Medical Center.

The first slice of pizza lights up your brain's pleasure center like pinball machine, but we all know it rarely ends at one slice.

Manufacturers create products that are «hyper palatable», meaning they are the perfect combination of fat, sodium and sugar, engineered to light up all the pleasure centers in our brain that makes us want to keep eating.

Photons — or units of light — hit the retinas of your eyes and send the images of the rushing players to the visual centers of your brain, where the players» actions are analyzed and patters of movement are detected.

When I breathed her in, a straight, bright synaptic path lit up the center of my brain.

In the Dogsaholic article, it was stated, «The other study, which was completed at Emory University in Atlanta, came to the conclusion that dogs do indeed love us; the neuroscientist who completed the study with his own adopted dog found that when dogs were presented certain smells (specifically — the sweat of their owner), the area in the brain linked to the «reward» center lit up.

They include diseases of the cornea (keratitis), the lens (cataract), increased pressure within the eye (glaucoma), any disease which reduces retinal sensitivity to light impulses (retinal atrophy), or any disease which affects the optic nerves or the sight - center of the brain (tumours, trauma).

The pleasure centers in my brain are, I'm sure, lighting up like the Fourth of July.

When she puts them in the functional MRI tube and they look at the face of the person they say they're in love with (versus a stranger's face), their entire pleasure center, the part of the brain that secretes dopamine, lights up.

But only in women does the cortex — the judgement / control center of the brain — light up.