Sentences with phrase «centers of their brains did»

When the participants were well rested, the reward centers of their brains didn't react nearly as much to the junk food photos as when they were lacking sleep, suggesting that we're subconsciously more attracted to fatty foods when we're tired and need energy.

Not exact matches

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«If you just memorize a long list of words, it doesn't stick in your brain,» says Orlando Kelm, associate director of business language education at UT's Center for International Business Education and Research.

As a business leader, you will always be at the center of the problem, so you'll need to trick your brain into thinking you have more distance than you do.

lmfao it just doesn't work logically, but then again you never have delved into the logic center of your brain have you extremeist?

What's more, juice is another example of liquid carbs that your brain's appetite center doesn't process in the same way as solid carbs.

Then he remembered things he learned in psychology classes: A cluster of cells in the center of the brain, the nucleus accumbens, gets dosed with the neurotransmitter dopamine when we do something fun, like have sex or eat a doughnut.

(As anyone who has been visiting MomsTEAM's Concussion Safety Center for the past twelve years knows, science and technology have yet to come up with a way to prevent concussions; the most we can realistically hope to do at this point is a better job of identifying concussions when they occur and managing them in such a way as to keep the recovery time to a minimum and to keep kids from returning before their brains have fully healed so as to minimize the risk of serious, long - term effects, or even, in rare cases, death).

Eliot explains that the «cortical emotion centers» of your baby's brain don't begin to function until he's 6 to 8 months old, when he starts to feel the emotions that seem so vivid on his face.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest senior nutritionist David Schardt says «We don't want to tell people not to eat canned beans or tomatoes, but at the same time, it makes sense for all parents, and especially pregnant and nursing women, to minimize the exposure of their kids» developing bodies and brains to BPA.

Schumer is at the center of the Pensiomgate Scandal as early as 2004 or 2005 he knew his «BRAIN» Hank Morris was doing business as a placement agent doing business with Steven Rattner and living in a 4 million dollar plus home in the Hamptons.

«Our results now provide a possible explanation for these symptoms: Information about the ongoing speed of movement is withheld and does not reach the brain's navigation center.»

«A lot of the information that the gut sends to the brain affects well - being, and doesn't even come to consciousness,» says Michael Gershon at Columbia - Presbyterian Medical Center, New York.

«A lot of the drugs we use right now to treat inflammation, [known as] biologicals, don't work in the brain because they can't get through,» explained Desai, of UVA's Department of Pharmacology and UVA's Carter Immunology Center.

«The direction of tail wagging does in fact matter, and it matters in a way that matches hemispheric activation,» says Giorgio Vallortigara of the Center for Mind / Brain Sciences of the University of Trento.

Zhang did the research at Stanford Sleep Center, where he could record brain waves of snoozing mice.

However, it has a bug, which is, if you gain control of it, you'll keep doing it: If you can control your pleasure center, then you can turn off your brain.

Seizures, strokes, neuromuscular disorders and encephalopathy (brain disease) are among the complications that often escape necessary investigation, «largely due to other ongoing systemic derangements requiring much attention,» report neurologists Rochelle Sweis, DO, Jorge Ortiz, MD, and José Biller, MD, of Loyola University Medical Center and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

But although the preconscious fear centers of the brain are not capable of deliberation and reason, they do have their own logic, a simplified suite of responses keyed to the nature of the threat at hand.

At the time, scientists didn't know that the ability to establish long - term memory was centered in a specific part of the brain.

She did so by activating neurons in a specific region of the hypothalamus, deep in the center of the brain.

«The way virtual reality is done these days is through displays, headsets and goggles, but ultimately your brain is what creates your reality,» said senior author Rajesh Rao, UW professor of Computer Science & Engineering and director of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering.

Therefore, Tadin explained, you have a better chance of hitting a curveball by realizing that our brains, like GPS, can lead us to «see» changes in speed or direction that don't actually occur when the ball moves from the center of our visual field to the periphery.

Activity in their brain's pleasure centers indicated that their opinions of the women's beauty really did change.

In a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics, Gene H. Brody, the study's lead author and co-director of the UGA Center for Family Research, and his colleagues used MRI scans to examine the brain development of 59 adults who participated in SAAF at age 11 with 57 adults from nearly identical backgrounds who did not.

That may be great if you are using carbon nanotubes to deliver chemotherapy drugs to people with brain tumors, as cancer researchers in California (at City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment center in Duarte in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena), hope to do.

Many states do not have a single brain - injury rehabilitation center, and of the states that do offer some level of TBI treatment, few actually provide enough assistance to acquire even the most basic level of specialized care.

Hanan El Marroun at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and her colleagues used MRI to look at the brains of 113 children aged between 6 and 8 whose mothers smoked when pregnant, and another 113 whose mothers did not.

TAKING A HIT The memory center of the brain is smaller in college football players than in other men who don't play football or soccer, apparently due to head trauma, a study finds.

Do people get caught in the cycle of overeating and drug addiction because their brain reward centers are over-active, causing them to experience greater cravings for food or drugs?

«In those that didn't learn, three weeks after the new brain cells were made, nearly one - half of them were no longer there,» said Shors, professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers.

«This study, done using a mouse model, expands our understanding of how associative fear memory for a relevant context is encoded in the brain,» said Cho, the lead author of the study and a member of the UCR School of Medicine's Center for Glial - Neuronal Interactions, «and could inform the development of novel therapeutics to reduce pathological fear in PTSD.»

As early as age 5, movement is impaired «because the brain does not have the energy it needs and it also accumulates DNA damage,» says Ansari, who has a joint appointment with the Genome Center of Wisconsin at UW — Madison.

UT Southwestern Medical Center's pediatric brain tumor team has dedicated subspecialists, state - of - the - art radiation technology, and access to advanced pediatric treatments that other hospitals in North Texas don't offer.

Along with a home - inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, we dig into the work of evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, who turns our brain - centered worldview on its head through a series of clever experiments that show plants doing things we never would've imagined.

It'll do your brain a lot of good to stop for a brief moment and come back to center.

«The brain and the body have fallen off a cliff in terms of their ability to do anything rationally,» explains Ronit Levy, PsyD, clinical director of the Bucks County Anxiety Center in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

«When the body goes to sleep, it's putting itself in a very vulnerable position,» explains Carol Ash, DO, medical director of the Sleep for Life center in Hillsborough, N.J. «If you can't be comfortable and at ease in your environment, the brain is not going to allow you to relax.»

Your brain's muscular coordination center is linked to executive function — a set of mental skills that helps you manage time and get things done.

According to Dr. Robert Czincila, DO, Chief of Emergency Medicine at Einstein Medical Center Montgomery in East Norriton, PA, alcohol inhibits a chemical in the brain from secreting an anti-diuretic hormone that helps the kidney to reabsorb water.

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The sense of smell is especially powerful and is associated with the memory centers of the brain, so don't be surprised if certain sensations bring back interesting memories.

Does that mean anything I like hits my pleasure center of the brain as is addictive?

This type of training does very little to stimulate the learning centers of the brain, the sales training pitch could be very useful, but unless the trainees are stimulated then the pitch only lasts a short moment in the short term memory before being forgotten.

Toxic Stress Affects Children's Long - Term Health; Support Programs May Help Pharmacy Times, 8/6/14 According to [Professor] Jack P. Shonkoff, MD, who serves as director of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, «When bad things happen early in life, the brain and other parts of the body don't forget.

And we know from research, like that done at the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, that when children experience prolonged stress, it becomes toxic and hinders the development of the learning and reasoning areas of the 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.

Another survey done by Brian Hare, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University in North Carolina and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, which is a division of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.

One of the first things nicotine does in the body is stimulate the vomit center of the brain, thus inducing vomiting that may save the patient's life if there is more cigarette material in the stomach.

Thimbleweed Park doesn't so much aim for the nostalgia center of your brain as it does strap a rocket to its butt and proceed to blow straight through it, offering up a point and click experience so retro that it honestly could have come straight from the golden era of the genre.