Sentences with phrase «cingulate cortex response»

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Relative to ordinary participants, the steely performers also showed less blood flow in a part of the brain that helps govern emotional responses, the anterior cingulate cortex.

Studies indicate that meditation affects communication around the anterior cingulate cortex — a brain region that regulates the fear response.

Hundreds of legal opinions every year have begun to invoke the science of mind and brain to bolster legal arguments — references not only to brain scans but to a range of studies that show that areas such as the amygdala or the anterior cingulate cortex are implicated in this response or that.

In an investigation of predictors of treatment response in depression, Dr. Pizzagalli's laboratory was the first to show that pretreatment resting EEG activity in the rostral anterior cingulate cortex predicted therapeutic improvement 4 - 6 months later in depressed individuals.

Reduced cognitive control of response inhibition by the anterior cingulate cortex in autism spectrum disorders.

However, not much is known with regards to how or if poor sleep is affecting a particular brain area called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (DACC), which is involved in the regulation of negative emotional responses.

[11] Researchers have also discovered that it takes more effort for a brain area known as the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex to modify emotional responses which are negative in individuals with depression who have poor sleep patterns.

Self responses along cingulate cortex reveal quantitative neural phenotype for high - functioning autism

Conduct - disordered youth exhibit a decreased dopamine response to reward and increased risk - taking behaviors related to abnormally disrupted frontal activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), orbitofrontal cortices (OFC), and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) that worsens over time due to dysphoria activation of brain stress systems and increases in corticotropin - releasing factor (CRF).

Activity of the subgenual cingulate cortex, which takes part in the regulation of the limbic activity, seems to play an important role in the response to CBT like in the response to antidepressant treatment.

The results of the investigation showed that people who had reported more experiences of social support over the preceding 9 days had lower dorsal anterior cingulate cortex activity in response to the virtual social exclusion task and also exhibited lower cortisol responses to the TSST, suggesting lower levels of experienced stress.

It has been shown that a brain network including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and lateral prefrontal cortex areas, mostly modulated by the neurotransmitter dopamine, subserves the function of regulating thoughts, emotions and responses.13 Patterns of activation of these brain structures are related to the efficiency of resolving conflict14 and variations in the size and structure of the ACC have been related to the EC score obtained in temperament questionnaires.15