Sentences with phrase «emotional circuits in our brain»

Play is one of the primitive emotional circuits in our brain and it is essential for development.

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What's happening, the authors suggest, is that as the gay fathers take on the role of independent, hands - on caregivers, their brains change as a result — the «mentalising» circuit connects with and stimulates the «emotional» circuit more commonly found to be active in mothers.

In recent decades a rapid expansion in knowledge has occurred about the brain circuits that process and regulate emotional behavior, and in which abnormalities of neural function and structure associate with mood disorderIn recent decades a rapid expansion in knowledge has occurred about the brain circuits that process and regulate emotional behavior, and in which abnormalities of neural function and structure associate with mood disorderin knowledge has occurred about the brain circuits that process and regulate emotional behavior, and in which abnormalities of neural function and structure associate with mood disorderin which abnormalities of neural function and structure associate with mood disorders.

Describing the brain as a big circuit board in which each new experience creates a new circuit, Hopkins neuroscience professor Richard Huganir, Ph.D. says that he and his team found that during emotional peaks, the hormone norepinephrine dramatically sensitizes synapses - the site where nerve cells make an electro - chemical connection - to enhance the sculpting of a memory into the big board.

Their scans revealed more neuron activation in the emotional, reactive circuits of their lower brains.5

This book will be of great value to our understanding of how effective emotionally - focused group work can act as a growth - facilitating environment for optimizing brain circuits in the «social» «emotional» right brain, the biological substrate of the human unconscious mind.

In fact, he has been able to identify 7 different brain circuits which correspond with discrete emotional responses.

For positive emotional faces, considering the spreading effects of activation of secure base schema, it was assumed that both levels (high and low) of attachment anxiety are associated with increased activities in brain circuits that are responsible for positive emotions and the regions belonging to the reward system.