Sentences with phrase «for brain and behavior»

An accompanying video animation called «Stealing Attention» (a collaboration with neuroscientist Michael E. Goldberg, Director of the Mahoney Center for Brain and Behavior, Columbia University) draws parallels between card tricks and the looting of precious art objects from the Iraq National Museum after the fall of Baghdad.

Michael Goldberg, director of the Mahoney - Keck Center for Brain and Behavior research and a member of The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, is a Professor of Brain & Behavior, Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychiatry and Opthalmology.

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This podcast, Hidden Brain: NPR helps people understand human behavior and the reasons for them.

What leaders and managers need to after are the promoters of oxytocin — figuring out the job tasks, team atmosphere, and leadership behaviors (like empathy and compassion, for example) that will release the feel - good neurochemicals in the brain, like oxytocin.

These emotions jockey for position in curating her memories and running the mind - brain console inside «headquarters» that influence her perceptions and control her behavior.

An engaging way for visual, kinesthetic, and left - brain learners to envision their dreams, adopt new mind - sets and behaviors, and achieve their goals.

The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.

There were some who postulated a retracing of archaic repertoires that remained embedded in the final behavior, for example Paul MacLean's notion of a reptilian and protomammalian brain within the mature human brain.2

Uneducated, brain - washed and rewarded for violent behavior.

If memory, behavior and emotions are all controlled by the physical brain, what is a soul for?

Hats off to you for having wisdom to know gut issues effect the brain and behavior.

«It's kind of like weight training,» said Richard Davidson, PhD, psychology and psychiatry professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, director of the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, and founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds.

Empathy calms the brain, removes the threat, and allows a child to take responsibility for this own behavior.

Eating breakfast is a good habit for your child, though, because fueling the brain after a night's sleep is linked to better grades in school, better behavior, fewer attention problems, and less chance of obesity.

In this slim volume, Tough pulls together decades of social science research on the impacts of poverty and trauma on kids» brains and behavior, and makes a cogent, convincing argument for why this research should lie at the center of any discussions about reform.

In his last book, How Children Succeed, author Paul Tough identified a litany ways that living in poverty can affect kids» brains, making it more difficult for them to regulate their emotions, control their behaviors and achieve in school.

Similar mechanisms are found in human brains — caregiver behavior matters for turning genes on and off.

«The affected brain regions are important for controlling emotion and aggressive behavior.»

The emergence of tensional outlets usually signifies something distressful for your child, and they use these behaviors as a way to self - soothe and calm their brain.

Early experiences shape how a baby's brain develops, laying the foundation for future learning, behavior and health.

The breastfeeding mothers surveyed for the study showed greater responses to their infant's cry in brain regions related to caregiving behavior and empathy than mothers who relied upon formula as the baby's main food source.

The fMRI - based findings suggest that breastfeeding and factors associated with breastfeeding, such has high levels of hormones (oxytocin, prolactin), stress, and culture may all play an important role for mothers» brain activity and parenting behaviors during the early postpartum period.

Attachment Parenting International (API) analyzes and disseminates the work of researchers in psychology, child development, and brain science who have studied and applied the behaviors and outcomes of attachment theory for more than 60 years.

Of course, reality is a lot more complicated than this rough caricature — biology is NOT destiny for animals with a complex brain, and human instincts are filtered through layer upon layer of culture and other learned behavior.

Ready, Player One: How Video Games Affect Your Brain and Behavior [March 15, 2017] In 1971, the first commercially sold coin - operated video game opened the gates for the era of gaming as we know it.

«Anatomists have debated how to compare the DVR and neocortex for over a century, and our identification of IT neurons in the bird DVR helps to explain how such different brain structures can give rise to similar behaviors.»

So in 1974, he headed south to Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, for graduate training in physiological psychology: the study of how the brain influences behavior at the neurochemical and cellular levels.

«For a long time, we've thought of brain imaging studies as mainly a way to corroborate or confirm aspects of brain function and pathology that we had already identified from studying a patient's behavior,» said Aysenil Belger, PhD, professor of psychiatry and psychology at UNC and the study's senior author.

In a report on the research published online last week in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, the investigators say that the part of the brain responsible for memory and spatial navigation (the hippocampus) was smaller over the long term in the male offspring exposed to the overactive immune system in the Brain, Behavior and Immunity, the investigators say that the part of the brain responsible for memory and spatial navigation (the hippocampus) was smaller over the long term in the male offspring exposed to the overactive immune system in the brain responsible for memory and spatial navigation (the hippocampus) was smaller over the long term in the male offspring exposed to the overactive immune system in the womb.

Page and his colleagues, who use animal models to understand how autism risk factors impact the developing brain and to identify potential treatments for the condition, have found that animals with mutations in the autism risk gene phosphatase and tensin homolog (Pten) mimic aspects of autism, including increased brain size, social deficits and increased repetitive behavior.

This handful of brain cells is known as the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, or dmPFC, and it sits in a region integral for learning appropriate social behavior.

The study of gender differences in the brain and the resulting differences in behavior dates back to the mid-1800s, with the classic experiment of German physician Arnold Berthold, who showed that testicular secretions were essential for the normal expression of male actions.

Recent studies have demonstrated that falling in love — or the love a mother has for an infant, which is so powerful — is driven by these reward processes, and it actually engages the same [brain] circuit that gives priority of that behavior over anything else, just like in addiction.

«What we're showing in this paper is that patients who used a brain - machine interface for a long period of time experienced improvements in motor behavior, tactile sensations and visceral functions below the level of the spinal cord injury,» he said.

Notre Dame Associate Professor of Psychology James Brockmole, who specializes in human cognition and how the visual world guides behavior, conducted the research at Notre Dame with Adam Biggs, currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Jessica Witt, associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State University.

For instance, zapping the temporal lobe using deep - brain stimulation can improve spatial memory, and using a powerful magnet to alter activity in the right temporoparietal junction can make our moral compass go haywire, causing behaviors we think of as immoral to become permissible.

«This method opens a window into OCD patients» brains to help us see how responsive they will be to treatment,» said Dr. Jamie Feusner, a clinical neuroscientist at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the study's senior author.

Today's studies, presented at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health, provide new insights into how experience might produce long - term brain changes in behaviors like drug addiction and memory formation.

But the customary setup in such experiments — fiber - optic cables implanted in the brain and a heavy helmet linked to a laser — is invasive and cumbersome for mice, the usual subjects, severely hampering researchers» ability to observe normal activity and social behavior.

The lesson is that human behavior is complex and a brain lesion is neither necessary nor sufficient for criminal behavior: after all, there are nearly 700,000 people living with brain tumors in the US and approximately 800,000 people have strokes every year, but the known cases leading to criminal behavior number in the dozens.

«Scientists identify specialized brain areas for feeding and egg - laying in hawkmoths: Activity in specific areas in the olfactory center of female Manduca sexta correlates directly with different behaviors.»

«At this point, people (administering) ImPACT may not have very much training in neuropsychological testing or standardized test administration or data interpretation,» said lead author Kathryn Higgins, a postdoctoral researcher with the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior at Nebraska.

Although malnutrition during pregnancy is known to lead to poor outcomes for babies, «the functional long - term consequences of maternal malnutrition on the brains and behavior of their progeny are mostly unknown,» the researchers noted.

Stolk's co-authors are Ivan Toni of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior at Radboud University in the Netherlands, where the studies were conducted, and Lennart Verhagen of the University of Oxford.

As the birthplace of artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology, Carnegie Mellon has been a leader in the study of brain and behavior for more than 50 years.

These results are the first implication that Lef1 functions in the hypothalamus to mediate behavior, knowledge that could prove useful for diagnosing and treating human brain disorders.

«There are far - reaching theoretical implications for neuroscience and behavior, and our research has important practical implications for designing early intervention programs, or «brain training» regimes.»»

«From an evolutionary psychology perspective, the structure and functions [of psychopaths» brains] may be a little different, but they're properly designed for engagement in predatory behaviors.

New research has found that the pharmaceuticals, which are frequently showing up in U.S. streams, can alter genes responsible for building fish brains and controlling their behavior

The study was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K23 HD054720), Flora Family Foundation, UCSF Catalyst Award, UCSF Resource Allocation Program, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award, Stanford University Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, Spectrum Child Health & Clinical and Translational Science Award and the Extraordinary Brain Series of the Dyslexia Foundation.