Sentences with phrase «for emotional memory»

This confirmed that variations in PKRCA are linked to the capacity for emotional memory, and further revealed that they were also associated with differences in brain activity during memory encoding.

The researchers scanned the entire brain and discovered that memories of alcohol consumption — often prompted by external stimuli — caused activation of this protein in specific regions of the frontal cortex, the area of the brain related to memory processing, as well as in the nucleus of the amygdala, which is responsible for emotional memories and involved in the emotional symptoms related to withdrawal.

Not exact matches

Of course, this is really psychologist shorthand for the lengthy process of going into one's emotional memory files and teasing out the situations where you might be over-interpreting — not misinterpreting, mind you — your dear nemesis's behaviour.

Firemen for whom the terrorist carnage and lost comrades remain a scorching memory may touch that truck and cross themselves, but as with the names, so will time steadily erode the crushed truck's emotional impact.

At any moment this has a focus, but one which shifts continually, now on perception of the outside world, now on a memory which has somehow been stored out of mind (perhaps for many decades), now on an emotional state, now on a toothache, now on construction of an abstract pattern of thought, now on communication with others, but again and again on the often painful process of choosing among courses of action, and then of acting.

I'm sorry that today marks an emotional negative memory for you.

Whether February 28 will go down as the start of another burst of form worth sticking around for at Old Trafford or the next false dawn of disappointment may not save Van Gaal's job but it could soften his place in the emotional memories of a fanbase who haven't always been given enough over the past few months to keep believing in.

Writing it was emotional for me and the tears came rushing back, almost as fast as the memories...

Writing it was emotional for me and the tears came rushing back, almost as fast as the memories as I sat in a Starbucks cafe hoping to focus on the post.

More praise for the yummy stuff resulted from brain researcher Todd Parrish of Northwestern University in 2009, when he examined functional magnetic resonance images of gum chewers and found increased activity in areas of the brain associated with memory and emotional responses.

Play builds needed neuronal connections that will influence memory, learning, emotional regulation, and social intelligence for years to come.

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OK, OK, lots of it — baby clothes especially — I'm probably hanging on to for nostalgia reasons, as they are tied so tightly to memories that even looking at them is like an emotional punch to the gut.

Bottom line: Ideal for parents who want an easy - to - fill memory book and need guidance in doing so; if you are not great with words — especially when getting emotional — this is definitely the best baby memory book for you.

This may be a particularly attractive option for adolescents who are preparing to leave the family home for a more independent living arrangement, for young adults with disabilities who prefer to be with people their own age, or even aging populations with mild to moderate memory loss because it gives them an opportunity to experience new surroundings, different expectations, peer relationships and even cognitive and emotional stimulation.

Depressed mothers are often overwhelmed in the parenting role, have difficulty reading infant cues, struggle to meet the social and emotional needs of their children, and are less tolerant of child misbehaviour.7 Offspring of depressed mothers, particularly if they are exposed to depression in the first year of life, are more likely to be poorly attached to their caregivers, experience emotional and behavioural dysregulation, have difficulty with attention and memory, and are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders throughout childhood.8 Home visiting focuses on fostering healthy child development by improving parenting and maternal functioning.

Offspring of depressed mothers, particularly if they are exposed to depression in the first year of life, are more likely to be poorly attached to their caregivers, experience emotional and behavioural dysregulation, have difficulty with attention and memory, and are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders throughout childhood.

«As the initial shock and emotional numbness slowly subsides, I'm experiencing more flashbacks of memories from our 6.5 years of happiness, and for now these memories tend to trigger pain and intense longing.»

One of the doula's primary goals is to care for the mother's emotional health and enhance her ability to have positive birth memories (Gilland, 2010b).

Seeking to test his professed lack of emotional attachment to the Red Sox I asked Massey about the 1986 night the ball rolled through Bill Buckner's legs, a moment that would likely be a painful memory for any true Red Sox fan.

LeDoux, the founder of the Emotional Brain Institute who also has an appointment in NYU's Department of Psychology, has worked on emotion and memory in the brain for more than 20 years.

Both the amygdala, which tags memories for emotional significance, and the hippocampus, which processes the factual details of events for memory storage, have many cortisol receptors.

«I was surprised by the specificity of the results, that the emotional memory improvement was specifically for the negative and high - arousal memories, and the ramifications of these results for people with anxiety disorders and PTSD,» Mednick said.

The limbic system is the collective name for structures in the human brain involved in emotion, motivation, and emotional association with memory.

While researchers found that playing strategy games better engaged memory and cognitive control brain regions, making them better suited for improving memory tasks, they hypothesize that action games that stimulate the limbic area and elicit more emotional arousal might be beneficial for other clinical populations like patients with mood disorders.

During memory suppression, he says, activity tapers off in the brain's visual cortex (which regulates visual representation of a memory), hippocampus (responsible for memory formation and retrieval) and amygdala (a region in continuous communication with the hippocampus that formulates emotional responses to memories).

Whereas other memory systems are more specialized — helping us learn movements or recall emotional events, for instance — declarative memory absorbs and retains a much broader range of knowledge.

The study states, «While several studies reported a benefit from sleep with respect to emotional memory in healthy individuals, our results showed for the first time that healthy children outperform healthy adults.»

«Violence is an emotional cue that dominates memory, leaving little capacity for more peripheral cues like brand names.»

These are memories for highly emotional and traumatic events.

P: The biggest misconception is that the strong feelings we have for highly emotional memories indicate they are more accurate.

For more than 10 years, neuroscientists have known that our brains» emotional memory circuits are linked to the neurotransmitter norepinephrine.

The finding represents the first gene shown to play a role in emotional memory and could have implications for anxiety and other psychiatric disorders.

So the upshot is, I think this stress response is a marker for intense emotional memories in people with vivid imaging capacities.»

Under the leadership of John DeLuca, PhD, senior VP for Research & Training, and Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, scientists have made important contributions to the knowledge of cognitive decline in MS. Clinical studies span new learning, memory, executive function, attention and processing speed, emotional processing, employment and cognitive fatigue.

Specifically, she has convincingly demonstrated that the emotional expression of fear memories can be neutralized in humans (e.g., Nature Neuroscience, 2009), and which conditions are essential for this to occur (e.g., Science, 2013).

Their interaction covers a lot of mental territory, including recalling autobiographical memories and semantic information (the president's birthday, for example), thinking about or planning the future, imagining new events, inferring the mental states of others, reasoning about moral dilemmas, reading fiction, self - reflecting, and appraising social and emotional information.

One example of such a selective memory effect is observed when examining memory for complex emotional experiences.

In both age groups, a nap soon after encoding scenes that contained a negative or neutral object on a neutral background led to superior retention of memory for emotional objects at the expense of memory for the neutral backgrounds.

When children are presented with emotional faces prior to the nap or an equivalent interval awake, memory for the items is similar when subsequently probed.

Finally, counselling to identify core beliefs can also be beneficial for eradicating emotional memories that are no longer beneficial to patients and that can be contributing negatively to symptoms of anxiety and mood, is important.

It's also proven to enlarge areas in your brain responsible for memory, cognition, and emotional processing — in other words it makes you smarter.

While it triggers release of dopamine, the brain chemical of pleasure, satisfaction, and reward, sugar also harms the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory consolidation and emotional regulation.

Your olfactory system is directly linked to the emotional center in your brain — so when you sniff something that brings back a good memory (like pumpkin pie) or makes you feel excited and full of anticipation (such as the smell of sunscreen), your body releases feel - good, relaxing chemicals that can set the stage for great sleep.

Other symptoms of insulin resistance include: cravings for sugar, intense hunger, weakness, poor concentration, emotional instability, memory loss, lack of focus, feelings of anxiety or panic, lack of motivation, and fatigue.

For me, The Class is emotional muscle memory, whose bi product is a strong, lean body.

As you improve your attentional capacities, you may notice that your emotional tolerance for negative experiences and memories expands.

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In addition, it does not take long for the brain to learn the reward, with memory and emotional processes involved in negotiating behavioral and cognitive responses.

For me, health scares trigger a cellular memory of repeated, long journeys riddled with blood tests, tissue samples, emotional agony, family distress, surgery and painful recovery processes that followed a moment just like the one I described above.