Sentences with phrase «generates brain chemicals»

Stress also generates brain chemicals that contribute to depression, anxiety, and other diseases.

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How this metamorphosis takes place; how a force existing as motion, heat, or light can become a mode of consciousness; how it is possible for aerial vibrations to generate the sensation we call sound, or for the forces liberated by chemical changes in the brain to give rise to emotion, — these are mysteries which it is impossible to fathom.

Dopamine, commonly known as the chemical in the brain that generates pleasurable feelings, is an important neurotransmitter that affects motor control and movement of muscles in the body.

Although the scientists can't assume hospitalization is directly causing suicide, they say their work backs up a hot theory that inflammation — one of the body's main defenses against infection — influences depression by generating a chemical that interferes with brain signaling.

This state of arousal involves neurons in the fly's brain that respond to the female's chemical signal and generate self - sustaining patterns of brain activity that persist well beyond the original sensory input.

If your brain can't generate and transmit the chemicals that make you feel good, you'll seek the effects from outside sources, and food / booze / drugs plug up the same receptors in the brain as the neurotransmitters should.

Important nuerotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain), most notably serotonin, are generated in our digestive tract and sent through the blood stream to the brain.

Countless studies have shown that exercise or simple walking releases endorphins and other stress fighting, happy - time chemicals in your brain, which not only minimizes the discomfort of exercise, but also generates a feeling of euphoria and positivity.

Whether you are a monophasic or polyphasic sleeper, the amount of time you spend sleeping is a chance for your body to work on repairs and generate an even chemical playing field for your brain.

Elise Labonte - LeMoyne, Ph.D., who led the study said, «We suspect that when mom exercises she generates a variety of chemicals,» including many related to brain health, which can move into her bloodstream and eventually mingle with her baby's blood.

Some years ago excitement was generated by the news that a group of drugs could help control the progress of the condition by acting on one of the chemicals whose regulation in the brain appears to be associated with the disease process.

Though there are certainly chemical imbalances in the brain or profound life losses that can generate depression, sometimes depression manifests due to the repeated experiences of disowned anger.