Sentences with phrase «greater brain response»

«Under stress, newborn babies show greater brain response to pain.»

The results showed that the more gaze shifting the babies participated in during their tutoring sessions, the greater their brain responses were to the Spanish language sounds.

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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.

But her immune response was 10 times greater than that of Giese, Caicedo says, causing her brain to swell.

Fathers of daughters had greater responses to their daughters» happy facial expressions in areas of the brain important for visual processing, reward, emotion regulation, and face processing than fathers of sons.

This time, they found that young men and young women responded differently, with males showing a greater increase in electrical activity in the brain in response to a TMS pulse.

«While neuroimaging studies can tell us a great deal about the brain's response to complex events, it's only by studying patients with brain injury that we can see if a brain region is actually needed to perform a given task,» said Dr Clark.

More worryingly, preemies who had a greater number of negative touch experiences, including heel pricks, IV insertions, injections and tape removal, tended to have diminished brain responses to the puffs.

Preemies who received a greater number of positive early touches, such as breastfeeding, skin - to - skin cuddles and massage, had stronger brain responses to the puffs than preemies who received fewer.

This greater ability to fashion our brains in response to our environment, the study maintains, could provide a link between biological evolution and cultural evolution.

They hypothesized that excess brain dopamine release in heavy alcohol users who also use nicotine / smoke could make them more treatment - resistant in general, but more sensitized to naltrexone's dopamine lowering effects — leading to their greater response to treatment with the medication than non-smokers.

At the same time, the rodents had an even greater response to social defeat stress than normal mice do, suggesting their brains also are more susceptible to a depressive - like state.

Now inflammation is a natural healing process, it's great, but when your body is having to kick it into overdrive all the time, driving in that inflammatory response to heal the body when it's not really having to be healed, it cause all kinds of things: Like swelling of the intestinal tract, it causes a leaky gut, it can lead to cancer, it can lead to diabetes, it can lead to brain fog.

During the Transcendental Meditation program, early (sensory) components of the brain's response to somatosensory stimuli are more widely distributed across the cortex, indicating greater participation of the whole brain in the response to a stimulus.

Higher plasma glucose levels correlated with greater brain activity in executive control centers in the ACC and ventromedial PFC, whereas higher levels of plasma cortisol, but not other hormones, were correlated with greater activation in reward regions, such as the insula and putamen (P < 0.01, corrected), in response to high - calorie food cues.

A preliminary study conducted by Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago explains that participants who slept only four hours showed greater brain activity in response to food smells, like potato chips and doughnuts, compared to when they'd slept a full eight hours.

«When tired, participants showed greater brain activity in two areas involved in olfaction — the piriform cortex and the orbitofrontal cortex — in response to food smells than they did when well rested.

After such a great response, Carrie has now created an organisation called Carrie's Beanies for Brain Cancer.

Of the fifteen dogs in the study thirteen exhibited a greater or equal response in the area of the brain associated with reward and decision - making when the reinforcement was praise from their owner vs. food / treats.

When we are attacked, the two responses the emotional brain offers us are fight and flight (these are the famous alternatives described by the great American physiologist, Walter B. Cannon, in a classical description in 1929).

Preoccupied attachment is characterized by a «hyperactive» attachment system [17; 39], that is oversensitive to signs of potential rejection, and shows stronger neural activation to rejection in brain regions implicated in processing social rejection (i.e., dACC, anterior insula; [40]; ACC, [36]; amygdala, [38]-RRB-, more intense behavioral responses to rejection [34], greater negative emotions and lower self - esteem [41].