Sentences with phrase «in brain circuits»

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.

Laboratory studies have found that meditation produced changes in brain circuits involved in regulating emotion, Dr. Davidson said, and may reduce markers of inflammation and stress hormones like cortisol.

To achieve this goal, we developed an integrated system that enables simultaneous real - time visualization of structural reorganization in spatially - restricted signaling complexes and functional modifications of single synapses in brain circuits.

«I believe that our behavior is a production of activity in our brain circuits,» psychiatrist Steven Hyman of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., told a session at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting earlier last year.

Croft believes the heightened alpha waves reflect the mind concentrating to overcome the electrical interference in brain circuits caused by the pulsed microwave radiation from cell phones.

And when people respond well to placebos, they show stronger activation in brain circuits that control pain compared with those who are less susceptible to the placebo response.

Psychiatric disorders are in fact brain disorders that involve abnormal activity in brain circuits, so having researchers who understand the brain in a deep and integrated way is going to be critical for the future, says Thomas Insel, director of the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

«I believe ultimately that our behavior is a production of activity in our brain circuits,» Hyman said.

All four of these are active in a brain circuit that links the striatum, thalamus and cortex regions (Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038 / s41467 -017-00831-x).

All four of these are active in a brain circuit that links the striatum, thalamus and cortex regions.

Moreover, these women showed greater activity in the brain circuit that enables people to understand the emotions of others.

Thus, this study found that women who have recovered from anorexia nervosa show two related patterns of changes in brain circuit function that may contribute to their capacity to sustain their avoidance of food.

The investigators saw that as the mice ramped down for sleep, activity in this brain circuit decreased.

The researchers found that when the participants» curiosity had been sparked, there was not only increased activity in the hippocampus, which is the region of the brain involved in the creation of memories, but also in the brain circuit that is related to reward and pleasure.

Not exact matches

Among the questions researchers are asking: Does the process of innovating activate neuronal circuits in a particular part of the brain, the way that language, say, primarily activates circuits in parts of the brain's left hemisphere?

The brain encourages these contortions, activating reward circuits in response to biased reasoning that gives a high akin to a junkie's.

By collecting sequencing information about cells in the gut, for example, Kallyope can better figure out how they're connected to neurons in the brain in a series of circuits.

Science shows that meditation causes measurable changes in the brain that short circuit panic and speed learning.

For some people, palatable foods invoke such a strong response in the brain's reward circuit — and so dramatically alter their biology — that willpower will rarely, if ever, be sufficient to resist eating those foods once they are around.

Three times I have been felled by lightning pain as seizures short - circuited my brain; Three times, waking in hospitals at dawn all memory of my poetry was gone, and once I'd nearly bitten through my tongue.

The infrastructure mediates inheritance (for instance, in cell division or in the repetition of similar circuit patterns in the excitation of the brain), and inheritance thus has in it that same discontinuity.

A wide variety of vertebrates also are known to have «reward circuits» in their brains.

A mechanistic brain physiologist thinks of the brain in terms of the circuits in a complex computer.

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 less than two months my brain has been staunchly rewired; all circuits once devoted to making decisions for myself have now been plugged into a big, blazing marquee blinking «Baby!

I use various Brain Integration Techniques to remove stress from circuits in the brain by using acupressure points, kinesiology, and healing enBrain Integration Techniques to remove stress from circuits in the brain by using acupressure points, kinesiology, and healing enbrain by using acupressure points, kinesiology, and healing energy.

Even the prefrontal cortex (planning, attention, inhibition, multitasking) and brain circuits involved in social development have the onset of rapid development in the first 1000 days.

Hearing my babytalk also encourages me to talk more, which in turn stimulates baby «sneural dendrites and circuits in the brain and causes the lefthemisphere's language centers to grow.

We have long known that interactions with parents, caregivers, and other adults are important in a child's life, but new evidence shows that these relationships actually shape brain circuits and lay the foundation for later developmental outcomes, from academic performance to mental health and interpersonal skills.»

In other words, the sights, sounds, air freshness, smells, and everything that comes with being outside tends to overwhelm their brain circuits — and their little brain tells them to fall asleep so that it can categorize all the information it just took from being outside.

«A baby crying activates the circuits in the mother's brain that are similar to those that become overactive in people with obsessive - compulsive disorder,» Swain says.

Looking inside the brains of animals exposed to chronic social defeat stress, the scientists observed hyperactive firing of neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a critical part of a reward circuit.

Dr. Saper's research has explored circuitry of the brain that controls basic functions such as wake - sleep cycles, feeding, and immune response, and how these circuits are disrupted in neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, in sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and sleep apnea, and during aging.

«It's a period in human development in which brain circuits change and reorganize and. . .

Brain scans showed the drug affected the same reward circuit that it did in animals.

Psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound found in magic mushrooms, may help re-set the activity of neural circuits in the brain that are involved in depression

The mice cranked out this protein in their reward circuits, a brain area that drives us to seek pleasure - inducing experiences and a key component in addiction.

But the brain waves bind together all the neurons in a circuit with every crest, pushing the neurons so close to their firing point that they're primed to respond to just the slightest extra stimulus.

When we hold an item in working memory, these oscillations move through brain circuits in waves that rise and fall scores of times.

Researchers studying the brain have long been interested in its neural oscillations, the rhythmic electrical activity that plays an important role in the transmission of information within the brain's neural circuits.

In that third round, the participants responded positively, activating areas in their brains that some scientists call the «reward circuit» — or the «ventral striatum.&raquIn that third round, the participants responded positively, activating areas in their brains that some scientists call the «reward circuit» — or the «ventral striatum.&raquin their brains that some scientists call the «reward circuit» — or the «ventral striatum.»

Richer and more relevant sensory information from spindles allows for efficient update of the computational circuits in our brain that guide movement.

Correspondingly, they found that neural circuits in the brain that contribute significantly to the control of anxiety and social interactions were significantly affected in the immune - activated mice.

In the hippocampus, a brain region vital for laying down new memories, «stem cells continue to add new circuit elements,» says Stanford University neuroscientist Theo D. Palmer, who helped Monje find out why brain fogginess can persist for years after cancer treatment has ended.

The change in what the volunteers saw was so fast, Dilks says, that it must be due to the brain redirecting signals through pre-existing circuits rather than forging new connections.

A previous experiment found that sweat from skydivers activated anxiety circuits in sniffers» brains.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that immune system activation during pregnancy and right at birth can cause alterations in the brain's neural circuits during young adulthood that are consistent with behavioral symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

We're funding researchers to investigate how drugs alter what genes are activated such that they modify the function of the cells, and how this, in turn, modifies the functions of brain circuits, and how that modifies behavior.

Gait disturbance in individuals with spinal cord injury is attributed to the interruption of neural pathways from brain to the spinal locomotor center, whereas neural circuits locate below and above the lesion maintain most of their functions.

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