Sentences with phrase «influence brain activation»

Author Alice Ely, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego, had already studied how women's brains respond to images of fatty foods on an empty and full stomach and found that both their hunger status and dieting history did influence brain activation patterns.

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This novel approach — combining information obtained simultaneously from MRI images of the stomach, feelings reported by the subjects, and brain scans — can offer new insights which would otherwise have been unknown, for example that activation in a brain area called the mid-temporal gyrus seems is in some way influenced by the increased water load in this experiment.

However, in developing brain cells, the researchers found TLR3 activation also influences 41 genes that add up to a double whammy in this model — diminished stem cell differentiation into brain cells and increased cell suicide, a carefully controlled process known as apoptosis.

Dr. Parsons has shown that while there is some degree of tonic endocannabinoid formation in the brain, an overt influence of endocannabinoid signaling requires synapse - specific activation of endocannabinoid formation.

Mindset is instrumental to healing, since our thoughts influence our tendency towards inflammation, our propensity to develop pathology, the density of our brain matter, and our attainment of allostasis — the adaptive activation of neural, neuroendocrine and neuroendocrine - immune mechanisms to maintain stability in the face of stressful challenges (McEwen, 1998).

Next we compared how the level of plasma glucose influenced the ability of visual food stimuli (high - calorie and low - calorie foods) to affect brain activation and wanting and liking of food (Figure 4).

Pelphrey, K.A., Singerman, J.D., Allison, T. and McCarthy, G. (2003) Brain activation evoked by perception of gaze shifts: The influence of context.

For example, certain biological events during early development, such as excessive androgen production, exposure to synthetic androgens, thyroid dysfunction, Cushing's disease, and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, can combine with environmental influences to predispose women to antisocial behavior.69 Additionally, EEG research has uncovered asymmetries in the frontal activation of antisocial females» brains.70 Normative males and females tend to exhibit asymmetric frontal brain activation, with boys having greater right frontal activation and girls having greater left frontal activation.

Child poverty also influences genomic function and brain development by exposure to toxic stress, 2 a condition characterized by «excessive or prolonged activation of the physiologic stress response systems in the absence of the buffering protection afforded by stable, responsive relationships.»

Moreover, the patterns of activation and deactivation of brain regions in response to affective stimuli or in the course of mildly anxiogenic tasks vary quantitatively across subjects and can be predicted in part by individual differences in proneness to experience negative emotionality and anxiety, and by some polymorphic genes that influence behavior.