Sentences with phrase «influencing other brain»

After intensive training this rhythm played a stronger role in influencing the other brain areas — i.e. the pacemaker was more effective.

The chemical tells individual neurons to fire off a signal or not, influencing other brain signals and pathways, and essentially serves as a traffic cop of motivation, emotion, and social behavior.

Not exact matches

Modern psychosomatic medicine has made some progress in analyzing along these lines; for example, it seems quite possible that the emotional tone of my soul may directly alter the patterns of physical feeling in my stomach.4 Still, we should not suppose too quickly that the aims of a human personality have any very effective direct influence on the molecules of body cells, other than those in the brain.

According to Cleveland Clinic: «In addition to having antioxidant qualities, research shows that flavanols have other potential influences on vascular health, such as lowering blood pressure, improving blood flow to the brain and heart, and making blood platelets less sticky and able to clot.»

These include the clarity regarding the number of blows, the effects of subclinical impact, the influence of other noxious influences on the brain, potential underlying genetic susceptibility and specificity of such histological changes to sport.

«Now we're learning that the brain and body can influence each other,» she said.

The mother - child attachment bond shapes child's brain, which influences his self - esteem, expectations of others, and ability to attract and maintain successful adult relationships.

Other researchers, such as Elizabeth Phelps and Joe LeDoux (he of the goatee and guitar), were describing the way emotions influenced learning and memory, focusing on how the brain detects, analyzes and remembers threats.

The finding, one of the first to show that brain waves directly influence behaviour, could lead to new treatments for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.

The new therapy, which Lumley and co-developer Howard Schubiner, M.D., director of the Mind Body Medicine Program at Providence Hospital, call Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), helps patients view their pain and other symptoms as stemming from changeable neural pathways in the brain that are strongly influenced by emotions.

«I was very curious at that point what glial cells would be doing in the hypothalamus, since glial cells have been shown in other brain areas to have an influence on regulation of neuronal function,» she says.

«This may suggest an additive effect, where blast exposure and combat exposure combined have some effect, and brain injury on top of that has additional influence on PTSD and other outcome measures,» Brody said.

But now, two studies that map brain activity in living mice reveal that social experiences can influence brain responses to other mice.

For example, neural excitation is thought to induce form constants, the dynamic patterns I saw when I closed my eyes under the influence of peyote; these are also generated by migraines, epileptic seizures, and other brain disorders.

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The brain's interpretation of sound is influenced by cues from other senses, explaining more precisely how we interpret what we hear at a particular moment, according to a report published in Nature Neuroscience online Oct. 31.

The team chose to work with these healthy subjects to minimize the influence of other factors, either genetic or social, that might also alter the brain.

Interestingly, the authors noted that since the study showed that microbiota in the gut can influence the brain, it «adds to evidence suggesting that the intestinal microbiota may play some role in the spectrum of brain disorders ranging from mood or anxiety to other problems that may include autism, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis.»

The new finding is the latest evidence supporting a growing precision medicine model of psychiatric disease in which disruptions of certain genes during brain development contribute to a person's risk for multiple psychiatric disorders, with other genetic or epigenetic drivers, random developmental events, or environmental influences determining the specific disease an individual develops, said senior author Benjamin Cheyette, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry and a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF.

However, many other differences between species could also influence brain size.

To begin to understand how the connectivity patterns in the brains of memory athletes influence memory performance, Dresler and colleagues looked at the 25 connections that most differentiate memory athletes from others.

«This allowed us to show that brain regions which are important for distinguishing between self and others were less active under the influence of LSD,» says Preller.

Unlike the visual cortex, say, whose coding will be influenced by light falling onto the retina, the entorhinal cortex creates the hexagonal pattern entirely internally, by integrating whatever information about the environment is received by other areas of the brain.

Other studies have shown increased activity in this brain region when people experience the placebo effect, and when their enjoyment of a product — wine, for example — is influenced by its supposed value, Tinnermann says.

The molecule can influence signals sent by a number of other receptors in the brain, many involved in pain and inflammation.

Other possible factors that might explain or influence the altruistic behavior — such as higher cognition (measured by brain size), hunting in groups, or stronger social bonds between group members — showed either much weaker correlations or no correlation at all with helping behaviors.

Like all other vertebrates, the gonads (testes and ovaries) are influenced by hormones produced by the pituitary gland, which itself is controlled by hormones from the hypothalamus, a structure in the brain.

Now modern researchers are applying brain scans, genetic probes, and other potent instruments as they attempt to locate the physiological causes of religious experience, characterize its effects, perhaps replicate it, and perhaps even begin to explain its abiding influence.

Dudley's team found that HAR - associated schizophrenia genes are found in regions of the genome that influence other genes expressed in the prefrontal cortex, a brain region just behind the forehead that is involved in higher - order thinking.

«Therefore, changes in the genes influence the brain's wiring by altering the synapse and shaping how neurons transmit signals to each other.»

Professor Baron - Cohen commented: «Although these very clear sex differences in brain structure may reflect an environmental or social factor, from other studies we know that biological influences are also important, including prenatal sex steroid hormones (such as fetal testosterone) as well as sex chromosome effects.

At the most basic level, mirror neurons — in the form of empathy with Palin — may have temporarily dazzled swing female voters, says neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, author of the 2006 book The Female Brain, which explores hormonal and other influences on the brains of women and girls.

In this study, we would like to further assess the connection between sleep - wake states, aging, and brain energy utilization and to determine how these factors influence Aβ as well as other proteins relevant to AD and neurodegeneration.

She also collaborates on several other projects examining the influence of immune molecules on prenatal brain development and their role in the genesis of schizophrenia, major depression, and cardiovascular disease in adults.

Biopsychology is a branch of psychology that analyzes how the brain, neurotransmitters, and other aspects of our biology influence our behaviors, thoughts, and feelings.

Disease, malnutrition, and other prenatal influences can have a powerful impact on how the brain develops during this critical period.

So she's working to unravel how small genetic changes can impact how the brain is wired — specifically, how different neurons talk to each other — and in turn influence how we think and communicate.

His lab has also shown that under the influence of exercise, other regions of the brain grew as well, including the prefrontal cortex, which plays an important role in a group of processing and decision - making skills called executive function.

As for the HARs that weren't active in brain cells during the study, the scientists think they could influence gene expression at other time points during development, such as when the neuron is fully matured rather than while it's developing.

He additionally examines how the brain represents social categories and core trait dimensions of other people, and how initial perceptions influence downstream behavior and real - world outcomes.

Then, add other influences like the broad use of technology and its impact on our brain chemistry, our culture's bias toward extroversion, and our propensity for multitasking, and it all makes a pretty compelling case for why meditation is not easy.

«There's a lot of individual variability in how people react to such events, and diet and other lifestyle factors could influence how the brain and body respond over the long term,» he said.

Yoga can play a crucial function in treating obesity Yoga techniques influence the internal organs, endocrine glands, brain, head along with other variables regarding the body mind complex.

It belongs to the self - propelled autonomic nervous system, but by actively focusing on your breath and the movements of your diaphragm, you can influence the system enormously through the vagus nerve that spreads from your brain to your lungs, heart and other organs.

Considering the results of these and other studies, it seems possible that the process of determining the glycemic index of various foods would be highly influenced by the oral stimulation of taste and its influence on the brain.

Nutritional therapy, supplemental support (amino acids in particular can positively influence brain chemistry), and other functional medicine strategies can encourage healthy brain behavior that reduces addictive tendencies.

Your gut and brain actually work in tandem, each influencing the other.

The human microbiome, a term that refers to the collective genome of micro-organisms that live within a person's gut, not only influences digestion as one might expect, but can also affect brain function, immunity, tendencies towards insulin resistance, and a host of other factors.

Not only do the foods you put in your body influence your appearance, mood, energy levels and wellbeing on a day - to - day basis, they literally become the proteins that make up the cells that are your skin, heart, brain, lungs, liver and other organs.

«This could manifest, behaviorally, via magnified antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity, reduction of intestinal permeability and the detrimental effects of LPS, improved glycemic control, positive influence on nutritional status (and therefore neurotransmission and neuropeptide production), direct production of GABA, and other bioactive chemicals, as well as a direct role in gut - to - brain communication via a beneficial shift in the intestinal microbiota itself.»