Sentences with phrase «link brain activation»
The results are some of the first to link brain activation patterns to social phenomena.
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Research has linked the positive feeling we often experience while talking about ourselves to higher levels of activation in areas of the brain associated with reward.
The link between depression and the immune system has been shown using positron emission tomography using a tracer for the translocator protein (TSPO) showing increased immune activation in the brains of patients with major depressive disorder compared with control subjects.
A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reports a link between reduced functional activation and reduced cortical thickness in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.
The authors then analyzed the brain activation linked to these judgments.
«This distinction is linked not just to brain activations selective to the processes studied but is also due to the difference in connections with other cerebral regions that require these two operations,» continues Grandjean.
Young's research team demonstrated that UPR activation in the brain, specifically in the forebrain, is causally linked to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
The mothers, their husbands, and the homosexual father - father couples all showed the activation of what the researchers term a «parenting network» that incorporated two linked but separate pathways in the brain.
Recent human studies have specifically found that a partner's presence can reduce pain, and supportive touching such as hugging is linked to activation of mu - opioid receptors in the brain.
Autism, meanwhile, has been linked to brain inflammation, microglial cell activation, cytokine imbalances, and autoimmunity.
They found that individuals with genetic variations to the RASGRF2 gene had higher activation of the ventral striatum area of the brain (closely linked to the VTA and involved in dopamine release) when anticipating reward in a cognitive task.
Those temporary memories are forged at all, researchers have believed, thanks to a low level of electrical activation that keeps the particular pattern of brain cells linked for only as long as they have to be before they power down and the memory can be erased.
Studies show a link between high - fat and high - sugar foods and the increase in the activation of reward pathways in the brain, particularly dopamine receptors, says Erin Macdonald, R.D.