Sentences with phrase «more brain activation»

In the study, published in Sage Journals in February, they found that back - and - forth banter (or, conversational turns) strongly correlated with both more brain activation and stronger scores on tests.

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The more fathers engage in caregiving tasks, the more oxytocin they produce, and the stronger the activation in the mentalizing areas of the brain.

In brain - imaging studies, teen brains show more activation in regions that process rewards, motivations and emotions (the socioaffective circuitry in the subcortical, limbic regions) compared to children and adults.

These babies» brains showed more activation when they heard emotionally neutral human sounds, such as coughing, sneezing, or yawning, than when they heard familiar non-human sounds like their toys or running water.

The babies born to mothers who were physically active had a more mature cerebral activation, suggesting that their brains developed more rapidly than those born after months of inactivity.

Mothers who breastfeed have been found to report lower levels of perceived stress and negative mood, higher levels of maternal attachment, and tend to perceive their infants more positively than mothers who formula - feed.9, 19 - 21 There is evidence to suggest that breastfeeding mothers may also spend more time in emotional care and be more sensitive to infant emotional distress cues than bottle - feeding mothers.22, 23 Relatedly, a small fMRI study of 17 mothers in the first postpartum month, found that breastfeeding mothers showed greater activation in brain areas involved in empathy and bonding than formula - feeding mothers when listening to their own infant's cry.24 These brain areas included the superior frontal gyrus, insula, precuneus, striatum and amygdala.

As expected, the mice had more microglia activation and other inflammation - causing immune cells in their brains.

Although brain - imaging studies of human participants watching funny cartoons or listening to jokes reveal the activation of evolutionarily ancient structures such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, more recently evolved, «higher - order» structures are also activated, including distributed regions of the frontal cortex.

«Now, we can quantify changes in brain activation as trainees master surgical tasks on a simulator and transfer to more clinically relevant environments,» Mr. Nemani said.

What's more, in a neuroimaging study in which the participants were shown images depicting human suffering, those who gave most generously during the online game also showed greatest activation in brain areas involved in empathy, emotion regulation and positive emotion.

If obese individuals must eat more and more to overcome reduced activation of reward networks in the brain, that sounds a lot like tolerance.

Second, they showed increased activation of executive «self - control» circuits in the brain, perhaps making them more effective in resisting temptations.

Looking at brain activity, fNIRS revealed that boys showed increased activation with proficiency in the front of the brain when they heard a correct sentence, while girls showed more at the back.

Over the following year, those whose brains showed less activation in areas known to respond to natural rewards like foods ended up gaining more weight — though only if they had a particular genetic makeup.

The study's results suggested that girls whose brains showed less reward system activation to foods also gained more weight — if they had the DRD2 Taq1AQ1 or the DRD4 7 + repeat alleles.

Even more surprising, subjects who had grown up in a city showed higher activation of a brain area called the anterior cingulate cortex, essentially the amygdala's boss, even if they had later moved to the suburbs or country.

Children with the lowest scores on the social cognition tests showed atypical responses to the unknown words — no response at all, for example, or activity in a different part of the brain, while those with the higher scores showed a more typical pattern of brain activation in the left hemisphere, the authors report online today in PLOS ONE.

«The field now has two independent reports — our study and a 2015 report by Setiawan and colleagues in Toronto — showing essentially the same thing: that there is evidence for inflammation, more specifically microglial activation, in the brains of living patients during a major depressive episode,» said Dr. Talbot.

When the team compared brain slices from the two groups of rats, they discovered that in the intact animals, more CREB molecules carried a phosphate group — a crucial step for their activation.

The brain activation was more diffuse and less well organised 1 week after placebo stimulation, whereas it was much more focused (suggesting it was more efficient) 1 week after real stimulation.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging has shown that mothers, but not fathers, have increased brain cortical activation in specific language processing areas when listening to infant - directed speech, suggesting that mothers have an intent to communicate and the difference in neural processing is experience - dependent.24 The mothers spoke more to infant girls than boys in early infancy.

Whereas Zhang et al. [25] found more activation in almost all brain areas from deep needling and Wu et al. [52] found more activation from superficial needling in the somatosensory area, motor area and language areas (Broca and Wernicke areas), and from deep needling more deactivation in the limbic system.

(D) Differences in brain response between verum and sham acupuncture from subtraction analysis showed more activation in the sensorimotor affective / cognitive processing brain regions and more deactivation in the amygdala / hippocampal formation for verum acupuncture.

From the descriptive view on the data it seems that compared to sham, verum acupuncture tended to be associated with more activation in the basal ganglia, brain stem, cerebellum, and insula and more deactivation was seen in the so - called «default mode network» and limbic brain areas, such as the amygdala and the hippocampus.

Regarding brain activations, two studies [58], [69] found more activation associated with electro - acupuncture in somatosensory areas, motor area, brainstem, cingulate or insula and one study [66] found no significant difference.

Scientists are most fascinated by the older brain's activation of the hippocampus because this area is generally used for more complicated memory tasks such as learning lines from a Shakespeare play.

The people who exercised hours later had better recall and stronger and more clear activation in the areas of their brain associated with memory retrieval.

Because yoga includes both sympathetic and parasympathetic activation, your body and brain become even more relaxed into the parasympathetic nervous system baseline.

Sleep deprivation produces a «double hit» to the brain in this regard: there is a sharp reduction in frontal lobe activity leading one to misjudge hunger and eat more junk and also leading to an exaggerated activation of reward centers (mostly the amygdalae) after eating.

«We show that the increased activation — what we call arousal — changes how information is represented, and it's much more selective,» said co-author Giesbrecht, a professor in UCSB's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

«We had more activation in areas of the brain I often call the «CEO regions»» — the frontal regions associated with executive function — «in the children who had musical training compared to others,» says Gaab.

Their scans revealed more neuron activation in the emotional, reactive circuits of their lower brains.5

Fathers, relative to non-fathers, showed more activation in an area of the brain generally believed to be (partially) responsible for emotion processing but only when looking at child faces.

Compared to interactions with computers, interactions with human counterparts require more emotional involvement, cognitive effort and brain activation.

Also, if an ACC marker predicts better response, researchers might develop cognitive training that specifically targets this region, which could increase brain activation to accelerate or boost response to more traditional intervention.

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].