Sentences with phrase «natural reward system»

Like people, they have a μ - opioid receptor and two neurotransmitters, dopamine and glutamate, that trigger the natural reward system in the brain.

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Behavior Redirection, also referred to as behavior modification, uses a child's natural interests (cars, food, movies, storybook characters, movement, games, etc) along with a system of natural consequences, obtainable goals, and rewards to encourage success.
Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.
«Drugs of abuse use the same systems in the brain that are used to process natural rewards.
Your brain's food reward system will give you a natural desire to eat the foods that are good for you; let it be your guide.
Gijs, the theory is that when the «reward center» is blocked by LDN, the body produces more of the natural opiates that help the immune system and other systems in the body, to compensate for the blockage, which is temporary at any rate.
Most dogs are born with an inherent desire to please and this natural trait is maximised with enthusiastic training combined with a reward system.
Heather's call for «calling out, naming, and shaming» is a natural response, but not an effective deterrent when the system rewards the behaviour.
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