Sentences with phrase «neural responses to the experiences»

Drawing from the neuroimaging literature, we review several plausible mechanisms by which MBRP might be changing neural responses to the experiences of craving and negative affect, which subsequently may reduce risk for relapse.

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The fMRI scans also showed that experienced meditators had less neural response to the distracting noises that interrupted the meditation.

Much of the vast web of neural networking within our skulls is not genetically predetermined, but it grows epigenetically, in response to learning experiences.

They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

«The fly brain is not as plastic as the mammalian brain,» Kempermann said, meaning that neural wiring in mammals is much more flexible, changing in response to an individual's experiences.

This experience - dependent development of neural connections serves the adaptive response of the offspring to its actual normative environment.

In particular, additional research that incorporates EMA, observational and / or sociometric data on real - world peer relationships with neuroimaging data (as in Eisenberger et al., 2007; Masten et al., 2012) would be valuable in addressing the interplay between social experience and neural response to social rejection during adolescence.