Sentences with phrase «of brain behavior»

Instead, Faro and Mohamed say that developing this method into a viable lie - detection system will depend on discovering complex patterns of brain behavior linked to lying.

The bulkier white matter may be what gives men their ability to focus intently on work and tune out distractions, as well as their clear - cut superiority when it comes to spatial reasoning, says Ruben Gur, a psychologist and director of the Brain Behavior Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Not exact matches

Thankfully, the plasticity of the brain allows it to mold and change as you practice new behaviors, even when you fail.

Moghadam later attributed some of his behavior to the effects of the then unknown brain tumor, but the first indication that Moghadam's unruly approach could do damage came late last year, after his surgery had been deemed a success.

As your brain reinforces the use of these new behaviors, the connections supporting old, destructive behaviors die off.

Or does it pull in contributions from other parts of the cerebral cortex and even from areas that are involved in emotional behavior, like the amygdala, which lies deep in the brain's core?

The prefontal cortex (that section of the brain right behind your forehead) is the part that helps us with things like decision - making and regulating our behavior.

So as far as your limbic system — the part of your brain that reinforces social behavior — is concerned, mission accomplished.

When caffeine puts your brain and body into this hyperaroused state of stress, your emotions overrun your behavior.

«Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, the biases that shape our choices, and the triggers that direct the course of our relationships,» writes researcher Etip Sinid.

The prefrontal cortex (that section of the brain right behind your forehead) is the part that helps us with things like decision - making and regulating our behavior.

Our brains are wired such that emotions are the root of all human behavior.

Dopamine is one of the most important chemicals in our brain, driving many of the behaviors that make humans more sophisticated than other species.

In each case, the brain releases a small amount of dopamine, a reward - seeking chemical that promotes repeat behavior.

What leaders and managers need to after are the promoters of oxytocin — figuring out the job tasks, team atmosphere, and leadership behaviors (like empathy and compassion, for example) that will release the feel - good neurochemicals in the brain, like oxytocin.

Research has shown that the consumption of glucose enhances complex brain activities, bolstering self - control and regulating prejudice and aggressive behaviors,» she writes, while also speculating that seeing and unconsciously mimicking your dining partner may engender more positive feelings towards them.

However, when the researchers damaged a more central brain region called the limbic system, which is the source of emotions and pleasure (among other things), the hamsters» maternal behaviors — like nest - building, picking up pups, and nursing — never developed.

This form of mental agility is compromised by our brain's natural default to the beliefs and assumptions, often unconscious, that drive much of our behavior.

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.

Every reward gives you a boost to the pleasure centers of the brain that reinforce the behavior and keep you going further down the rabbit hole.

The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.

Microgenesis refers to the actualization (Aktualgenese) of a cognition over «layers» in mind and brain that retrace growth patterns in phyloontogeny.1 The recapitulation that is the cornerstone of historical theory is a repetition of the antecedents of a behavior that phyletic or ontogenetic process lays down.

This was the shape of early recapitulation theory as applied to brain and behavior.

There were some who postulated a retracing of archaic repertoires that remained embedded in the final behavior, for example Paul MacLean's notion of a reptilian and protomammalian brain within the mature human brain.2

Researchers know that fetal exposure to too much testosterone can masculinize the genitals, brain or behavior of a genetically female fetus.

According to neuropsychologist Tim Jennings from the Conquer Series, «Any type of repetitive behavior will create trails in our brain that are going to fire on an automatic sequence.»

According to neuropsychologist Tim Jennings, «Any type of repetitive behavior will create trails in our brain that are going to fire on an automatic sequence.»

In MacLean's original schema, each evolutionary episode is reflected in the physical makeup of the brain and the behaviors associated with those brain regions.

Much of modern neuroscientific research has been dedicated to associating specific brain regions (or «modules») with specific behaviors or abilities — an approach which has met with considerable success.

And before your little rat brain hurts itself I certainly do not include criminal behavior in my definition of inclusion.

Introspective self - consciousness involves causal objectification by the dominant occasion of some of the unimaginably large number of concreta making up the human mind / brain, including what can be called the subordinate nonconscious living persons responsible for our habitual behavior, that is, sub-personalities (RHNB 148f).

In vegetables and perhaps in very simple animals no such dominant occasion occurs, but in the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavior.

The more we're able to explain human behavior in terms of molecular genetics or brain activity or biological function — absent a Creator — then the more questions I have about what I believe, and why.

Berne's second major concept is that of ego - states; he says that our behavior patterns, with their associated feelings, are «a limited repertoire... which are psychological realities... [the products of] the human brain... are organized and stored in the form of ego - states.»

The research shows that the portion of the brain that helps regulate sexuality — the hypothalamus — reacted the exact same way in straight women and gay men when exposed to male pheromones, which are chemicals designed to provoke a behavior, such as sexual arousal.

It is highly unscientific, at the very least, to think that we know everything we need to know about the brain and that any behavior from a PVS patient that contradicts the current theory of «vegetablism» is irrelevant.

One study in Brain Behavior and Immunity showed a dramatic 20 percent reduction in anxiety among medical students taking omega - 3, while past research has shown omega - 3 fats work just as well as antidepressants in preventing the signs of depression, but without any of the side effects.

Dr. Siegel's latest release is The New York Times bestseller Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain (Tarcher, 2013), which explains how brain development impacts teenagers» behavior and relationsBrain (Tarcher, 2013), which explains how brain development impacts teenagers» behavior and relationsbrain development impacts teenagers» behavior and relationships.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

«The widespread media attention to these reports,» writes lead author Hal Wortzel «appears to have primed the public to accept highly reductionist formulations regarding the neuropathological bases of neuropsychiatric illness and complete human behaviors among persons with remote histories of [brain trauma].»

And, in recent and evolving research, scientists are charting a «global parental caregiving network» that gets shaped in a new parent's brain to bring about some of the very thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that Kelly and other new parents experience.

Developmental scientists consider it to be one of the most massive reorganizations in the lifespan, changing the brains, endocrine systems, behaviors, identities, relationships, and more, of everyone involved.

Concussion and Sports Related Head Injury: Code 280.13 C requires the Iowa high school athletic association and the Iowa girls high school athletic union to work together to distribute the CDC guidelines and other information to inform and educate coaches, students, and parents and guardians of students of the risks, signs, symptoms, and behaviors consistent with a concussion or brain injury, including the danger of continuing to play after suffering a concussion or brain injury and their responsibility to report such signs, symptoms, and behaviors if they occur.

«It's kind of like weight training,» said Richard Davidson, PhD, psychology and psychiatry professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, director of the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, and founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds.

We still haven't figured out that basically the brain is part of the body and that if the brain has a vulnerability that is expressed in behavior, emotion and cognition.

One of the things that happens when you flood the brain with high arousing material like pornography, or very specific behaviors that are choreographed and ritualized like with a prostitute?

Once we can talk about feelings, the feelings which are on the non-verbal side of the brain connect to the words on the other side of the brain and we have so much control and therefore, we have control over our behavior.

There are actually behavioral therapies in which we actually show the child how to manage his own behavior with his own brain, instead of relying on the medication.

«The study, which the researchers say is the first to link brain activity with maternal behavior, is likely to reinforce the convictions of breast - feeding mothers that they're doing right by their babies».

There may be a link to brain development during the toddler years that can affect their behavior that we aren't fully aware of yet.