Sentences with phrase «of reward response»

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Unlike the non-dieters, the dieters tended to show a heightened response in the areas of their brains linked with processing rewards, and a lowered response in the parts of their brains linked with a sense of control.

That simple act, evoking a response from another mind, is a key feature of early childhood development and remains «deeply rewarding,» Siegel said, satisfying primordial instincts shaped by our evolution as a social species.»

Social media and messaging fool the limbic system — the part of the brain responsible for survival and response to emotional stimuli — into rewarding us every time we connect with others online.

There's a much broader set of search results I can show in response to different queries, and the reward signal is a little noisy.

And, while it's still early, Starbucks says those offers are generating more of a response from people who aren't in the rewards program than from those who already are.

SAN FRANCISCO Uber on Thursday plans to announce changes to how it rewards cyber researchers who report flaws in its software, a company executive told Reuters, as part of the ride - hailing firm's response to concerns raised about the way it handled a data breach in 2016.

Selective reinforcement consists of helping couples or family members identify the specific responses that reward desired and undesired behaviors and then teaching them to increase the reinforcement of desired behavior and to terminate reinforcement of undesired behavior.

He saw how the values of a culture, as these are incarnated in the attitudes and behavior of parents, are internalized by children as they experience these values in the rewards punishment, praise - blame responses of their parents.

Agape is given freely for the sake of the other and is heedless of reward or response.

After all, the company was founded in response to academic research proving that even small cash rewards triple the effectiveness of weight - loss programs; that people are more effective at losing weight when their own money is at risk; and that social dynamics play a large role in the spread of obesity, and will likely play a large role in reversing obesity.

A study published a few years ago in the journal Frontiers in Psychology shows that when moms breathe in the smell of their own newborns, it releases a reward - seeking response in the brain.

When your little girl is very blunt on her responses about the training, you can also make use of the rewards.

Yesterday's letter from Paul, a former high school teacher who defended the use of junk food classroom rewards, received an overwhelming response.

Park district officials said a reward of $ 2,000 is available in response to recent incidents, particularly the fire at McCollum Park.

In response to a string of recent incidents in which Downers Grove parks have been vandalized, the Park District and the Police Department have partnered to create a tipster reward program.

De Blasio's specific criticisms of the speaker focused on her delay in allowing a vote to guarantee most workers in New York paid sick days, her cautious response in addressing the NYPD's stop and frisk policies, and her use of discretionary allocations to individual members to reward allies and punish dissenters.

This experience mimicked the brain's reward - based learning response — as opposed to an avoidance - learning response, an experience that involves different parts of the brain that together comprise the «anterior insula.»

The basal ganglia are structures deep within the brain, thought to be responsible for control of movements and responses to rewards as well as cognitive functions.

The brain scans allowed the researchers to compare unconscious with conscious responses and showed that a reward - judging region of the brain, the ventral palladium, became active in both cases.

In some trials the volunteers had to press a button whenever they saw a smiling face; in other trials they were asked to resist the happy faces and instead respond to the calm ones, even though the sight of a happy face summons up the same reward - seeking responses in the brain as the sight of a dollar sign or the prospect of tasty food.

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.

Until it catches up, teenagers are stuck with strong responses to rewards without much of a compensating response to the associated risks.

The Disney ad stoked big responses in the orbito - frontal cortex and ventral striatum, two areas associated with feelings of reward, the parts of the brain that say, «I like that!»

Previous findings from Hariri's group show that people whose brains exhibit a high response to threat and a low response to reward are more at risk of developing symptoms of anxiety and depression over time.

The discovery of a mechanism that separates the pain relief and reward responses to opioid drugs could end the risk of morphine addiction

To regulate mood, the prefrontal cortex acts as a pacemaker to coordinate the actions of the amygdala, which governs stress responses, and the ventral tegmental area, which plays a role in the brain's reward circuitry.

Fathers of daughters had greater responses to their daughters» happy facial expressions in areas of the brain important for visual processing, reward, emotion regulation, and face processing than fathers of sons.

Some of these, based on previous studies of knockout mice, seem to play a role in cognition and behavior, including fear responses and the ability to learn new behaviors when given food rewards.

When the researchers gave OV329 to cocaine - or nicotine - addicted rats, dopamine spikes were neutralized, blocking the addictive reward response and halting the animals» self - administration of the drugs.

«The increased reward response to alcohol we see when estrogen levels are high is mediated through receptors for estrogen in the VTA,» said Mark Brodie, professor of physiology and biophysics in the UIC College of Medicine and a co-author on the paper.

This lack of a physical response suggests that marijuana abusers might have damaged reward circuitry in their brains, Volkow and her team report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In late April, when the magnitude of the spill became apparent, InnoCentive posted an emergency - response challenge on behalf of BP, with no cash reward.

The frontline prescription drugs currently used to treat tobacco dependence — which include bupropion and varenicline — primarily target the brain's «reward» pathways by interfering with the release and binding of dopamine in the brain in response to nicotine.

If the dogs» response to faces was learned — by associating a human face with food, for example — you would expect to see a response in the reward system of their brains, but that was not the case, Berns says.

«What surprised me the most was the strong link between this element of reward processing and the fact that you can predict the placebo response,» Zubieta says.

10 Love Is the Drug: Dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with feelings of desire and reward, spikes in response to novel experiences, which explains why a kiss with someone new can feel so special.

This decreased reward response to alcohol arose via two mechanisms: an initial activation of stress hormone receptors and a subsequent increase in inhibitory signaling in the brain.

The most primitive part of the brain — the same reward pathway activated by food and sex — lights up in response to altruistic giving.

Dr Lawrence, of Psychology, said: «Our findings show for the first time that gamblers have an exaggerated theta response to almost winning in brain regions related to reward processing, which could contribute to them continuing to gamble despite their losses.

Surprise is important because it is a measure of new information; something that the reward centers of the brain recognise as being of value, leading to a positive emotional response.

To control the brain response to other types of rewards, participants also had to play a monetary wagering task in which they could win or lose real money.

In the model, the team used the technique to identify, label, and manipulate a population of neurons in the motor cortex that fired when a mouse pushed a lever to receive a reward in response to a stimulus.

She also strives to avoid the possibility that a correct response is merely conditioned — automatic behavior generated by the anticipation of a reward.

This uses a system of rewards and / or «punishments» to encourage patients suffering the consequences of «maladaptive behaviour», such as agoraphobia or compulsive hand washing, to alter their disabling or unacceptable response to some feature of the world in which they live.

In situations where monkeys can potentially cooperate to improve their mutual reward, certain groups of brain cells work to accurately predict the responses of other monkeys

«One of the most rewarding aspects of working in this outbreak response is the connections we have made with so many extraordinary individuals through open data sharing», said senior author Pardis Sabeti.

Differential effects of fructose versus glucose on brain and appetitive responses to food cues and decisions for food rewards.

They showed that stress also increases the responses of nAChRs within the brain's reward areas.

Still, the rewards far outweigh the frustrations, as an understanding of allostery can lead to the physical control of molecular switches and downstream cellular responses.

The gray matter of the brain regions increases in volume and helps in regulating certain responses related to the reward system.