Sentences with phrase «of the brain responsible»

Thinking about things you enjoy can be almost as effective as actually doing the activity which makes you happy: «the part of the brain responsible for feeling pleasure, the mesolimbic dopamine system, can be activated when merely thinking about something pleasurable, such as drinking one's favorite brand of beer or driving one's favorite type of sports car.

It's been proven to stimulate the neocortex (the part of our brains responsible for creative thinking), and increase emotional intelligence as well.

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.

The experiment, which Westen wrote about in his book «The Political Brain,» showed that, when people begin to feel their worldview is under attack, the parts of their brains that handle reason and logic go to sleep, while the parts of their brain responsible for our fight - or - flight response light up.

It showed enhanced activity in sections of the brain responsible for willfulness and memory — much different patterns than when people were merely fantasizing about a desired future.

Specifically, it appears that exercise stimulates neurons (nerve cells) to grow in the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory.

As we age, that part of our frontal lobe fires less surely, impeded by another part of the brain responsible for what scientists call the «default mode,» which we use to daydream.

Small victories build new androgen receptors in the areas of the brain responsible for reward and motivation.

Researchers can identify the parts of the brain responsible for these emotions and measure synaptic activity corresponding to them.

Many kids with speech delays have a problem with communication in the areas of the brain responsible for speech production due to problems such as childhood apraxia of speech (CAS).

These happen when there's a problem in the areas of the brain responsible for speech, making it hard to coordinate the lips, tongue, and jaw to produce speech sounds.

The part of the brain responsible for exerting control over the emotional, impulsive part is not well developed in children under three.

When she feels well connected to an adult around her, then the pre-frontal cortex (the part of the brain responsible for rational, reasonable behaviour) can function well.

Now, knowing that the area of your brain responsible for impulse control and self regulation is very underdeveloped (and remains that way even through the teenage years), what do you think you might do?

The areas of the brain responsible for taste, smell, hearing, sight and touch are now developing.

When children need to re-connect with us they tend to ask in all sorts of «crazy» ways because when they don't feel good the part of the brain responsible for rational, reasonable behaviour isn't functioning well.

When your toddler doesn't get what he wants — whether or not he's also stressed, tired, hungry or overstimulated — his emotions take over, overriding the part of his brain responsible for decision - making and rational thought.

Studies done of neglected children who did not receive adequate affection from another human being showed that these poor babies often suffered from chronic stress, a condition which may negatively effect the parts of the brain responsible for memory, focus and learning.

A study by Luby and other WUSM researchers showed that a mother's love had a physical effect on the size of her child's hippocampus — the area of the brain responsible for memory.

So to clarify, at 10 months old a baby has no capacity for high - order thinking, only able to engage their hindbrain (the part where the «fight or flight» response comes from) and their limbic system (the part of the brain responsible for emotions).

These insights were inspired by research on patients with brain lesions who were unable to make good decisions, although the part of the brain responsible for «reason» was otherwise unaltered.

In a report on the research published online last week in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, the investigators say that the part of the brain responsible for memory and spatial navigation (the hippocampus) was smaller over the long term in the male offspring exposed to the overactive immune system in the womb.

A study by researchers from McGill University in Canada involving neuroimaging, which creates pictures of the brain's structure and neural activity, showed that smelling the body odor of someone closely related activates the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain responsible for recognizing family.

The cerebellum is the part of the brain responsible for posture, balance and movement, and the researchers focused on those cells that control blinking.

The 2009 book The Playful Brain: Venturing to the limits of neuroscience, for example, reviewed many studies showing that playful activity leads to the growth of more connections between neurons, particularly in the frontal lobe — the part of the brain responsible for uniquely human higher mental functions.

Regardless of gender, young adults who have greater aerobic fitness also have greater volume of their entorhinal cortex, an area of the brain responsible for memory.

One such drug — known as a Kv3 potassium channel modulator, in development by U.K. - based Autifony Therapeutics — may help improve neuron function in the part of the brain responsible for processing sounds.

This relationship between unlearned calls and an area of the brain responsible for learned vocalisations is important for understanding the evolution of song learning in songbirds.

Atrophy of the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for thinking and memory, is an early sign of Alzheimer's disease.

The key finding of a research team based at Brown University is that neurons in the area of the brain responsible for planning grasping motions retain information about the object to be gripped as they make their movement plan.

Using non-invasive brain imaging, the researchers found that people at - risk for anxiety were less likely to develop the disorder if they had higher activity in a region of the brain responsible for complex mental operations.

13 If a female canary is given testosterone, the part of her brain responsible for song will enlarge, and she will begin to sing.

Story number 4: Scientists pinpointed the area of the brain responsible for why you know that it was a -LSB-(«we are with you») Music] i.e., why you know all the words to old TV theme songs.

It's used in patients who are potential candidates for surgery to remove the portion of the brain responsible for seizures, known as the epileptogenic zone.

While the regenerative capability of brain cells, in the hippocampus — the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory — slows down as part of the aging process, the Rutgers scientists determined that the process that occurred after a head injury was related to injury and not age.

In this way, areas of the brain responsible for the motor system were active when a subject translated a term previously learned through gesture, while areas of the visual system were active in the case of words learned with the help of images.

The key issue seems to be when the peripheral nervous system joins up with the cerebral cortex, the region of the brain responsible for higher thought processes such as memory, attention, thought, awareness and language.

The differences in football players» versus cross-country runners» brains were specifically seen in regions of the brain responsible for visual processing.

In addition to changes in consumption, the area of the brain responsible for certain metabolic processes, the hypothalamus, also responded more to food odors, compared to non-food odors, after alcohol infusion vs. saline.

Furthermore, she found that in these women, the posterior insula and the precuneus — areas of the brain responsible for motor processing, pain perception and visuospatial imagery — were significantly thicker and more connected to each other than in male migraineurs or in those without migraines.

He says this hope springs from the prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain responsible for high - level cognitive activities such as planning, reasoning, establishing context — and, undoubtedly, inventing justifications for loving perennial losers in baseball.

Even in a resting state, brain scans show these new brain regions connect to traditional parts of the brain responsible for math and language in sighted people.

Depressive symptoms in women during and after pregnancy are associated with reduced thickness of the cortex — the outer layer of the brain responsible for complex thought and behavior — in preschool - age kids, according to a new study published in Biological Psychiatry.

In the new study, Lee's team tested this idea in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease by raising the levels of one of two forms of neuregulin - 1 in the hippocampus, an area of the brain responsible for learning and memory.

So, if a pharmaceutical company creates an Alzheimer's drug to target memory based on research into one type of memory — the part of the brain responsible for finding missing objects, for example — but doesn't also have data on the type of memory that helps individuals remember the important people, places and things in their life, it runs the risk of producing a product that helps a person remember where they put the car keys, but not how they met their spouse.

«Human feeding behaviors involve areas of the brain responsible for cognitive control and decision - making,» said Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, Director of the Human Nutrition Unit in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Scientists have long known that schooling fish observe and learn from each other's failures and successes, behaviors that stimulate neural development, especially in the part of the brain responsible for memory and learning.

The researchers found that both men's motor cortexes — the region of the brain responsible for carrying out muscle movement — had reorganized themselves in response to the new hands.

The researchers think that a junk diet causes lasting changes in the reward circuit parts of the rats» brain, for example, the orbitofrontal cortex, an area of the brain responsible for decision - making.

Duke University scientists report in PLoS ONE this week that they attempted to pinpoint regions of the brain responsible for vocal skills by studying three types of birds (parrots, hummingbirds and songbirds) capable of picking up new songs and utterances as well as birds (zebra finches and ringed turtle doves) that lack the ability.