Sentences with phrase «on brain chemicals»

Each acts on these brain chemicals slightly differently.

I focus on the brain chemicals first.

Dr. Kim's Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, founded in 1998, studies the biology of brain cells that rely on the brain chemical dopamine to communicate.

Not exact matches

«Listening to music and singing together has been shown in several studies to directly impact neuro - chemicals in the brain, many of which play a role in closeness and connection,» explains a recent Greater Good Science Center round - up of research on the subject.

This is all down to chemicals like endorphins and dopamine, but as Greater Good goes on to explain, these changes in the brain don't just protect you from pain.

It's because having sex releases dopamine and oxytocin in the brain, mood elevating chemicals which work well into the next day, resulting in more sustained engagement on the job.

«Getting one's brain to put a chemical Post-it Note on a given piece of information means that information is going to be more robustly processed.»

Brains: High - tech engineering and computing conglomerates (hence, the chemical moniker «silicon») dominate the economy as well as conversation, so brush up on your geek - speak before arriving.

Since there still is about 5 % of people who do not share the production of oxytocin in the brain, which has been called the empathy chemical, on stimulus which means they would feel nothing after stealing a childs candy because they are chemically unable to relate to the child and all they can think about is that they now have the candy.

After a lot of struggling I decided to come off it, and that is when the depression really started because my brain became so dependent on the chemical (seratonin / dopamine) that when I got off the drug then there really was a chemical imbalance.

If you want to make that arguemnet, try learing something about the chemical reactions that go on in your brain.

You sound as uneducated as a person on another blog that claimed that being gay is the same as having ADHD or bipolar disorder: a chemical imbalance in the brain.

You think you were always in control but in reality you were just responding based on the chemicals in your brain at the time.

Your «spirituality» can change on a dime btw... a head wound, or chemical change in your brain will change how your universe appears... «pseudo-intellectual empirical nonsense»?

next, in order to make identification easier, these subhumans should be required to wear an identification badge on their clothing, say a pink triangle... If society is going to feed these animals they should be put to productive work in their compounds, a cheerful slogan would help to keep up their morale... say» work will make you free»... Finally I disagree with the good pastor regarding the time it would take for this subculture to die out... God gave us brains for a reason... I believe there exists a chemical, zyklon b or some such that would be helpful in this regard...

We could turn to psychology, and attempt to demonstrate that this man's thoughts were based on a chemical imbalance in the brain.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

On a scientific level, she would have known well enough that as she looked at her baby, a whole bunch of neurons firing on overdrive in her brain would be producing a set of chemical reactions and hormones, and that those would be contributing to the emotional urge to protect and care for her newborn son with every ounce of her beinOn a scientific level, she would have known well enough that as she looked at her baby, a whole bunch of neurons firing on overdrive in her brain would be producing a set of chemical reactions and hormones, and that those would be contributing to the emotional urge to protect and care for her newborn son with every ounce of her beinon overdrive in her brain would be producing a set of chemical reactions and hormones, and that those would be contributing to the emotional urge to protect and care for her newborn son with every ounce of her being.

His comments on «scientific» views of consciousness are also timely because populist evolutionary biologists and «physicalist» philosophers of mind often portray the conscious mind, indeed the «self», as nothing other than the sum total of the chemical and biological parts of the brain and central nervous system.

The science behind food's effect on mood comes down to chemical and physiological changes in our brain structure which can lead to altered behaviour.

Previous research shows that due to their weight and growing patterns children have a much higher risk than adults do from industrial chemicals and heavy metals, and that chemicals can have lasting effects on children's brain development and learning.

They will study the effects the chemicals have on children's health, behaviour and brain function.

Cannabinoids are why we're here: They're chemical compounds that act on receptors in the brain and can alter neural function.

Gagné also took Wie to a health - products store to lecture her on how certain foods can affect the chemicals in the brain.

Neuroscientists have over the past decade uncovered evidence, both in rodent and human studies, that parental caregiving, especially in moments of stress, affects children's development not only on the level of hormones and brain chemicals, but even more deeply, on the level of gene expression.

I did nt know that in Brazil the fresh food has a lot of pesitcides on it... that is a concern as kids are still growing and who knows the impact of these chemicals on their brains / bodies.

«BPA - free» means that the bottle was manufactured without the industrial chemical called bisphenol A. BPA has been connected to negative health effects on the brain, heart diseases, reproductive disorders and impotence for men.

Your body relies on a complex set of external cues, internal clocks, and chemical processes to wake your brain up in the morning.

Stress triggers hormones that have a direct impact on both the brain chemicals responsible for emotional wellness and also milk production.

The effect of these chemicals on brain growth (both pre - and postnatally) is an important issue of concern.

Best to avoid the anti-fertility chemicals in the bug sprays on our fruits and veggies... my advice is to buy non-GMO and Organic — real fruit and veggies; not laboratory - made, and void of brain - damaging, cancer - causing, and fertility - damaging pesticides.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

(Some research has homed in on a gene that codes for a transporter of the brain chemical serotonin.)

In response to a Department of Justice request for public comment on advancing forensic science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, along with the American Chemical Society, Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics...

Neuroscience focused on the nuts and bolts of the brain: how nerve cells communicate with electrical and chemical pulses, how brains learn and calculate and remember.

Computer simulations and hands - on displays allow visitors to Marvelous Molecules — The Secret of Life at the New York Hall of Science to peek inside the molecular structure of living things to see how chemicals affect the brain and how DNA passes on genetic traits.

Using a small amount of a radioactive substance as a tracer, the scientists focused on the brain's mu - opioid system in which chemicals called endogenous opioids bind to receptors and hinder the spread of pain messages in the brain.

He works by tweaking the chemical structures of the drugs, sometimes changing just a few molecules to see what impact this might have on the interaction between the drug and the brain receptors their parent compounds normally act upon.

Based on this surprising new information, Dr Silver's team showed that Mfsd2a is the major pathway for the uptake of DHA carried in the chemical form of LPCs by the growing fetal brain and by adult brain.

The eyes glowed so brightly on those images due to gadolinium, a harmless, transparent chemical often given to patients during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to highlight abnormalities in the brain.

For instance, recent research has shed light on a group of chemicals in the brain that naturally dampen the damaging effects of prolonged exposure to stress hormones.

The scientists observed that transmission of chemical signals between the nerve cells are facilitated by AMPA - receptors and the activity occurs on the brain cell surface.

Their analysis focused on the substantia nigra, a brain structure where Parkinson's disease kills neurons that use the chemical dopamine to communicate with other cells.

The bans were in response to increasing evidence of the chemicals» harm: including effects on fertility, immune systems, hormones and brain development.

A: Depression and hallucinations appear to depend on a chemical in the brain called serotonin.

The brain uses the chemical to communicate between cells, and dopamine signals different events depending on its location.

As a whole, the findings suggest the proteins act on the gut — brain axis — the collection of two - way nerve and chemical pathways that communicate between the digestive tract and the brain — and that GDF15 might be a clinical target for metabolic disorders.

XBD173 also seemed to help anxiety in rodents, based on chemical changes in their brains.

He is a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley and an expert on the evolution of the brain; he is also interested in the chemical origins of life and the mathematics behind the emergence of complicated structures like language.

He hopes in time to be able to anticipate how future chemical variations on the cathinone theme will change the way these drugs act on the brain.