Sentences with phrase «other brain chemical»

Through neuroimaging (of the amygdala, hippocampus, and the rest of the limbic system) and measurement (of dopamine and other brain chemical transmitters), we now have visible evidence that there is a profound increase in long - term memory and higher - order cognition when students trust and have positive feelings for teachers.

Additional neuroimaging studies of the amygdala, hippocampus, and the rest of the limbic system, along with measurement of dopamine and other brain chemical transmitters during the learning process, reveal that students» comfort level has critical impact on information transmission and storage in the brain.

Long - term use also causes changes in other brain chemical systems and circuits as well, affecting functions that include:

That approach leads to the creation of dozens of medicines that tamper with serotonin and other brain chemicals — drugs that, for more than half of patients, don't work.

They've also looked at the effects of oxytocin, dopamine, and other brain chemicals on caregiving, bonding, and sexual preference.

Any form of cardio activity increases metabolism and releases endorphins, cortisol, and many other brain chemicals and hormones, all of which will make you feel good and powerful.

«It also negatively affects many other brain chemicals that are involved in appetite suppression.

She also skillfully distinguishes between the bonding and attachment that oxytocin promote and the sexual or romantic love linked to other brain chemicals.

Not exact matches

Other studies suggest improved memory retention in fasting individuals through a brain chemical called brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).

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

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.

There's even science to suggest that your team will get a brain chemical boost from helping each other hit their marks, which is an extra perk that will keep everyone motivated and feeling good.

And can you also be so sure that its existence is what spurs the chemical reaction in the brain and not the other way around?

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.

Neurotransmitters are chemicals used by brain cells to communicate with each other.

It has so many other health benefits and I'll list them briefly; high in mineral especialy calcium (more than any other plant), high in protein, anti-viral / - infection / - inflammation properties as well as offering polysaccharides which can prevent for example type two diabetes, improve liver function, stabalise blood sugar and last but not least release «happy» brain chemicals.

Eating potatoes can actually calm you when you're feeling stressed because potatoes and other carbohydrate - rich foods contain serotonin, a chemical in the brain that regulates mood.

«For 80 percent of the common chemicals in everyday use in this country we know almost nothing about whether or not they can damage the brains of children, the immune system, the reproductive system, and the other developing organs,» said Dr. Phil Landrigan, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Oxytocin is the same chemical that is released into the brain when people fall in love or are deeply relaxed, so there's a reason that you may feel extra drowsy (other than the basic exhaustion of parenthood) and extra mushy.

No other chemical accumulates as rapidly in the brain as DHA does.

helped my depression in ways other than brain - chemical pathways, however.

It may also ultimately inform the methods that will be used for producing large quantities of cells for therapeutic use and other applications such as the high - throughput screening of chemicals for brain toxicity or therapeutics.

Research into natural chemicals that mimic marijuana's effects in the brain could help to explain — and suggest treatments for — pain, anxiety, eating disorders, phobias and other conditions

«I am especially worried about messing with the brain chemistry of people with depression, ADHD, or other conditions that may be made worse by neuroactive chemicals.»

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.

GABA has been known for decades to be a key neurotransmitter in the brain, a chemical that nerve cells use to communicate with each other, but its role in the pancreas was unknown until the 2011 paper by Drs. Prud «homme and Wang.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — When prairie voles choose a mate, there's no turning back — the «love chemical» oxytocin increases in their brains and they devote themselves to only each other.

Other research implicates different brain chemicals, including glutamate and serotonin.

«The brain along with the reproductive system and every other cell in your body is exquisitely sensitive to exceedingly small changes in estrogen and other sex hormones, and the fact that the environment is full of chemicals that can activate estrogen receptors means this phenomenally sensitive system is being perturbed constantly by environmental factors.»

They also tested other chemicals known to prevent the other two forms of cellular suicide, but only CGP3466B protected mouse nerve cells in the brain from death by cocaine.

And more: They are wired to the hypothalamus, the interface between the brain and the endocrine system (when you are afraid, the endocrine system produces adrenaline and other chemicals that get your heart racing and palms sweating).

In future studies, the researchers hope to determine whether treating the sleep apnea — using CPAP or other methods — returns patients» brain chemicals back to normal levels.

They found that germ - free mice broke down brain chemicals associated with anxiety, such as noradrenaline and dopamine, faster than did the other mice.

Receptors facilitate chemical and electrical signals between neurons in the brain, allowing those neurons to communicate with each other.

This response shows that morphine and other opiates mimic the effects of neurotransmitters (brain chemicals) such as endorphins that are naturally produced in the brain to stimulate feeding behaviors.

Yet dopamine is not the only chemical that brain cells use to communicate with each other.

Some of the pinpointed genes are known to be involved in the function of synapses, tiny connectors that allow brain cells to communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals.

Since cocaine changes the level of the brain chemical dopamine, this new study may have implications for other mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia — where dopamine may also be involved in how we recognise emotions.

By exposing the cells to different chemical cocktails, the team encouraged some of them to become brain organoids and others to become blood vessel cells.

This brain chemical (also known as a neurotransmitter) helps nerve cells to send signals to other nerve cells.

Instead, it acts on chemicals in the brain, primarily receptors for serotonin, a chemical messenger involved in mood, among many other things.

Dopamine is a chemical messenger aiding the transmission of signals in the brain and other areas of the body.

Brain cells communicate with each other by firing off tiny chemical and electrical signals.

Other genetic diseases include Tay - Sachs disease (damage to the gene for the enzyme hexosaminidase A leads to an accumulation of a chemical in the brain that destroys it), sickle cell anemia (improper coding of the gene that produces hemoglobin), hemophilia (lack of a gene for a blood - clotting factor) and muscular dystrophy (caused by a defective gene on the X chromosome).

In the brain, neurons form highly interconnected networks, using chemical and electrical signals to communicate with each other.

Proteins and other chemicals in the brain are important for keeping neurons working properly.

Others, biochemists, have been saying that it may be a toxic state that absorption of chemicals such as opioid, peptides, morphine like substances from the gut that you and I produce in our diet from milk and wheat, are actually getting access through that leaky gut into the developing brain.

The excited atoms, in turn, emit signals that can be used to create images of the brain, muscle, and other tissues, which can be distinguished based on the local physical and chemical environment of the water molecules.

Abnormalities involving the brain chemical GABA, a calming neurotransmitter, are related to depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and other conditions.

Fear is a chain reaction in the brain that starts with a stressful stimulus and ends with the release of chemicals that cause a racing heart, fast breathing and energized muscles, among other things, also known as the fight - or - flight response.