Sentences with phrase «pathway in our brains»

The real success factor comes from the «doing» part — making the things you learn habitual so you create new neural pathways in the brain.

Certain actions are already second nature to you — from showering to brewing a pot of coffee — because you have developed neural pathways in your brain that take you through the steps.

These behaviors can only be permanently ingrained if new neural pathways in the brain are created through long - term coaching, mentoring, and developing leaders.

According to Shiv, creativity resides at the intersection of two primary pathways in the brain.

I asked our daughter to tell me more about her teacher's comments about growing new pathways in her brain.

Research now shows that humans are such intensely social creatures that social ostracism lights up physical pain pathways in the brain; it can be more damaging than even physical abuse.

Even young babies imitate their parents» emotional style, which activates specific neural pathways in the brain.

Mindfulness does take practice, but each time you practice it, it actively changes the neural pathways in the brain so that it's easier to respond mindfully in stressful moments rather than continue to struggle with the primitive «fight or flight» reactions.

How we feel during pregnancy, how we give birth and how we care for the baby, are creating neural pathways in her brain, forming who she will become and how she will see the world», says Naomi.

Bonding and attachment: Baby's brain also calms and all of the expected sensations are collected and fire pathways in the brain.

«The repetitiveness of the experiences helps lay down critical pathways in the brain,» explains Dr. Thomas.

But it's amazing to realize that nearly every single movement your baby makes in her first weeks is a milestone - a new movement experience that lays new pathways in the brain.

Delicate neural pathways in the brain can become damaged, causing neurological disturbances.

There are those that say that when an infant listens to classical music that it opens new pathways in the brain, but the jury is still out on that.

In other words, Tsai says, the memories are not actually lost, rather neuronal damage breaks many of the retrieval pathways in the brain.

The new therapy, which Lumley and co-developer Howard Schubiner, M.D., director of the Mind Body Medicine Program at Providence Hospital, call Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), helps patients view their pain and other symptoms as stemming from changeable neural pathways in the brain that are strongly influenced by emotions.

New efforts to trace the neural «connectome» — all the nodes and pathways in the brain — produce vivid images of the maps in our minds.

«It's working directly on pain pathways in the brain, spinal cord, and periphery,» says Ethan Russo, a neurologist and medical director of Phytecs, a Los Angeles, California — based company developing therapies based on compounds isolated from marijuana.

It may facilitate the processing of external stimuli by acting as a sort of bushwhacker, carving out communications pathways in the brain.

The researchers believe that the technique may work by somehow activating nerve pathways in the brain that were linked to the missing limb, but that became dormant after its loss.

Researchers found long - lasting changes in key communication pathways in the brain.

Testing both for odor identification and got the odor detection threshold could determine whether abnormalities could be traced to olfactory neurons in the nasal passages or to the odor processing pathways in the brain.

A fourth study finds that a generalized seizure leads to diminished short and long - term memory by interfering with key signaling pathways in the brain.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a pathway in the brain responsible for the ability to control this impulsive behavior.

Artistic expression has all the earmarks of a genetically evolved capacity: It appears early in life, is enjoyable for its own sake, exists across all cultures, and is mediated by ancient neural pathways in the brain.

«If you're looking for very specific molecular targets or pathways in the brain, and how drugs might act on them, the difference between human cells and mouse cells is significant.»

The key insight that emerged is that the experience of danger follows two pathways in the brain: one conscious and rational, the other unconscious and innate.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a new pathway in the brain that can be manipulated to alleviate depression.

«And this model not only shows us the most important factors that contribute to the onset of anorexia, it's also helping us to identify signaling pathways in the brain that ultimately drive this potentially fatal eating disorder.»

Form, color and spatial information are processed along three independent pathways in the brain.

Now two studies published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggest that they may in fact share similar mechanistic pathways in the brain.

The CUMC team is currently using the new mouse model to study signaling pathways in the brain that drive anorexic behavior, with the ultimate goal of identifying therapeutic targets.

The research team carried out behavioural studies in mice and investigated how pathways in their brains operate under THC.

«They may have stopped using while incarcerated, but nothing has been done to change the pathways in the brain responsible for addiction,» Rich said.

So, in essence, KORs shut off an anxiety - reducing pathway in the brain.»

Using further neurological studies, George and his colleagues tracked this compulsive behavior to the activation of «stress» and «reward» pathways in the brain.

A crow recognizes human faces using the same visual pathways in the brain as humans do.

The mothers, their husbands, and the homosexual father - father couples all showed the activation of what the researchers term a «parenting network» that incorporated two linked but separate pathways in the brain.

The researchers also determined that many of the 18 newly identified autism genes affect the operation of a small subset of biological pathways in the brain.

Forget Ritalin and Cramming: Molecular Pathways in the Brain May Reveal the Best Learning Strategies

«People with increased cognitive reserve capabilities may actually heal in a different way that allows them to return to their pre-injury function and / or they may be able to better adapt and form new pathways in their brains to compensate for the injury,» Schneider says.

JC Virus T - Antigen Regulates Glucose Metabolic Pathways in Brain Tumor Cells.

«While the field has focused on some obvious receptor pathways in the brain, these are involved in many different functions and side effects are impossible to avoid.

«One possibility is that by visualizing the rewards of positive feedback, individuals with MS can activate the relevant neural pathway in their brains and counter fatigue.

«This is exciting because it represents a direct, rapid pathway in the brain that lets animals respond to anxiety - provoking places without needing to go through the higher - order brain regions,» said Mazen Kheirbek, PhD, an assistant professor of psychiatry and member of the Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF, and study's other senior investigator.

Although seemingly irrational, she is on a path toward increasingly riskier drug seeking behaviors, as the reward pathways in her brain are strengthened in support of actions that increase her drug exposure.

«Right now we have some advanced tools we can use to stimulate the nervous system — very specific pathways in the brain and spinal cord,» said Horner, who is also vice chairman of research for the Department of Neurosurgery at Houston Methodist.

Hypnosis literally creates new pathways in the brain, she adds: Now, when you head to the fridge or think about that can't - get - over-him ex, your brain hurtles down a new, healthier track, so you don't automatically complete the bad habit.

Brain scans revealed that this type of meditation can actually alter connective pathways in your brain related to executive function and stress resilience.

Sugar alters our biochemical pathways in our brain and tampers with our dopamine receptors.