Sentences with phrase «reduced brain activation»

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The findings support the idea that reduced activation in brain regions responsible for inhibitory control could explain impulsivity traits present in bipolar disorder.

A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reports a link between reduced functional activation and reduced cortical thickness in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.

They found that one month after training, the children showed increased activation in the intraparietal sulcus and reduced neural activation elsewhere in the parietal lobes — a hint that their improvements in arithmetic were related to changes involving brain areas that respond to number.

If obese individuals must eat more and more to overcome reduced activation of reward networks in the brain, that sounds a lot like tolerance.

Since baclofen and similar medications reduce these effects in laboratory animals, we wanted to examine whether it could prevent drug - cue induced activation in the human brain.»

Recent human studies have specifically found that a partner's presence can reduce pain, and supportive touching such as hugging is linked to activation of mu - opioid receptors in the brain.

Brain functional correlates of working memory: reduced load - modulated activation and deactivation in aging without hyperactivation or functional reorganization.

This study demonstrates that just a little over an hour of meditation provides real effects in the brain and could be an effective way for individuals to dramatically reduce both the experience of pain and pain - related brain activation without medications.

The researchers found that all those who consumed a combination of glucose and caffeine showed reduced activation in areas of the brain brain connected to the task in the left prefrontal cortex and the bilateral parietal cortex — 2 areas that actively take part in working memory and attention processes.

It has long been known that glucose levels in the brain reduce the activation of these neurons.

«This is the first study to show that only a little over an hour of meditation training can dramatically reduce both the experience of pain and pain - related brain activation,» said Fadel Zeidan, PhD, lead author of the study and post-doctoral research fellow at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

We found that breakfast skipping led to increased neural activation in brain regions controlling food motivation and food reward (i.e., hippocampus, amygdala, anterior cingulate, and parahippocampus) prior to lunch; however, the addition of a protein - rich breakfast led to reduced activation in these regions.

While reduced empathic brain activation relative to the controls was observed in the control condition, the empathic reaction of the psychopathic offenders initiated the same way it did for controls when they were instructed to empathize with the harmed individual, and the area of the brain relating to pain was activated when the psychopathic offenders were asked to imagine how the harmed individual felt.

Our results are in line with other neuroimaging studies that have found reduced activations to different kinds of affective stimuli within the brain emotional systems in violent adult subjects and in adolescents with conduct disorder.