Sentences with phrase «related brain response»

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The breastfeeding mothers surveyed for the study showed greater responses to their infant's cry in brain regions related to caregiving behavior and empathy than mothers who relied upon formula as the baby's main food source.

In a healthy brain, these responses are easy to tell apart on a scan: Tennis activates motor - related brain areas, while navigating activates spatial regions.

Injections into the brain of rodents attenuated some of the behavioral responses related to stress associated neuropsychiatric disorders.

Much has been uncovered about its role in the brain and nervous system, but few scientists considered how sNGF levels in people's saliva might be related to the behavioral and biological components of the body's stress response.

The study couldn't determine if those different brain responses meant fathers are somehow hard wired through genetics or evolution to treat sons differently than they treat daughters or if the fathers were conforming to societal norms relating to gender.

Magnetic resonance imaging scans pinpointed the right insular area as the culprit, a region deep inside the brain linked with the part of the nervous system that sets off stress - related responses.

Determining this moment with pupil dilation, which Lewis thinks is most likely a basic arousal response, could aid researchers who investigate humor - related brain activity with MRI or electroencephalography.

The error - related negativity (ERN) is a brain signal response to errors that is thought to reflect threat sensitivity and has been implicated in anxiety disorders in individuals without autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

At Week 1, the fMRI scans in the fasting state revealed that people taking the drug showed decreased brain activity in response to images of highly desirable foods in the attention - related parietal and visual cortices.

Having outfitted the twelve participants with electrode caps, the researchers used a measure of the brain's electrical activity known as event - related brain potentials (ERPs) to monitor their physiological responses to different outcomes.

Dr Lawrence, of Psychology, said: «Our findings show for the first time that gamblers have an exaggerated theta response to almost winning in brain regions related to reward processing, which could contribute to them continuing to gamble despite their losses.

In fact, no associations were found between early brain responses and long - term outcomes, which could relate to the small size of the study or the fact that several patients were sedated during the fMRI and EEG tests.

Dr. Carlezon is primarily interested in the biological basis and treatment of psychiatric illness, specifically nature / nurture issues as they relate to the brain and the basic processes by which the brain develops and is modified in response to experience.

Across 21st Avenue, in the department of special education at Peabody College, Paul Yoder has applied event - related potential (ERP), a way of measuring how the electrical activity of the brain changes in response to thoughts or perceptions, to evaluate ways to help children overcome language delays.

The gray matter of the brain regions increases in volume and helps in regulating certain responses related to the reward system.

Dr. Elias and the OCAR primarily focus on understanding why ERP works (e.g., fear tolerance versus fear habituation; the roles of guilt, willingness, and acceptance; patterns of brain activation during exposure; functional connectivity among brain regions), tailoring treatment to the individual (e.g., elucidation of predictors of response and their underlying processes / mechanisms and neural correlates; rigorous diagnostic characterization of obsessive compulsive related disorders), and evaluating innovative treatments and augmentation strategies (e.g., acceptance and commitment therapy; optimization of inhibitory learning; pharmacological augmentation).

This pattern of decreases is consistent with previous studies that suggest heightened vulnerability of EM - related brain regions in AD, whereas the observed increases in FC may reflect a compensatory response.

Coloring is said to calm the amygdala, the part of the brain related to the fear / stress response while stimulating the parts of the brain responsible for creativity and logic.

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Within the amygdala of their brains, CRH also increased — a hormone and neurotransmitter that is related to stress responses.

Ingestion of Lactobacillus sp was previously shown to dampen stress - related inflammatory responses in the skin through a gut - brain - skin axis [15], at least in part by regulating emotions via the vagus nerve [27].

In indigenous Australians and Papua New Guineans, mingling with the Denisovans (the «other Neanderthal,» an ancestral human living primarily in Asia) introduced genes related to «spermatogenesis, fertilization, cold acclimation, circadian rhythm, development of brain, neural tube, face, and olfactory pit, immunity,» as well as «female pregnancy, development of face, lung, heart, skin, nervous system, and male gonad, visual and smell perception, response to heat, pain, hypoxia, and UV, lipid transport, metabolism, blood coagulation, wound healing, aging.»

Research shows that excessive experience with toxic stress can disrupt the development of brain circuits related to stress response — and to learning and memory.

called the Integumentary system) or it evolves into a generalized form (involves other systems of body other then integumentary system, such as the lymphatic system — related to lymph & immunity & thermo regulatory system — related to inflammatory response center in the brain).

The researchers also believe brain injuries can trigger secondary responses related to inflammation which can not only continue to damage the brain for years and years, but may also contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease.

His research focuses on processes and outcomes related to person perception, ranging from micro-level phenomena (brain responses) to macro-level phenomena (cultural differences).

Conduct - disordered youth exhibit a decreased dopamine response to reward and increased risk - taking behaviors related to abnormally disrupted frontal activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), orbitofrontal cortices (OFC), and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) that worsens over time due to dysphoria activation of brain stress systems and increases in corticotropin - releasing factor (CRF).

Future research in cultural neuroscience (Chiao in press) may investigate the extent to which cultural values of individualism — collectivism are associated with neural response within brain regions regulated by serotonergic neurotransmission, and if so, the process by which these activity within neural pathways supports the storage and transmission of cultural values and related behaviours.

Although children who have been maltreated show different brain activity in response to facial emotion than nonmaltreated children, 22 we know little about children's neural processing of a wide variety of parenting behaviours, and we know even less about temperament - related differences in such neural processing.

Antenatal depression may not only alter development of stress - related biological systems in the fetus, but may also increase risk of obstetrical complications.6 Postnatal depression may also be an early life stressor given known associations with lower levels of sensitive, responsive care needed for infants» development of health attachment relationships, emotional regulation skills, interpersonal skills and stress response mechanisms.7 Early life stressors, such as those that might be associated with maternal depression, can influence brain development, which continues at a rapid pace at least for several years after birth.8 Problems in any of these aspects of development may disrupt the earliest stages of socio - emotional and cognitive development, predisposing to the later development of depression or other disorders.

From birth to age two, much of the brain architecture related to social and emotional response is formed as scaffolding for future mental health.

Individuals with higher anxiety levels were seen to be more sensitive to information related to immediate threats in the current environment; however, the brain systems mediating this response are no longer recruited when these individuals are presented with cues related to their partners.

One active area of research involves the effects of maltreatment and related stressors on major body stress response systems such as the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis, the catecholamine system (the locus ceruleus (LC)- norepinephrine (NE) / sympathetic nervous system (SNS)-RRB- and the immune system and the subsequent effects of chronic stress on brain development.

It has been shown that a brain network including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and lateral prefrontal cortex areas, mostly modulated by the neurotransmitter dopamine, subserves the function of regulating thoughts, emotions and responses.13 Patterns of activation of these brain structures are related to the efficiency of resolving conflict14 and variations in the size and structure of the ACC have been related to the EC score obtained in temperament questionnaires.15

We are also examining whether changes in young children's behavioral regulation are connected to changes in areas of the brain related to stress response.