Sentences with phrase «reward centers show»

«In this case, brain regions associated with emotion and reward centers show increased connection even when they are not explicitly engaged.»

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Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

At the same time, the obese girls sipping milk shakes showed decreased activation in the striatum, a region near the center of the brain that is studded with dopamine receptors and known to respond to stimuli associated with rewards.

Reiss also found that women showed a stronger response in the nucleus accumbens, the brain's reward center, suggesting that they ultimately derived bigger pleasure hits from punch lines.

As the study was conducted in a brain scanner at the LIFE&BRAIN Center in Bonn, researchers could also show that products labeled with this emblem led to increased activity in specific brain regions: For example, they observed increased activation in regions important for reward processing as well as frontal regions that process abstract product attributes (e.g. whether or not a product carries a Fair Trade logo, and the meaning of such a label).

When the researchers replaced the yellow ball that was closest to the target with a black ball, most of the bees moved it for the reward — showing that they understood the general principle of the task: Move a ball to the center, not move only a yellow ball.

It's full of protein, which has been shown to help soothe the reward centers in your brain, calming the craving for sugar.

It's often touted as a «reward chemical» or part of the brain's «reward center,» but more recent research has shown that, like novelty, it's actually more closely related to our motivation to seek rewards rather than being a reward itself.

In these articles, we show you how to build points in whatever loyalty program you have chosen, whether it's an airline, hotel, or card rewards center.

For example, research shows that the reward center of the brain develops before more inhibitory thought frameworks.