Sentences with phrase «reward circuitry as»

She is interested the brain's reward circuitry as it relates to addictive behaviors and obesity.

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Power activates the very same reward circuitry in the brain and creates an addictive «high» in much the same way as drug addiction.

As I have written before, power is addictive and manifests at neurochemical level through a reward circuitry of dopamine flow, the same transmitter responsible for producing a sense of pleasure.

To regulate mood, the prefrontal cortex acts as a pacemaker to coordinate the actions of the amygdala, which governs stress responses, and the ventral tegmental area, which plays a role in the brain's reward circuitry.

In fact, attractive faces activate the same reward circuitry in the brain as food, drugs and money.

«Many psychological disorders such as addiction, obesity, and depression involve poor regulation of reward circuitry.

Paradoxically, results also provide evidence that even a limited history of substance use was related to less responsivity in the reward circuitry, as has been suggested by experiments with animals.

His lab will next investigate how reduced - carbohydrate and reduced - fat diets affect the brain's reward circuitry, as well as its response to food stimuli.

Similar to the old belief about alcoholism as a moral issue, recent research studies have shown «that it is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry, with manifestations along biological, psychological, social, and spiritual domains.»