Researchers found that there was a larger amount of «activity» in
the reward region of the brain when subjects were able to share information with friends and family members, than there was when they were forced to keep the information to themselves.
«The self - expansion activities yielded significantly greater activation in a major
reward region of the brain, which is associated with addictive behaviors, than did non-expanding conditions.
In mice exposed repeatedly to cocaine, UMSOM researchers identified an increase in a molecule that plays a role in mitochondria division (or fission) in
a reward region of the brain.
Furthermore, monitoring of
the reward regions of the brain revealed that the dogs responded best when praising words were used in combination with praising intonation.
In addition, monitoring
the reward regions of the brain revealed that the dogs responded best when they heard praising words spoken with a praising intonation.
Not exact matches
In fact, we almost can't help sharing our thoughts and feelings: Research also shows that talking about ourselves, whether in person or on social media, triggers the same pleasure sensation in the brain as does money or food — self disclosure causes increased activity in brain
regions associated with the sense
of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even sex.
THE great gratuity debate continues in WA, a
region thankfully relatively free
of compulsory tipping.To my way
of thinking, it's a demand which completely defeats the purpose
of rewards for service.
METEX Resources NL is set to reap the
rewards of its long - term commitment to WA's prospective Laverton
region after positioning itself to monetise the Chatterbox oxide gold resources through a key mining and processing agreement with the managers
of the n
CN's acquisition
of the major portion
of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company will significantly improve the fluidity
of CN's rail operations in the Chicago
region,
rewarding customers with faster transit times and more reliable service.
But even among the best funds, few have topped the key threshold
of 16 %, fueling a nagging perception that the
rewards of investing in the Asia - Pacific
region are not making up for the risks — at least not yet.
Amazon continues to expand both the offerings
of the customer
rewards program — which provides benefits such as expedited shipping, free access to Prime Video, and more — and the geographic
regions where it's available.
Nurturing the private sector will be critical in terms
of creating productive,
rewarding jobs throughout the
region for the fast - growing populations
of the GCC nations.
Scipio turns his eyes back to the earth, and Africanus exhorts him to see how insignificant worldly glory is in comparison to the celestial realms, or even to the vast uninhabitable
regions of the globe, or to the unimaginable immensity
of the Great Year
of the cosmic aeon, and then tells him to fix his mind always on heavenly things, to ignore earthly
rewards and earthly censure alike, and to be guided only by virtue.
Join «Club Kay» and earn
rewards for every Grapeline tour you take in any
of the four
regions we serve.
The Albany Police Department, Capital
Region Crime Stoppers and SEFCU have teamed up to launch a program enabling people with tips about crimes to share information with authorities anonymously — with the possibility
of a cash
reward.
Speaking at a rally during a campaign tour
of the Volta
region, president Mahama assured the people
of Kpando that his government was ready and willing to
reward their support adding that the NDC government will never disappoint them.
Viewers
of Adom TV's all - popular Televonela, Kumkum Bhagya could not believe their ears when it was announced that the Chief
of Assin Asaaman in the Central
Region has decided to
reward personnel
of Adom TV for being innovative and presenting to viewers the telenovela which is dubbed in Twi language.
The conclusion: upstate
regions are reaping the
rewards of their wealthy neighbors in New York City.
Greater Manchester is looking for a deal with the government over the full five years from the next spending review (expected in autumn 2015) covering significant blocks
of funding where the
region can keep savings generated through reforms over the period — with an agreement sharing risk and
reward.
He said Labour had «never sought to devolve income tax - varying powers and warned that such a move risks «undermining the union» by limiting the «ability to pool risk and share
rewards between the peoples and
regions and nations
of Britain.»
Minister
of Defence and Member
of Parliament for Bimbila in the Northern
Region, Dominic Nitiwul has offered a GHc 10,000
reward for information leading to the arrest
of the killers
of a woman in the Bimbila township.
Whether these schools draw students from around the country or just from their
regions, the opportunities to make an impact on their students» lives, and to watch motivated students achieve, is one
of the job's key
rewards.
Volkow walked through how the analgesic and
rewarding effects
of opioids are expressed in pain terminals in the spinal cord and in the brain where the drugs impact
regions that regulate
reward and pleasure.
The results are largely consistent with a growing body
of research about the neural basis
of aggression, and how it is triggered by changes in the way that the prefrontal cortex, the limbic system and
reward - related
regions of the brain function.
The level
of the
reward chemical dopamine you have in a brain
region may determine your reply.
The brain scans allowed the researchers to compare unconscious with conscious responses and showed that a
reward - judging
region of the brain, the ventral palladium, became active in both cases.
The symptoms
of Parkinson's — which is characterized by stiffness and can lead to a loss
of motor and speech function — are triggered by the progressive death
of neurons in a midbrain
region called the substantia nigra that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine (implicated in the pleasure and
reward systems as well as in the maintenance
of proper movement control).
Like those
of the monogamous prairie vole, human oxytocin receptors are located in several dopamine - rich
regions of the brain, suggesting that oxytocin is embedded in our
reward circuitry.
She had learned that fibromyalgia patients struggled to access certain opioid - related brain
regions, including the ACC — the center
of emotion,
reward and pain that Petrovic had found played a role in placebos.
This
region in the middle
of the brain is important in processing emotion, anticipating
rewards and registering pain.
Then they would lie in a high - resolution positron emission tomography (PET) scanner for a grueling 90 minutes while the machine took pictures in 2 - millimeter increments
of their nucleus accumbens, a
region deep in the brain that (among other things) controls
reward and motivation.
This
region inhibits nearby
reward areas, which can be useful in learning; for example, if a monkey pulls a lever expecting a treat but never receives it, the lateral habenula will reduce the activity
of reward areas, and the monkey will be less likely to pull the lever in the future.
This long trunk
of nerve fibers links cortical
regions involved in fatigue, pain, emotion and
reward - processing with the right ventral attention network, associated with cognition.
The researchers studied how active the
reward circuitry
of their brains was when anticipating and receiving money to learn whether there were differences between the two groups in the key brain
regions.
Activation
of a
reward - processing brain
region peaks in the morning and evening and dips at 2 p.m., finds a study
of healthy young men published in The Journal
of Neuroscience.
Those who had no symptoms
of depression had either strong family support or heightened activity in two key
regions of the brain's
reward system: the nucleus accumbens and the medial prefrontal cortex.
It's unclear whether people can do something to boost activity
of these key brain
regions, especially as they age and their ability to heighten activity in these
reward regions weakens, Galván said.
The odors activated
reward - related areas
of the brain, the same
regions that trigger a pleasurable rush
of dopamine when we get our hands on a desirable bit
of food.
In Callie's scans, Berns observes activation in the caudate, a brain
region involved in processing
rewards, after exposing her to the smell
of his daughter.
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.
As CaMKII expression has been associated with consolidation and permanence
of memories in other brain
regions, this switch may reflect the formation
of a stronger and more stable opiate
reward memory.
Functional MR imaging taken while the animals received either a juice
reward or VTA stimulation revealed that both induced activation
of brain
regions that previous studies in humans and other primates have associated with
reward signaling by means
of the neurotransmitter dopamine.
Previous studies in humans and a variety
of animals have shown that the OPFC is part
of a network
of brain
regions that respond to food, sex, and other
rewards.
China said on Monday it would give
rewards amounting to 5 billion yuan ($ 816.91 million) for curbing air pollution in six
regions where the problem is serious, underscoring government concern about a source
of public anger.
The experiments demonstrated that distinct neural ensembles in the same
region directly controlled the promotion
of reward - seeking or the suppression
of that behavior.
Brain imaging studies have shown that stimulation over this
region modulates the functioning
of fronto - striatal circuits, leading to the release
of dopamine, a key neurotransmitter in
reward processing.
The MRI scans showed that obese subjects with binge eating disorder have lower grey matter volumes — a measure
of the number
of neurons — in the orbitofrontal cortex and striatum
of the brain compared to those who do not binge eat; these brain
regions are involved in keeping track
of goals and
rewards.
They analyzed the drugs» effects on the release
of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that evokes feelings
of pleasure and
reward, in a
region of the brain known as the nucleus accumbens.
A cross-section
of mouse brain in the nucleus accumbens, a
region of the brain known to be involved in
reward and motivation, taken by a fluorescence microscope.
The study focused, specifically, on Activin receptors in
regions of the brain that are involved in pleasure and
reward.