Sentences with phrase «reward regions of»

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.

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 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.

«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.

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.

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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.

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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.