Sentences with phrase «reward system activation»

In order to maintain a healthy weight, reward system activation needs to be «just right.»

The study's results suggested that girls whose brains showed less reward system activation to foods also gained more weight — if they had the DRD2 Taq1AQ1 or the DRD4 7 + repeat alleles.

Thus, it is possible that the relationship between reward neurocircuitry and obesity follows the Goldilocks principle — too much or too little reward system activation may lead to weight gain.

Not exact matches

Greg Murray and colleagues compared activation of the brain's reward system in 16 men during a gambling task at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7 p.m..

In another series of tests, the researchers tested whether oxytocin enhances the activation of the reward system only when seeing the partner or whether there is a similar effect with pictures of acquaintances and female work colleagues of many years.

This activation of your reward system is not unlike how bodies process addictive substances such as alcohol or nicotine — an overload of sugar spikes dopamine levels and leaves you craving more.

We associated the hand signals with primary reward in order to maximize the chance of detecting activation in the dog's reward system.

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).

Behavioural inhibition system behavioural activation system (BIS / BAS) scales and sensitivity to punishment and sensitivity to reward questionnaire (SPSRQ) which are based on Gray's theory of personality and the sensation seeking scale (SSS), which is based on Zuckerman's sensation seeking theory have been commonly used in both research and clinical practice.

For positive emotional faces, considering the spreading effects of activation of secure base schema, it was assumed that both levels (high and low) of attachment anxiety are associated with increased activities in brain circuits that are responsible for positive emotions and the regions belonging to the reward system.