Sentences with phrase «same area of the brain»

The same areas of our brain become activated when we experience rejection as when we experience physical pain,» writes Winch in the post.

I am quite sure that if you put a staunch Christian and a person who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia side side in identical functional MRI scanners and asked them to concentrate on jesus, the same areas of the brain would light up.

The same area of the brain only became stimulated in heterosexual men when introduced to female pheromones.

More experiments with the rats showed that OEA activates the same areas of the brain that mediate the formation of emotionally charged memories in humans, which are more vivid than typical memories.

These were clustered together in the same area of the brain as olfactory memory neurons.

Inhibiting the same area of the brain with similar techniques increased the amount of time mice slept, especially non-REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, although sleep was not instant upon drug administration, as has been shown for other parts of the arousal system, Pedersen says.

The anterior cingulate gyrus is known to be a region that is specialized for social decision - making in primates, and it is located in the same area of the brain as that associated with the generation of feelings of empathy in humans.

However, some neurons in the same area of the brain responded exactly the opposite in the mirrored situation.

Just because there is activity in the same area of the brain, it doesn't mean that love and cocaine use are the same.

Regardless of this, some neurons plan the visual goal in the same area of the brain, that is the visualized movement.

Yes, rats have this system in much the same areas of the brain as cats.

Psychologists found that the same area of the brain activated when laying down a memory is also activated when rehearsing that memory.

Their findings: vocal pathways are always nestled in the same areas of the brain that control body movement.

MRI scans revealed that the same area of the brain — the posterior cingulate — was most associated with the benefits of rehearsal.

After researchers discovered in 2004 that FOXP2 is expressed in the same areas of the brain in humans and zebra finches, a song - learning bird, neurobiologist Constance Scharff of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin began to investigate whether such birds could help scientists understand how humans learn language.

It is possible for elements of the dream to be recalled later in the day, perhaps triggered by an experience that reactivates the same area of the brain that created the dream overnight.

The same areas of the brain activated both times, suggesting that babies» brains help them develop a sense of themselves in the context of others, and eventually lay the groundwork for empathy and a shared neural network between people.

Gluteomorphins and casomorphins inhibit the same areas of brain function as opiate drugs.

«The same area of your brain that controls hunger also controls thirst, so sometimes signals get crossed when you haven't had enough to drink during the day to confuse you into feeling the sensations of «hunger,»» explains Blatner.

Did you know that the same area of our brains is activated when we experience something for real and when we imagine something vividly?

In fact, when subjects are forced to live in social isolation, the same areas of the brain that react to physical pain are activated.

Meditation and exercise affect the same areas of the brain in different ways.

In the past, these same areas of the brain have been been linked to behavior that controls meal size and frequency.

These are the same areas of the brain that correspond to happy faces and recollection of happy memories.

Just like the same area of the brain lights up when you eat tasty food, have sex, or watch an action - packed film; a similar mechanism is at play as you increase discipline.

Just like the same area of the brain lights up when you eat

Or, that the lethal dose of caffeine in a human is about 100 cups of coffee in four hours and that coffee affects the same area of the brain as cocaine, amphetamines and heroin — just with milder effects?

Parkinson's and parkinsonism — symptoms that mimic Parkinson's — stem from the same areas of the brain.

Because physical and emotional pain are processed by the same area of the brain, pain relief remedies might offer relief.

There is also research using fMRI technology showing that many long term couples remain passionate about their relationships and the same areas of their brains are active as those couples in new exciting relationships.

In fact, neuroscientists James Rilling and Gregory Berns from Emory University have shown that helping others switches on the same areas of the brain as when a person is receiving a reward or feeling pleasure.

MRIs show that the same area of the brain that lights up when a dog sees his owner is the same area of the brain that lights up when an infant sees his mother!

As it turns out, the same areas of the brain «light up» in the fMRI scan when anticipating your own pain as when knowing that your partner is experiencing pain.