Sentences with phrase «same brain circuitry»

Now, in the new paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, researchers wanted to find out if these two rewards — sweetness and calories — travel along the same brain circuitry.

The scientists suggest this same brain circuitry could be involved in integrating other motivational drive states such as thirst.

Not exact matches

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

«Each area of the brain is different with distinct cell types and connectivity, so if we can confirm that one area of circuitry is more involved in a particular symptom than another, we may eventually be able to treat a depression patient more efficiently than treating everyone the same way.»

At the same time, animal studies exploring the biochemistry of the postpartum brain are uncovering changes in neural circuitry and areas in need of repair.

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

The answer may be that their brains simply don't work the same: Genes, culture, and personal experience have wired their moral circuitry in different patterns.

For example, scientists could confirm or disprove whether an experience was truly linked with specific brain circuitry by first identifying networks activated when a rat encounters, say, an anxiety - provoking event, and afterwards stimulating that same network directly to determine whether the animal shows evidence of experiencing the same mental state.

Virtually the same players were operative in follow - up experiments examining such reaction time - related circuitry in mouse brain.

Research on animals often fails to produce the same results in humans, though the researchers said the brain circuitry involving the reward system is similar in all vertebrates.

It may simply be that effects like this aren't the result of direct selection, but are just byproducts of the fact that the brain uses the same circuitry to respond to different stimuli, so there can be unintended cross-talk between inputs.

That's not to say that visceral and moral disgust perfectly overlap in the brain, but they use enough of the same circuitry that the feelings they evoke can sometimes bleed together, warping judgment.