Sentences with phrase «same brain circuits»

«New experiences activate the brain's reward system, flooding it with dopamine and norepinephrine - which are the same brain circuits that are ignited in early romantic love».

Basically, the same brain circuits that make for super human intelligence in our frontal lobes (allowing decision making, problem solving, and planning) also produce worry.

Physician Gene - Jack Wang of Brookhaven National Laboratory has studied the brains of overeaters since 1999, when he and colleague Nora Volkow originally observed that obesity and drug addiction alter the same brain circuits.

This isn't just a clever analogy: In recent neuroimaging studies, Harvard psychologist Daniel Schacter has shown that remembering and imagining mobilize many of the same brain circuits.

Scientists have long speculated that the act of seeing things in our mind's eye employs some of the same brain circuits that we use when seeing with our physical eyes.

Not exact matches

The infrastructure mediates inheritance (for instance, in cell division or in the repetition of similar circuit patterns in the excitation of the brain), and inheritance thus has in it that same discontinuity.

Then go pick up a book on neuroscience and realize that your brain is far from perfect and many different «Dying» neurological circuits could cause the same thing....

Brain scans showed the drug affected the same reward circuit that it did in animals.

Emory medical school neurologist and depression researcher Helen Mayberg explains that her work on depression strives to describe the same overarching concepts that Freud invoked, including links between brain circuits and disordered moods.

Recent studies have demonstrated that falling in love — or the love a mother has for an infant, which is so powerful — is driven by these reward processes, and it actually engages the same [brain] circuit that gives priority of that behavior over anything else, just like in addiction.

In drug addiction — my field — rodents will self - administer and addict themselves to the same drugs that humans self - administer and addict themselves to, which makes it possible to identify the neural circuits in the brain, and the molecular changes within those circuits caused by drug exposure, that underlie states of addiction.

However, all the lesions were part of the same functional network, located on different parts of a single circuit that normally allows neurons throughout the brain to cooperate with each other on specific cognitive tasks.

«He argues that the same neural circuits that drove our ancient ancestors to find food have morphed into human brains that push us to relentlessly seek information.

The same can be said for neuroscientists trying to work out the emergent properties — higher thought, for example — hidden in complex brain circuits.

The two sides of the brain were exposed to the same mix of hormones during development, yet the song circuit was much larger on the male side of the creature's brain than on the female side.

Even when men and women do the same chores equally well, they may use different brain circuits to get the same result.

The ability for neurons to tune into different frequencies of gamma waves provides a way for the brain to traffic different types of information across the same neuronal circuits.

To map how the same sense can be perceived differently in the brain, the NYU Langone team, led by postdoctoral fellow Kishore Kuchibhotla, PhD, monitored nerve circuit activity in mice when the animals expected, and did not expect, to get a water reward through a straw - like tube (that they see) after the ringing of a familiar musical note.

Serge Luquet's team at the «Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative» laboratory (CNRS / Université Paris Diderot) has demonstrated part of the answer: triglycerides, fatty substances from food, may act in our brains directly on the reward circuit, the same circuit that is involved in drug addiction.

Concurrently, the research team recorded electrical signals from TRN neurons and also tracked the mice's behavior while at the same time inactivating various parts of the brain's neural circuits with a laser beam.

But a new study suggests that caring for children awakens a parenting network in the brain — even turning on some of the same circuits in men as it does in women.

16 Sweet treats and alcohol fire up many of the same reward circuits in the brain.

Early this year, he reported that memory storage and retrieval happen on two different brain circuits, not on the same one as was long thought.

This past summer, along with Roy and other colleagues, he reported that — contrary to neuroscience dogma — the neural circuit in the brain structure called the hippocampus that makes a particular memory is not the same circuit that recalls the memory later.

The play circuit lives deep in the brain in the same regions that process emotion and our non conscious responses such as breathing, heart rate and hormonal regulation.