The researchers didn't study how the brain responds to TV watching, but Dr. Small guesses that
the same brain response would not occur with tube time.
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The same brain response to neurotransmitters that help cope with stress and depression also help with overcoming anxiety.
Not exact matches
Recent research from the Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany found that exposure to stimuli that cause strong negative emotions - the
same kind of exposure you get when dealing with toxic people - caused subjects»
brains to have a massive stress
response.
Recent research from the Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany found that exposure to stimuli that cause strong negative emotions — the
same kind of exposure you get when dealing with difficult people — caused subjects»
brains to have a massive stress
response.
At the
same time, they measured the babies» pain
response using EEG
brain activity and facial expression.
Today's frantic new media systems can generate huge waves of alarmist communications which invade countries and alarm the citizens about two main issues that bypass the logical part of the
brain: racial threat and sex... both topics are used by media to command human attention because they bypass conscious
brain structures to ensure a fast
response, the
same as a deja vu is seen before it is noticed, so to speak.
A set of functional magnetic resonance imaging recordings of the temporal lobes during both tasks backed up the researchers» hypothesis:
brain activity was similar each time a volunteer consciously looked at the
same face or house, but invisible stimuli evoked a more variable
response (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1180029).
At the
same time, the forebrain network sharpens the
brain's attention to the outside world, evaluating threats, monitoring subtle changes, and running through possible
responses.
Now, a UCLA study has traced the Pavlovian
response to a small cluster of
brain cells — the
same neurons that go awry during Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease and Tourette's syndrome.
In some trials the volunteers had to press a button whenever they saw a smiling face; in other trials they were asked to resist the happy faces and instead respond to the calm ones, even though the sight of a happy face summons up the
same reward - seeking
responses in the
brain as the sight of a dollar sign or the prospect of tasty food.
A study has traced the Pavlovian
response to a small cluster of
brain cells — the
same neurons that go awry during Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease and Tourette's syndrome.
«When we hear a sound, the normal aging
brain keeps the sound in check during processing, but those with MCI have lost this inhibition and it was as if the flood gates were open since their neural
response to the
same sounds were over-exaggerated,» says Dr. Gavin Bidelman, first author on the study, a former RRI post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor at the University of Memphis.
Much of the current confusion in neuroscience research on fear stems from the conflation of two separate phenomena that are both labeled «fear»: behavioral and physiological fear
responses elicited by threats, such as a snake or a mugger, and conscious feelings of fear, which occur in the
same situation but are controlled by a different
brain system.
Researchers are currently investigating other ways to produce the
same modulation of the immune
response because the access of IVIg to the
brain when administered peripherally is very limited.
In an accompanying paper in the
same issue of Cell, Dillin also reports that stressing neurons in the
brain makes them release a hormone, serotonin, that sends alert messages throughout the body that the
brain cells are under attack, setting off a similar stress
response in cells far from the
brain.
But the
same brain cells showed little or no
response to other objects, such as images of vegetables, radios or nonfacial body parts.
The
brains of humans and dogs light up in the
same place in
response to vocal sounds, suggesting these processing areas are inherited from a common ancestor
When these
same mice were tested after a meal, the
same food cue produced a decreased
response in the neurons in a subset of these
same brain areas.
The most primitive part of the
brain — the
same reward pathway activated by food and sex — lights up in
response to altruistic giving.
These cells express many of the
same genes expressed in
brain cells — potentially providing a window into genetically - influenced differences in molecular
responses to sex hormones.
At the
same time, the rodents had an even greater
response to social defeat stress than normal mice do, suggesting their
brains also are more susceptible to a depressive - like state.
Dr Stephen Mayhew from Birmingham University Imaging Centre said «We do not know what the exact role of the post-stimulus activity is or why this
response is not always consistent when the stimulus input to the
brain is the
same.
How Huntington's disease causes wasting In an accompanying paper in the
same issue of Cell, Dillin also reports that stressing neurons in the
brain makes them release a hormone, serotonin, that sends alert messages throughout the body that the
brain cells are under attack, setting off a similar stress
response in cells far from the
brain.
(The
same pattern of results was obtained when weighting each ROI equally, rather than in proportion to volume as described in Supplementary Note 3, or when neural
response similarities were not normalized across subjects for each
brain region prior to analysis, as described in Supplementary Note 2.)
Alternative sugar products can make you think they're the smart choice — but alternative sweeteners have the
same potential to trigger an insulin
response by tricking your
brain and body into thinking its having the real thing.
What you might not realize is that it's the
same response your
brain and body kick into when you're under chronic stress and overload.
It activates the
same pleasure - reward system in your
brain as opioid drugs, creates its own «organ» of fat stores inside your body to feed, regulate, and communicate with itself, and creates nutritional deficiencies as your body fights itself trying to calm the inflammatory
responses.
The cortisol then triggers the classic fight or flight
response in the man's
brain, and at the
same time, cortisol gives him heightened awareness and a sudden burst of energy.
Participants who drank only caffeinated water had the
same brain activity and
response times as those consuming 5 Hour Energy, which adds also many of the above ingredients.
These
same parts of the
brain are also where our fight or flight
response originates.
The 45 exercise bout not only produced lower
brain responses to the food images, but also resulted in an increase in the total physical activity that
same day, for the rest of the day regards of the condition of the woman.
Vicarious trauma affects teachers»
brains in much the
same way that it affects their students»: The
brain emits a fear
response, releasing excessive cortisol and adrenaline that can increase heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration, and release a flood of emotions.
It stimulates the
brain receptors that respond to the pheromones so catnip is getting almost the
same neurological
responses from the cat.
The hearing test known as the brainstem auditory evoked
response (BAER) or brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) detects electrical activity in the cochlea and auditory pathways in the
brain in much the
same way that an antenna detects radio or TV signals or an EKG detects electrical activity of the heart.
Unfortunately they are affected as the amygdala's
response is to imprint behaviours on the
brain such that anytime in the future that person undergoes any stress that releases adrenalin the
response is the
same: fight or flight, more often than not resulting in aggressive, violent (be it in word or action), abusive, loopy or otherwise inappropriate behaviour — this manifests in the personality as a type of narcissism, most commonly expressed as blaming others for one's own (negative) feelings, or of feeling superior.
The combination allows the two components working together to identify the presence of predetermined risks (objects in the path of travel for example), determine the correct pre-coded solution, and trigger the appropriate
response all within micro-seconds faster than the human
brain does the
same three steps normally.
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.
Instead, researchers found that hypersexual
brains don't react in the
same way as other addicts»
brains — in fact, the neural
responses to pornography only varied based on levels of sexual libido, rather than on measures of sexual compulsivity.