Sentences with phrase «same regions of the brain»

I found this lecture that Dr. Robert Lustig gave a lecture called Sugar: The Bitter Truth, in which he shows us that sugar actually stimulates the exact same region of the brain that cocaine goes to work on.

Empathy and forgiveness activate the same region of the brain, which means the more you hone your empathy skills, the easier it is to forgive and be forgiven.

«Study could help explain link between seizures and psychiatric disorders: Cells related to seizures, schizophrenia, and ADHD all found in the same region of the brain.»

Damasio soon discovered other people with damage in the same regions of the brain suffering from the same problem.

Music is processed in the auditory cortex in this same region of the brain, which was why Charyton wanted to study the effect of music on the brains of people with epilepsy.

Research suggests that we empathize by effectively putting ourselves in others» shoes: for example, when we observe someone feeling sad, we simulate their experience by activating the same regions of the brain that are involved when we feel sad ourselves.

He found that the same regions of the brain — located in the poorly understood right temporal lobe, just above the ear — became active in both players during attempts to communicate the rules of the game.

«It is surprising,» said Stolk, «that for both the communicator, who has static input while she is planning her move, and the addressee, who is observing dynamic visual input during the game, the same region of the brain becomes more active over the course of the experiment as they improve their mutual understanding.»

All of these chemicals (and many more) converge on the same region of the brain, the mesolimbic dopamine system.

Researchers so far have recruited 12 people ages 12 to 25 who had each experienced a stroke to the same region of their brain's left hemisphere just before or after birth.

In the first imaging study to compare religious and nonreligious thoughts, evaluating the truth of either type of statement was found to involve the same regions of the brain.

The sensation of pain in your hand is actually an addition to the many other experiences that are generated by the same region of your brain.

In recent studies on mental time travel, neuroscientists found that we use many of the same regions of the brain to remember the past as we do to envision our future lives.

These are the same regions of the brain activated by addictive drugs and thought to lead to addiction.

They also found more «excitability» among neurons in the same region of the brain among those with chronic insomnia, adding evidence to the notion that insomniacs are in a constant state of heightened information processing that may interfere with sleep.

And when monkeys use their mathematical intuition, they rely on the same region of the brain around the intraparietal sulcus that we do.

Every time they appear, the key moments make the same regions of the brain react in an identical fashion.

Receiving a compliment lights up the same regions of the brain that get activated when you receive cold hard cash, Â studies suggest.

Turns out, the physical and mental fatigue affect the same region of your brain.

When our coaching clients feel excluded, or not part of the «in» group, the same region of their brain is activated as when they experience physical pain.

Through play, play therapists tap into the emotional life of the child by activating the same regions of the brain.