Sentences with phrase «same reward circuits»

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

This feedback circuit is composed of a single class of reward - signaling dopamine neurons (PAM - α1) projecting to a restricted region of the mushroom body (MB), and a specific MB output cell type, MBON - α1, whose dendrites arborize that same MB compartment.

The same attention to detail has been paid to the GT3's suspension, brakes and steering to make for a hugely rewarding machine that's best enjoyed on a racing circuit.

The powerful combination of concentration and rewarding surges of neurotransmitters like dopamine strengthen neural circuits in much the same the way that exercise builds muscles... Games definitely hit the reward system in a way that not all activities do.»

«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».