Sentences with phrase «same reward pathway»

The same reward pathway is often triggered for all addiction issues.

The most primitive part of the brain — the same reward pathway activated by food and sex — lights up in response to altruistic giving.

Not exact matches

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital scrutinized the opioid system, the reward pathway hijacked by drugs such as heroin, because the researchers had earlier found that beta - endorphin and the skin pigment melanin originate from the same protein.

In ways that drugs of abuse — such as nicotine, cocaine and heroin — hijack the brain's reward pathway and make users dependent, increasing neuro - chemical and behavioural evidence suggests that sugar is addictive in the same way, too.

Further research tells us that this is likely the same synergistic pathway that elicits a greater sense of reward and satisfaction from doing volunteer work for a cause, rather than just making a financial contribution (Ryff et al., 2004).

Artificial sweeteners fool our taste buds, but do not activate the same pathways in our brains to trigger the food reward.

The reason mice are so helpful in studying addiction is because the reward pathway in our brains functions in much the same way in mice as it does in people.