Sentences with phrase «showed less activation»

Brain scans also showed less activation in the parts of the brain that processed pain.

Over the following year, those whose brains showed less activation in areas known to respond to natural rewards like foods ended up gaining more weight — though only if they had a particular genetic makeup.

«For the first time, we have found that a sample of randomly assigned young adults showed less activation in certain frontal brain regions following a week of playing violent video games at home,» said one researcher.

Not exact matches

And when people respond well to placebos, they show stronger activation in brain circuits that control pain compared with those who are less susceptible to the placebo response.

«The ones who had more activation in these regions and more connectivity between the regions showed fewer symptoms of depression in response to the election than participants who had less activation in these regions, even if they were deeply disturbed by the election.»

But the bacteria also changed the mice's mood — they showed less behaviour that indicates anxiety, such as grooming and searching, perhaps analogous to the calmer behaviour immune activation triggers in people.

Recent studies have shown that endorphin blockers do lessen the activation of reward circuits in humans and rodents that are presented with appetizing food — the subjects eat less.

The study's results suggested that girls whose brains showed less reward system activation to foods also gained more weight — if they had the DRD2 Taq1AQ1 or the DRD4 7 + repeat alleles.

While there were considerable similarities in activation patterns between the two groups, the girls with FraX showed significantly less activation in the hippocampus and the basal forebrain.

Overall, the results of three studies showed that electro - acupuncture tends to produce more activation and less deactivation compared to manual acupuncture.

Other studies have shown that soy protein is less effective for body builders than whey protein because its amino acids are more likely to go into splanchnic circulation (stomach, small intestines, colon, liver, pancreas and spleen) than into peripheral regions such as muscle tissues.4, 5 This makes sense because whey protein provides greater amounts of the branched chain amino acids (BCAAs) leucine, isoleucine and valine as well as more methionine and lysine, all of which are critically needed for muscle building.6 - 9 Researchers have also found the low BCAA content of soy protein adversely affects muscle building by disrupting both leucine signaling10 and the activation of myogenic translation initiation factors.

In contrast, most EMG studies have shown that using a narrow grip width leads to proportionally more activation of the clavicular head, and less activation of the sternocostal head.

Most EMG studies have shown that using a wide grip width leads to proportionally more activation of the sternocostal head, and less activation of the clavicular head.

The researchers studied MRI scans of preschool - age children and found that those with a family history of dyslexia were less likely to demonstrate activation during phonological processing and more likely to show decreases in gray matter than kids without that family history.

Results show that cognitive activation strategies and, to a lesser extent, active learning strategies, have a strong association with students» achievement in mathematics.

The wives showed across the board benefits from husband hand - holding: less brain activation, less experienced arousal, and less unpleasantness.

Such persons try to minimize or avoid difficulties related to attachment experiences [42], becoming less sensitive to signs of rejection, being less comfortable getting close to others, and using avoidance strategies to regulate attachment stress [17; 39], as shown by poorer memory of attachment related events [46 — 47] and less neural activation in the dACC and anterior insula [40].