Sentences with phrase «sleep centers of the brain»

It appears that in response to infection, the excess inflammatory cytokines produced by the immune system decrease the output of sleep inducing hormones to the sleep centers of the brain.

It appears that in response to infection, the excess inflammatory cytokines produced by the immune system disturb the sleep centers of the brain.

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When the participants were well rested, the reward centers of their brains didn't react nearly as much to the junk food photos as when they were lacking sleep, suggesting that we're subconsciously more attracted to fatty foods when we're tired and need energy.

When sleep - deprived and waiting in suspenseful anticipation for a neutral or disturbing image to appear, activity in the emotional brain centers of all the participants soared, especially in the amygdala and the insular cortex.

Zhang did the research at Stanford Sleep Center, where he could record brain waves of snoozing mice.

What we found is that the ability of this chronic social stress to produce maladaptive changes in brain and behavior — loss of pleasure, inability to sleep normally and so on — are mediated through epigenetic modifications of gene expression, in particular, emotional centers of the brain.

Raising protein production in one of the brain's learning and memory centers erased the forgetfulness that comes with sleep deprivation, neuroscientist Jennifer Tudor of the University of Pennsylvania reported November 17 at the annual meeting of the Society for...

When the researchers looked at brain size, they found that for fighters who had increasing levels of tau over time, there was a 7 percent decline in the volume of their thalamus, which is located in the center of the brain and regulates sleep, consciousness, alertness, cognitive function and language while also sending sensory and movement signals to other portions of the brain.

At the Duke Center for Neuroengineering, the INNF is supporting a revolutionary project to understand the neural mechanisms underlying the onset of disease by recording the neuronal activity of brain structures controlling movement, sleep, and learning and memory.

«When the body goes to sleep, it's putting itself in a very vulnerable position,» explains Carol Ash, DO, medical director of the Sleep for Life center in Hillsborough, N.J. «If you can't be comfortable and at ease in your environment, the brain is not going to allow you to relax.&rsleep, it's putting itself in a very vulnerable position,» explains Carol Ash, DO, medical director of the Sleep for Life center in Hillsborough, N.J. «If you can't be comfortable and at ease in your environment, the brain is not going to allow you to relax.&rSleep for Life center in Hillsborough, N.J. «If you can't be comfortable and at ease in your environment, the brain is not going to allow you to relax.»

This technique could save the brains of some people who suffer «wake - up» strokes, where symptoms become apparent after they wake from a night's sleep, said lead researcher Dr. Gotz Thomalla, a neurologist with the University Medical Center in Hamburg, Germany.

Your olfactory system is directly linked to the emotional center in your brain — so when you sniff something that brings back a good memory (like pumpkin pie) or makes you feel excited and full of anticipation (such as the smell of sunscreen), your body releases feel - good, relaxing chemicals that can set the stage for great sleep.

Sleep deprivation produces a «double hit» to the brain in this regard: there is a sharp reduction in frontal lobe activity leading one to misjudge hunger and eat more junk and also leading to an exaggerated activation of reward centers (mostly the amygdalae) after eating.

The region of hypothalamus is the brain's posterior section and is the center of regulation for visceral (intuitive) functions like body temperature, sleep cycles, and pituitary gland's activity.

Every first - period teacher who has looked across a classroom of drooping eyelids and nodding heads is familiar with the effect of a high school day that starts at 7:30 A.M. Jodi Mindell, associate director of the Sleep Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, told the Associated Press, «Sleep not only serves as a restorative function for adolescents» bodies and brains, but it also is a key time when they process what they've learned during the day.»

The impulse control center of the brain is in sleep mode.