Sentences with phrase «social circuitry»

His professional book, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well - Being (Norton, 2007), explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health.

The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well - Being explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health.

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That neural circuitry was able to handle other complex matters: keeping track of social relationships, planning for the future, and developing language.

The idea that brain circuitries devoted to affiliation and social bonds may well be as sophisticated as our fear mechanisms had been percolating for almost a decade.

But altogether, the current work has given researchers a detailed look into the neural circuitry underlying mouse social behavior, Dulac says.

Now, a preclinical study, from the lab of Olivier Berton, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry, in collaboration with Sheryl Beck, PhD, a professor in the department of Anesthesiology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, found that bullying and other social stresses triggered symptoms of depression in mice by activating GABA neurons, in a never - before - seen direct relationship between social stimuli and this neural circuitry.

Situations that are normally socially rewarding fail to activate brain - reward circuitry in autistic children, Izuma adds, so they may also find the idea of a good social reputation less rewarding.

Individual freedom and social responsibility may sound like humanistic concepts, but an investigation of the genetic circuitry of bacteria suggests that even the simplest creatures can make difficult choices that strike a balance between selflessness and selfishness.

Two new studies published in Science Advances suggest that certain kinds of meditation can change social and emotional circuitry, too.

The lines of scientific inquiry will range from vision, language, and child development to neural circuitry and social intelligence.

Understanding the circuitry of such affiliative behaviors may lead to improved treatments for social impairment in severe mental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder.

Similar to the old belief about alcoholism as a moral issue, recent research studies have shown «that it is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry, with manifestations along biological, psychological, social, and spiritual domains.»

Larry Young, a professor of psychiatry at Emory University who studies the neurological basis of complex social behaviors, thinks human evolution has harnessed an ancient neural circuit that originally evolved to strengthen the mother - infant bond during breastfeeding, and now uses this brain circuitry to strengthen the bond between couples as well.

Eisenberger & Liebermann suggest that this physical — social pain circuitry might share components of a broader neural alarm system, part of which may be constituted by the autonomic nervous system (ANS)[65; 68].

Akin to physical pain, experiences of social rejection and exclusion may signal a significant threat to individuals» survival [65], and there is evidence from animal lesion and human neuroimaging studies suggesting that physical and social pain overlap in their underlying neural circuitry and computational processes [66 — 67].