Sentences with phrase «stronger brain reaction»

Pathological gamblers have a stronger brain reaction to so - called near - miss events: losing events that come very close to a win.

Full - term babies had a strong brain reaction to the hand puff.

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Seifritz, a Swiss researcher, found in 2003 that the brains of women with or without children responded more to babies» laughter and crying than men without children did, but parents of both genders showed stronger reactions to crying.

Despite their strong opposition to brain death, Truog and Shewmon both refuse to acknowledge the possibility that some donors may be in severe pain during organ harvests, even though they acknowledge that some donors did exhibit reactions similar to inadequately anesthetized surgical patients who afterward reported pain and consciousness.

Meanwhile, a different brain region noted emotion in a voice, with a strong response to cheery sounds like laughter and a weaker reaction to unhappy noises like canine whining.

In addition, fructose caused a stronger reaction in the nucleus accumbens, a «reward» center of the brain, increasing the participants» desire to eat.

Plus, women often have stronger stress reactions than men, says David Rakel, MD, director of integrative medicine at the University of Wisconsin, maybe because the area where emotions are processed in our brains is larger.

As a result, not only do these brain areas get less active when provoked, but the reaction may be easier to regulate because it's not so strong, says Brown.

Social support and connections to services such as mental health, as well as increased economic security, reduce parental stress and therefore the likelihood of prolonged elevated stress reactions that can undermine the baby's development of strong brain architecture.