Sentences with phrase «subcortical reward»

A number of psychologists have described some forms of love just as you have: like an addiction; there is intense desire to spend time with the object of our affection, we experience intense cravings, emotional dependence, mood swings, and even loss of control and compulsive behaviors.1 In one study utilizing fMRI technology (brain imaging), subcortical reward systems in the brain were activated when adults viewed photographs of someone who had rejected their love; 2 this part of the brain is the same area that lights up when people experience intense, romantic love3 and is rich in dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter associated with rewards like pleasure.

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In brain - imaging studies, teen brains show more activation in regions that process rewards, motivations and emotions (the socioaffective circuitry in the subcortical, limbic regions) compared to children and adults.

Title: Simultaneous EEG and fMRI reveals a causally connected subcortical - cortical network during reward anticipation.

Here we demonstrate that humor modulates activity in several cortical regions, and we present new evidence that humor engages a network of subcortical regions including the nucleus accumbens, a key component of the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward system.

Also noteworthy in this context, the prefrontal brain systems that process rewards and support reward - based decision - making undergo a prolonged and vulnerable developmental trajectory, and an impaired capacity of these prefrontal systems to regulate subcortical structures (particularly striatal regions of the basal ganglia) is implicated in risky, impulsive and otherwise disadvantageous decision - making from childhood through later life (for review, Fareri et al.