Sentences with phrase «such brain responses»

Researchers could measure such brain responses without requiring the kids to pay conscious attention to sounds, an advantage when it comes to working with young children.

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This acclimation process gives the software a chance to record your brain waves and trains you to use them consistently before it throws a series of increasingly difficult challenges at you, such as reconstructing simply via thought a fallen bridge needed for a mystical journey while a fiery sky changes hue in response to your emotional state.

For some people, palatable foods invoke such a strong response in the brain's reward circuit — and so dramatically alter their biology — that willpower will rarely, if ever, be sufficient to resist eating those foods once they are around.

In addition, Red Star Nutritional Yeast contains other beneficial components, such as beta - 1,3 glucan and mannan, complex carbohydrates known to improve the immune response and help maintain cholesterol levels that are already within a healthy range; trehalose, a disaccharide that helps maintain the health of brain cells; and glutathione, an antioxidant that plays an important role in cellular defense mechanisms.

Such experiences help with normal brain development and enable the preterm baby to be discharged from the hospital with brain responses comparable to babies born at term.

If oxytocin levels are too low, stress results in elevated levels of cortisol, which can cause changes in brain structure in response to stress that can lead to symptoms such as high blood pressure.

Even the most state of the art strollers can't provide the warmth that a mother's body does, her comforting smell, the varied movement, and the sensitive motherly responses that are so essential to her baby's healthy growth and development, especially during such a critical period when his brain is growing more than any period in his life.

Dr. Saper's research has explored circuitry of the brain that controls basic functions such as wake - sleep cycles, feeding, and immune response, and how these circuits are disrupted in neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, in sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and sleep apnea, and during aging.

The EEG signal can be processed quickly, allowing fast response times, and the instrument is cheaper and more portable than brain - scanning techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging and positron - emission tomography.

A number of individual genes have been linked to suicide, such as those involved in the brain's response to mood - lifting serotonin, and a signalling molecule called brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which regulates the brain's response to stress.

«Though no such treatment yet exists, this finding will lead to experiments to better understand the specific mechanisms of the inflammatory response in the neurodegenerating brain, which may in turn lead to new treatments.»

An inflammatory protein that triggers a pregnant mouse's immune response to an infection or other disease appears to cause brain injury in her fetus, but not the premature birth that was long believed to be linked with such neurologic damage in both rodents and humans, new Johns Hopkins - led research suggests.

It has been particularly difficult to measure changes in electrical functions of cells grown within Organ Chips that are normally electrically active, such as neuronal cells in the brain or beating heart cells, both during their differentiation and in response to drugs.

For instance, his clear, lively writing reveals how our emotions, such as the fight - or - flight response and the suite of thoughts and actions associated with stress, provide strong evidence for a brain - body connection.

Much of the current confusion in neuroscience research on fear stems from the conflation of two separate phenomena that are both labeled «fear»: behavioral and physiological fear responses elicited by threats, such as a snake or a mugger, and conscious feelings of fear, which occur in the same situation but are controlled by a different brain system.

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.

They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

Christianson said the findings set the stage for a large - scale investigation of the brain circuits that work together to orchestrate responses to social emotional information with the hope that such research will lead to better treatment for people with conditions marked by aberrant social cognition, such as autism or schizophrenia.

But the same brain cells showed little or no response to other objects, such as images of vegetables, radios or nonfacial body parts.

Preemies who received a greater number of positive early touches, such as breastfeeding, skin - to - skin cuddles and massage, had stronger brain responses to the puffs than preemies who received fewer.

This response shows that morphine and other opiates mimic the effects of neurotransmitters (brain chemicals) such as endorphins that are naturally produced in the brain to stimulate feeding behaviors.

Previous research has shown that eye movements in response to visual stimuli can serve as a biomarker for brain states such as fatigue or high mental concentration.

This lack of interest in human speech not only correlated with the severity of a child's autistic symptoms, Kuhl notes, but with a lack of typical brain response to subtle changes in syllables, such as the switch from «ba» to «da.»

It emerged that theta activity increased in response to near - misses relative to other losses in brain regions such as insula and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which was linked to gambling severity.

These rogue genetic elements pepper the brain tissue of deceased people with the disorder and multiply in response to stressful events, such as infection during pregnancy, which increase the risk of the disease.

What's more, in rodents the two - eye cells hook into sub-cortical areas of the brain such as the amygdala that help process emotion and fear responses, and areas that play a role in an animal's ability to spot salient events in its environment — an approaching cat for instance.

Hundreds of legal opinions every year have begun to invoke the science of mind and brain to bolster legal arguments — references not only to brain scans but to a range of studies that show that areas such as the amygdala or the anterior cingulate cortex are implicated in this response or that.

In a normally functioning brain, dopamine is released from the neurons in response to pleasurable or life - sustaining activities, such as eating or sex.

The second aim was to develop and validate a method that would allow such patients to functionally communicate yes - or - no responses by modulating their own brain activity, without training and without the need for any motor response.

I have an ongoing interest in sickness behaviour responses induced by bacterial and viral infections / mimetics and our observation of an exaggeration of these responses in animals / persons with ongoing brain inflammation has brought 2 of my major interests together: Such responses in the aged or demented incorporate episodes of delirium, a phenomenon that remains unexplained and which now represents a major research interest for me.

«Birds are ideally suited for such a test, as they are one of the only groups of animals for which the relationship between large brains and enhanced behavioural response to ecological challenges is best understood.

But the term may be applied more casually to point to things (such as an individual's brain development) that change in form or function, over time, in response to cues (such as developmental hormones).

Three scientists, who have studied how sensory signals pass from points of sensation such as the eye, foot or nose to the brain, and how responses occur, share the neuroscience prize.

Nutritional information is mostly perceived by peripheral organs, particularly metabolic organs such as adipose tissue and gut, before being relayed to the brain, which modulates physiological responses.

Zinchenko and her colleague, Marie Arsalidou, conducted a meta - analysis of 36 previous studies that used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain responses to social norms — such as fairness — and violations of norms.

The emotional response to pain Pain travels along two pathways from a source, such as an injury, back to your brain.

«Binge eaters, food addicts, yo - yo dieters and people who are obese are often trying to eat to stimulate certain brain responses such as feeling calmer or feeling pleasure.»

«Hypertasters have such a strong response to food that they get a robust signalling that switches off their appetite whereas non-tasters may have to work harder to stop eating because they might not get that big signal to the brain telling them they are full,» says Roura.

The amygdala is such a part of the lizard brain that the amygdala's response always trumps reason.

[1] Inflammatory molecules interact with neuro - circuits in the brain, which can lead to behavioural responses such as avoidance and alarm.

The benefits of fasting and calorie restriction also has some nice little research such as: — increased longevity — reducing oxidative stress — reducing inflammation — reduce risk of heart disease — improving neuroendocrine responses — increasing GH secretion — protective effects on heart, lung, brain — decrease in insulin resistance and other overall disease prevention and life extension factors....

Neurotransmitters work with receptors in the brain to influence and regulate a wide range of processes such as mental performance, emotions, pain response and energy levels.

When you inhale a scent, the smell travels to the hypothalamus, an area of the brain responsible for regulating bodily functions such as growth, sleep and emotional responses.

(9) Neurological Problems If the immune response attacks the brain or spinal cord, this may cause a neurological disorder (4, 10 - 16) such as ataxia (5), uncoordination, peripheral neuropathy (tingling with pins and needles)(6).

This app basically walks you through a series of articles and exercises, including meditation, with the idea that many of those suffering from chronic pain (such a fibromyalgia and migraines) are incorrectly receiving pain signals to their brain based on previous traumatic experiences — basically a pain response to fear, not an illness.

Higher plasma glucose levels correlated with greater brain activity in executive control centers in the ACC and ventromedial PFC, whereas higher levels of plasma cortisol, but not other hormones, were correlated with greater activation in reward regions, such as the insula and putamen (P < 0.01, corrected), in response to high - calorie food cues.

After such a great response, Carrie has now created an organisation called Carrie's Beanies for Brain Cancer.

«To understand the neurological responses to a loss such as heartbreak, it's important to grasp what happens to the brain when experiencing love,» says van der Walt.

When the brain seeks to predict the best response, answer, solution to a problem or make a choice, the executive function control networks in the prefrontal cortex send out messages to the memory association areas, such as the hippocampus and memory storing cortex of each hemisphere.

Several structures located deep within the brain, such as the hippocampus (responsible for the formation and storage of memories) and the thalamus (involved in the regulation of sensory perception), comprise the limbic system, a complex network that controls our emotional responses, survival instincts, memory creation, and memory retrieval.