Sentences with phrase «systems in the brain»

Studies suggest that extroverts have more active reward systems in their brains, propelling them to more aggressively seek that dopamine «buzz.»

Entrepreneurs spend the majority of their working lives with the high - intensity, flight - or - fight systems in their brain activated, Perel says.

Consuming artificial sweeteners can increase our appetites by as much as 30 %, according to new research, which has identified a system in the brain that senses and integrates the sweetness and energy content of food.

Much of your baby's nervous system in the brain also continues developing in the fourth trimester.

This is an even more startling revelation when it comes to adolescents, because this same alarm system in the brain continues to harden the defenses even more when their buttons are continually pushed.

It is an inborn system in the brain that influences and organizes motivational, emotional and memory processes with respect to significant attachment figures.

The vestibular system in the brain is the foundation for a numerous amount of skills.

A baby's nerve pathways in the ears and neural system in the brain start developing as early as the twenty - sixth week, which is when the baby will begin responding to sounds and voices regularly.

A babys nerve pathways in the ears and neural system in the brain start developing as early as the twenty - sixth week, which is when the baby will begin responding to sounds and voices regularly.

«We argue that conscious experiences, regardless of their content, arise from one system in the brain,» explains LeDoux, a professor in New York University's Center for Neural Science.

John O'Keefe, May - Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser share the prize for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.

Two different systems in the brain govern our food decisions.

Until very recently, researchers in the modern era found no evidence of a lymphatic system in the brain, leaving some puzzled about how the brain drains waste, and others to conclude that brain is an exceptional organ.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Seewiesen have now discovered that in zebra finches the song control system in the brain is also active during simple communication calls.

The crying baby scenario hit Greene's volunteers in the gut, changing the dynamic between the two competing systems in their brains.

Within the category of Physiology and Medicine, the recipients are Science authors John O'Keefe, May - Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Moser for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.

In fact, people born blind will probably prove the most difficult to help, because the visual system in their brains can never develop normally during infancy.

Researchers at the University Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the MedUni Vienna have now demonstrated by means of a meta - analysis of functional image data that increased activations in the involuntary attention system in the brain are responsible for these disorders in MS patients.

In contrast, patterns of empathic distress overlapped with systems in the brain known for mirroring, such as the premotor cortex and the primary and secondary somatosensory cortices, which help an individual simulate or imagine what another person is feeling or thinking.

The motor system in the brain appears to be especially important: When someone not only hears vocabulary in a foreign language, but expresses it using gestures, they will be more likely to remember it.

«We know from previous research that general anaesthetics including propofol act on sleep systems in the brain, much like a sleeping pill,» Associate Professor van Swinderen said.

Now, Cardiff scientists have engineered a new duel «homing» agent which, when given to mice, inactivated the complement system in the brain, reduced inflammation and aided recovery.

So, we are currently targeting what's called the «norge nergic» system in the brain to understand if this is an important focus for developing medications to treat smokers.

What has not been fully understood is how the blood circulation system in the brain «knows» that it needs to ramp up blood flow to respond to the increased demand.

«While it's clear that sex differences in varenicline efficacy exist, we don't yet know why varenicline is particularly effective for women,» McKee said, adding that sex differences in the nicotine receptor system in the brain may be a key factor.

A new study now suggests that hijacking another natural system in the brain may help overcome drug addiction.

One of the worst combinations would be when I had to use the visual systems in my brain simultaneously for both complex thinking, or sensory interpretation and intense balance calculations.

We have learned that fear plays tricks with our memory and our perception of reality; we have also learned that the fear systems in the brain have their own perceptual channels and their own dedicated circuitry for storing traumatic memories.

They also affect systems in the brain that control feelings of reward, which makes perfect sense.

The research will also move forward understanding of the relationship between genetic characteristics and anaesthetic requirements, he says: «Investigating the role of melanocortin system in the central nervous system is likely to help us understand fundamental questions such as which systems in the brain produce unconsciousness and which modulate pain perception.»

«Pathological gambling is associated with altered opioid system in the brain.»

Prior research showed that the mPOA is important for social and reproductive behavior in all vertebrate species studied from fish to human, but it has been unclear whether this area drives social motivation through circuit connections with reward systems in the brain.

Studies show that overeating juices up the reward systems in our brain — so much so in some people that it overpowers the brain's ability to tell them to stop eating when they have had enough.

These are found in genes that are central to memory and learning, many of them part of the CREB (cyclic - AMP response elements binding protein) system in the brain.

DISCOMBOBULATING COLOR Here is a great cognitive visual illusion that involves a conflict between the syntactic and symbolic processing systems in your brain.

Like people, they have a μ - opioid receptor and two neurotransmitters, dopamine and glutamate, that trigger the natural reward system in the brain.

«Math difficulties may reflect problems in a crucial learning system in the brain.»

Imagine what we'd learn by applying this approach to all the neurotransmitter systems in the brain.»

«Drugs of abuse use the same systems in the brain that are used to process natural rewards.

These studies were done with the knowledge that the embryo and fetus develop under the control of hormones at parts per billion and parts trillion, and that as the baby matures hormone concentrations are regulated by sensitive, thermostat - like, feedback control systems in the brain.

That's where the striatal system in the brain, which can be a source of more habitual responses, may be a detriment.

The idea is that there are systems in the brain that help us by imitating only «internally» — they dampen the activity of mirror neurons when we simply watch, so that we can still have the sort of «inner imitation» that allows us to empathize with others, without any overt imitation.

Unlike SSRIs which target the serotonin system in the brain, BU10119 works by blocking receptors called kappa opioid receptors.

Others have previously speculated that the biological basis of psychiatric disorders such as PTSD includes a shift in the balance between different signalling systems in the brain but none has yet proved it.

Researchers from Uppsala University and the medical university Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm now show that people with posttraumatic stress disorder have an imbalance between two neurochemical systems in the brain, serotonin and substance P.

«Posttraumatic stress disorder reveals an imbalance between signalling systems in the brain.»

In the ensuing search for a learning task that H.M. could master, a breakthrough came with the demonstration of spared motor learning, thus providing early evidence for the existence of multiple memory systems in the brain.

The new paper «Extinction Reverses Olfactory Fear Conditioned Increases in Neuron Number and Glomerular Size» highlights the results of a first of its kind study in which researchers reveal that the olfactory system in the brain is biologically and structurally more sensitive to trauma cues than previously thought, and that it's possible for fear behaviors associated with emotional learning to be reversed through exposure - based talk therapy.

Alcohol and other addictive drugs activate the dopamine system in the brain which is responsible for feelings of pleasure and reward.

Also, scientists are not sure they have found all the navigation - related systems in the brain.