Sentences with phrase «triggered by brain»

Dogs don't do this rationally; rather, it's an immediate response triggered by their brain.

It results from an illness triggered by brain changes that occur after using some drugs or engaging in some extremely pleasurable activities.

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Is there something in our communication in church, society and culture, which we should have clocked by now — something about how Jesus structured his communication to trigger his listeners» brains?

It basically triggers the effect of feeling a divine presence by subjecting the brain to weak magnetic pulses, but some drugs and other conditions have done the same.

By summing up this spontaneity (making its successive moments simultaneous) sufficient energy could be accumulated and released to influence the «hair - trigger» behavioral mechanisms of the brain.23 A similar explanation is available to Bergson to account for the manner in which the vital impetus could influence evolution,

According to Professor Mark Mattson, head of neuroscience at the US National Institute on Ageing: «Suddenly dropping your food intake dramatically — cutting it by at least half for a day or so — triggers protective processes in the brain.»

Also has an autoimmune disease that affects his brain and was triggered by these illnesses.

Now for dealing with your anxiety over the crying: Keep in mind that in its simplest form, it is just a chemical reaction in your brain, triggered by something that makes you extra sensitive to your child's crying, which even the hint of can set you off.

And when their immediate environment is in constant flux — when the adults in their orbit behave erratically or don't interact with them much — the child's brain and the stress - response systems linked to it are triggered to prepare for a life of instability by being on constant alert, ready for anything.

The presence of the S100B protein triggers the release by the body of antibodies which can then leak back into the brain through the damaged blood - brain barrier, where they are thought to attack brain tissue.

I mean, I don't know about you, but I'd rather die relatively quickly (~ 2h, max, for the majority of fatal bullet wounds) or lose a limb than die because I'm coughing so hard my lungs shred themselves (mustard gas) or because my muscles, constantly triggered by uncontrollable electrical impulses, use up all the oxygen before my brain can (VX).

However, one third of cases are triggered by damage to the brain from causes such as head injury, stroke, tumours or infection.

A man wearing an EEG cap that measures brain activity triggered exposure to these fluorescent drugs simply by doing calculations in his head (PLoS, doi.org/bpwp).

The results are largely consistent with a growing body of research about the neural basis of aggression, and how it is triggered by changes in the way that the prefrontal cortex, the limbic system and reward - related regions of the brain function.

P3 is the electrical activity in the brain triggered by visual attention — when one notices something.

«Many approaches in basic science and in the clinic aim to trigger regeneration processes post-stroke by stimulating healthy brain regions of indeterminate size.

However, some mice experienced dangerous levels of brain swelling, a side effect of the immune response triggered by the engineered cells, the researchers said, adding that extreme caution will be needed to introduce the approach in human clinical trials.

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

Dulac also tracked brain activity triggered by predator and infant odors.

To discover this, Hui Liu, Gene Robinson, and Eric Jakobsson of the University of Illinois developed new computational tools to analyze patterns of gene conservation across a wide range of animals, for genes activated and inhibited in the honey bee brain by exposure to a chemical communication signal that triggers alarm.

Further animal studies by Kipnis and others show that learning new tasks triggers a mild stress response within the brain, which prompts CD4 cells to rally to the meninges, the membranes that surround the brain.

The tremors and other movement impairments of Parkinson's are triggered by the death of dopamine - producing cells in the brain, so the investigators used flies that had been genetically engineered to have their dopamine cells die off as they age.

By comparing subsequent brain activity with that recorded before paralysis, the team could predict the movement each monkey was attempting, and electronically trigger muscles in the monkey's hand to replicate the expected action.

Bristow then used a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner, or fMRI, to monitor any brain activity triggered by blinking, independent of the effect of eyelid closure on light entering the eye.

A study in this week's Neuron provides key evidence that DNA methylation — also known to occur as cancerous cells divide, when tumor suppressor genes are silenced — occurs in adult brains and can be triggered by environmental cues.

«Brain pathway contributes to restraining from food temptation triggered by environmental cues.»

So, what happens that the researchers were looking at, this moment, when the bees suddenly lost weight, and they found that it is dictated by the queen bee's pheromones, which trigger this insulin mechanism in the bees» brains that causes them to lose weight.

Working with mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have contributed significant new evidence to support the idea that high doses of cocaine kill brain cells by triggering overactive autophagy, a process in which cells literally digest their own insides.

Rejection by other people in a social situation triggers brain activity resembling that produced by physical pain.

In the fall of 2003, two media researchers at the University of Southern California set up a study to look at the patterns of brain activity triggered by violent video games.

Kenyon cells make up only about 4 % of the entire fly brain and are extremely sensitive to inputs triggered by odors, in which only two connections between neurons, called synapses, separate them from the receptor cells at the «front end» of the olfactory system.

That means the canine brain responses were being triggered by something distant in space and time.

The drug works by stopping toxic ion flow in the brain that is known to trigger nerve cell death.

Dopamine (which is connected to reward processing, motivation and attention) is one of the brain's primary neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers by which one neuron triggers its neighbor to fire a nerve impulse.

«Link found between cognitive fatigue and effort and reward: Neuroimaging findings show overlap in activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, suggesting a pattern of self - regulation in the brain triggered by cognitive fatigue.»

BREATHLESS Nerve endings in the lungs send signals — triggered by force - detecting proteins — to the brain and spinal cord that help regulate breathing.

But the brain's skinniest neurons sometimes send out random spikes triggered by ion channel proteins» popping open accidentally.

By stimulating an area of the brain stem with electricity, they could trigger the ultrasonic vocalizations.

Lifelong consequences of a brain injury are triggered by a cascade of neurochemical events in the seconds and minutes after the injury occurs, say Kobrine and other doctors and neuroscientists.

«The study was inspired by patients who had experienced moments of «volcanic craving», being suddenly overcome by the extreme desire for cocaine, but without a trigger that they could put their finger on,» says senior author Anna Rose Childress, PhD, research professor of Psychiatry, director of the Brain - Behavioral Vulnerabilities Division in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Near - misses thus reinforce your behaviour, which happens by triggering activity in reward - related brain regions like the striatum.

The Leuven - based VIB researchers Dominik Haddad, Vanessa Morais and Patrik Verstreken have unraveled the mechanism by which brain cells trigger the destruction of dysfunctional mitochondria.

The release of dopamine in the brain is triggered by addictive substances and behaviors, so compounds that mimic dopamine could be useful in possible treatments.

A cannabis - like substance produced by the brain may dampen delusional or psychotic experiences, rather than trigger them.

To visualize neuronal activity in real time, researchers injected mice with a virus that induced their brain cells to glow, or fluoresce, anytime an electrical impulse was triggered by something the mouse saw.

The same brain chemicals involved in the pleasure gotten from eating are triggered by sex and drugs.

«Controlling memory by triggering specific brain waves during sleep.»

A rudimentary home version of EEG medical equipment, it works by letting your brain waves trigger a fan to shoot air that raises a ball in a clear 10 - inch tower.

Rather, the pain which is triggered by capsaicin may act to divert the brain's attention from the processing of information about sweetness.

Leptin helps regulate metabolism by triggering the feeling of being full, and recent studies have shown it also figures in brain development (ScienceNow, 2 April 2004).