Sentences with phrase «triggers areas in the brain»

In addition, raw foods require more chewing, which spends additional energy and also triggers areas in the brain which signal satiety.

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In addition, facts and stats typically stimulate only two areas of the human brain, but stories can activate up to seven, and trigger emotional responses within listeners.

Dopamine is released in our brain whenever we indulge in that area whenever our adolescent fantasies are triggered.

Studies demonstrated that the changes in the brain's dopamine production area, or VTA — though crucial to the development of addiction — also triggered a cascade of biological processes that resulted in permanent changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), the area downstream that is closely linked to motivation and goal - directed behavior.

Together these signals triggered activity in the ventral striatum, an area of the brain that motivates action and motor skills.

Although any cyst in a susceptible area of the brain can cause seizures, those lodged near regions that issue commands to muscles can trigger violent convulsions.

But, in the sleep - deprived brain, the amygdala seemed to be «rewired,» coupling instead with a brain stem area called the locus coeruleus, which secretes norepinephrine, a precursor of the hormone adrenaline that triggers fight - or - flight type reactions.

Two years ago, Bonin at Wake Forest University and his team used optogenetics to trigger the release of dopamine in a brain area called the nucleus accumbens (NU - klee - us Uh - KUM - benz).

It is possible for elements of the dream to be recalled later in the day, perhaps triggered by an experience that reactivates the same area of the brain that created the dream overnight.

Because cells in the brain are constantly transferring information and triggering responses, there are dozens of areas of the brain at least peripherally involved in fear.

By the time you get to ten, any stress response you've triggered will likely be dissipated and you'll be back in the learning and empathetic area of your brain once again.

Some theories suggest that fibromyalgia may result from stress - induced changes in the hippocampal area of the brain; others from stress - induced disruptions of the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis (which affects adrenal function and cortisol production); and still others from low levels of the neurotransmitter, dopamine, caused by genetic factors and triggered by exposure to stressors, such as emotional distress, physical trauma, viral infections or inflammatory disorders.

«Love triggers the parts of the brain associated with reward,» van der Walt says, «in neuroscience terms this is the caudate nucleus and the ventral tegmental, areas of the brain that release the neurotransmitter dopamine.»

When stimulated, those receptors relay signals via the 8th cranial nerve to particular areas of the brain - in particular, to an area called the «chemoreceptor trigger zone,» or CRTZ.

Belly rubs are usually pleasurable because rubbing the hair follicles triggers a reaction in the dog's brain but for some dogs this area is just too sensitive.

The received notion, as I understand it, is that molecules of a particular oderant have a unique shape that will latch on to some of the five or six million receptors in our olfactory area and thus trigger signals that cause the brain to register a particular smell.

Literally, when you are yelling you're in a reactive state, you're having an emotional trigger in the limbic area of the brain.