Sentences with phrase «whose brains reward»

Second are the billions of sugar - addicted consumers whose taste buds make lettuce and other vegetables taste too bitter, but whose brains reward them with a pleasant sensation at the taste of anything sweet.

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Previous findings from Hariri's group show that people whose brains exhibit a high response to threat and a low response to reward are more at risk of developing symptoms of anxiety and depression over time.

Marieta Pehlivanova, Joseph Kable, Theodore Satterthwaite and colleagues studied whether this relationship between cortical thickness and reward preference holds true for teens, whose brains are undergoing dramatic structural changes.

In brain imaging studies, the OPFC is highly active when people deliberate between actions with uncertain risks and rewards, and clinical reports describe patients, such as Gage, whose inability to consider long - term consequences can lead to tragic outcomes.

Over the following year, those whose brains showed less activation in areas known to respond to natural rewards like foods ended up gaining more weight — though only if they had a particular genetic makeup.

The study's results suggested that girls whose brains showed less reward system activation to foods also gained more weight — if they had the DRD2 Taq1AQ1 or the DRD4 7 + repeat alleles.