Sentences with phrase «with brain neurotransmitter»

By contrast, experiments simulating future ocean acidification suggest that interference of high CO2 with brain neurotransmitter function is the primary cause for olfactory - mediated behavioural impairment in fish.

In contrast, interference of high CO2 with brain neurotransmitter functions is the primary cause of such impaired behaviour in experiments simulating future ocean acidification.

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To a great extent, it's just your limbic system injecting your brain with powerful neurotransmitters that make you feel good when you connect with others.

When we're around others, our brains reinforce that behavior by rewarding us with neurotransmitters that make us feel good.

The drug floods the brain with hormones and neurotransmitters that evoke feelings of trust and well - being, users report.

Neurotransmitters are chemicals used by brain cells to communicate with each other.

Then he remembered things he learned in psychology classes: A cluster of cells in the center of the brain, the nucleus accumbens, gets dosed with the neurotransmitter dopamine when we do something fun, like have sex or eat a doughnut.

- Intense stress early in life can alter the brain's neurotransmitter systems and cause changes in the brain similar to those seen in adults with depression.

According to experts, eating a healthy balanced diet allows the body to absorb the proper nutrients to provide the brain with the optimal environment to produce the neurotransmitters that it needs for sleep.

He looked closer at a specific gene known to regulate levels of the brain neurotransmitter serotonin — a lack of which is found in people with depression.

During seizures, neurons fire too rapidly, flooding the brain with neurotransmitters.

One of your biggest discoveries was how addiction affects the D2 receptor, the protein that determines how sensitive individuals are to the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, a chemical in the brain associated with feelings of reward and pleasure.

Researchers are not sure what is causing the peculiar behaviors but Munday suspects that elevated CO2 levels interfere with a neurotransmitter called GABA, which plays a key role in modulating activity in the brain and nervous system of virtually all animals, including humans.

The research team, led by David Cantu and Chris Dulla, studied the effect of traumatic brain injury on the levels of the neurotransmitter gamma - aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the cerebral cortex, the portion of the brain associated with higher level functions such as information processing.

Ridgway suspects the squeals are tied to the release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with the reward centers of mammal brains.

GABA has been known for decades to be a key neurotransmitter in the brain, a chemical that nerve cells use to communicate with each other, but its role in the pancreas was unknown until the 2011 paper by Drs. Prud «homme and Wang.

When THC strikes specific cannabinoid receptors, it triggers domino chains of interacting molecules in neurons that culminate in both unusually elevated and abnormally low levels of various neurotransmitters (the molecules that brain cells use to communicate with one another).

These compounds block the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from interacting with its receptors in the brain.

In addition, as with the human brain, the fly brain is compartmentalized into regions that process different sensory information (visual, acoustic, olfactory), and it uses the same types of neurotransmitters as humans.

The hormone oxytocin, which has been associated with interpersonal bonding, may enhance the pleasure of social interactions by stimulating production of marijuana - like neurotransmitters in the brain, according to a University of California, Irvine study.

Due to the central nervous system origins of fibromyalgia pain, Clauw said treatments with opioids or other narcotic analgesics usually are not effective because they do not reduce the activity of neurotransmitters in the brain.

Functional MR imaging taken while the animals received either a juice reward or VTA stimulation revealed that both induced activation of brain regions that previous studies in humans and other primates have associated with reward signaling by means of the neurotransmitter dopamine.

Many researchers are also hopeful about clinical trials under way with drugs that block certain receptors for glutamate, the main neurotransmitter in the brain that excites neural activity.

It alters the neurotransmitters from the brain that communicate with the muscles.

Such behaviors produce spikes in the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine in brain regions that are associated with motivation.

Specifically, the release of a stress - coping hormone called corticotropin - releasing factor (CRF), which is widely found in the brain and acts as a neurotransmitter / neuromodulator, is dysregulated in AD and is associated with impaired cognition and with detrimental changes in tau protein and increased production of amyloid - beta — protein fragments that clump together and trigger the neurodegeneration characteristic of AD.

In a final experiment, when the researchers gave the bees a drug that disrupted receptors for dopamine, a neurotransmitter linked with motivation and reward, the bias disappeared, echoing the way this brain chemical works in mammals.

The study found that the drugs were associated with a surge in the neurotransmitter glutamate in key regions of the brain.

«The distinct neural markers associated with cognitive performance and GWI revealed in our study can be useful for future research to objectively measure the efficacy of treatments for GWI as well as other brain disorders related to the same neurotransmitter system, like Alzheimer's disease.»

The study found that after oral feeding, ground cinnamon is metabolized into sodium benzoate, which then enters into the brain, stops the loss of Parkin and DJ - 1, protects neurons, normalizes neurotransmitter levels, and improves motor functions in mice with PD.

This neurotransmitter is depleted in the brains of people with Parkinson's, and is vital for mobility.

This regulation is spectacularly apparent in the exquisite speed and precision of synaptic exocytosis, where synaptotagmin (the calcium - ion sensor for fusion) cooperates with complexin (the clamp activator) to control the precisely timed release of neurotransmitters that initiates synaptic transmission and underlies brain function.

More recently, brain scans have directly linked these conditions with changes in levels of neurotransmitters — chemicals that convey messages across neurons — or alterations in the number or structure of neurons in different brain areas.

The new study combined two methods: So - called «patch recording» of tiny voltages in single frog brain cells and how the voltages change in response to sounds of different lengths, and the administration of drugs that block neurotransmitters — a way to learn how brain cells respond to sound with and without the normal neurotransmitters.

But the current excitment about Prozac proves one thing for certain: you don't have to understand the brain, or the roots of human behaviour, in order to make drugs that can interfere very specifically with its neurotransmitters and the receptors they act on.

During the 1970s, research with animals also suggested that acetylcholine might be a key neurotransmitter in memory formation; for instance drugs such as scopolamine, which deplete brain acetylcholine also impair memory.

Ellis - Davies and his team plan to use this technique with NDBF - caged neurotransmitters to chemically control the firing of a single neuron in the brain of a living mouse, allowing them to track how neural traffic moves.

A person with PARK8 type parkinsonism (right) shows less overall activity of the neurotransmitter dopamine, compared to that in a healthy brain (left).

When the molecule seeps into the brain and interferes with neurotransmitters, blood pressure rises, neurons work faster, and adrenaline production jumps.

The mutation, which has been found in people with ADHD, autism and bipolar disorder, affects the function of DAT, a protein that regulates the brain's supply of the neurotransmitter by removing excess dopamine from the synapse, or the space between nerve cells.

In the brain, RSG6 is involved in alcohol craving by controlling levels of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with addiction and reward - seeking behavior.

Drugs used to treat brain disorders often interact with brain chemicals called neurotransmitters or the cell receptors that interact with neurotransmitters.

The neurotransmitter dopamine appears to be central to human identity, but surprisingly links our brains with those of macaques.

The study found that increased activity in the front of the brain predicted increases in the neurotransmitter dopamine in the middle of the brain in subjects with the suspected schizophrenia - related version of the gene.

These hormones and neurotransmitters regulate your metabolism and communicate with other organs, like your brain, kidneys, and reproductive system.

It also increases the production of neurotransmitters in the brain associated with food reward and hunger control, and helps prevent cravings for sugar and junk food.

Find other ways to flood your brain with feel - good hormones and neurotransmitters, like acts of kindness, cuddles with loved ones, and outdoor activities.

PS helps our brain cells with the metabolization of glucose, so it can be released and bound to neurotransmitter, which enable many cognitive functions such as learning and memory.

Your brain communicates with your muscles by releasing a chemical neurotransmitter called acetylcholine, which signals them to contract.

Your neurotransmitters are literally made up of amino acids (breakdown products of proteins), and sugar messes with your insulin — throwing you into crazy dips in blood sugar, which affect brain function.