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Researchers discover brain circuits that control fear responses
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], October 5 (ANI): During a new study, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre researchers discovered a brain mechanism that enables mice to override their instincts based on previous experience.
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Racing heart may alter decision-making brain circuits, study shows how
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 4 (ANI): In an effort to understand how psychiatric disorders influence the brain's decision-making processes, scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai analysed the data from a previous study of non-human primates.
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Study finds how a racing heart may alter decision-making brain circuits
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 31 (ANI): In a recent study, scientists have found that the body-state monitoring neurons can hijack the decision-making process.
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Eating for hunger or pleasure? Regulating feeding behaviours involves diff
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 27 (ANI): Many times we eat, not because we are hungry, but because of social pressures or because the food is so appetising, that, even though we are full, we just want another bite.
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Regular physical activity linked to better organized preteen brains: Study
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 24 (ANI): Regular physical activity has positive effects on children's developing brain circuits, finds a Boston Children's Hospital study using neuroimaging data from nearly 6,000 early adolescents.
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Consuming alcohol restructures brain causing changes in functioning, finds
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 18 (ANI): As people are already aware of the harmful effects of alcohol addiction, and the habit leading to many health problems, a new study has linked excessive alcohol consumption to the brain and its functions. A new study has found that alcohol addiction and a
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Exercise activates memory neural networks in older adults: study
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [USA], April 26 (ANI): Recent findings suggest that when it comes to older adults, just one session of exercise can increase activation in the brain circuits associated with memory - including the hippocampus - which shrinks with age and is the brain region attacked first in Al
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