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Each odor activates a different combination of sensors, which in turn activates a different odor detector in the mushroom body.
But that is not enough, because compassion, which activates the motor cortex, means that we aspire, we actually aspire to transform suffering.
So it activates FOXO, FOXO goes to the DNA, and that triggers the expression of these genes that improves the ability of the cell to protect itself and repair itself.
It activates the same areas in the brain.
They have two types of flight muscle: so-called power muscle, which is stretch-activated, which means that it activates itself and does not need to be controlled on a contraction-by-contraction basis by the nervous system.
[CHAT: Cetacean Hearing And Telemetry] Now, instead of pushing a keyboard through the water, the diver's wearing the complete system, and it's acoustic only, so basically the diver activates the sounds on a keypad on the forearm, the sounds go out through an underwater speaker, if a dolphin mimics the whistle or a human plays the whistle, the sounds come in and are localized by two hydrophones.
For someone with PTSD, that memory activates the same neurochemical cascade as the original event.
Each sensory experience activates a unique set of brain areas.
Since pain can have serious consequences, the pain signal immediately activates the salience network.
When your brain senses stress, it activates your autonomic nervous system.
When you see the apple, your brain's motor center activates the appropriate muscles, allowing you to reach out with your arm, grab it with your hand, bend your elbow joint, and bring it to your mouth.
Histamine also activates the nerves involved in itching, which is why bug bites make you scratch.
From here, the signal activates the brain's reward system.
It activates a different part of the brain.
It activates what's called the buzzing bridge, or the dog.
Brain studies have shown that the withdrawal of romantic love activates the same mechanisms in our brain that get activated when addicts are withdrawing from substances like cocaine or opioids.
They succeed in the heist, but Deputy Kate (T-Love) activates the alarm and one of the criminals shoots Deputy Duff.
For example, merely viewing another person's movements activates our own motor cortex, which we normally use for precise control of our actual movements.
If all of this is true, psychotherapy succeeds to the extent that it activates and enhances the lifelong processes of neural plasticity.
Human brain scans demonstrate that glucose activates the cerebral cortex (the “cognitive” part of our brains), while fructose suppresses that signal and instead lights up the limbic system (your “lizard” brain).
By blocking glutamate from binding to the NMDA receptor, ketamine leads to an augmented glutamate release, which activates other types of glutamate receptors and enhances the function and density of synapses (the junctions between neurons) in areas of the brain where stress or depression has caused cells to atrophy.
Adjust and Reschedule or Delay and DefaultBRUSSELS – As Greece activates its €45 billion rescue package with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, it is becoming clear that a new, far more comprehensive approach is needed.
The characteristic form by which music activates the imagination is by short evocations of out-of-context images, or a diffuse feeling of boundlessness, both of which need not be integrated into any meaningful context.
What aging researchers have found is that their slight impairment elicits a “danger signal” (like news that a hurricane is on the way), which activates FoxO to fortify the animal.