Prime suspects include increased blood flow to the brain, surges of growth hormones and expansion of the brain's network of blood vessels.
Scans have shown that metabolic activity in many parts of the brain surges during workouts, but it was unknown whether those active brain cells were actually adapting and changing.
A tan beauty, with black splotches, dry satiny skin, and a body like a firm eraser, P-52 had a pyramidal head, a brain surging with raw instinct and tiny black Sen-Sen eyes.
At the same time, their brains surged into action, with areas known to be involved in motivation and emotional processing -- the amygdala, deep in the temporal lobe, the orbitofrontal cortex, and other structures lighting up on the brain scan.
Our leaders and media institutions-the people who are supposed to be grown ups, in other words-are too often eager to indulge terror, to tell people that they should be afraid, that the basest parts of their animal brains surging with flight-or-fight neurotransmitters have the right idea.
Inside your stomach and inside your brain, the surge of dopamine alters the neurochemistry, requiring the addict to seek to match that first, miraculous high.
Publications on the importance of early brain development have surged in the global ECD community and have stimulated both increased ECD programming by multilateral and bilateral agencies and focused policy action by countries in all world regions.
The real question is whether your brain can handle the surge.
A surge of brain activity in dying rats may hold an explanation for the vivid, realistic visions experienced by some human victims of cardiac arrest, researchers say.
