Sentence examples for mediating behaviour from inspiring English sources

The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical for regulating thoughts and mediating behaviour.

In contrast, activity in dorsofrontal structures, most notably the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC), is associated with mediating behaviour in the direction of safer over risky prospects (Campbell-Meiklejohn et al., 2008) and with delaying gratification in favour of superior but delayed rewards (McClure et al., 2004).

27 We hypothesise that targeting information, motivation and behavioural skills will lead to the adoption of mediating behaviours, which will, in turn, lead to improvements in diet and physical activity thus preventing excessive weight gain.

The next step – for the intervention described in this paper – is to evaluate its effects on the constructs that are proposed to mediate behaviour change, and on behavioural intention.

Nevertheless, inbred lab-derived strains do differ from one another in some olfactory and/or pheromone mediated behaviours [ 14, 56, 57].

Along with the superior frontal gyrus (SFG) and the orbitofrontal region, MFG seem to be involved in mediating inhibitory behaviour after RH stroke (Kopp et al. 2013), and in planned actions and attention (Schilling et al. 2012).

Further studies are needed to elucidate the role of the same hormones in mediating singing behaviour.

The current study provides the first indication of a possible role for the lateral habenula in mediating this behaviour.

While in this species a mother's ability to recognise her offspring is likely to be mutually beneficial to both mothers and pups, allowing mothers to direct resources to filial young, it is probable that parent-offspring conflict [20] plays a role in mediating the behaviour of mothers and young and affects the timing of onset.

It is most likely that the sorts of avoidance learning exhibited to date in fish studies is better explained by innate neural circuitry mediating reflex behaviour.

Also, the present findings suggest further research investigating the mechanisms mediating criminal behaviour in clients with different types of substance use patterns.