What's more, the neural circuits responsible for positive emotions turned on as soon as the subject found a way to resolve the contradictions — reinforcing the faulty reasoning.
Dendritic pruning and synapse elimination produce more efficient neural circuits that continue to be remodelled throughout life [ 32].
In other words, more malleable neural circuits can lead to negative outcomes under adversity but also hold the potential for positive gains when the environment is supportive.
15, 21, 22 These changes would be expected to result in more finely tuned neural circuits, which will respond optimally to the task in hand.
More generally, the neural circuits contributing to Drosophila's motion estimator are still incompletely known, and the extent to which the fly brain's biological complexity reflects computational sophistication remains an open question.
In this context it is important to note that, although we focus primarily on the role of phylogenetically old circuits underpinning innate animal and human defense responses, in humans these circuits are embedded within, and interact with, a broad array of more recently evolved neural circuits and networks involved in emotion regulation.
Although it seems adaptive to have a high-efficient circuit for semantic processing, it may also lead to false memories when the neural processing in this circuit becomes faster and more efficient than the other, more literal, memory-related neural circuits.
Unlike flat neuron cultures grown in petri dishes, the structure provides cells with something to cling to as they branch out and make connections, forming complex, 3D networks that more closely mimic real neural circuits, the authors say.
In addition, future studies will have to more thoroughly dissect the neural circuits that regulate feeding behavior, especially determining how such circuits are related to others that regulate alternative behaviors.
It could be the case that adolescents activate these developing social brain regions more strongly than adults because the less efficient neural circuits need more oxygen and energy to power them.
