Sentence examples for pleasurable rewards from inspiring English sources

The psychiatrist Gregory Berns did just that in a study in which subjects were given fruit juice and water, both naturally pleasurable rewards, while scanning their brains with an M.R.I.

The bad news is that they can also become side-tracked by short-term, pleasurable rewards like overeating.

In particular, even though striatum activity has been linked to pleasurable music and reward (Blood and Zatorre 2001; Salimpoor et al. 2011), it is unknown whether it activates to more complex feelings that mix dysphoric states with positive affect, as reported, for example, for nostalgia (Wildschut et al. 2006; Sedikides et al. 2008; Barrett et al. 2010).

Heroin exerts its primary addictive effect by activating opiate receptors (similar to endorphin and serotonin receptors which are responsible for happiness) in the brain ; the brain regions affected are responsible for producing both the pleasurable sensation of "reward" and physical dependence.

Although these efforts may reduce the likelihood of rejection, they also lead to rigid, constrained social behavior (Alden & Taylor, 2004) and deplete the attentional resources and stamina needed to engage in and extract rewards from pleasurable social interactions (Heimberg, Brozovich, & Rapee, 2010; Kashdan, Weeks, & Savostyanova, 2011).

For example, a typical feature of a drug addict's brain is an unusually weak activation of the ventral striatum, which provides the "reward" of pleasurable activities by boosting the signal molecule dopamine.

If this were the case, then both the R cue and P cue could be viewed as more 'rewarding' than the N cue given the pleasurable possibilities of obtaining reward and avoiding punishment, respectively.

"There appears to be a dysfunction in the reward circuit, where activities that were rewarding and pleasurable no longer seem to be.

The first few times people eat a new, pleasurable food, their brain's reward systems light up — both when they are about to eat and after they've done so.

In other words, the reward is more pleasurable the more surprising it is.

This is consistent with Blood and Zatorre's results that the intensity of the chills ratings is positively correlated with the degree of blood flow to the ventral striatum, an area implicated in processing pleasurable experiences in response to reward [49] [51].