Kerr describes this as a "sensory volume knob" and it is this flexible focusing skill which, the paper proposes, "regulates attention so that it does not become biased toward negative physical sensations and thoughts, as in depression".
Like other genes in the dopaminergic system, the DRD4 gene regulates attention processes, is partially responsible for motivation, and has been linked to exploratory behaviors[ 30].
Our results suggest that reduced levels of STIP1 have important consequences for behavior and seem to affect brain circuits that regulate attention.
Intranasal insulin-induced changes in cognitive function may be related to vasodilatation in the anterior brain regions, such as insular cortex that regulates attention-related task performance.
In the whole cohort, cognitive performance on the BVMT and verbal fluency measures upon insulin administration was related to perfusion and vasodilatation within the MCA territory and specifically to the insular cortex that regulates attention-related task performance.
Our results suggest that improvement of cognitive performance on insulin may be related to regional perfusion and vasodilatation and may specifically activate anterior regions that regulate attention-related task performance.
Whereas pharmaceutical products are widely regulated less attention has been placed on the regulation of other health products.
If environmental factors indeed dictate how HLA- A alleles are expressed or regulated, close attention to gene × environment or gene × sex interaction should provide a deeper understanding of "missing heritability" in quantitative genetics.
These nontraditional formats are increasingly popular and may be more conducive to successful media multitasking in academic arenas since students can direct and regulate their attention as they control the amount and pace of incoming information.
l-Theanine was associated with decreased fMRI responses to distractor stimuli in brain regions that regulate visual attention, suggesting that l-theanine may be decreasing neural resource allocation to process distractors, thus allowing to attend to targets more efficiently.
Neuroscientists and emotion researchers have found that this kind of practice heightens the activity in the regions of our brain that regulate our attention, which then carries over into our everyday lives.
