The same pathways are well-documented to be altered in Type 2 Diabetes, for example, and in certain neurological disorders.
Women who are the primary caregivers develop neural pathways in their brains that make them more responsive to emotional cues in their children, but, according to the study, the same pathways developed in fathers who were the primary caregiver.
Marcus writes that the brain results from the same pathways that make lungs, noting that "from a gene's-eye view, brains are just one more elaborate configuration of proteins".
Methadone affects the same pathways in the brain as heroin and other opiates, but more slowly.
Aging does not proceed along the same pathways and timelines in all populations.
Plants that pose risks of environmental harm, although they may arrive through the same pathways, are generally not covered.
The brain seemed to be stuck in a rut using the same pathways over and over again.
But more studies will be needed, he says, to show whether the same pathways are important in human asthma.
However, he notes, several currently available drugs stimulate the same pathways as forskolin, including some prescribed for asthma.
In other words, the same pathways in the brain get activated when we experience meaningful rejections as get activated when we experience physical pain -- hurt feelings actually hurt.
Surprisingly, the same pathways appeared in Alzheimer's disease.
