"The joke is that we're the real angry bird, " Limbic Chief Executive Arash Keshmirian says.
Ten million copies of Limbic's games have been downloaded via the iPhone's App Store, Keshmirian says.
And, intriguingly, the only thing that triggered limbic activity in either group was reading the happy story.
The limbic sytem is a portion of the brain that controls things like emotion, behavior and memory.
The place where it is having its most profound effect is in the brain's emotional core the limbic system.
Dr Azari was expecting to see activity in the limbic systems of the Christians when they recited the psalm.
All of these nonverbal limbic responses can be seen whether you are in Sao Paulo, Singapore, San Francisco .
These are loosely grouped into the limbic system and the basal ganglia, although not everyone agrees what is what.
One drug currently available, called Lotronex, affects the limbic system and has worked more successfully in women than men.
Keshmirian and Limbic's two other cofounders came up with the idea for the game over beer in Cologne last October.
According to Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership, our emotions are physiologically part of our limbic system.
The limbic brain is in the middle of the reptilian and cortical brains (both in terms of evolution and physical location).
By contrast, Paxil ramped up activity in the cortex, while dampening activity in the limbic parts of the brain responsible for emotions.
The neuroscience behind limbic synchrony has everything to do with the discovery of mirror neurons and how empathy develops in the brain.
The researchers hypothesized that if the stimulation to the limbic system were unpleasant, the rats would stay away from that part of the cage.
If you desire to control the person in whom I reside, I and the rest of the limbic system are your single best allies.
It is the limbic system, basal ganglia and cerebrum that do the interesting stuff that distinguishes mammalian brains from those of their reptilian ancestors.
The limbic brain is most responsible for value judgments, and it is the limbic brain that plays the key role in all nonverbal communication.
That conflicts not only with the limbic-system theory but also with earlier reports of a so-called God Spot that derived partly from work conducted on epileptics.
In their experiments, an electrical current was sent to the limbic system of a rat's brain whenever it moved to a certain area of its cage.
These blindingly fast decisions occur in the limbic system and happen long before the more conscious part of the brain processes the data and reaches a conclusion.
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When the individuals heard dissonance, areas of their limbic systems known to be responsible for unpleasant emotion lit up and, moreover, the volunteers used negative adjectives to describe their feelings.
The same people who became very good at manipulating me, also tended to be very good at stimulating some of the other parts of the limbic system, such as pleasure centers.
The consonant music, by contrast, stimulated parts of the limbic system associated with pleasure, and the subjects' feelings were incontestably positive a neurological affirmation of the opinions of those who dislike Schoenberg's compositions.
It is surely no coincidence that much of the activity Dr Okubo found is in that characteristically human part of the brain, the enlarged cerebral cortex, rather than in the limbic system.
One of serotonin's jobs is to show growing nerve cells how they should connect from the frontal cortex, where reasoning takes place, to the limbic system, the seat of many emotional responses.
The limbic system, in particular the amygdala (an almond shaped region that is located just in front of the hippocampus), is the first part of the brain to receive emotional information and react to it.
Generally, acts of self disclosure were accompanied by spurts of heightened activity in brain regions belonging to the meso-limbic dopamine system, which is associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from food, money or sex.
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