Sentences with phrase «brain imaging studies also»

Brain imaging studies also show a link between the overall size of the hippocampus and recurrent bouts of major depression.

Brain imaging studies also linked those changing attributions of meaning to particular brain areas.

Not exact matches

From brain - imaging studies, we also know the visual cortex becomes more active while the area [in the brain] responsible for empathy becomes less active.

A 2004 brain - imaging study revealed that even thinking about a favorite food triggered release of dopamine, a feel - good hormone also produced during sex and drug use.

These comprised not only «conventional» behavioral studies, but also the physical effects on the brains of test participants by measuring the Blood Oxygen Level - dependent (BOLD) response using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans.

Musicians are also better at identifying pitch and speech sounds — brain imaging studies suggest that this is because their brains respond more quickly and strongly to sound.

Although brain - imaging studies of human participants watching funny cartoons or listening to jokes reveal the activation of evolutionarily ancient structures such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, more recently evolved, «higher - order» structures are also activated, including distributed regions of the frontal cortex.

Dyer, who recently joined the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, also studies how the brain computes via its signaling networks, and this imaging technique could someday open new windows onto how they work.

The study, which appears in academic journal Brain Imaging and Behavior, also reports that participants were subjectively more preoccupied with food at night even though their hunger and «fullness» levels were similar to other times of the day.

Functional imaging studies have also shown that autistic minds show decreased activity and connectivity in areas of the so - called «social brain» — regions important for language, face recognition and emotion.

And it is not restricted to imaging the brain; Studholme also plans to study the placenta and how its development influences the brain.

The brain imaging study was led by researchers at University of Pennsylvania's new Brain and Behavior Change Program, led by Caryn Lerman, PhD, who is also the deputy director of Penn's Abramson Cancer Center, and Elliot Stein, PhD, and collaborators at brain imaging study was led by researchers at University of Pennsylvania's new Brain and Behavior Change Program, led by Caryn Lerman, PhD, who is also the deputy director of Penn's Abramson Cancer Center, and Elliot Stein, PhD, and collaborators at Brain and Behavior Change Program, led by Caryn Lerman, PhD, who is also the deputy director of Penn's Abramson Cancer Center, and Elliot Stein, PhD, and collaborators at NIDA.

One of the few brain imaging studies of people with POCD, reported this year in the Annals of Neurology, also implicates brain inflammation.

Imaging studies of the brain DA system in marijuana abusers have also shown different findings from those reported for other types of substance abusers.

The mutated genes also interfered with how the brain's layers and halves relate to one another, a phenomenon confirmed by previous imaging studies of the autistic brain.

People with diabetes are also known to be more prone to depression, memory loss and eating disorders than people without diabetes, and imaging studies have shown that people with diabetes have altered brain function compared to those without.

They also use noninvasive imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), to study the development and functioning of the primate brain

In addition to pioneering these techniques, Raichle has also been instrumental in developing computer programs to make the most of PET imaging and be able to study regions of the brain to an accuracy of one millimetre.

In another study, those who reported SCI were also more likely to show changes in their brains on imaging scans, specifically demonstrating higher levels of beta - amyloid protein.

In addition to pioneering these techniques, Raichle has also been instrumental in developing computer programs to make the most of PET imaging and be able to study regions of the brain to an accuracy of one millimeter.

We will also continue using our new imaging technique to study synapses in various areas of the brain during sleep and different forms of plasticity.

The company also took advantage of better imaging techniques that could document the presence of amyloid in the brain; in the previous two studies, anywhere from 20 % to 30 % of the volunteers did not actually have amyloid.

«Previous animal and human brain imaging studies have suggested that psilocybin may have effects similar to other antidepressant treatments,» explained study senior author David Nutt, also of Imperial College London.