Sentences with phrase «brain scan studies»

In fact, brain scan studies have confirmed what doctors have suspected for years: people are only capable...

Brain scan studies provide additional information.

A number of brain scan studies have supported this view.

Brain scan studies of large groups of people can tell us things about what the «average» brain looks like.

Brain scan studies that are drawn from rich and well - educated groups could lead to biased ideas of how our brains develop.

When you try to do several things at once, you aren't more productive, but less by as much as 40 percent, according to brain scan studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

As fast as I could, I advanced my slides to the brain scan studies.

«Brain scan study adds to evidence that lower brain serotonin levels are linked to dementia: Results suggest serotonin loss may be a key player in cognitive decline, not just a side - effect of Alzheimer's disease.»

But a Dartmouth - and Princeton - led brain scanning study shows that people can intentionally forget past experiences by changing how they think about the context of those memories.

«Clot - busting drug benefits stroke patients, brain scan study shows.»

The results have been outstanding and in 2017 Peta completely the world's first brain scan study of tapping for obese adults.

According to a new brain scan study, heterosexual women are almost equally aroused by erotic stimuli featuring men as they are by erotic stimuli that feature women, further proving that female arousal is a particularly complex issue.

Her most recent publication, Soothing The Threatened Brain: Leveraging Contact Comfort through Emotionally Focused Therapy (PLOS) included a brain scan study showing how contact with a loving partner mitigates threat and fear responses.

Her most recent publication, Soothing the Threatened Brain: Leveraging Contact Comfort through Emotionally Focused Therapy (PLOS ONE) included a brain scan study showing how contact with a loving partner mitigates threat and fear responses.

Her most recent, «Soothing the Threatened Brain: Leveraging Contact Comfort through Emotionally Focused Therapy» (PLOS ONE) included a brain scan study showing how contact with a loving partner mitigates threat and fear responses.

Not exact matches

In one study, a research team from Massachusetts General Hospital looked at the brain scans of 16 people before and after they participated in an eight - week course in mindfulness meditation.

Other studies, meanwhile, are examining tryp's potential efficacy as an antifungal agent; and as a prognostic indicator in patients with brain cancer (as seen by increased uptake of the amino acid on a PET scan).

A 2013 study showed food to people who had dieted and people who hadn't, and then compared their brain scans.

«A study published last year in Experimental Brain Research appeared to provide some partial scientific support for this idea,» notes BPS, explaining that brain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain aBrain Research appeared to provide some partial scientific support for this idea,» notes BPS, explaining that brain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain abrain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain abrain areas.

Now a brain - scanning study in NeuroImage brings us a little closer to understanding why these exercises have these effects.

This book is packed full of empirical evidence, much of it shown with brain scans and papers on an 18 year study.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

One thing that jumps to mind is a series of studies done by scientists in Switzerland, who compared the brain scans of parents to those of childless people.

One study found that pregnancy does indeed cause striking changes in women's brains, so much so that researchers are able to tell if a woman has had a child simply by looking at her brain scans.

Given the results of a a new study reported in the British medical journal, The Lancet4 that children and young adults scanned multiple times by CT have a small increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors in the decade following their first scan, parents should make sure a CT scan is really necessary in treatment of their child after head injury.

Some of the findings of the cognitive neuroscientists studying the brain scans of individuals from different political parties seem to suggest some interestingly patterns.

She engages K - 12 students in her neuroscience research through lab visits and internships for students from low - performing schools, and compliments her research by meeting with each study participant to discuss their brain scans, as well as their college plans and potential interest in a science career.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used a technique recently borrowed from the computer science field by neuroscientists — multivariate pattern analysis — to examine brain scans that were taken while people looked at a picture of someone who had rejected them.

«Practice makes perfect, study confirms: Researchers were looking at fMRI brain scans of professional ballet dancers to measure the long - term effects of learning.»

«Brain scans show why people get aggressive after a drink or two: MRI study highlights how areas in the brain that temper aggression shut off when people drink alcohol.&rBrain scans show why people get aggressive after a drink or two: MRI study highlights how areas in the brain that temper aggression shut off when people drink alcohol.&rbrain that temper aggression shut off when people drink alcohol.»

In this study, Faculty of Health researchers were looking at fMRI brain scans of professional ballet dancers to measure the long - term effects of learning.

The study also reinforces the potential value of brain scans for identifying and understanding schizophrenia in individual patients, for finding promising new therapeutic approaches, and for helping clinicians track a patient's progress during therapy.

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

When studying honesty, neuroscientists usually ask people to either tell the truth or lie while undergoing a brain scan.

Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.

But the current stance of our major research institutions maintains that, given time, the ever - accelerating juggernaut of data from yet more genomic (and proteomic) projects and brain - scanning studies might somehow drive a causeway of understanding through these so unexpected findings.

In the Cardiovascular Health Study in the USA, 3,660 people aged 65 and older underwent brain scans to detect so called silent brain infarcts, or small lesions in the brain that can cause loss of thinking skills, dementia and stroke.

But the new study shows the rate of brain scans for headache has risen, not fallen, since guidelines for doctors came out.

The study showed that 13 trauma patients who had hit their heads and had CT scans showing new brain damage, as well as 39 trauma patients who had hit their heads and had normal CT scans, had significantly less ability to coordinate their eye movements than normal, uninjured control subjects.

In the study, researchers used a mathematical algorithm to analyze the brain scans and eye movements of 16 young adults between the ages of 20 to 28.

Additional tests — cognitive assessments, measurement of blood markers and MRI brain scans — were conducted at the trial's outset, at 6 months and at the end of the study period.

Feusner, who also is a professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said if the study's results are replicated, OCD treatment could someday start with a brain scan.

In one 2015 study, researchers gave adolescents chocolate milkshakes and used fMRI scans to see how their brains reacted.

Dr. Aron and colleagues based their study's conclusions on a neuroimaging study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

He would also like to see more studies that directly compare olfaction testing with costly and invasive procedures such as brain scans and spinal taps.

Dr Vera Weisbecker of UQ's School of Biological Sciences said the study represented the first dataset comparing brain growth in different mammals, gathered through a novel method of non-invasive micro-CT (computed tomography) scanning which allowed the fast data acquisition of soft tissue growth in tiny mammals.

Mammalian brain growth is studied in this paper which shows that a widely accepted hypothesis of how the mammalian brain proportions grow and evolve does not work, using a novel method of micro-CT scan that allows the first fast data acquisition of soft tissue growth in tiny mammals.

In the study, 160 people with mild cognitive impairment had brain MRI scans to measure hippocampus size.

Lack of sleep affects appetite, too: A 2012 Swedish brain - scan study identified heightened activity in the right anterior cingulate cortex — a brain region associated with hunger control — in the sleep - deprived.

Autopsy and scanning studies indicate that a healthy 69 - year - old like me has been shedding brain matter at a rate of 0.5 percent per year for a decade and probably longer.