Sentences with phrase «brain scans confirmed»
And brain scans confirm this.
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«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 are confirming that pain really is in the mind — and that means we may be able to stop it without resorting to drugs or surgery.
Less than a quarter of drug - resistant patients, however, meet the medical criteria for the procedures, the main one being a distinct site of origin in the brain for their seizures (confirmed with brain scans and electroencephalography) that does not overlap with regions involved in essential functions, such as language.
Researchers suggest intensifying efforts to develop alternatives for PET scans, which are now the only FDA - approved diagnostic to confirm brain changes caused by Alzheimer's.
Since the current work was done in mice, O'Leary and Zembrzycki want to confirm the link in humans by using brain scans to measure the natural variation in the neocortical areas and search for potential links to disease.
The scans firstly confirmed which regions of the brain are associated with reading: as expected, the visual word form area, which is known to enable people to link sounds with written symbols, became active during reading, demonstrating that it plays an important role.
However, the authors note this is unlikely as the results lasted for a year and were confirmed with the brain activity scans.
For the study, researchers conducted brain scans on 37 healthy smokers (those who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day) ages 19 to 61 using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in two different sessions: 24 hours after biochemically confirmed abstinence and after smoking as usual.
Varun Warrier added: «We now need to confirm these results using new genetic and brain scan data so as to understand how exactly gene activity and thickness of the cortex are linked in autism.»
In the study, 2,100 people with mild dementia and evidence of amyloid in the brain confirmed by PET scans were randomly assigned to solanezumab or placebo.
In April 2012, an MRI scan found what a surgeon later confirmed: I have an inoperable brain tumour that was giving me mild epileptic seizures.
Imaging of the brain via CT scan or MRI is required to confirm the presence of such a tumour.
In April 2012, an MRI scan found what a surgeon later confirmed: I have an inoperable brain tumour that was giving me mild epileptic seizures.
In fact, brain scan studies have confirmed what doctors have suspected for years: people are only capable...
In April 2012, an MRI scan found what a surgeon later confirmed: I have an inoperable brain tumour that was giving me mild epileptic seizures.