Sentences with phrase «brain scans from»

According to the brain scans from before and after the retreats, the researchers didn't see any changes in the relaxation group but did notice a change in the mindfulness group.

Brain scans from a control subject (left), a welder (center), and a subject with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (right), in a study by researchers at Washington University comparing brains of apparently healthy welders to those of Parkinson's patients.

Seidler and her team studied brain scans from 27 astronauts who had been in space.

Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group

Brain scans from nearly 200 adolescent boys provide evidence that the brains of compulsive video game players are wired differently.

Using two data sets of functional MRI brain scans from more than 350 adult and child siblings during resting state, Fair and colleagues applied an innovative technique to characterize functional connectivity and machine learning to successfully identify siblings based on their connectotype.

They plan to reanalyze brain scans from previous research to lay the groundwork for quantifying craving, its effects and ways to target treatments to counteract it.

Belger, the director of the UNC Neurocognition and Imaging Research Laboratory, and recent UNC graduate student Joseph Shaffer, PhD, compared brain scans from more than 100 people with schizophrenia against brain scans from people with no psychiatric diagnoses.

(If I showed you a brain scan from a besotted person or a terrified one, what would you really learn about love or fear?)

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.

The group, known as Building 8, currently has four simultaneous projects underway, spanning everything from cameras and augmented reality to science fiction - like brain scanning technology, Business Insider has learned.

From brain scans, Schwartz found that certain regions in the brain of OCD patients (the caudate nucleus in particular) exhibited abnormal patterns of activity.

Once the scan started there was so much to focus on — from their brain development to the formation of their limbs — it didn't really hit me until we were in the parking lot that I was carrying two little boys.

When he was 7 months old he started having seizures and we took him into hospital and they did brain scans which showed he has infantile spasms epilepsy caused by brain scarring from hypoglycaemia from not feeding properly in his first days of life.

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital performed preseason brain scans of 65 varsity athletes — 23 from collision sports (with routine, purposeful body - to - body contact), 22 from contact sports (where contact is allowed, but is not an integral part of the game) and 20 from non-contact sports.

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

Researchers used health data gathered during recent personal interviews with the subjects, and also analyzed data from MRI scans showing the current state of the subjects» brain cortices.

Actual snapshots of the brain from MRIs or CT scans are only showing up in about 15 percent of judicial opinions that involve neuroscience, according to Farahany's research.

BRAINY CHIMPS Some modern chimps have brain surface features that were thought to have signaled humanlike brain evolution in hominids from as early as 3 million years ago, scans suggest.

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.

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

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.

Examining the brain scans in the context of other disease markers from spinal fluid analyses and neuropsychiatric tests on the same participants showed that the rise and spread of tau in the brain tracked more closely with declining mental function than did amyloid.

The UM team analyzed hundreds of brain scans of participants, ranging in age from 6 to 86, who were all in a «resting state,» which means they were not engaged in any particular task while in the fMRI scanner.

The researchers fed the data from the scans into a machine - learning computer program, which eventually could identify which concept a volunteer was thinking about based on his or her brain activity.

The evidence comes from fMRI scans of 11 people's brains as they listened to a woman recounting a story.

He and his colleagues analyzed brain scans and blood samples from a group of 121 Japanese patients and a group of 252 Australian patients.

And even if the patient doesn't meet the conditions that guidelines say can benefit most from brain imaging — for instance, someone with an abnormal neurological exam or a known cancer — doctors might order a scan at a patient's request to protect themselves legally.

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.

When the researchers analyzed the brain scans, they found that the memory champs were activating some brain regions that were different from those the control subjects were using.

Then she examined the brain scans of her subjects to see which areas of the brain became active and to see whether the age of the volunteers — ranging from 6 to 29 — made a difference in their responses.

She and her colleagues analyzed the brain scans of volunteers while they kept themselves from hitting a key that they weren't supposed to hit.

In fMRI scans, people sniffing the sweat from first - time parachute jumpers lit up the brain's left amygdala, where basic emotions are processed, suggesting fear is contagious, too.

Now, UCLA researchers have developed a way to use brain scans and machine learning — a form of artificial intelligence — to predict whether people with OCD will benefit from cognitive behavior therapy.

Brain scans can also aid modern film technologies: Carlsen and Hubbard scanned volunteers» brains while they watched scenes from the movie Avatar in either 2D or 3D.

Around the same time, courts in India started accepting evidence from an extremely controversial brain scanning technique called brain electrical oscillation signature (BEOS) profiling.

At the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a psychiatric team is mapping the brain's intricate web of neural connections, using images from MRI scans, to try to identify regions responsible for depression.

Editor's note: When reporting results from the functional MRI scans of dogs» brains, left and right were accidentally reversed in all images, the researchers report in a correction posted April 7 in Science.

The brain's precise speech center varies from person to person, so to find Ramsey's target area — the place where an implant could discern the appropriate speech signals — Kennedy used a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan.

Freeman and his colleagues are comparing brain scans of PTSD victims from the Gulf War, Vietnam, Korea, and so on.

For now, the technology is limited to vision — working out what somebody is looking at from their brain activity (see «Mind - reading AI uses brain scans to guess what you're looking at»)-- but in principle there appears no reason why the entire contents of our minds couldn't be revealed.

Brain - scanning machines may soon be capable of discerning rudimentary thoughts and separating fact from fiction

Imaging studies that combine scans from many people, such as this diffusion image from the Human Connectome Project, don't identify brain variations in individuals.

If you are lost in a sea of options or just plain lost, don't panic — from brain scans to burger flipping, we can help you navigate your way to career clarity.

The HCP has sketched an engine manual, so to speak, of normal and healthy brain function, drawn from hundreds of fMRI scans.

From left, doctoral student Haiguang Wen, assistant professor Zhongming Liu and former graduate student Junxing Shi, review fMRI data of brain scans.

Sook - Lei Liew and her colleagues from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, asked eight adults to watch a circle on a screen while an fMRI machine scanned their brain.

Researchers have demonstrated how to decode what the human brain is seeing by using artificial intelligence to interpret fMRI scans from people watching videos, representing a sort of mind - reading technology.

Routine FDG - PET scans provide marker for predicting consciousness and recovery from brain injury