Sentences with phrase «brain scans tell»

Modern brain scans tell us why.

Brain scans tell us that these regions of the brain correspond to the ones activated in human beings.

Not exact matches

Kurzweil has appeared in Inc. magazine numerous times (he let us scan his brain and told us how to predict the future) and is the leading advocate of a school of thought called the singularity, which says, essentially, that humans will eventually turn into robots and live forever.

When you think about the fact that very young children especially can't exactly tell you that their head hurts or may make an exam difficult because they get cranky or tired or act out in a way that you can't determine «normal» behavior, it makes sense that a CT scan could be especially helpful in diagnosing brain injuries.

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.

«But I would never tell a parole board to decide whether to release somebody or hold on to somebody, based on their brain scan as an individual, because I can't tell what are the causal factors in that individual.»

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

In a healthy brain, these responses are easy to tell apart on a scan: Tennis activates motor - related brain areas, while navigating activates spatial regions.

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

Those brain scans might not look like the scans of people told to lie, for instance, about whether they'd taken a watch off a lab table.

Here's an extreme idea but one that would certainly make career choices easier: a brain scan that tells you what jobs you would be good at.

If you have awful spatial awareness, for example, best not become a racing driver... but perhaps you don't need a brain scan to tell you that.

The researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan 21 of the participants» brains while they viewed pairs of short film clips showing classmates of varying status within this social network, telling them all they needed to do was indicate whether the clips in each pair were the same or different, and that this task was unrelated to the first part of the experiment.

To find out, they scanned the «resting» brains of volunteers as they waited to be told what the experiment entailed.

An algorithm can reconstruct pictures a person is looking at from brain scans, could one day be used to tell what someone is thinking

Last year, several news outlets reported that after having his brain scanned at the University of California, Los Angeles, former National Football League (NFL) running back Tony Dorsett was told he shows signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease associated with repeated blows to the head.

A team led by John - Dylan Haynes of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin scanned the brains of volunteers who held a button in each hand and were told to push one of the buttons whenever they wanted to.

From the scans, the researchers could tell that the monkeys relied on an area of the brain called the arcuate sulcus to do the task.

Some needed no scan to tell them their brains had been injured.

«MRI scans give us a bird's eye view of the apnea - related difference in volume of various parts of the brain, but they don't tell us, at the cellular level, what happened to the affected neurons or when,» said co-author David Gozal, MD, professor of pediatrics, University of Chicago.

A study focused on how friendships are forged is like a case of «show me you brain scan and I'll tell you who your friends are.»

A co-worker at the agency claimed he had overheard Wilson's supervisor saying that she should not be placed on jobs because of her complaint, so Zevin had the co-worker undergo questioning about the incident during a brain scan by Cephos, one of several American companies that claim they can reliably use fMRI to establish whether somebody is telling the truth or lying.

A good precedent was set earlier this week, in a federal court case in Tennessee, in which the attorney defending Lorne Semrau against charges of fraud attempted to submit brain scans as evidence that his client was telling the truth.

Volunteers had three brain scans: once with no instruction on how to react to the food, once after being told to suppress their desire for the food, and once with no food in front of them.

Now I've been told that I have a slightly elevated cancer marker in a recent blood test (CA 15 - 3 with a score of 39.1 unit / mL H), and they want to do a bone scan and brain MRI just to be careful.

Dr. Edward Brettholz told us that the brain scan was even, meaning that it showed no life, but that it would be necessary to take three more scans so that, in the trial ahead, the defense could not claim that Cedars - Sinai had removed Dominique from the life - support system too soon.

In Liège, Steven Laureys's PhD student Athena Demertzi, who helped Laureys scan and study Graham, told me something about Graham that also reminded me that despite his delusion of being brain dead, there was an essence that remained.

Brain scans have found that dogs use different parts of their brains to process speech, and can tell what words mean if we use the right tone

By way of an update, I read this morning in Wired Science that a Brooklyn attorney says he plans to offer a brain scan as proof that a witness is telling the truth.