Sentences with phrase «university brain researchers»

New York University brain researchers Susan De Santi and Lisa Mosconi are part of a team developing software that they say will help tell the difference between a person who's just getting old and one who's on the road to Alzheimer's.

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In a study published earlier this month, researchers at Michigan State University monitored the brains of 79 female and 70 male students, who were asked to fill out a survey about their own anxiety levels.

You could also think of your brain like a baseball game, according to Yuval Nir, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Researchers from the University of British Columbia recently pooled data from more than 20 studies to understand how practicing mindfulness affects the brain.

Researchers at the Universities of Rome and L'Aquila in Italy recently conducted a study about how eating chocolate effects brain functions like memory, attention, and processing speed.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of London has revealed some interesting information about neurons in the male brain.

Understanding these brain wave basics, researchers from New York University found that rhythm serves as a type of «carrier signal» for information, with brain waves actually synchronizing to the tempo of sounds around you, including music.

In a series of experiments, researchers at Northwestern University used brain scanners and EEG sensors to study neural activity in a number of participants tasked with solving complex word puzzles.

To detect cerebral palsy in infants, researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed a motorized robot for children to wear, tracking brain activity and muscle coordination using artificial intelligence.

She joins a number of other top AI researchers coming out of University of Toronto who have gone on to secure positions of importance at major tech firms; U of T AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who heads Google Brain's Canadian operations, is another.

Researchers at the University of California Berkeley recently unveiled a new experimental device for editing brain activity.

Researchers at University College London (UCL) have found that the brain responds less to money gained... More

According to the Washington Times, researchers at Boston University told Matson's family that he had the worst case of CTE — chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the neurodegenerative disease associated with repeated brain trauma — they had ever seen.

The study, by researchers at Israel's Bar - Ilan University, measured first - time parents» brain activity when they watched films of themselves playing with their children.

More praise for the yummy stuff resulted from brain researcher Todd Parrish of Northwestern University in 2009, when he examined functional magnetic resonance images of gum chewers and found increased activity in areas of the brain associated with memory and emotional responses.

In a 2012 study, [8] researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) measured before - and - after data from the brains of a group of nine high school football and hockey players using an advanced form of imaging similar to an MRI called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

Using DTI imaging technique, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013 study [16] significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with changes in the white matter.

Commenting at the time on the 2010 Purdue study for Sports Illustrated [20][15], Randall Benson, a neurologist at Wayne State University in Detroit, speculated that the Purdue researchers may have taken what amounted to a «real - time snapshot» of the early stages of the corrosive creep that wears away at the frontal lobe, a part of the brain involved in navigating social situations.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

Indeed, in a paper from the University of California, San Francisco, researchers claim to have done just that — identify a group of kids with pure SPD — and found that their brains are in fact different from controls in key sensory areas.

When it comes to executive agencies, including the state and city university systems, however, New York's highest - paid employee in 2016 was psychiatrist and brain researcher Dr. Carlos N. Pato, who earned $ 748,991 as dean of the SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

A study from North Carolina State University researchers shows that a neurotransmitter involved in relaying itching sensations from the skin to the spinal cord and into the brain plays no role in pain transmission.

NDE researcher and neurologist Kevin Nelson of the University of Kentucky tells me fading blood flow, even for a few seconds, signals a crisis to the brain.

University of Adelaide researchers have confirmed that abnormalities in a common brain chemical are linked to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Researchers from the University of Houston have demonstrated how brain activity is used to identify different terrains — level ground and stairs, for example — a key step in developing prosthetics that allow the user's prosthesis to automatically adjust to changing ground conditions in real time.

The researchers from Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute found that even the oldest brains they studied produced new brain cells.

Using a different type of MRI imaging, researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered previously unrecognized differences in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.

The brains of the super-agers showed less cortical thinning, or neuron loss in certain areas, said lead researcher Emily Rogalski, research associate professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

In the first study of its kind looking at babies outside the United States, researchers from the University of Adelaide's Adelaide Medical School investigated 41 cases of SIDS deaths and discovered striking abnormalities in chemical serotonin within the brain.

Using an MRI technique that is sensitive to certain byproducts of cell metabolism, including levels of glucose and acidity, University of Iowa researchers discovered previously unrecognized differences in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and colleagues have discovered how two brain regions work together to maintain attention, and how discordance between the regions could lead to attention deficit disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression.

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, Georgetown University and the University of Rochester have found that specific small molecules in blood plasma may be useful in determining whether someone has sustained a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), commonly known as a concussion.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have created a map that shows how specific schizophrenia symptoms are linked to distinct brain circuits.

Researchers at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Israeli Defense Force's Medical Corps have found that a variety of chemicals penetrate the mouse blood - brain barrier much more readily when the mice are forced to tread water, a condition that induces stress.

At Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, researchers have surgically implanted electrodes in the brains of monkeys and trained them to move robotic arms at MIT, hundreds of miles away, just by thinking.

A volume decrease in specific parts of the brain's hippocampus — long identified as a hub of mood and memory processing — was linked to bipolar disorder in a study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

In a second study, (abstract 2.348) researchers from New York University's Langone Medical Center find that genetic mutations altering the transmission of electrical impulses in the heart and brain may raise the risk of SUDEP in people.

A new study by University of Illinois researchers found that monounsaturated fatty acids — a class of nutrients found in olive oils, nuts and avocados — are linked to general intelligence, and that this relationship is driven by the correlation between MUFAs and the organization of the brain's attention network.

A study by researchers from McGill University in Canada involving neuroimaging, which creates pictures of the brain's structure and neural activity, showed that smelling the body odor of someone closely related activates the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain responsible for recognizing family.

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An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood - brain tumor barrier, kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

«These findings suggest that even neurons we previously thought were «useless» because they didn't individually encode information have a purpose when working in concert with other neurons,» said researcher Julio Martinez - Trujillo, based at the Robarts Research Institute and the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University.

University of Adelaide researchers have shown that it is possible for stroke patients to improve motor function using special training involving connecting brain signals with a computer.

«Our own previous study on Facebook could only show correlation between social network size and the brain, but we could not determine the direction of causation between social brain regions and social network size,» notes Ryota Kanai of University College London, one of the researchers on the study.

HBI member V. Wee Yong, PhD and research associate Susobhan Sarkar, PhD, and their team including researchers from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the university's Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, looked at human brain tumor samples and discovered that specialized immune cells in brain tumor patients are compromised.

Researchers from the University of Southampton have discovered a potential way of stopping one of the most aggressive types of brain tumor from spreading, which could lead the way to better patient survival.

Researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) have made a discovery that could lead to better treatment for patients suffering from brain caBrain Institute (HBI) have made a discovery that could lead to better treatment for patients suffering from brain cabrain cancer.

Researchers from Heidelberg University have developed a computer vision technique to analyse the changes in motor skills that result from targeted stimulation of healthy areas of the brain.

A new report in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison suggests that deficits in one of the brain's off switches for anxiety, neuropeptide Y receptors, are decreased in association with anxious temperament.

Researchers at the Humboldt and Charité Universities in Berlin, led by Dr Julie Seibt from the University of Surrey, used cutting edge techniques to record activity in a particular region of brain cells that is responsible for holding new information — the dendrites.