Sentences with phrase «using brain scans»

The womenâ $ ™ s responses to both food and non-food aromas were measured using brain scans before a meal.

But, he says we're still a long way from using brain scans to diagnose Alzheimer's in the population at large.

The researchers acknowledge that using brain scans to study human cognition has its limitations because it relies on certain assumptions about the links between brain regions and their functions.

Using brain scans that reveal the activation of pleasure centers, the researchers showed that a subject's soda preference in a blind taste test could be completely reversed in a repeat taste test, this time with the labels shown.

Using brain scans alone, neuroscientists have even been able to reconstruct, on a computer screen, what someone is seeing.

The scientists suggest using brain scans to determine preference could be used to improve the way service jobs are assigned to working dogs.

Using brain scans taken at the beginning of the study, the software accurately predicted a person's future mental decline about 80 percent of the time.

Using brain scans to detect whether dyslexic children have improved their reading skills, rather than testing these children's reading skills

Using brain scans, psychiatrist Daniel Eisenberg and his colleagues measured dopamine levels in the brains of 86 healthy people at different times of the year.

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.

Using brain scans to compare the gray matter of children with RAD to typically developing children, the researchers found significantly reduced volume of gray matter in the area of the brain known as the left primary visual cortex.

when trying to use a brain scan the latest endeavour of science it has been proven unreliable.

If clinicians could use brain scans to identify vulnerable high - risk individuals in early adolescence when the brain is still developing, it may be possible to curb the development of the disorder and help prevent its most debilitating effects.

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.

She also talked to a scientist who has used brain scans to determine that echolocators use areas of the brain normally associated with seeing when they maneuver.

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.

But if it were possible to use brain scans to predict our every action — showing that our choices are determined before we actually make them — would people abandon this belief in droves?

The researchers used a brain scanning technique called magnetoencephalography, and scanned the brains of thirty - three children aged between eight and eleven whilst they performed a memory task.

Along the way, he is raising a big red flag to those who want to use brain scans to peer into the heads of suspected criminals.

In fact, in a 2013 study, scientists used brain scans to observe brain function after subjects ate foods high in processed carbohydrates as well as foods low on the glycemic index, such as vegetables.

«Psychologists from Washington University used brain scans to see what happens inside our heads when we read stories.

Not exact matches

For one, it's made it clear that using tools like PET scans and cerebrospinal fluid testing can help pinpoint which patients have amyloid present in the brain for the treatments to act on.

The scientists then scanned the brains of their subjects while they thought about God and found that they used «similar parts» of their brains when thinking about their own and about God's beliefs, and a different part when thinking about other people's.

Doctors use CT scans in the brain to diagnose brain tumors or visualize injuries, bleeding, or any structural changes and infections that can occur and be difficult to see with an X-ray or routine exam.

They used MRI scanning to look at the functional brain connectivity patterns between the two activities.

The researchers used MRI scans to look at the brains of women who had just given birth.

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.

Despite an explosion of research on the use of brain scans and other tools of science to help better determine a person's guilt or innocence, experts at a AAAS - organized discussion said hopes that neuroscience might transform the legal system are unrealistic for now.

The researchers scanned the participants» brains using magnetic resonance imaging to see if there were any differences in brain structure.

While they suffered, the scientists took brain scans using positron emission tomography (PET).

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.

Researchers use a brain - scanning technique to find differences in the neural connections of PTSD patients that could help researchers understand and treat the disorder

Brain scans of musicians as they improvised in a musical dialogue with another player showed that the improvisers used regions involved in syntax during production of language.

Researchers have used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that measure blood flow in the brain to better understand why people often become aggressive and violent after drinking alcohol.

PET scans have not been widely adopted as a clinical tool but are used in research, which clearly shows amyloid starting to clog the brain some 10 to 15 years before a person shows noticeable memory loss.

Brain scans using fMRI showed that, when listening to English phonetic sounds, monolinguals, early bilinguals and late bilinguals» brains lit up in different areas.

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.

Beginning in 2009, they used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of patients prior to treatment for depression; they then followed the patients through the course of therapy, generally for four weeks.

Finally, the team used functional MRI scans of subjects» brains to show that contemplating God's beliefs activates the same brain areas as thinking about one's own views, while thoughts about other Americans» views activate a brain area used for inferring other people's mental states.

Now brain scans show why one method of creating «implicit motion», used by an 18th - century Japanese artist, works so well.

Although the find was remarkable, it wasn't until this year that a team led by French paleoanthropologist Michel Brunet used CT scans to create a virtual model of the skull, revealing precise measurements of the size of the brain cavity and information about the angle at which the spinal cord exits the brain.

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.

Kable and his colleagues» use of different types of scans provides a far more detailed picture of the interplay between brain anatomy and risk than does earlier research, Levy says.

To look for the vessels, Dr. Reich's team used MRI to scan the brains of five healthy volunteers who had been injected with gadobutrol, a magnetic dye typically used to visualize brain blood vessels damaged by diseases, such as multiple sclerosis or cancer.

The scans show that when May sees faces and objects, thepart of his brain that should be used to recognize them is inactive.But there's a catch.

Currently, fcMRI is not used clinically, and the kinds of MRI and CT scans used to assess stroke damage don't measure how well different brain regions work together.

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.

The types of human research that we can do — such as brain scans — aren't detailed enough for identifying words, using grammar, and the act of speech.

Using a functional MRI machine, or fMRI, the researchers scanned the brains of 42 people with OCD, ages 18 to 60, before and after four weeks of intensive, daily cognitive behavioral therapy.

Researchers used positron emission tomography (PET) scans and neuropsychological tests to assess brain function and activity in the participants prior to surgery and six months after the procedure.