Sentences with phrase «brain changes associated»

Dr. Bryon Adinoff, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, has studied brain changes associated with tanning.

In a new study published in the BMJ researchers report brain changes associated with chronic alcohol consumption, even at moderate levels.

The Study will examine an oral investigational drug that may have some effect on the brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease / The study is designed to find outwhether this investigational drug (or «study drug») can slow down the decline in memory and mental functioning.

Considerable uncertainty exists about the defining brain changes associated with bipolar disorder (BD).

Mapstone says that it may even be able to predict the disease much earlier, because brain changes associated with Alzheimer's begin many years before symptoms occur.

Following extreme social stress, enhancing brain changes associated with depression can have an anti-depressant effect in mice

Using this approach, we have begun to assess a particular theory about brain changes associated with autism, one that could have powerful implications for scientists and clinicians.

«Psychotherapy normalizes brain changes associated with social anxiety disorder,» Brühl sums up.

A new mouse model of a genetically - linked type of autism reveals more about the role of genes in the disorder and the underlying brain changes associated with autism's social and learning problems.

Not exact matches

fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) «is a functional neuroimaging procedure using MRI technology that measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow,» according to Wikipedia.

According to a new scientific study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, subjects who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in gray - matter density in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

Structural and functional connectivity changes in the brain associated with shyness but not with social anxiety.

The changes are associated with less - organized communication between the brain's hemispheres and are comparable to the effects found in previous animal studies.

Using resting - state MRI analysis on thousands of people's brains around the world, the research has found that the areas of the brain which are associated with learning and development show high levels of variability, meaning that they change their neural connections with other parts of the brain more frequently, over a matter of minutes or seconds.

As they studied brain activity in the knockout mice, the researchers also found prominent changes in a receptor in the brain known as mGluR5 and other proteins that support the function of neurons and synapses, said co-lead author Xiaoming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate in Duke's department of pediatrics.

«We believe these master genes are responsible for traumatic brain injury adversely triggering changes in many other genes,» said Xia Yang, a senior author of the study and a UCLA associate professor of integrative biology and physiology.

Obesity is associated with a constant, low - level inflammation, which Convit thinks explains the change in brain size.

Scientists have long known that Alzheimer's disease is a gradual process and that the brain undergoes functional changes before the structural changes associated with the disease show up on imaging results.

Changes in the subjects» sweat levels and scans of their amygdala — a brain region associated with fear — showed that they had learned to fear the faces and smells paired with the shock.

The team found that — whether the men's brain changes were mild or severe — all experienced mood, behavioral, or cognitive symptoms associated with CTE.

Brain - based computers could help emergency department doctors render elusive diagnoses even when science has yet to recognize the collection of changes in body temperature, blood composition or other variables associated with an underlying disease.

«We saw changes in the blood oxygen level in their brain regions associated with retrieving long - term memory and understanding language,» Pape said.

«We use arterial blood water as a contrast tracer to measure blood flow change, which is highly associated with brain function.»

Because these functions are largely regulated in the frontal brain regions, a portable brain - imaging device (functional near infrared spectroscopy) was used to examine associated changes in the frontal brain function by placing biosensors on students» foreheads during testing.

These disorders are associated with changes to the brain structure: for example, the hippocampus in the temporal lobe is usually smaller in affected individuals than in healthy ones.

«If pain persists over a prolonged period of time, the associated brain activity shows that it changes from a pure perception process to a more emotional process.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans showed that use of the Nintendo Wii Balance Board system appears to induce favorable changes in brain connections associated with balance and movement.

«Just four to five brief NET sessions result in significantly less emotional and physical distress, and these improvements are associated with connectivity changes throughout the brain,» said Dr. Monti.

This kind of progressive speech impairment is associated with dysfunction in the cortical - basal ganglia brain circuit in both humans and songbirds, so Liu could make assumptions based on this trial about how the human brain circuit changes.

«You don't want to interfere with the fine - tuned mechanism associated with the function of the brain by changing the cholesterol level in the brain.»

When the scientists recently gave mice a single dose of cocaine and looked for signs of autophagy in their brain cells, they detected autophagy - associated proteins and changes in vacuoles in adults and in mouse pups whose mothers had received cocaine while pregnant.

Scientists already employ fMRI, which uses changes in blood flow as a proxy for brain activity, to scan the brains of restrained monkeys, but Berns wanted to train dogs to willingly enter the machine and learn simple things, such as associating a hand signal with a reward of a hot dog, all the while staying still enough to collect interpretable brain scans.

A Yale - led team of researchers developed a new approach to scanning the brain for changes in synapses that are associated with common brain disorders.

He initiated studies on the impact of music alone or music coupled with an enriched environment (a space filled with toys) on the emotional responses of rats and associated changes in their brains.

Specifically, the release of a stress - coping hormone called corticotropin - releasing factor (CRF), which is widely found in the brain and acts as a neurotransmitter / neuromodulator, is dysregulated in AD and is associated with impaired cognition and with detrimental changes in tau protein and increased production of amyloid - beta — protein fragments that clump together and trigger the neurodegeneration characteristic of AD.

«There is a huge gulf separating our understanding of what kind of brain injuries develop because of mild blast and how they relate to the neuroimaging changes many research groups have detected,» said Dr. David Cook, VA scientist and UW research associate professor of medicine and pharmacology «The similarities we see in the pattern of neuron injury in the cerebellum of mice, the neuron loss previously seen in boxers, and our neuroimaging findings in veterans is a step toward reducing this knowledge gap.»

The researchers traced these changes to a decrease in brain cells that release the hormone oxytocin in the hypothalamus, an area of the brain associated with food intake.

Mansuy says the behavioral changes were associated with an increased level of the glucocorticoid receptor in the hippocampus — the part of the brain that contributes to stress responses.

«Our study provides compelling preliminary evidence that brain changes resembling mild traumatic brain injury are associated with frequently heading a soccer ball over many years,» said Dr. Lipton.

Nerve pain can be very difficult to treat and is associated with structural changes in the brain and a legacy of psychological problems if it doesn't respond to conventional treatment, the authors point out.

In the past decade, researchers have used mouse models to unravel how cellular changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a brain structure involved in action selection associated with arousal and reward, may contribute to addiction - related behavior.

Initial results revealed a variety of changes in the brain associated with drug intake.

Previous studies have found that exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides can cause changes in the brain, more specifically in the areas associated with learning and memory in honeybees.

fMRI measures changes in blood oxygenation, which were previously thought to be too slow to detect the subtle neuronal activity associated with higher order brain functions.

«Though the «blind brain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Cabrain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - CaBrain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada.

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now produced images showing the changes in the brain associated with these symptoms — a development which increases knowledge and could facilitate future diagnostics and treatment.

Brain imaging shows that testosterone therapy given as part of sex reassignment changes the brain structures and the pathway associated with speech and verbal fluBrain imaging shows that testosterone therapy given as part of sex reassignment changes the brain structures and the pathway associated with speech and verbal flubrain structures and the pathway associated with speech and verbal fluency.

The researchers discovered a traveling spike generator that appears to move across the hippocampus — a part of the brain mainly associated with memory — and change direction, while generating brain waves.

Scientists at the Science Foundation Ireland - funded APC Microbiome Institute at University College Cork, Ireland, have shown that, at least in mice, gut bacteria play a key role in regulating abdominal pain and its associated changes in the brain and spinal cord.