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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.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure changes in blood flow, she found that as people received more information, their brain activity increased in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region behind the forehead that is responsible for making decisions and controlling emotions.

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.

Magnetic resonance imaging lets them monitor the location and intensity of the procedure in real time, an important safety feature when making permanent changes to the brain.

Arguably the most convenient and least invasive way of doing that is through functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI — a technique that measures changes in blood flow and blood oxygen levels in the brain, thereby showing which parts of the brain are activated when people perform various tasks.

Dr. Aron and colleagues based their study's conclusions on a neuroimaging study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

Along with behavioural studies, imaging has helped to build the view that pain involves many brain areas and that chronic pain may cause long - term changes to the morphology or function of some of these regions.

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.

DTI is one imaging technique researchers are using to identify regions in the brain that change when humans learn how to use technology.

Imaging study shows brain changes linked to trauma, such as the floods and fire in Sendai, Japan, after the 2011 earthquake.

By applying brain imaging methods, researchers at the University of Zurich now show that a small amount of psilocybin changes the processing of social conflicts in the brain.

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.

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.

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the research team also found anatomical changes in the brains of children whose reading abilities improved — in particular, a thickening of the cortex in parts of the brain known to be involved in reading.

Now a group of researchers specialising in brain imaging has found that changing tasks too frequently interferes with brain activity.

Brain imaging studies also linked those changing attributions of meaning to particular brain aBrain imaging studies also linked those changing attributions of meaning to particular brain abrain areas.

The new research also gives insight into the mechanisms underlying the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to detect blood flow changes in the brain.

Researchers have shown that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)-- an imaging technology that has sprouted only in the past decade — can detect changes in fetal brain activity in response to sounds from outside the womb.

Young hockey players who have suffered concussions may still show changes in the white matter of the brain months after being cleared to return to play, researchers at Western University have found through sophisticated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques.

Using this imaging technology, we may be able to capture more precise and objective measurements of olfactory dysfunction and better understand how changes in these sensory neurons relate to overall health and neurodegeneration in the brain.»

He used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a means of measuring brain activity by detecting blood flow changes inside the brain, to measure differences in the strengths of communications between brain regions.

The international research team assessed how well the most widely - used imaging techniques measure the pathological changes expected in the brain and the accuracy with which they can predict an individual's clinical outcome.

Changes in brain activity during brain imaging suggest the intervention might capitalize on neuroplasticity to train the brain to work more efficiently.

At roughly 100 minutes after each treatment, the team began testing brain activity in participants at rest with their eyes closed, first using a form of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) called arterial spin labeling to follow blood flow changes in the brain.

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.

I am proposing a demanding criterion: that you be able to detect abnormalities in patients beforehand by such brain - imaging techniques as functional MRI [which measures blood flow in the brain], and then use imaging to see whether or not there is a change in those markers for the disease as the therapy progresses.

Changes in brain connections visible on MRI could represent an imaging biomarker of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

The researchers found that they experience brain and cognitive changes «on a minority of measures» in brain imaging and psychological tests.

Spence and colleagues use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) technology to determine whether someone is fibbing by tracing blood flow to certain areas of the brain, which indicates changes in neuronal activity at the synapses (gaps between the neurons).

The brain imaging study was led by researchers at University of Pennsylvania's new Brain and Behavior Change Program, led by Caryn Lerman, PhD, who is also the deputy director of Penn's Abramson Cancer Center, and Elliot Stein, PhD, and collaborators at brain imaging study was led by researchers at University of Pennsylvania's new Brain and Behavior Change Program, led by Caryn Lerman, PhD, who is also the deputy director of Penn's Abramson Cancer Center, and Elliot Stein, PhD, and collaborators at Brain and Behavior Change Program, led by Caryn Lerman, PhD, who is also the deputy director of Penn's Abramson Cancer Center, and Elliot Stein, PhD, and collaborators at NIDA.

The ambitious goal: to learn to identify early signs of trauma - induced brain damage from subtle changes in blood chemistry, brain imaging, and performance tests — changes that may show up decades before visible symptoms such as cognitive impairment, depression, and impulsive behavior.

For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns in human and animal brains in the resting state in order to figure out how different parts of the brain are connected and to identify the changes that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases.

According to a new imaging study, cocaine abusers in their 30s and 40s show brain changes more commonly seen in people over 60.

Brain imaging revealed a striking finding — significant changes in the communication between specific brain regions correlated with elevated maternal IL - 6 and CRP leBrain imaging revealed a striking finding — significant changes in the communication between specific brain regions correlated with elevated maternal IL - 6 and CRP lebrain regions correlated with elevated maternal IL - 6 and CRP levels.

To study how music preferences might affect functional brain connectivity — the interactions among separate areas of the brain — Burdette and his fellow investigators used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which depicts brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

Brain imaging (EEG) on a subset of the groups showed some evidence of neuroplasticity (i.e., brain changes) which correlated to correct prospective memory performance, particularly with the ability to stop oneself from carrying on with ongoing activities and switch to performing an intended action at the appropriate Brain imaging (EEG) on a subset of the groups showed some evidence of neuroplasticity (i.e., brain changes) which correlated to correct prospective memory performance, particularly with the ability to stop oneself from carrying on with ongoing activities and switch to performing an intended action at the appropriate brain changes) which correlated to correct prospective memory performance, particularly with the ability to stop oneself from carrying on with ongoing activities and switch to performing an intended action at the appropriate time.

The research made use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)-- which measures changes in the blood oxygen levels in the brain — and also multivariate analysis when comparing the brain activity of different viewers.

Schiff and Giacino, working with Columbia University neuroimaging expert Joy Hirsch and graduate student Diana Rodriguez - Moreno, started probing these unpredictable brains in 2001 using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which tracks the minute changes in blood oxygenation that correspond to neural activity.

Their brain activity was then compared using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a technology that measures neural firing through changes in blood flow.

For example, she directs Gladstone's Center for In Vivo Imaging Research, which analyzes high - resolution and cutting - edge in vivo images to monitor molecular changes in the brains of live animals over time.

Their responses on these facial affect recognition tasks were correlated with neuroimaging changes on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which shows the integrity of white matter tracts in the brain.

Some physicians also conduct imaging tests, such as an MRI, which can show changes in the brain's size and structure that may lead to the conclusion of Alzheimer's.

Tobias Bonhoeffer and colleagues use two - photon microscopy, which allows imaging to a depth of approximately half a millimeter, as one method of studying structural changes in the brains of living animals.

An approach called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), for example, records changes in blood flow that occur when a spark of activity passes through a particular brain region.

To study brain changes involved in IED, Coccaro and his colleagues performed high - resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans in 168 people, including 57 who were diagnosed with IED, 53 healthy control subjects and another 58 control patients with psychiatric diagnoses.

Through his Multisensory Research Laboratory, VBI director Mark Wallace uses brain imaging to better understand how the brain «binds» together information from sight and sound, and how changes in such binding may play a role in developmental disabilities such as autism.

â $ œWe believe that imaging technology may help us find the signature changes in brain structure that are specific to MCI,» Â says Felicia Goldstein, PhD, associate professor of neurology.

This is a way of analyzing fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) scans, which measure activity in the brain by looking at changes in blood oxygen.

To investigate whole - brain changes potentially associated with these processes, we applied a magnetic resonance imaging technique novel to psychiatric research, quantitative mapping of T1 relaxation in the rotating frame (T1ρ).