Sentences with phrase «brain imaging experiments»

This approach has never before been considered in brain imaging experiments of music,» notes Scott Grafton.

The results provide a strong argument for scientists to pay more attention to who, exactly, they're studying in their brain imaging experiments.

Not exact matches

Functional brain - imaging experiments done at the end of the past century using positron - emission tomography (PET) found marked activation in the frontal lobe of volunteers who had taken hallucinogens, in particular in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the insula cortex.

After starting her doctorate work in neurology in 2003 at the University of British Columbia, Lidstone led a rather odd brain - imaging experiment.

The new study is an example of what happens when epidemiology experiments — studies of patterns in health and disease — crash into studies of brain imaging.

«Using the probe's imaging function during experiments, our medical collaborators would be able to see deep inside the brain of a living organism and guide the placement of the probe to the right brain region.»

Thanks to experiments on animals and the advent of human brain imaging, scientists now have a working knowledge of the various kinds of memory as well as which parts of the brain are involved in each.

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.

The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.

Then, at Harvard, he conducted experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to search for hard evidence of psi activity in the brain.

The experiments used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure increased blood flow throughout the brain, a marker of increased neural activity, during a wide range of activities, including finger - tapping, whistling, chewing, drawing, writing, reading, watching a movie and playing video games and memory games.

Now a similar experiment has been done with noninvasive brain imaging, and for those of us who love to climb the results are not elevating.

Editorial note: Although the research team here is careful and confirms the findings in independent groups and in brain imaging and fear discrimination experiments, this is a preliminary result.

This talk will describe a series of experiments imaging neurons in the brains of live rodents.

The results from the calcium imaging experiments using brain explants and IPC - specific CCHa2 - R knockdown strongly suggest that CCHa2 crosses the blood - brain barrier (BBB) to regulate the IPCs, although the underlying mechanism remains elusive.

In one of the studies that involved a pain experiment, the scientists at the Center for Healthy Minds and Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior examined how meditators responded to pain and the anxiety often associated with the anticipation of a painful event.

The first - of - its - kind study mixed brain - imaging data from canines with a series of behavioral experiments, and came to the conclusion that dogs really do value the relationships they have with their owners.

My graduate and undergraduate students and I conduct mindfulness - based and mindfulness - integrated experiments and training trials with both adults and adolescents using first - person, ecological momentary assessment, and brain imaging (EEG, fMRI) methods.