The researchers defined adverse outcomes as the death of the fetus or a live infant with severe abnormal clinical or
brain imaging findings.
According to Chataway, «Caution should be taken regarding over-interpretation of
our brain imaging findings, because these might not necessarily translate into clinical benefit.
The brain imaging found that, while none of the participants showed abnormalities on a standard MRI, the more advanced DTI revealed that participants with high blood pressure had damage to:
Not exact matches
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.
Brain Imaging Study
Finds Evidence of Basis for Caregiving Impulse Ah, the first time you see your baby you finally know what «love at first sight» actually means.
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.
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).
Cognitive neuroscientists have studied this distinction with
brain imaging techniques and the
findings — unsurprisingly — tell us a lot about our increasingly polarised world today and the ways our
brains process the distinction between us and «others».
Using magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) scientists
found that the hippocampus, the
brain area responsible for long - term memory, is smaller in people suffering from MS than in healthy adults.
A recent review advises us to beware of the gender differences
found in
brain -
imaging studies.
While measuring
brain activity with magnetic resonance
imaging during blood pressure trials, UCLA researchers
found that men and women had opposite responses in the right front of the insular cortex, a part of the
brain integral to the experience of emotions, blood pressure control and self - awareness.
And long - term, people who've been in long - term relationships, through
imaging studies and so on, we
found that, you know, there is increased activity in pleasure centers of the
brain; so love over time makes you feel better.
The researchers then compared the results from the
brain imaging tests for the serotonin transporter to those two memory tests, and
found that the lower serotonin transporters correlated with lower scores.
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.
Through
brain imaging, Baycrest scientists have
found evidence that the
brain uses eye movements to help people recall vivid moments from the past, paving the way for the development of visual tests that could alert doctors earlier about those at risk for neurodegenerative illnesses.
Most of the recent PTSD
imaging studies have
found atrophy only in the hippocampus; the rest of the
brain is fine.
The
brain's precise speech center varies from person to person, so to
find Ramsey's target area — the place where an implant could discern the appropriate speech signals — Kennedy used a functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) scan.
Using electroencephalogram (EEG)
imaging, Singh and his team
found that as the
brain is first processing touch, it just detects differences among the physical sensations coming in.
Previous
imaging studies have
found that in PTSD sufferers, parts of the
brain involved in memory, fear, and mood control are smaller compared with the
brains of people who come through their trauma more - or-less unscathed.
To
find out what happens in the
brain, fifteen people who like cheese and fifteen who do not were selected and participated in a functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) study.
Using non-invasive
brain imaging, the researchers
found that people at - risk for anxiety were less likely to develop the disorder if they had higher activity in a region of the
brain responsible for complex mental operations.
Brain imaging techniques revealed that men
found their way out of the maze using the left hippocampus, a memory storage region that also governs spatial mapping in the physical environment.
This
finding led by a team of researchers at McGill complements previous
imaging research showing that emotional and physical pain both activate the same parts of the
brain.
Scientists at Barrow Neurological Institute have recently made discoveries about use of a new technology for
imaging brain tumors in the operating room — a
finding that could have important implications for identifying and locating invading cells at the edge of a
brain tumor.
Peering into the subjects»
brains using functional magnetic resonance
imaging, the researchers
found that on average the regions of the
brain that usually light up when an individual is aroused, the hypothalamus and fusiform gyrus, responded normally to moderately erotic images.
University of California, Irvine - led researchers, however, have
found that high - resolution functional magnetic resonance
imaging of the
brain can be used to show some of the underlying causes of differences in memory proficiency between older and younger adults.
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.
Now, a study that used noninvasive
brain imaging to evaluate
brain activity has
found that simulator - trained medical students successfully transferred those skills to operating on cadavers and were faster than peers who had no simulator training.
In other words, the researchers have
found where our «sense of direction» comes from in the
brain and worked out a way to measure it using functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI).
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.
To
find out more about what keeps us up at night, Hirsch and her team use fMRI (functional magnetic resonance
imaging) to probe how our
brains are wired.
Research in rodents, along with
imaging studies in new mothers, are
finding areas of the
brain that could be involved in postpartum depression.
By scanning subjects»
brains using functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI), the researcher
found that, in fact, weighing possible outcomes does influence decision making.
Using a powerful
imaging technique that allowed the scientists to track the presence and movement of parasites in living tissues, the researchers
found that Toxoplasma infects the
brain's endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, reproduces inside of them, and then moves on to invade the central nervous system.
At the meeting, attendees discussed four broad goals for the proposed Observatory: expanding access to large scale electron microscopes; providing fabrication facilities for new, nanosized electrode systems; developing new optical and magnetic resonance
brain activity
imaging technologies; and
finding new ways to analyze and store the staggering amount of data detailed
brain studies can produce.
Using functional magnetic resonance
imaging — a technique that monitors
brain activity in real time — the Johns Hopkins group
found reversing a decision requires ultrafast communication between two specific zones within the prefrontal cortex and another nearby structure called the frontal eye field, an area involved in controlling eye movements and visual awareness.
Researchers have
found that the
imaging of supposedly normal
brains reveals clinically significant
findings 8 to 10 percent of the time — «disconcertingly often,» says Henry Greely, a law professor at Stanford who works on legal and bioethical issues that include neuroscience, genetics, and stem cells.
These
findings were confirmed by two - photon
imaging of neurons in the
brains of living mice by the lab of collaborator Yi Zuo, PhD, a neuroscientist at UC Santa Cruz, as well as electrophysiological recordings from neurons in
brain slices by the lab of collaborator Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry at UCSF.
A 2012
brain -
imaging study conducted by Eccles and her colleagues
found that individuals with joint hypermobility had a bigger amygdala, a part of the
brain that is essential to processing emotion, especially fear.
«Our
imaging findings add
brain - based assessments to the growing evidence that common inadequacies in maternal nutrition influence a child's development, even before birth.»
The
findings are some of the first to come from a U.S. Department of Defense - funded
brain imaging grant to Saint Louis University to learn more about the nature of traumatic
brain injury (TBI) in veterans and civilians.
Combining several new techniques, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Ph.D., senior author of the study, and his colleagues at Harvard's Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical
Imaging, applied fast fMRI in an effort to track neuronal networks that control human thought processes, and
found that they could now measure rapidly oscillating
brain activity.
They
found that overall, medication does indeed affect
brain structure and function to a degree detectable by
imaging.
When they compared magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) scans taken before and after for both groups, they
found that auditory and motor areas of the
brain linked respectively with hearing and dexterity grew larger only in the trainee musicians.
«Our
finding of a link between bipolar disorder and the striatum at the molecular level complements studies that implicate the same
brain region in bipolar disorder at the anatomical level, including functional
imaging studies that show altered activity in the striatum of bipolar subjects during tasks that involve balancing reward and risk,» said TRSI Research Associate Rodrigo Pacifico, who was first author of the new study.
The researchers plan on
imaging the
brains of these monkeys to
find neural pathways that are involved in autism.
Using functional magnetic resonance
imaging, we
found that as the virtual predator grew closer,
brain activity shifted from the ventromedial prefrontal cortex to the periaqueductal gray.
The researchers
found that they experience
brain and cognitive changes «on a minority of measures» in
brain imaging and psychological tests.
Now an
imaging study
finds that psychopathic inmates have deficits in a key empathy circuit in the
brain, pointing to a potential therapeutic target.