Sentences with phrase «brain imaging methods»

Two brain imaging methods were used for measuring blood flow changes and the brain region crosstalk, with symptoms of depression reported by completing clinical questionnaires.

In our current work, we expand on previous brain imaging methods and use graph theory, specifically community detection, to clarifying behavioral and functional heterogeneity in children with ADHD and Autism.

Other investigators include Frank Tong, who has pioneered methods to «decode» mental states from brain imaging signals, and Sean Polyn, who uses brain imaging methods as well as recordings of the electrical signals from the scalp to learn how memories are formed and retrieved.

Dr Colasanti said: «This study, combining two advanced complementary brain imaging methods, suggests that the inflammation of the hippocampus affects the brain function and causes depression.»

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.

The study, published in the journal Brain, used a novel brain imaging method to identify altered brain connections in people with ASD.

Not exact matches

Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have mobilized advanced imaging and computational methods to comprehensively map — «count» — the total populations of specific types of cells throughout the mouse brain.

Until recently, such topics would have been out of the reach of cognitive neuroscience for lack of methods; today, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows researchers to watch the brain «in action» as normal human participants make decisions about responsibility and punishment.

«The major advancement of this new tool is the ability to use a low - cost and accessible imaging method such as EEG to depict deeply located brain activity,» said both senior author Dr. Talma Hendler of Tel - Aviv University in Israel and The Sagol Brain Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and first author Jackob Keynan, a PhD student in Hendler's laboratory, in an email to Biological Psychibrain activity,» said both senior author Dr. Talma Hendler of Tel - Aviv University in Israel and The Sagol Brain Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and first author Jackob Keynan, a PhD student in Hendler's laboratory, in an email to Biological PsychiBrain Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and first author Jackob Keynan, a PhD student in Hendler's laboratory, in an email to Biological Psychiatry.

But first author Dr. Sang - Young Kim and colleagues applied a new method of the brain imaging technique called MR spectroscopy to suppress the interfering signal and reveal the hidden glycine signal.

His research largely focuses on new means to incorporate imaging methods to view cells of brain tumors with a hand held instrument that a neurosurgeon can use to visualize the individual cells during the progress of the operation.

Although noninvasive imaging methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) can track activity in the brain, they provide limited resolution.

New imaging methods allow people to observe their brain activity in real - time.

Dr. Gradinaru's research interests focus on developing tools and methods for neuroscience (optogenetic actuators and sensors; tissue clearing and imaging) as well as on investigating the mechanisms underlying deep brain stimulation (DBS) and on the long - term effects of DBS on neuronal health, function, and ultimately behavior.

«The brain network mechanisms that mediate these deficits are poorly understood, and have rarely been tackled using complex image analytic methods that focus on how brain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research Divbrain network mechanisms that mediate these deficits are poorly understood, and have rarely been tackled using complex image analytic methods that focus on how brain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research Divbrain regions communicate,» said Diwadkar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and co-director of the department's Brain Imaging Research DivBrain Imaging Research Division

A new imaging study in living Alzheimer's patients is combining three methods of positron emission tomography (PET) to measure the orchestration of amyloid, tau and metabolic activity in the brain.

It is the first time we have used these methods to look at brain imaging data and it has given some fascinating insight into how psychedelic drugs expand the mind.

For example, last year one of our «Young Investigators» reported that his project, the development of a new method to visualise fibre tracts in the brain using functional imaging techniques, was not only successful but he recently secured ongoing funding for it from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Dr Kaye Morgan, lead researcher on the paper from Monash University, said the new x-ray imaging method allows researchers to look at soft tissue structures, for example the brain, airways and lungs, which are effectively invisible in conventional x-ray images.

Neuroscientist Jason Cooperrider and colleagues scanned Grandin's brain using three different methods: high - resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which captures the structure of the brain; diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a method to trace the connections between brain regions; and functional MRI, which indicates brain activity.

Another is that the most widely available methods — functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event - related potentials (a variation of electroencephalography)-- reveal only how brain activity and behavior are correlated; their ability to demonstrate cause and effect is limited.

Gow's method of investigating how the human brain perceives and distinguishes among elements of spoken language combines electroencephalography (EEG), which records electrical brain activity; magnetoencephalograohy (MEG), which the measures subtle magnetic fields produced by brain activity, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which reveals brain structure.

Using various imaging methods, Dr Marco Paoli from the University of Konstanz was able to chart the brain of the cockroach, thus documenting the spatial structure that enables it to process olfactory molecules.

The methods used to conduct studies on modern humans crafting ancient tools was limited until recently by brain imaging technology.

Although non-invasive methods to explore brain function in humans such as functional imaging and EEG / MEG have been informative regarding the potential role of a given brain area in a particular cognitive function, they lack the necessary temporal and spatial resolution to study brain microcircuits.

A second major theme is the development of methods for studying human brain structure and function using MRI and for integrating fMRI data with other imaging methods such as EEG.

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.

Ultimately, the combination of this new method of focusing on gene activity in single cells with other single - cell techniques involving microscopic imaging is likely to reveal the origins of developmental disorders of the brain, he added.

Our new PET - MRI [positron emission tomography — magnetic resonance imaging] method takes pictures of the brain in elderly people.

Described in the February edition of Nature Biotechnology, the method was developed by a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins» Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, the Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering, and the F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore.

Ann Arbor, MI (OBBeC)- As early as one week after beginning treatment for brain tumours, a new imaging analysis method was able to predict which patients would live longer, researchers from the University of Michigan...

Now armed with the human genome and a combination of cutting - edge genetic methods and brain imaging techniques, lab scientists are now exploring the neural circuitry of living animals in ways they could likely have never dreamed of even just 20 years ago.

«Because brain - imaging techniques and methods are developing at great speed, the legal system can't afford to get too far behind this learning curve,» he says.

The Dodt and Frank Bradke laboratories later developed the 3DISCO (3 - dimensional imaging of solvent cleared organs) method of imaging rodent brains and spinal cords by combining Ultramicroscopy with tetrahydrofuran - based tissue clearing (13,14).

While my initial interest lay in the chemico - physical properties of MR imaging probes, I became increasingly involved in their application to functional MRI (fMRI), a method to map hemodynamic responses in the brain as a surrogate for changes in the underlying neuronal activity.

An imaging method used to find anything not normal in the brain, including brain cancer and cancer that has spread to the brain from other places in the body.

So he and colleague Ahmad Hariri divided volunteers into two groups — one with the «short» variant and one without — and compared (using functional magnetic resonance imaging, which generates snapshots of the brain in action) how their amygdala responses differed when they were shown pictures of fearful faces, a common method for triggering an amygdala response.

Specific Clinical / Research Interest: Experimental neuropathology, neurodegenerative disorders, brain aging; Functional anatomy of the cerebral cortex, comparative neuroanatomy; Computer - assisted morphometry, stereology, microscopy; Magnetic resonance microscopy, functional brain imaging Current Students: Tuyen Nguyen (PhD) Postdoctoral Fellows: Camilla Butti, PhD, Timothy Rumbell PhD, Merina Varghese PhD Research Personnel: Bridget Wicinski, Daniel Dickstein Summary of Research Studies: Our research is directed towards the study of selective neuronal vulnerability in dementing illnesses using classical neuropathological as well as modern quantitative immunohistochemical methods.

The reasons for these heterogeneous results are numerous, such as the varying acupuncture manipulation methods, different types of control arms, different methods of acquisition and analyzing the imaging data, the mainly investigated brain regions (region of interest) and the statistical analysis.

Today he works on novel neural stimulation methods, whole - brain imaging of neural dynamics in larval zebrafish, and computational tools for the big data problems that arise from volumetric neural imaging datasets.

Each individual had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a method of brain scanning which measures activity in several areas of the brain by blood flow, while playing a card game designed to stimulate reward feelings.

Methods: A systematic review was conducted using standardized search operators that included the presence of video games and neuro - imaging techniques or references to structural or functional brain changes.

A neuropsychological examination is another method that can assist in diagnosing a brain injury, specifically a mild to moderate brain injury which may not have been detected using the imaging technologies mentioned above.

Again, modern imaging methods are enabling this information to be translated to the developing human brain (27), and indeed, imaging with neuropsychology is an area where rapid progress is being made and needs to be made to translate the growing basic neuroscience knowledge of mechanisms into clinical relevance and application.

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.