Sentences with phrase «brain imaging showed»

Analysis of brain imaging showed significantly increased neuronal activity after a two - month period of HBOT treatment compared to the control periods of non-treatment.

But brain imaging showed that the children who benefited most had a larger hippocampus, a key memory area, and stronger neural connections between the hippocampus and brain regions involved in long - term memory and habit - building.

Extensive brain imaging showed how negative attitudes develop in the brain's unconscious neural mechanisms, but that negative attitudes are not fixed.

Brain imaging shows that food activates an anorectic's brain center associated with anxiety, not with pleasure as in nonanorectics.

«Noninvasive brain imaging shows readiness of trainees to perform operations: Surgeons who trained on simulator had higher level of cortical activation and faster times for cutting tasks.»

«Brain imaging shows brain differences in risk - taking teens.»

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

The brain in its modern form is about 200,000 years old, yet brain imaging shows reading...

Brain imaging shows yellow and reddish pixels representing areas where the functionality of white matter is associated with higher fitness levels.

SAN DIEGO (Monday, October 23, 5:45 pm PDT): Noninvasive Brain Imaging Shows Readiness of Trainees to Perform Operations

Brain imaging shows how children inherit their parents» anxiety (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

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There are neurological correlates for every form of mental activity and, as Biovin himself acknowledges, just because imaging studies show that religious experiences are correlated with activity in a particular part of the brain, it does not follow that that activity is the cause of religious experience.

In brain - imaging studies, teen brains show more activation in regions that process rewards, motivations and emotions (the socioaffective circuitry in the subcortical, limbic regions) compared to children and adults.

The test, Raven's Progressive Matrices, usually entails both visual and symbolic reasoning, although brain imaging of study subjects with autism showed they were able to score well using only the areas of their brains associated with visual processes.

Even if a scan shows abnormal activity in a brain region associated with impulse control or regulation of emotions, such imaging provides no more than probabilistic information, Hyman said.

A new computer - imaging technique shows researchers how brain cells communicate — one molecule at a time

A brain imaging study shows that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome may have reduced responses, compared with healthy controls, in a region of the brain connected with fatigue.

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:

Furthermore, brain imaging data for these very elderly animals shows a slight loss of grey matter (neuronal cell bodies), an effect that the researchers have not yet explained, as well as significantly slowed atrophy of white matter (the neuronal fibers connecting different areas of the brain).

Imaging studies have shown that the brains of high - risk individuals look and behave differently from controls decades before the onset of Alzheimer's, and long before they start to accumulate amyloid - β or lose grey matter.

Brain - imaging studies have shown that psilocybin targets areas of the brain overactive in depresBrain - imaging studies have shown that psilocybin targets areas of the brain overactive in depresbrain overactive in depression.

Chemically intolerant individuals also show dysfunction in brain imaging on a SPECT scan, which tracks blood flow through tissue.

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.

In 2015 Oxford pediatric neuroscientist Rebeccah Slater and her colleagues published a pioneering functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study showing infants» brains respond to painful stimuli very similarly to those of adults.

What is more, brain imaging studies have shown that people watching others yawning have more activity in parts of the brain associated with self - information processing.

When he and a control subject, another sensation - seeking rock climber, viewed gruesome, high - arousal photographs during functional magnetic resonance imaging brain scans, Honnold's amygdala ─ the brain's fear center ─ showed zero activation while the other climber's lit up like a neon sign.

The scans — done with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or fMRI — show which sections of the five brains became more active during the ads, thereby revealing what's really going on in people's heads.

Psilocybin intervenes specifically in this mechanism as shown by Dr. Rainer Krähenmann's research team of the Neuropsychopharmacology and Brain Imaging Unit led by Prof. Dr. Franz Vollenweider.

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.

Several critical factors led the team to hope he might benefit from DBS, including the fact that sometimes he did respond and an imaging study showed that language - processing regions of his brain activated in response to spoken words.

Lamm and his group recently sought the answer to answer this question by combining measures of electrical activity in the brain (via electroencephalogram) with functional magnetic resonance imaging to show blood flow patterns in 25 participants getting rounds of shocks on their hands.

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.

Brain imaging studies have shown that people with synesthesia tend to be wired differently: they display hyperconnectivity between parts of their brains related to their synesthetic experiences.

For instance, imaging shows that when people with dyslexia read, the right side of their brain dominates, which might help them absorb bigger themes in a text.

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.

Imaging studies have shown that when autistic children see a familiar face, their pattern of brain activation is different from that of normal children.

Imaging scans show the brain shifts its activity (measured by blood flow and oxygenation, indicating which neurons are heavily used at a specific time) from the prefrontal executive control regions to subcortical reactive emotion areas.

Brain - imaging studies have shown that most patients with frontotemporal dementia who develop skills have abnormally low blood flow or low metabolic activity in their left temporal lobe.

Previous imaging studies have revealed two brain regions that often show abnormal activity in these patients: the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC) and the amygdala.

One month after the study treatment — which involves chemotherapy followed by intravenous infusion of JCAR017 — follow - up imaging showed complete remission of the brain lesion.

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.

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.

Additionally, 2013 MRI research from Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and McLean Imaging Center at McLean Hospital showed that the structural brain abnormalities of Doberman pinschers afflicted with canine compulsive disorder (CCD) were similar to those of humans with OCD.

«By showing that trained subjects have increased activity in the primary motor cortex when performing surgical tasks when compared to untrained subjects, our noninvasive brain imaging approach can accurately determine surgical motor skill transfer from simulation to ex-vivo environments,» Mr. Nemani said.

In addition, brain imaging studies in rats and humans have shown alterations in gray matter volume and white matter integrity in the brain caused by the effects of chronic pain.

Using a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, researchers discovered that individuals who showed more brain activity per unit of dopamine showed better facial recognition.

The group performed non-invasive brain imaging in the first 80 college - aged participants of the DNS, showing them pictures of angry or fearful faces and watching the responses of a deep brain region called the amygdala, which helps shape our behavioral and biological responses to threat and stress.

«Imaging studies in multiple types of chronic pain patients show their brains differ from healthy control subjects,» said Bushnell.

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.