Sentences with phrase «brain imaging studies»

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.

This kind of new brain imaging study could help identify cognitive problems and psychiatric disorders very early and develop appropriate interventions.

Results on brain imaging studies have led to a better understanding of the neural circuits involved in social cognition and its implication in autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

The procedure can stimulate different areas of the brain, including areas associated with a lack of insight, which has been confirmed with brain imaging studies.

A new brain imaging study investigated this question with fascinating results.

A 2017 review in Trends in Neurosciences found only 17 human brain imaging studies of postpartum depression completed through 2016.

Brain imaging studies show they light up the same neural pathways as physical pain.

Claims for the perceptual reality of synesthetic colors have been bolstered by recent functional brain imaging studies by researchers in the U. K. showing that synesthetic color activates central visual areas of the brain thought to be involved in perceiving real colors.

In this study, it is aimed to review cognitive behavioral psychotherapy (CBT), interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) and psychodynamic psychotherapy methods used frequently in treatment of MDD, along with functional brain imaging studies performed on treated depressive patients.

«Previous animal and human brain imaging studies have suggested that psilocybin may have effects similar to other antidepressant treatments,» says Professor David Nutt, senior author from Imperial College London «Psilocybin targets the serotonin receptors in the brain, just as most antidepressants do, but it has a very different chemical structure to currently available antidepressants and acts faster than traditional antidepressants.»

«Our findings are clinically relevant as they identify a novel addiction target in rodents, along with parallel supporting evidence from brain imaging studies in human addicts,» explains Andon Placzek, lead author of the nicotine study.

The research comes from the Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS), a collaborative effort by investigators at the Montreal Neurological Institute, and four clinical sites in the United States, coordinated to conduct a longitudinal brain imaging and behavioural study of infants at high risk for autism.

Although earlier brain imaging studies found the amygdala to be hyperactive in PTSD, the underlying cause for this was poorly understood.

The study team conducted a series of behavioral and brain imaging studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Musicians are also better at identifying pitch and speech sounds — brain imaging studies suggest that this is because their brains respond more quickly and strongly to sound.

Brain imaging studies also show a link between the overall size of the hippocampus and recurrent bouts of major depression.

«For a long time, we've thought of brain imaging studies as mainly a way to corroborate or confirm aspects of brain function and pathology that we had already identified from studying a patient's behavior,» said Aysenil Belger, PhD, professor of psychiatry and psychology at UNC and the study's senior author.

Brain imaging studies support that patients diagnosed with MDD suffer dysfunction in limbic structures such as frontal cortex, amygdala, hippocampus and cingulate cortex and basal ganglions that regulate these functions.

Brain imaging studies at Peking University highlight VR's ability to directly impact the neural substrates in the brain associated with pain and empathy.

That's interesting because previous brain imaging studies of synesthetes have suggested that they might have an abnormally high number of neuronal connections.

«The datasets being collected now [in brain imaging studies] are already taking this more seriously.»

Brain imaging studies seem so simple and elegant: Hook someone up to a functional MRI (fMRI) machine, which measures blood flow; see which parts of the brain light up; and identify regions associated with love, rejection, etc..

The team embarked on a massive brain imaging study: Across 9 UK laboratories (University of Birmingham, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow, University of Kent, University College London, University of Oxford, University of Stirling, and University of York), 334 participants — 10 times the original amount — read sentences that were presented one word at a time, while electrical brain activity was recorded at the scalp.

Previous experiments have suggested such people may not feel fear, while brain imaging studies have found abnormalities in the amygdala, a region that processes fear and other...

But when he did a similar brain imaging study of people who smoked marijuana no more than once a week, he observed «similar themes» when it came to dopamine.

Eden and her colleagues report on a new structural brain imaging study that shows, in addition to deafness, early language experience — English versus ASL — impacts brain structure.

«New brain imaging study provides support for the notion of food addiction.»

Brain imaging studies consistently find that this region of the temporal lobe becomes active when people look at faces.

However, longitudinal brain imaging studies in both healthy and patient populations are required in order to map the disturbances in brain structures as they emerge, i.e., the disturbed trajectories of brain development.

One of the few brain imaging studies of people with POCD, reported this year in the Annals of Neurology, also implicates brain inflammation.

To confirm the diagnosis, a physician needs to rule out other movement disorders, and may order brain imaging studies such as MRI, CAT scan and cranial ultrasound to look at abnormal structures or damage indicative of cerebral palsy.

A new brain imaging study by Josh Greene and Joe Paxton at Harvard University published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that what separates the well - behaved from the poorly - behaved might not be the ability to control your temptations but rather what kind of temptations you have.

Brain imaging studies show that areas of the brain for memory and visually processing human faces in people with MCI are structurally and functionally transformed.

The children are part of the Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS), which tracks the development of more than 300 baby sibs.

One brain imaging study suggests that the unpleasantness of subjectively perceived dyspnea is processed in the right human anterior insula and amygdala.

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

ABSTRACT: Results on brain imaging studies have led to a better understanding of the neural circuits involved in social cognition and its implication in autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

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.

By twinning the Autism Genome Project with brain imaging studies, it may finally be possible to reach an understanding of the complex and highly variable disorder.

In the largest functional brain imaging study to date, the Amen Clinics (Newport Beach, CA) compared 46,034 brain SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) imaging studies provided by nine clinics, quantifying differences between the brains of men and women.

A new brain imaging study from MIT and Harvard Medical School may lead to a screen that could identify children at high risk of developing depression later in life.

«Previous animal and human brain imaging studies have suggested that psilocybin may have effects similar to other antidepressant treatments,» explained study senior author David Nutt, also of Imperial College London.

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.

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.

She wondered whether the sampling used in brain imaging studies might affect the results scientists were seeing.