Sentences with phrase «brain imaging studies]»

He is the founding director of the McLean Brain Imaging Center, and president and psychiatrist in chief emeritus at McLean Hospital, having led McLean from 1997 through 2005.

He and his colleagues employ pharmacologic, brain imaging, epidemiologic, genomic, and cell model approaches to study schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in particular.

The Program for Neuropsychiatric Research (PNPR) at McLean Hospital, founded in 2004 by Dr. Bruce Cohen, is a consortium of investigators and clinicians using laboratory, brain imaging, and clinical techniques to increase understanding of the causes of psychotic, mood, and related psychiatric disorders and use that knowledge to guide the development of improved treatments.

18F - AV - 1451 is a brain imaging agent used in PET (Positron Emission Tomography) Scans.

By using highly advanced brain imaging technology to observe modern humans crafting ancient tools, an Indiana University neuroarchaeologist has found evidence that human - like ways of thinking may have emerged as early as 1.8 million years ago.

The research, published in JAMA Psychiatry, shows the potential for brain imaging «biomarkers» for attention problems.

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

Scientists also used brain imaging to measure the functionality of each patient's white matter.

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

Technology has come to the rescue with the demonstration — by Adrian M. Owen and his research group at the University of Cambridge — of awareness in an unresponsive patient with the aid of functional brain imaging.

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

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

The team, led by doctoral candidate Amber Ruigrok and Professors John Suckling and Simon Baron - Cohen in the Department of Psychiatry, performed a quantitative review of the brain imaging literature testing overall sex differences in total and regional brain volumes.

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.

Only four brain imaging studies (totaling 42 marijuana abusers) have measured DA D2 / D3 receptors (14 ⇓ — 16, 42).

New study suggests so: Brain imaging to measure development of a child's brain networks may help predict who's at risk.»

From the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (M.M.M., A.M.O.), the Impaired Consciousness Study Group, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge (M.R.C.), and the Division of Academic Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital (J.D.P.)-- all in Cambridge, United Kingdom; and the Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Center, University of Liege (A.V., M.B., S.L.), and the Departments of Neurology (S.L., M.B.) and Neuroradiology (L.T.), University Hospital of Liege, Liege; and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels (A.V., S.L., M.B.)-- all in Belgium.

In the PLOS ONE paper, Chan and colleagues describe how three male rhesus macaques they studied displayed cognitive and motor impairments emerging at 16 months of age, and dystonia and signs of neurodegeneration on brain imaging at 24 months of age.

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

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

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.

Of Tics and Compulsions: Brain Imaging Teases Apart Tourette's and Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder

In future studies, the researchers plan to use brain imaging techniques to determine if it is possible to identify a specific, smaller group of people who can benefit from the clot retrieval therapy seven to 24 hours after stroke onset, said Dr. Reza Jahan, professor of radiology and neurosurgery at UCLA, and a co-author of the study.

«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.

Just, who runs the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon, isn't worried about that part.

One strength of the study is the combination of this decision - making test with the brain imaging data, says Peter J. Havel, a professor of nutrition at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved with the study.

Brain imaging (EEG) on a subset of the groups showed some evidence of neuroplasticity (i.e., brain changes) which correlated to correct prospective memory performance, particularly with the ability to stop oneself from carrying on with ongoing activities and switch to performing an intended action at the appropriate time.

The state's athletic commission requires that fighters undergo a brain imaging scan and annual blood tests for viruses like hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV.

Brain imaging revealed a striking finding — significant changes in the communication between specific brain regions correlated with elevated maternal IL - 6 and CRP levels.

Egan and his colleagues also showed with brain imaging that the prefrontal cortex was abnormally active in subjects with the faster enzyme when they were trying to keep in mind a set of numbers.

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

Recent brain imaging research shows that people project themselves onto avatars, explaining the potential of digital doppelgängers for treating phobias and anxiety disorders and in helping people lose weight and make better financial choices.

We have long known that autism itself is genetic, but by combining these different data sets (brain imaging and genetics) we can now identify more precisely which genes are linked to how the autistic brain may differ.

1) Abnormal processing of visual motion in dyslexia revealed by functional brain imaging.

The findings are the result of a meta - analysis conducted by Bertolero and fellow researchers at UC Berkeley and the National University of Singapore of more than 9,000 brain imaging studies in the BrainMap database that cover more than 75 cognitive tasks.

Some brain imaging studies have shown activation of speech areas during mathematical tasks, while others have not.

Brain imaging studies and cerebrospinal fluid analysis for both patients were consistent with Alzheimer's disease.

With brain imaging, the effects of regular TV viewing on a child's neural circuits are plain to see.

The team is continuing to develop MRI atlases of the healthy brain across the lifespan as part of a project — Brain Imaging in Normal Subjects (BRAINS)-- which aims to detect brain damage in other diseases such as schizophrenia and preterm birth.

After completing her Ph.D. in 1993, Eden began a postdoc at the intramural program at the National Institute of Health's Fogarty International Center and learned more about brain imaging, which she had been first exposed to at Wake Forest.

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

Using a combination of brain imaging and computer modeling, researchers found areas in the auditory, motor, and limbic regions to be activated during free listening to music.

The ambitious goal: to learn to identify early signs of trauma - induced brain damage from subtle changes in blood chemistry, brain imaging, and performance tests — changes that may show up decades before visible symptoms such as cognitive impairment, depression, and impulsive behavior.

The brain imaging study was led by researchers at University of Pennsylvania's new Brain and Behavior Change Program, led by Caryn Lerman, PhD, who is also the deputy director of Penn's Abramson Cancer Center, and Elliot Stein, PhD, and collaborators at NIDA.

Moreover, brain imaging reveals that abilities such as reading and mathematics have distinct «neuronal niches»; they too are confined to specific brain circuits.

Brain imaging using radioactive dye can detect early evidence of Alzheimer's disease that may predict future cognitive decline among adults with mild or no cognitive impairment, according to a 36 - month follow - up study led by Duke Medicine.

A new study using different brain imaging techniques linked the intensity of an individual's placebo effect to the amount of dopamine (a neurotransmitter involved in the pleasure and reward pathway) released in a midbrain region called the nucleus accumbens.

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

The study, which appears in academic journal Brain Imaging and Behavior, also reports that participants were subjectively more preoccupied with food at night even though their hunger and «fullness» levels were similar to other times of the day.

Immune cells called microglia activate as part of the body's inflammatory response, so the researchers used a brain imaging technique to measure a substance that increases in activated microglia.