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.
The NIMH reported today that Clues about how a suspect version of a gene may slightly increase risk for schizophrenia are emerging from
a brain imaging study by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
Not exact matches
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).
Key
brain regions have been identified
by imaging studies, as have key neurochemical pathways bringing about the possibility of using drugs to block the nocebo effect.
Evidence that animal pheromones don't always work in they way we thought, backed up
by a growing number of
brain -
imaging studies in humans, is convincing some researchers that we really do make and respond to pheromones.
Now comes the remarkable news that neuroscientists have communicated with a man presumed to be in a vegetative state,
by studying the activity in his
brain with functional magnetic resonance
imaging, fMRI.
Dr. Aron and colleagues based their
study's conclusions on a neuroimaging
study using functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) scanning that measures
brain activity
by detecting changes in blood flow.
At the start of the
study, all the participants did some Web searching while the scientists monitored their
brain activity
by functional magnetic resonance
imaging.
At the University of Arizona, psychologist and neuroscientist Richard Lane hopes to make
brain -
imaging techniques more relevant
by using those techniques to
study the neuroanatomy of emotions and their expressions.
These comprised not only «conventional» behavioral
studies, but also the physical effects on the
brains of test participants
by measuring the Blood Oxygen Level - dependent (BOLD) response using functional Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (fMRI) scans.
Imaging studies by Nora Volkow, head of the medical department at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, revealed that the
brains of cocaine addicts release half as much dopamine as substance - free subjects.
Different types of cognitive tasks spur activity in various regions of the
brain, as indicated
by studies using functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI).
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.
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.
Functional MR
imaging taken while the animals received either a juice reward or VTA stimulation revealed that both induced activation of
brain regions that previous
studies in humans and other primates have associated with reward signaling
by means of the neurotransmitter dopamine.
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.
In addition to
imaging heavy - ion tracks, Vazquez has
studied the effect of chronic cosmic - ray exposure on the
brains of rats, as measured
by their ability to move around in a box.
The Adolescent
Brain Cognitive Development
Study — or ABCD
Study — is a $ 300 million effort funded
by the National Institutes of Health that will scan the
brains of some 10,000 U.S. youths, beginning when they are 9 and 10 years old and
imaging them every 2 years for 10 years.
The article, A pilot
study examining functional
brain activity 6 months after memory retraining in MS: the MEMREHAB trial, was published online ahead of print on June 14 by Brain Imaging and Beha
brain activity 6 months after memory retraining in MS: the MEMREHAB trial, was published online ahead of print on June 14
by Brain Imaging and Beha
Brain Imaging and Behavior.
This phenomenon can be explained, in part,
by brain -
imaging studies that show music can tap into the limbic system of the
brain.
The new
study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with
brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease
by interfering with the way the
brain regulates connections between neurons.
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.
In their
study the researchers showed different characters to test persons and recorded via functional magnetic resonance
imaging the
brain activity which was set into motion
by the process of seeing.
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 au
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
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 au
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 au
brain imaging and behavioural study of infants at high risk for
imaging and behavioural
study of infants at high risk for au
study of infants at high risk for autism.
Moreover,
brain -
imaging studies by researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Oregon Research Institute show that the
brain's reward systems in overweight individuals respond weakly to food, even to junk food.
Now, however, a
brain imaging study — published online
by the journal Nature Neuroscience on Mar. 2 — challenges this basic assumption.
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.
The researchers
studied volunteers»
brains by using magnetic resonance
imaging.
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.
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
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
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.
Now a functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI)
study shows where in the
brain the confirmation bias arises and how it is unconscious and driven
by emotions.
A team of psychologists and
imaging scientists at Vanderbilt has collaborated on a
study that provides important corroboration of the validity of these
studies by examining the relationship of the fMRI maps of resting state
brain's networks with the
brain's underlying anatomical and neurological structure.
In a 2006
study by Montague and others, pairs of subjects had their
brains scanned using functional magnetic resonance
imaging, or MRI, as they played a game requiring them to take turns.
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.
Such
imaging could eventually help diagnose dyslexia in young children; even better, Eden hopes that
by studying subtle
brain differences as children with and without dyslexia learn to read, fMRI could eventually help teachers target reading interventions.
To
study how music preferences might affect functional
brain connectivity — the interactions among separate areas of the
brain — Burdette and his fellow investigators used functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI), which depicts
brain activity
by detecting changes in blood flow.
In this regard, a new
imaging genetics
study directed
by Professor Elvira Brattico from Aarhus University and conducted in two Italian hospitals in collaboration with the University of Helsinki (Finland) has provided the first evidence that the effects of music and noise on affective behavior and
brain physiology are associated with genetically determined dopamine functionality.
The methods used to conduct
studies on modern humans crafting ancient tools was limited until recently
by brain imaging technology.
The mutated genes also interfered with how the
brain's layers and halves relate to one another, a phenomenon confirmed
by previous
imaging studies of the autistic
brain.
The
study was carried out
by a team of researchers from two global scientific consortia, ENIGMA and CHARGE, which began to pool their
brain imaging and genetic datasets back in 2009 to look for genetic markers that affect one's risk of developing
brain diseases.
«We are proposing that the disease be defined in living people
by evidence of
brain pathology using biomarker
studies, either
brain imaging or body fluid examination, and that clinical symptoms should be regarded for what they are — a product or result of the disease, as opposed to the definition of the disease,» said lead author Dr. Clifford Jack, Jr. of the Mayo Clinic.
3/24/2008 Non-Invasive
Imaging Provides Window Into Genetic Properties of
Brain Tumors Doctors diagnose and prescribe treatment for brain tumors by studying, under a microscope, tumor tissue and cell samples obtained through invasive biopsy or sur
Brain Tumors Doctors diagnose and prescribe treatment for
brain tumors by studying, under a microscope, tumor tissue and cell samples obtained through invasive biopsy or sur
brain tumors
by studying, under a microscope, tumor tissue and cell samples obtained through invasive biopsy or surgery.
An international collaborative
study coordinated
by the Inserm unit 930 «
Imaging and
Brain» (Dr. Frédéric Laumonnier, Tours), PHENOMIN and the IGBMC (Dr. Yann Hérault, Illkirch) brings new and original data on the characterization of the physiopathological role of the synaptic receptor PTCHD1.
«Deficient neuron - microglia signaling results in impaired functional
brain connectivity and social behavior» Y. Zhan, R.C. Paolicelli, F. Sforazzini, L. Weinhard, G. Bolasco, F. Pagani, A. L. Vyssotski, A. Bifone, A. Gozzi, D. Ragozzino, C.T. Gross Nature Neuroscience 17 (3), 400-4006 (2014) «USPIO - loaded Red Blood Cells as a biomimetic MR contrast agent: a relaxometric
study» A. Boni, D. Ceratti, A. Antonelli, C. Sfara, M. Magnani, E. Manuali, S. Salamida, A. Gozzi, and A. Bifone Contrast Media and Molecular
Imaging 9, 229 - 236 (2014) «Distributed BOLD and CBV - weighted resting - state networks in the mouse
brain» F. Sforazzini, A.J. Schwarz, A. Galbusera, A. Bifone, and A. Gozzi NeuroImage 87, 403 - 415 (2014) «Antimicrobial peptides design
by evolutionary multiobject optimization» G. Maccari, M. Di Luca, R. Nifosì, F. Caldarelli, G. Signore, C. Boccardi, and A. Bifone PloS Computational Biology 9 (9): e1003212 (2013) «Differential effect of orexin - 1 and crf - 1 antagonism on stress circuits: a fMRI
study in the rat with the pharmacological stressor yohimbine» A. Gozzi, S: Lepore, E: Merlo Pich, and A. Bifone Neuropsychopharmacology 38 (11): 2120 - 2130 (2013) «Water dispersal and functionalization of hydrophobic iron oxide nanoparticles with lipid - modified poly (amidoamine) dendrimers» A. Boni, L. Albertazzi, C. Innocenti, M. Gemmi, and A. Bifone.
Bing Yao, PhD, has been awarded a $ 560,000 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to
study the association between cognitive fatigue and
brain iron concentration, as estimated
by MRI susceptibility contrast
imaging.
, has been awarded a $ 560,000 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to
study the association between cognitive fatigue and
brain iron concentration, as estimated
by MRI susceptibility contrast
imaging.
A recent
study used functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) to compare the
brain networks activated
by the PASAT and SDMT, with the hypothesis that the more complex PASAT would activate greater involvement of regions associated with executive function and emotional stress.6 The
study enrolled 17 healthy right - handed volunteers and evaluated each with versions of the PASAT and SDMT adapted for use with fMRI.
In 2012, our laboratory initiated a
study of AAN structural connectivity in ex vivo human
brain specimens and in a living human subject - a
study made possible
by high resolution MRI scanners and high angular resolution diffusion
imaging (HARDI) sequences developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical I
imaging (HARDI) sequences developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical
ImagingImaging.
By contrast, he says,
brain -
imaging studies often look only at people who have reason to suspect they already have cognitive decline.
In fact, a
study by researchers at Stanford University, who used functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) to
study brain activity of people, found that the part of our
brain involved with paying attention is engaged when we listen to certain types of music.