Sentences with phrase «brain imaging studies found»

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.

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Using DTI imaging technique, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013 study [16] significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with changes in the white matter.

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).

Cognitive neuroscientists have studied this distinction with brain imaging techniques and the findings — unsurprisingly — tell us a lot about our increasingly polarised world today and the ways our brains process the distinction between us and «others».

A recent review advises us to beware of the gender differences found in brain - imaging studies.

And long - term, people who've been in long - term relationships, through imaging studies and so on, we found that, you know, there is increased activity in pleasure centers of the brain; so love over time makes you feel better.

Most of the recent PTSD imaging studies have found atrophy only in the hippocampus; the rest of the brain is fine.

Previous imaging studies have found that in PTSD sufferers, parts of the brain involved in memory, fear, and mood control are smaller compared with the brains of people who come through their trauma more - or-less unscathed.

To find out what happens in the brain, fifteen people who like cheese and fifteen who do not were selected and participated in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study.

Now, a study that used noninvasive brain imaging to evaluate brain activity has found that simulator - trained medical students successfully transferred those skills to operating on cadavers and were faster than peers who had no simulator training.

Research in rodents, along with imaging studies in new mothers, are finding areas of the brain that could be involved in postpartum depression.

At the meeting, attendees discussed four broad goals for the proposed Observatory: expanding access to large scale electron microscopes; providing fabrication facilities for new, nanosized electrode systems; developing new optical and magnetic resonance brain activity imaging technologies; and finding new ways to analyze and store the staggering amount of data detailed brain studies can produce.

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.

Combining several new techniques, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Ph.D., senior author of the study, and his colleagues at Harvard's Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, applied fast fMRI in an effort to track neuronal networks that control human thought processes, and found that they could now measure rapidly oscillating brain activity.

«Our finding of a link between bipolar disorder and the striatum at the molecular level complements studies that implicate the same brain region in bipolar disorder at the anatomical level, including functional imaging studies that show altered activity in the striatum of bipolar subjects during tasks that involve balancing reward and risk,» said TRSI Research Associate Rodrigo Pacifico, who was first author of the new study.

Now an imaging study finds that psychopathic inmates have deficits in a key empathy circuit in the brain, pointing to a potential therapeutic target.

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.

To find out, Brown and his colleagues used structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the brains of 885 children and young adults between the ages of 3 and 20.

«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.

Imaging studies of the brain DA system in marijuana abusers have also shown different findings from those reported for other types of substance abusers.

Eleven of these women were selected to study because of findings of brain lesions during fetal ultrasound imaging (USG).

9/25/2007 Sense of Taste Different in Women with Anorexia Nervosa Imaging Study Finds Brain Changes Associated with the Regulation of Appetite Although anorexia nervosa is categorized as an eating disorder, it is not known whether there are alterations of the portions of the brain that regulate appeBrain Changes Associated with the Regulation of Appetite Although anorexia nervosa is categorized as an eating disorder, it is not known whether there are alterations of the portions of the brain that regulate appebrain that regulate appetite.

In 2007 Dr. Clauw and his colleagues published a brain imaging study in which they infused patients with an opioid and found that opioid receptors in the brains of fibromyalgia patients were already occupied — possibly because the body is pumping out natural painkillers (like endorphins) in response to the fibromyalgia.

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.