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«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 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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

From brain - imaging studies, we also know the visual cortex becomes more active while the area [in the brain] responsible for empathy becomes less active.

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

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 adultIn 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 adultin regions that process rewards, motivations and emotions (the socioaffective circuitry in the subcortical, limbic regions) compared to children and adultin the subcortical, limbic regions) compared to children and adults.

A study published in Current Biology used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) of the brains of three to seven month old infants to assess brain activity in relationship to sound.

In a 2012 study, [8] researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) measured before - and - after data from the brains of a group of nine high school football and hockey players using an advanced form of imaging similar to an MRI called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

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.

In the new study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain responses in sleeping babies while they were presented with emotionally neutral, positive, or negative human vocalizations or nonvocal environmental soundIn the new study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain responses in sleeping babies while they were presented with emotionally neutral, positive, or negative human vocalizations or nonvocal environmental soundin sleeping babies while they were presented with emotionally neutral, positive, or negative human vocalizations or nonvocal environmental sounds.

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).

«Fragile X imaging study reveals differences in infant brains.»

A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reports a link between reduced functional activation and reduced cortical thickness in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.

Brain imaging and neurochemical studies suggest that the amygdala and hippocampus play significant roles in the etiology of anxiety disorders.

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

Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

In a study under way at USP's Neuroimaging Laboratory (LIM - 21), the researchers are now seeking to correlate the cognitive profile observed in the two groups of cocaine - dependent patients with decision - making and resting - state brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRIIn a study under way at USP's Neuroimaging Laboratory (LIM - 21), the researchers are now seeking to correlate the cognitive profile observed in the two groups of cocaine - dependent patients with decision - making and resting - state brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRIin the two groups of cocaine - dependent patients with decision - making and resting - state brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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.

In this new study and for the first time, scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) combined with a standard clinical trial design to derive an unbiased brain - based neurological marker to predict analgesia associated with placebo treatment in patients with chronic knee osteoarthritis paiIn this new study and for the first time, scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) combined with a standard clinical trial design to derive an unbiased brain - based neurological marker to predict analgesia associated with placebo treatment in patients with chronic knee osteoarthritis paiin patients with chronic knee osteoarthritis pain.

For the present study, researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess brain response to sensory stimulation in 35 women with fibromyalgia and 25 healthy, age - matched controls.

After studying astronomy and physics at the University of Southern California, she worked in the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of California, Los Angeles, studying the brain structure of people with schizophrenia.

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

In the study, Dr. Barber and colleagues analyzed brain imaging data from the Human Connectome Project of 76 otherwise healthy participants reporting PLEs and 153 control participants.

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.

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.

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

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.

The new study is an example of what happens when epidemiology experiments — studies of patterns in health and disease — crash into studies of brain imaging.

The results provide a strong argument for scientists to pay more attention to who, exactly, they're studying in their brain imaging experiments.

«Our study reveals for the first time using brain imaging that engaging in exciting or what we call «self - expanding» activities, such as puzzle - solving, games, or hobbies with one's partner, appears to reduce craving for nicotine,» said Dr. Aron.

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.

Imaging studies that combine scans from many people, such as this diffusion image from the Human Connectome Project, don't identify brain variations in individuals.

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.

Imaging study shows brain changes linked to trauma, such as the floods and fire in Sendai, Japan, after the 2011 earthquake.

That report, published in Brain Imaging and Behavior, quickly led to further research — a National Institutes of Health - funded study at Pitt examining the brain during dual cognitive - balance performance in children following concusBrain Imaging and Behavior, quickly led to further research — a National Institutes of Health - funded study at Pitt examining the brain during dual cognitive - balance performance in children following concusbrain during dual cognitive - balance performance in children following concussion.

Sinha and her colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging to study brain activity in people exposed to stimuli ranging from highly stressful — images of mutilated bodies or someone pointing a gun — to neutral, such as a chair, table or lamp.

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.

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.

Different types of cognitive tasks spur activity in various regions of the brain, as indicated by studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.