Sentences with phrase «brain researcher at»

Strategy - based video games have shown some promise in improving brain function in older adults, suggesting the games might provide a defensive measure against dementia and Alzheimer's, said a brain researcher at a March 15 Neuroscience & Society event co-sponsored by AAAS and the Dana Foundation.

While Perkins expresses concerns about the risk of the drugs, Cameron Carter, a psychiatrist and brain researcher at the University of California at Davis, sees the problem differently.

Abigail Baird, a brain researcher at Vassar College, says what you see on the outside is happening in the teenage brain as well.

Abigail Baird, a brain researcher at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., suggests that our teenage years are akin to a second toddlerhood.

U.S. diplomats who fell ill in Cuba are victims of a new neurological syndrome, according to brain researchers at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).

From Ergo Log Brain researchers at the American Taub Institute uncovered an eating pattern that reduces the chance of developing Alzheimer's by 38 percent.

Not exact matches

In a study published earlier this month, researchers at Michigan State University monitored the brains of 79 female and 70 male students, who were asked to fill out a survey about their own anxiety levels.

A «brain training» iPad game developed in Britain may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at home and at work, researchers said on Monday.

You could also think of your brain like a baseball game, according to Yuval Nir, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Researchers at the Universities of Rome and L'Aquila in Italy recently conducted a study about how eating chocolate effects brain functions like memory, attention, and processing speed.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of London has revealed some interesting information about neurons in the male brain.

Scientists have long observed that taking breaks can help the brain cement new memories, but recently researchers decided to take a more rigorous look at the phenomenon.

While the reason for this isn't entirely clear, the researchers suggested it could have to do with the social isolation that comes from losing your hearing and how that affects the brain when it's not able to work at processing sound.

Lehrer describes how researchers at Drexel College set out to study what happens in a person's brain when he or she experiences some sort of personal discovery.

In a series of experiments, researchers at Northwestern University used brain scanners and EEG sensors to study neural activity in a number of participants tasked with solving complex word puzzles.

Researchers at Accera, in Broomfield, Colorado, believe that in some forms of impairment, brain cells are actually starving for glucose, the basic food of cells.

According to a study completed by researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, that is exactly how our brains are wired to work.

To detect cerebral palsy in infants, researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed a motorized robot for children to wear, tracking brain activity and muscle coordination using artificial intelligence.

«If they could figure out a way to streamline, it would be a lot better,» said Kim Janda, a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who leads a team of researchers developing a vaccine that would prevent fentanyl overdoses by keeping the drug from reaching the brain.

She joins a number of other top AI researchers coming out of University of Toronto who have gone on to secure positions of importance at major tech firms; U of T AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who heads Google Brain's Canadian operations, is another.

Researchers at the University of California Berkeley recently unveiled a new experimental device for editing brain activity.

The mysteries of the brain may be virtually endless, but a team of researchers from two institutes in Göttingen, Germany now claim to have an answer for at least one question that has remained a puzzle: just how fast does the brain forget information?

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According to the Washington Times, researchers at Boston University told Matson's family that he had the worst case of CTE — chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the neurodegenerative disease associated with repeated brain trauma — they had ever seen.

WFAN was two years old when then program director Mark Mason decided to pair the Mad Dog in afternoon drive time with fellow Long Island native Mike Francesa, who before landing an on - air job at WFAN had worked as a researcher at CBS Sports, where he was sometimes referred to as Brent Musburger's brain.

If the researchers had looked at straight fathers who regularly look after their children on their own, it's likely their brains would have shown similar changes.

The study, by researchers at Israel's Bar - Ilan University, measured first - time parents» brain activity when they watched films of themselves playing with their children.

But researchers at UC Irvine recently revealed how DHA deficiency during pregnancy limits baby brain development — without enough DHA, brain cells aren't able to grow and form connections.

Researchers found that by age 2, babies who had been breastfed exclusively for at least three months had enhanced development in key parts of the brain compared to children who were fed formula exclusively or who were fed a combination of formula and breastmilk.

What continues to be lost, in my view, in much of what the media has reported over the last six years about the results of autopsies conducted by researchers at the Sports Legacy Institute in Boston on the brains of athletes - autopsies which show the presence of the dark splotches of tau protein which are the tell - tale sign of CTE - which is that they provide, at most, anecdotal evidence suggesting a possible connection.

Researchers looked at 133 babies using specialized, «baby - friendly» magnetic resonance imaging to analyze brain growth in a sample of children under the age of 4.

* Update: A 2012 study in the journal Neurology by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (2) also found no link between intentional heading and acute brain damage (e.g. concussion), but said that it was at least theoretically possible that it could represent a form of repetitive subthreshold mild brain injury over time and could be the cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

Researchers looked at the brain wave patterns of babies as a measure of depression.

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The results of at least two recent studies, however, suggest that reductions in full - contact practices can be accompished safely without putting players at additional risk, while researchers continue looking for the head trauma «holy grail»: a threshold - whether it is number of hits per week, over the course of the season, of a certain force, or to a certain part of the helmet (e.g. facemask, top of the head) above which players are at an unacceptably high risk of permanent brain injury.

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).

The researchers expressed concern that athletes may be at risk of incurring symptomatic injury during period their brains were trying to adapt to contact at the beginning of the season.

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.

Commenting at the time on the 2010 Purdue study for Sports Illustrated [20][15], Randall Benson, a neurologist at Wayne State University in Detroit, speculated that the Purdue researchers may have taken what amounted to a «real - time snapshot» of the early stages of the corrosive creep that wears away at the frontal lobe, a part of the brain involved in navigating social situations.

«For the first time, we have found that a sample of randomly assigned young adults showed less activation in certain frontal brain regions following a week of playing violent video games at home,» said one researcher.

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).

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

Then the N.Y.U. researchers compared how well the various sidelines tests had done at pinpointing the brain injury.

Researchers believe this abnormality, in the brain's control of head and neck movement, breathing, heartbeat and the body's responses to deprivation of oxygen supply, could be the reason why some babies sleeping on their front are more at risk of SIDS.

Studying preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children's Hospital, the researchers found that preemies whose daily diets were at least 50 percent breast milk had more brain tissue and cortical - surface area by their due dates than premature babies who consumed significantly less breast milk.

Then, the researchers conducted brain scans on those infants at about the time each would have been born had the babies not arrived early.

The researchers used MRI scans to look at the brains of women who had just given birth.

One study found that pregnancy does indeed cause striking changes in women's brains, so much so that researchers are able to tell if a woman has had a child simply by looking at her brain scans.

«It's disappointing that so many young athletes with apparent concussions choose not to report their symptoms to coaches or even parents, but they are often highly motivated to avoid being removed from play,» Keith O. Yeates, a pediatric traumatic brain injury researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, said.

Researchers are looking at delays or abnormalities in brain development of nerve cells that are responsible for heart and lung function.