Sentences with phrase «brain scan»

The clearest proof is the ghostly image of a cyst in a brain scan, along with the presence of antibodies against tapeworms.

Based on the results of that test, Beaty and colleagues developed a predictive model and tested against brain scan data collected for earlier studies on creativity.

Krause worked out those couplings for each subject, and compared the scores with the information from their brain scan.

A number of brain scan studies have supported this view.

Okonkwo scheduled a two - hour brain scan for Tom in a high - powered MRI machine.

Before the operation you have a brain scan using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

«For this reason... schizophrenia can not be diagnosed using either a brain scan or a microscope.»

Kiehl was hired by the defense to assess Dugan with the PCL - R and a brain scan, to convince the jury that the convict with an IQ of 140 had a neurological disorder that made him not criminally responsible, as is already the case for people with low IQ (a neurological disorder that qualifies for ineligibility for execution in nine states).

So we wanted to find out whether a single brain scan in an NHS hospital scanner could also be effective in distinguishing between patients known to have MS and patients known to have non-MS brain lesions.

For example, a marijuana study participant typically undergoes a brain scan while being shown a picture of a bong, and researchers analyze the brain activation in response to the cue.

If you have awful spatial awareness, for example, best not become a racing driver... but perhaps you don't need a brain scan to tell you that.

Here's an extreme idea but one that would certainly make career choices easier: a brain scan that tells you what jobs you would be good at.

Previously, Bookheimer had cautioned me by email: «There is little to report in an individual brain scan unless there is an abnormality.

Participants will be selected based on the results of a PET brain scan to detect the presence of the haywire proteins.

Of those people, 562 had an MRI brain scan around age 73 to measure overall brain volume, gray matter volume and thickness of the cortex, which is the outer layer of the brain.

Brain scan studies of large groups of people can tell us things about what the «average» brain looks like.

An fMRI brain scan of a volunteer sniffing the sweat of a parachute jumper shows high activity, in yellow, in the left amygdala.

Feusner, who also is a professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said if the study's results are replicated, OCD treatment could someday start with a brain scan.

Take a recent experiment in which French and English scientists had volunteers play a simple game while undergoing a brain scan.

«A brain scan showed hypoperfusion [reduced blood flow].

«Brain scan study adds to evidence that lower brain serotonin levels are linked to dementia: Results suggest serotonin loss may be a key player in cognitive decline, not just a side - effect of Alzheimer's disease.»

«OCD treatment could someday start with a brain scan.»

The bottom line for headache patients who think they might want to have a brain scan, says Callaghan: if the doctor treating your headache doesn't think you need a scan, don't push them.

UNSETTLING it may be, but following the gaze of a virtual face during a brain scan is helping to unravel brain activity that is key to complex human social interactions: activity that may be atypical in people with autism.

When studying honesty, neuroscientists usually ask people to either tell the truth or lie while undergoing a brain scan.

It's still not clear whether the blood test will be more affordable than a brain scan or a spinal tap.

But he needed to wait and see if that evidence would turn up in a brain scan.

Typically, it takes a brain scan or spinal tap to discover these A-beta clumps, or plaques, in the brain.

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

As the time interval between the two increases, the word suddenly pops into consciousness — accompanied by characteristic activity on a brain scan.

Brain scan studies that are drawn from rich and well - educated groups could lead to biased ideas of how our brains develop.

In July, Steven Laureys at Liège University Hospital in Belgium performed the first brain scan of a person with Cotard's.

Even the brain scan of a person looking at a single disgusting image was enough to predict their political tendencies, but more work will be needed to know exactly what these brain scan differences mean.

A brain scan showed the man had a large cyst impinging on his brain.

«But I would never tell a parole board to decide whether to release somebody or hold on to somebody, based on their brain scan as an individual, because I can't tell what are the causal factors in that individual.»

Former President Jimmy Carter said that his most recent brain scan showed no signs of cancer, more than three months after he began treatment for four melanoma tumors.

If that doesn't help, go for a brain scan.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

But maybe despite our best judgment we fall for someone whose brain scan proves he's prone to breaking promises anyway; should we forget about him and try to find someone else?

Former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar had to have a brain scan in 1993 after being hit on the head with a rock during a World Cup qualifying match between Zimbabwe and Egypt.

that is funny but Wenger on a serious note needs to go for a brain scan since a blind can see arsenal's problems and he can't is just madnesses

This is a possibility (albeit a medieval way of describing it) within the realm of psychology so it wouldn't necessary show up on a brain scan.

when trying to use a brain scan the latest endeavour of science it has been proven unreliable.

Is there a brain scan, MRI or other scientific test we can apply to determine the cause of the change?

Then they returned to the university's lab for another round of cognitive tests and a second brain scan.

When you try to do several things at once, you aren't more productive, but less by as much as 40 percent, according to brain scan studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

As fast as I could, I advanced my slides to the brain scan studies.

But the brain scans also turned up something much more fascinating.

In one study, a research team from Massachusetts General Hospital looked at the brain scans of 16 people before and after they participated in an eight - week course in mindfulness meditation.

Before and after the ten weeks, all received brain scans and completed a cognitive exam, as well as a test designed to assess decision making and risk tolerance (for example, whether they were more likely to choose a smaller reward now or a larger reward later).