Sentences with phrase «brain scanning»

Images from MRI brain scans of obese patients support this notion.

Now brain scans show why one method of creating «implicit motion», used by an 18th - century Japanese artist, works so well.

Gone were the anxiety and obsessive thoughts that show up in brain scans of people who are in relationships in the early stages.

Using brain scans taken at the beginning of the study, the software accurately predicted a person's future mental decline about 80 percent of the time.

The researchers also performed multiple MRI brain scans of these children when they were ages 6 to 13.

During the postpartum period, the researchers also performed brain scans on the new mothers while they looked at photos of their infants.

Brain scans from nearly 200 adolescent boys provide evidence that the brains of compulsive video game players are wired differently.

However, closer investigation of the newborn by MRI brain scans revealed troubling neurological abnormalities, the group said.

A number of brain scan studies have supported this view.

As the participants only had brain scans at the end of the study it is impossible to rule out differences in brain size existing before the researchers measured levels of inflammation.

This book is packed full of empirical evidence, much of it shown with brain scans and papers on an 18 year study.

But the new study shows the rate of brain scans for headache has risen, not fallen, since guidelines for doctors came out.

Each time they visited the lab, the participants underwent brain scans while playing a game that involved receiving monetary rewards of $ 10 and $ 1.

They also did brain scans using functional magnetic resonance imaging to track the signals normally present when the brain is craving something.

Brain scans taken after the exercise intervention showed a significant decrease in the intensity of brain activation in eleven brain regions while participants correctly identified famous names.

Brain scans also showed the improved gut flora produced changes in brain chemistry that promotes relaxation.

The goal of this research is to develop criteria for identifying high - risk patients on brain scan while they are hospitalized.

Hopefully, all new studies of therapies in HD will include brain scans, so scientists can see whether this loss of brain tissue is prevented.

Essentially, some Chinese researchers applied neural network algorithms to the process of mapping brain scan data to what a person sees.

The subjects underwent MRI brain scans before and after 4 weeks of the testosterone administration.

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 key to getting a competitive rate after a stroke is the MRI and brain scan results.

The study comes from a team that has studied the placebo effect for more than a decade, using sophisticated brain scanning techniques in healthy people.

Plus, brain scans indicate that people who lost weight and kept it off for nine months reacted differently when shown images of high - calorie foods than before they lost the weight.

The results were compared to brain scans made of the same people when they were receiving a painful heat stimulus.

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?

In this preliminary study, the researchers wanted to see whether brain scans can even pick up a significant difference between brain activity during lying versus when telling the truth.

Brain scans confirmed that in those with the variant of the gene, areas of the brains associated with fear had altered patterns of fear - related activity.

Currently, brain scans help doctors know when a stroke has occurred, and also contain information on whether a stroke survivor may be at risk of developing cognitive problems or dementia.

A few recent brain scan studies also suggest that a region of human cortex responds specifically to water, she says.

These contrasting patterns of activity can now be detected via brain scans, and could one day help determine if patients with brain damage are conscious.

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

Brain scans tell us that these regions of the brain correspond to the ones activated in human beings.

These effects are real and we can see them occur with special brain scans.

The group will conduct follow - up studies and will have regular brain scans until the subjects reach a certain age.

They were given brain scans on the first visit.

Could brain scans hold the key to diagnosing mental illnesses?

During and afterward, the researchers record brain scans of each volunteer.

«At 6 years of age, everybody goes in for a little brain scan,» he says.

The result can be observed on sensitive brain scans.

To visualize inflammation across the whole pancreas, the researchers adapted MRI mapping algorithms originally developed for whole brain scanning.

Brain scans improved prediction accuracy by 60 percent better at predicting reading difficulties than the compared to traditional assessments alone.

These studies are hampered by large natural variation from person to person, which makes it hard to align brain scans to reveal key differences in specific structures.

Or do brain scans actually not say very much about who we are?

But I don't think anybody has pursued this line with brain scans yet.

The resulting brain scans revealed that the participants who received the drug exhibited reduced neural responses to social rejection in brain regions associated with interpreting emotional and physical pain.

What got you interested in brain scans in the courtroom?

Most in otherwise healthy homes won't have attachment disorders, but brain scans show how insecure attachment negatively affects brain development.

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

People in the study only had brain scans at the end of the trial, which means the researchers couldn't say whether their brains had gotten smaller over time.