Sentences with phrase «brain scans at»

The main thing I learned from writing The First Love Story is that I can only take so much social science and brain scans at one time.

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.

It does not seem to matter, though, what academic experts believe about the advisability of brain scans at trial.

The concussed players underwent brain scans at 13 hours and again seven weeks after their head injury, and the uninjured players had brain scans at the same time.

If any of the adult shark pooh - pooh - ers had been having their brains scanned at that moment, scientists would have seen increased activation in the amygdala and insula — two key parts of the brain's limbic system and important inputs to the mesocortical limbic circuit.

Last year, several news outlets reported that after having his brain scanned at the University of California, Los Angeles, former National Football League (NFL) running back Tony Dorsett was told he shows signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease associated with repeated blows to the head.

The remaining children had their brains scanned at rest and during a task that asked them to distinguish between different people's faces.

People who suffer a stroke often undergo a brain scan at the hospital, allowing doctors to determine the location and extent of the damage.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«We all know that if you engage in certain kinds of exercise on a regular basis you can strengthen certain muscle groups in predictable ways,» Davidson says in his office at the University of Wisconsin, where his research team has hosted scores of Buddhist monks and other meditators for brain scans.

The Dalai Lama has arranged for Tibetan monks to travel to American universities for brain scans and has spoken at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, the world's largest gathering of brain scientists.

Lastly, at the end of this film, Christopher Plummer was experimenting with a brain - scanning technology on two subjects and placed them in a room with a wired device on their heads.

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.

They used MRI scanning to look at the functional brain connectivity patterns between the two activities.

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.

We headed back to Adelaide at about 32 weeks for another scan to check the measurements again and to see whether I could birth our baby back home, or whether (because of the possibility of fluid on the brain) I had to be in the city.

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital performed preseason brain scans of 65 varsity athletes — 23 from collision sports (with routine, purposeful body - to - body contact), 22 from contact sports (where contact is allowed, but is not an integral part of the game) and 20 from non-contact sports.

Excess scanning may be the culprit, in addition to triggering other factors at play for subtle brain changes.

She's looking at remarkable new images of brain scans of people on LSD — the first time they've ever been taken anywhere in the world.

Despite an explosion of research on the use of brain scans and other tools of science to help better determine a person's guilt or innocence, experts at a AAAS - organized discussion said hopes that neuroscience might transform the legal system are unrealistic for now.

Neuroscientists at U.C.L.A. scanned the brains of two dozen 55 - to 74 - year - old volunteers as they both read and searched the web.

But experts looking back at the 2007 case now say Hodges was part of a burgeoning trend: Criminal defense strategies are increasingly relying on neurological evidence — psychological evaluations, behavioral tests or brain scans — to potentially mitigate punishment.

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.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used a technique recently borrowed from the computer science field by neuroscientists — multivariate pattern analysis — to examine brain scans that were taken while people looked at a picture of someone who had rejected them.

When smarter people's brains are scanned while «at rest,» long - distance connections appear stronger

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

To test this idea, neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues scanned the brains of 10 congenitally blind adults as they answered questions about the beliefs of people described to them.

«Practice makes perfect, study confirms: Researchers were looking at fMRI brain scans of professional ballet dancers to measure the long - term effects of learning.»

When Thompson's team looked at brain scans of 206 healthy people aged 70 to 80, they found that those with at least one copy of the FTO variant had 8 per cent less volume in their frontal lobes and 12 per cent less in the occipital lobes, compared with their counterparts lacking the variant.

Gregory Samanez - Larkin, a neuroscientist at Stanford University in California, scanned the brains of 110 men and women aged 19 to 85 with functional MRI as they played 100 rounds of a game in which they had to choose one of three possible investments.

In this study, Faculty of Health researchers were looking at fMRI brain scans of professional ballet dancers to measure the long - term effects of learning.

When Jan Scholz and his colleagues at the University of Oxford looked at brain scans of new jugglers they found that the 24 young men and women had grown more white matter after six weeks of juggling training.

During the memory cue and choice test, Hannula and Ranganath tracked what the volunteers were looking at while scanning their brains.

Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.

When fed brain scans produced by students looking at fresh paintings by the same artists, the program correctly identified the painter better than chance alone: it was correct 83 per cent of the time among the six students who were art majors and 62 per cent of the time among the others (NeuroReport, DOI: 10.1097 / WNR.0 b013e3283331322).

Yvette Sheline and her colleagues at Washington University scanned the brains of 18 people with major depression and compared them with the brains of 17 healthy individuals.

A team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health found that a chemical routinely given to stroke patients undergoing brain scans can leak into their eyes, highlighting those areas and potentially providing insight into their strokes.

Patients showing gadolinium in the vitreous chamber at the later timepoint tended to be of older age, have a history of hypertension, and have more bright spots on their brain scans, called white matter hyperintensities, that are associated with brain aging and decreased cognitive function.

Brain scans show that at times some areas are more active than others, but no region in a healthy brain is simply turnedBrain scans show that at times some areas are more active than others, but no region in a healthy brain is simply turnedbrain is simply turned off.

«The scans we are looking at represent the baseline variability of ongoing activity in the brain at any given time.

To find out, Kristina Caudle at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, asked 15 veterans of the online game World of Warcraft to rate how well words such as «intelligent» and «jealous» described themselves, their avatars, their best friends and their WoW guild leader, while having their brains scanned.

These researchers deployed positron emission tomography (PET), which measures cellular metabolism, to scan the brains of 32 healthy older adults and 64 with Alzheimer's at various stages.

Although the find was remarkable, it wasn't until this year that a team led by French paleoanthropologist Michel Brunet used CT scans to create a virtual model of the skull, revealing precise measurements of the size of the brain cavity and information about the angle at which the spinal cord exits the brain.

And even if the patient doesn't meet the conditions that guidelines say can benefit most from brain imaging — for instance, someone with an abnormal neurological exam or a known cancer — doctors might order a scan at a patient's request to protect themselves legally.

Doctors might order a CT or MRI scan for a headache or migraine to put patients» minds at ease about fears that a malignant brain tumor, aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation or other issue might be causing their symptoms.

By scanning the brains of healthy volunteers, researchers at the National Institutes of Health saw the first, long - sought evidence that our brains may drain some waste out through lymphatic vessels, the body's sewer system.

A relatively new area is to look at the developing nervous system by scanning infants, children, and adults at rest, to chart changes in activity patterns as the brain matures.