Could
brain scans hold the key to diagnosing mental illnesses?
Brain scans hold potential in preventing suicide, which claimed more than 41,000 lives in the United States in 2013.
Not exact matches
«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.»
«It appears that the increased
brain power required to
hold a phone conversation can alter a drivers» visual
scanning pattern.
Their
brains were
scanned while they watched a monitor showing the experimenter picking up their mail and
holding it over a shredder.
A team led by John - Dylan Haynes of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin
scanned the
brains of volunteers who
held a button in each hand and were told to push one of the buttons whenever they wanted to.
The evidence from MRI
scans suggests that such Neanderthal - derived genetic variation may affect the way our
brains work today — and may
hold clues to understanding deficits seen in schizophrenia and autism - related disorders, say the researchers.
It appears that the increased
brain power required to
hold a phone conversation can alter a drivers» visual
scanning pattern.