Sentences with phrase «brain scans indicate»

Moreover, positron - emission tomography brain scans indicate that hoarding and obsessive - compulsive disorder may be quite distinct.

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.

Not exact matches

Autopsy and scanning studies indicate that a healthy 69 - year - old like me has been shedding brain matter at a rate of 0.5 percent per year for a decade and probably longer.

The fNIRS scans indicated that the concussed brain activated at a lower threshold and drew from a wider area — a sharp contrast from earlier functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies using concussion patients.

fMRI brain scans have been introduced previously in the sentencing phase of a murder trial (to indicate that the defendant had a brain disorder and should be spared the death penalty).

Imaging scans show the brain shifts its activity (measured by blood flow and oxygenation, indicating which neurons are heavily used at a specific time) from the prefrontal executive control regions to subcortical reactive emotion areas.

The researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan 21 of the participants» brains while they viewed pairs of short film clips showing classmates of varying status within this social network, telling them all they needed to do was indicate whether the clips in each pair were the same or different, and that this task was unrelated to the first part of the experiment.

Neuroscientist Jason Cooperrider and colleagues scanned Grandin's brain using three different methods: high - resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which captures the structure of the brain; diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a method to trace the connections between brain regions; and functional MRI, which indicates brain activity.

MRI scans indicate that love lights up the pleasure center of the brain.

We already know that obese people tend to find food more rewarding, as indicated by brain scans of activity in the anterior cingulate cortex:

Jersey continued to show signs of a brain tumor throughout the anesthesia and scan process, however the scan indicated a middle ear infection and a forming tooth abscess.

i) The injury shows positive findings on a computerized axial tomography scan, a magnetic resonance imaging or any other medically recognized brain diagnostic technology indicating intracranial pathology that is a result of the accident, including, but not limited to, intracranial contusions or haemorrhages, diffuse axonal injury, cerebral edema, midline shift or pneumocephaly.

i) The insured person is accepted for admission, on an in - patient basis, to a public hospital named in a Guideline with positive findings on a computerized axial tomography scan, a magnetic resonance imaging or any other medically recognized brain diagnostic technology indicating intracranial pathology that is a result of the accident, including, but not limited to intracranial contusions or haemorrhages, diffuse axonal injury, cerebral edema, midline shift or phneumocephaly.