Sentences with phrase «brain scans of»

To detect this relationship, the Neuroscience study compared functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans of 78 men and women between 18 and 40 years old with those subjects» performance on tests of cognitive performance that required «fluid intelligence» and «cognitive control.»

The findings were derived after scientists studied the cases and brain scans of 58 male adolescents and young adults with conduct disorder and 25 «typical» individuals.

Besides this, they also looked into the brain scans of children from preschool up to early adolescence, Science Daily said.

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

In fact, a study conducted by Dr. Bianca Acevedo in 2010 used fMRI to study relationships that had never lost the initial «spark» that occurs early on and found that the brain scans of long - term couples mimicked those who were newly in love — with just one exception.

This is backed up by Helen Fisher's work who have compared brain scans of people who have fallen in love recently and people who claim to be madly in love even after decades of being together.

The researchers studied a series of brain scans of children from preschool through early adolescence, finding a sharper rise in the volume of the hippocampus in the kids whose mothers supported and nurtured them during the preschool years.

They used a computer model of the head injury victims» brains, and measured their white and gray matter, comparing them to similar brain scans of healthy people.

This presentation debuts a series of wire Tondos, in which swirling cacophonies of colors are created from the layered mapping of cataclysmic weather patterns superimposed onto brain scans of black youth suffering from PTSD as a result of gun violence.

To create these pieces, Cave layered mappings of catastrophic weather events onto brain scans of black youth affected by PTSD.

If you scan guys in Japan, or do brain scans of guys in Japan or India, where I used to live, you see the same brain differences.

In one study, detailed in the Sept. 12 issue of the journal Neurology, researchers compared the brain scans of 120 people belonging to three groups: 40 of the participants had mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a transition stage between normal aging and the more serious memory problems associated with Alzheimer's disease; 40 complained of significant memory problems but did not have MCI and 40 were healthy controls.

Researchers have noted pleasure deficiencies shown on brain scans of a variety of people, finding that frequent abuse of food or drugs actually alters the brain, causing it to not light up with dopamine as it once did.Chronic overeating can also lead to diabetes and predisposes the body toward inflammation, insulin resistance, elevated blood pressure, psychiatric illness, poor digestion, hormone imbalance, and malnutrition.

Brain scans of children learning letters through writing versus through typing showed writing activates various parts of the brain while typing hardly activates it at all.

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

At the same time, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans of those who drank the corn syrup drink showed increased activation in a region of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, which has been tied to reward and cravings in past research, compared with the men who drank the low - glycemic index drink.

«Brain scans of people with OCD and compulsive hoarding are also quite different.»

Researchers performed brain scans of volunteers while they viewed images, some sexually suggestive, and also asked their sexual behaviors within the past year.

In a study at New York's Cornell University, brain scans of women during peak PMS time showed much greater activity in the frontal lobes — the area that controls our emotions.

Researchers from Northeastern University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) compared brain scans of a slightly younger group — half in the 60 - to - 80 age range and half in the 18 - to - 35 range.

The researchers saw something interesting in the brain scans of short sleepers that they didn't see in the «normal» group: During their time in the MRI, their brain waves exhibited patterns more typically of sleep than of wakefulness.

A new study of brain scans of 45 Brazilian babies suggests a worrying possibility, according to the New York Times: «Because some of the damage was seen in brain areas that continue to develop after birth, it may be that babies born without obvious impairment will experience problems as they grow.»

That's the finding of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine, who compared brain scans of apparently healthy welders to those of Parkinson's patients.

His research includes taking brain scans of people in prayer, meditation, rituals, and trance states, in an attempt to better understand the nature of religious and spiritual practices and attitudes.

Project researchers are working to obtain high - resolution brain scans of 1,200 healthy adults, along with information about their cognitive abilities, personalities, and other characteristics.

His research has included brain scans of people in prayer, meditation, rituals, and trance states, as well as surveys of people's spiritual experiences and attitudes.

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

The research team then analysed the brain scans of 663 14 year old boys — who at that age had not been exposed to significant amounts of alcohol.

Using its database, the team analyzed the brain scans of 232 children ages 6 to 18.

Brain scans of the women before and after treatment gave credence to the theory that abnormal conditions in pain - related areas of the brain may be responsible for the syndrome.

Brain scans of 17 vegetative patients have turned up only one other non-responsive patient with such a voluntary brain signal.

When the researchers looked at brain scans of subjects at rest after giving yes - no answers — neither learning nor actively recalling the memory — they found the same pattern of activity as when subjects were doing the high - reward task.

The brain scans of the robbery victim had revealed enough connectivity and enough bandwidth to register and process a human voice.

Elseline Hoekzema at Leiden University in the Netherlands and her team compared brain scans of 25 first - time mothers with those of childless women.

Brain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account the differing overall sizes of their brains — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did.

Worries over the appearance of brain scans of patients taken on arrival at hospital to diagnose strokes have probably meant patients who could have benefited from alteplase did not receive it, the team says.

Brain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account overall brain sizes — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bwwg).

It's interesting to read about the similarities psychologist Janice Chen found between the brain scans of different people who watched...

Brain scans of war veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder have led researchers to an area of the prefrontal cortex that appears to be a good predictor of response to treatment with SSRIs — the first - line drug treatment for PTSD.

The researchers looked at brain scans of «baby sibs» — children who have an older sibling with autism.

The study measured a range of MS indicators and symptoms, including brain lesions on MRI brain scans of study participants, relapse rate, disabilities caused by the disease, body weight and cholesterol levels.

«Brain scans of children with Tourette's offer clues to disorder.»

That's one of the surprising findings of an unusual neuroscience study based on brain scans of the musician Sting.

Research team member David Powell, PhD, compared the brain scans of three groups of volunteers: persons with Down syndrome but no dementia, persons with Down syndrome and dementia, and a healthy control group.

Another study, published in September 2016 in PLOS Biology by Kevin LaBar of Duke University and his colleagues, attempted to match brain scans of people lying idle in a scanner to seven predefined patterns associated with specific emotions provoked in an earlier study.

From MRI brain scans of dead sea lions, they knew the toxin caused shrinkage in the hippocampus, which is involved in memory.

After training, brain scans of those in the strategic training group had changed.

Using MRI technologies, brain scans of subjects with Down syndrome showed some compromise in the tissues of brain's frontal lobe compared to those from the control group.

«Brain scans of dementia patients with coprophagia showed neurodegeneration.»

At Harvard University in the late 1990s, for instance, neurologist Alvaro Pascual - Leone performed brain scans of blind subjects.