October 15, 2009 — Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California admitted Monday that a mistake in default settings on a CT scanner used to perform
brain scans on patients resulted in an increase in the amount of radiation emitted by the machine.
The study, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, performed
brain scans on 124 adult male inmates.
The part of the video where they do
brain scans on him while he sips a sugary soda is interesting indeed.
Researchers also conducted CT
brain scans on 447 participants at the start of the study, which revealed that 71 percent of these women had white matter lesions.
Floel said she and her colleagues are now planning larger studies of calorie restriction and mental function and will perform MRI
brain scans on participants before and after they reduce their food intake in order to better understand what's happening in the brain's gray matter.
Neurologist Nicolás Fayed and his colleagues in Zaragoza, Spain, performed MRI
brain scans on 35 climbers (12 professionals and 23 amateurs) who had returned from high - altitude expeditions, including 13 who had attempted Everest.
For the study, researchers conducted
brain scans on 37 healthy smokers (those who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day) ages 19 to 61 using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in two different sessions: 24 hours after biochemically confirmed abstinence and after smoking as usual.
BRAIN scans on premature babies reveal abnormalities that might explain why so many suffer mild cognitive difficulties as they grow up.
They were given
brain scans on the first visit.
For the first time in Super Bowl history, two scientists performed
brain scans on people as they soaked in Super Bowl ads, which reportedly cost about $ 2.5 million for 30 seconds.
Then, the researchers conducted
brain scans on those infants at about the time each would have been born had the babies not arrived early.
A definite diagnosis can only be obtained by doing
a brain scan on your dog.
Not exact matches
It followed 100 people aged 55 to 86 as they pursued a specific fitness regime, measuring the effects
on their
brains through tests and MRI
scans.
Other studies, meanwhile, are examining tryp's potential efficacy as an antifungal agent; and as a prognostic indicator in patients with
brain cancer (as seen by increased uptake of the amino acid
on a PET
scan).
For one, it's made it clear that using tools like PET
scans and cerebrospinal fluid testing can help pinpoint which patients have amyloid present in the
brain for the treatments to act
on.
This is a possibility (albeit a medieval way of describing it) within the realm of psychology so it wouldn't necessary show up
on a
brain scan.
A day later, I had an MRI
scan of my
brain, and two days after that I was informed that I had several lesions
on an optic nerve behind my right eye which required IV steroid treatment.
This book is packed full of empirical evidence, much of it shown with
brain scans and papers
on an 18 year study.
Scientists have
scanned just a few hundred
brains on meditation do date, which makes for a pretty small research sample.
«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.
Charlotte Hornets forward Nicolas Batum undergwent a CT
scan on his
brain to determine the cause behind the painful migraines he's been dealing with, according to ESPN.com's Chris Haynes
on Wednesday.
that is funny but Wenger
on a serious note needs to go for a
brain scan since a blind can see arsenal's problems and he can't is just madnesses
Former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar had to have a
brain scan in 1993 after being hit
on the head with a rock during a World Cup qualifying match between Zimbabwe and Egypt.
Once the
scan started there was so much to focus
on — from their
brain development to the formation of their limbs — it didn't really hit me until we were in the parking lot that I was carrying two little boys.
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.
that disclosed that, although doctors once believed that babies»
brains were too underdeveloped to feel pain, MRI
scans revealed that newborns»
brains «light up»
on an MRI in much the same way adult
brains do when exposed to mild pain.
They were amazed to find a large difference in the
brain scans of these 2 - 3 year olds, showing that in the first few years of life a child's
brain development relies heavily
on nurturing by his parents.
The abnormalities disclosed
on post-season DTI
scans among the players were closer to the
scan of the one player with diagnosed concussion than to the normal
brains in the control group.
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.
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.
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.
These are the first ever
scans of a
brain on LSD.
The frontal
brain grooves
on a H. naledi endocast, like those in modern humans, lie farther back than the grooves seen in the chimp MRI
scan, Hurst contends.
«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.»
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.
A
brain scan showed the man had a large cyst impinging
on his
brain.
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.
In general, these interfaces rely
on the user's ability to learn how to self - induce particular mental states that can be detected by
brain -
scanning technologies.
As the time interval between the two increases, the word suddenly pops into consciousness — accompanied by characteristic activity
on a
brain scan.
A close analysis of the
brain scans revealed vastly different neural circuitry behind problems that seem similar
on the surface.
Examining the
brain scans in the context of other disease markers from spinal fluid analyses and neuropsychiatric tests
on the same participants showed that the rise and spread of tau in the
brain tracked more closely with declining mental function than did amyloid.
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.
The eyes glowed so brightly
on those images due to gadolinium, a harmless, transparent chemical often given to patients during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
scans to highlight abnormalities in the
brain.
The researchers fed the data from the
scans into a machine - learning computer program, which eventually could identify which concept a volunteer was thinking about based
on his or her
brain activity.
Specializing in research
on modafinil, Minzenberg has captured the drug in action through functional MRI (fMRI)
scans, which map
brain activity through changes in blood flow and oxygenation as subjects engage in particular mental processes.
Chemically intolerant individuals also show dysfunction in
brain imaging
on a SPECT
scan, which tracks blood flow through tissue.
Dr. Aron and colleagues based their study's conclusions
on a neuroimaging study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
scanning that measures
brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.
Trying to find the right medicine for the sickest of these patients, Rapoport
scanned their
brains to zero in
on regions involved in OCD and found increased activity in the basal ganglia, a center for movement and habits located at the base of the forebrain.
First, Vanduffel's team
scanned two monkeys»
brains using functional MRI as they located the position of a green dot
on a computer screen as fast as possible after being shown a «start» cue.
Merim Bilalic at the University of Tübingen in Germany used fMRI to
scan the
brains of eight international chess players and eight novices while they identified either geometrical shapes or whether the pieces
on a chess board were in a check situation.