Sentences with phrase «brain using structural»

The researchers imaged each participant's brain using structural magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion - weighted imaging.

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They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.

Doctors use CT scans in the brain to diagnose brain tumors or visualize injuries, bleeding, or any structural changes and infections that can occur and be difficult to see with an X-ray or routine exam.

Researchers used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), an enhancement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to evaluate and compare the structural and functional properties of the main connections between different brain regions.

Researchers using MRI have discovered a common pattern of structural abnormalities in the brains of people with depression and social anxiety, according to a study presented being next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which measures the anatomy and structural integrity of the brain, and magnetoencephalography (MEG), which measures magnetic fields created by the brain's electrical activity, were used to track potential age - related differences as groups of younger and older adults performed a meStructural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which measures the anatomy and structural integrity of the brain, and magnetoencephalography (MEG), which measures magnetic fields created by the brain's electrical activity, were used to track potential age - related differences as groups of younger and older adults performed a mestructural integrity of the brain, and magnetoencephalography (MEG), which measures magnetic fields created by the brain's electrical activity, were used to track potential age - related differences as groups of younger and older adults performed a memory task.

The study found that occasional users who subsequently increased their drug use compared with those who did not, showed brain structural differences when they started using drugs.

«On a normal clinical MRI scan, you typically see the structural images of the brain, and for a mild brain injury like a concussion, we aren't able to see the underlying changes we were able to see using these advanced methods.»

In a study led by Duke Health and published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, scientists demonstrate in rats that a short duration of the drug donepezil can reverse both structural and genetic damage that bouts of alcohol use causes in neurons, or nerve cells, in the young brain.

The Salk and TSRI scientists used a range of neuro - genetic, gene therapy, biochemical and structural biology research techniques to discover that the mutant GlyRS enzyme blocked molecular signals important for maintaining the health of motor neurons, the cells that carry messages from the brain to the muscles of the extremities.

To find out, Brown and his colleagues used structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the brains of 885 children and young adults between the ages of 3 and 20.

Other research interests include elucidating the effects of persistent alcohol and marijuana use on brain metabolite levels and structural maturation patterns that contribute towards suboptimal cognitive processing and maintaining drug dependence behaviors.

Tobias Bonhoeffer and colleagues use two - photon microscopy, which allows imaging to a depth of approximately half a millimeter, as one method of studying structural changes in the brains of living animals.

We are using these new tools to image the structural features of individual cells, such as the cell body and the axons of the cells, which are long fibers that extend from each neuron, together forming the optic nerve that transmits visual information to the brain.

Here in our center, we can take structural pictures of the brain as well as use fMRI, which takes a second - by - second look at how activity in the brain changes in relation to the functions it is implementing.

Magnetic resonance imaging techniques, including structural imaging (MRI), functional imaging (fMRI), and spectroscopy (MRS), which measures brain chemistry, are noninvasive and thus can be used both in humans and in animals to study multiple aspects of brain structure and function.

A T1 - weighted TFE - 3D sequence was used for structural MRI of the whole brain [repetition time (TR) = 7.6 ms, echo time (TE) = 3.5 ms, flip - angle = 8 °, 150 slices, slice thickness = 1 mm, gap: 0.1 mm, matrix: 224 × 224].

Delivery and recycling of cholesterol in the brain is critical because the brain contains 25 percent of the body's total cholesterol — used as an antioxidant, electrical insulator and key structural component of plasma membranes.

These increases * in brain connectivity are both structural and functional and although they compensate for gray matter loss, it starts degrading with prolonged use of marijuana.

Investigations using post-mortem brain specimens and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suggest subtle structural differences in several brain regions between reading - disabled (RD) and nonimpaired readers.

Methods: A systematic review was conducted using standardized search operators that included the presence of video games and neuro - imaging techniques or references to structural or functional brain changes.

As the Adverse Childhood Experience Study score increased, so did the number of risk factors for the leading causes of death.16, 17 Shonkoff uses the phrase «toxic stress» to describe high cumulative psychosocial risk in the absence of supportive caregiving18, 19; this type of unremitting stress ultimately compromises children's ability to regulate their stress response system effectively and can lead to adverse long - term structural and functional changes in the brain and elsewhere in the body.

Structural MRI and whole brain echo planar fMRI based on the BOLD effect was performed using a gradient echo pulse sequence: TR / TE 2000/30 ms, flip angle 90o, FOV 288 mm, 64 × 64 matrix, slice thickness 4.5 mm, 26 transverse slices, bandwidth 2.5 kHz.

Using the estimated developmental trajectories (eTable 4 and eFigures 1, 2, 3, and 4 in the Supplement), we constructed an index of structural brain development based on an adjusted or normed measure of regional gray matter volume.

Grappling with an addiction is rarely easy, because of structural brain changes that occur with constant substance or alcohol use.

Gradually, over repeated «scaffolding» by the «regulatory other» of the parent for the child's state transitions from disorganized and dysregulated brain states to organized and regulated brain states, the child's brain develops («canalizes») the neural pathways for this state transition through use - dependent structural and chemical processes, so that eventually the child is able to make this transition from an impending dysregulated brain state / behavior into a regulated brain state / behavior independently of the need for scaffolding support from the «regulatory other» of the parent.