Sentences with phrase «brains of healthy people»

It sometimes shows up in the brains of healthy people.

Another limitation of this study is that the method the scientists used to detect the amyloid beta has not been thoroughly tested for detecting the types of amyloid beta present in the brains of healthy people.

The researchers found that FDDNP levels were higher in the brains of the former NFL players, compared with the brains of healthy people, suggesting that tau was in fact building up in their brains.

Then Seung could see if the patterns of connections are different in the brains of healthy people and those with autism, schizophrenia, and other disorders.

A new study used MRI to show how ADHD drugs affect the brains of healthy people.

To explain how brains make these on - the - fly decisions, Reza Shadmehr of Johns Hopkins University and John Krakauer of Columbia University two years ago reviewed studies in which the brains of healthy people and of brain - damaged patients who have trouble controlling their movements were scanned.

But what individual neurons are doing in the areas that light up on an fMR image is an open question, because researchers can't stick electrodes into the brains of healthy people.

Not exact matches

Implementing these healthy, stress - relieving techniques for dealing with difficult people will train your brain to handle stress more effectively and decrease the likelihood of ill effects.

What's your take on the prospect of using brain implants to increase the cognitive performance of perfectly healthy people: exciting or creepy?

Although neurodevelopment continues throughout the life of a healthy person, by age 2 years the brain has undergone tremendous restructuring.

The results showed the former players experienced a reduction in fine motor control and abnormal changes in brain function when compared with healthy people of the same age who had never played contact sport.

The researchers detected this SMN long noncoding RNA, or lnc - RNA (pronounced «link RNA») for short, in human embryonic kidney cells, brain cell samples and neurons derived from the stem cells of healthy people and those with spinal muscular atrophy type I and II.

Compared with mice with cells from healthy people as well as non-chimera mice, those whose brains had human schizophrenia cells were more afraid to explore a maze, more anxious, more antisocial, less able to feel pleasure (from sipping sugar water), worse at remembering, and more sleepless — all of which characterize people with schizophrenia, too.

Compared with postmortem brain tissue taken from healthy people and those with Alzheimer's, tissue from people who had CTE had higher levels of an inflammation protein called CCL11, Mez and other researchers reported in September in PLOS ONE.

The research team wanted to see if elderly long - term yoga practitioners had any differences in terms of brain structure compared with healthy elderly people who had never practiced yoga.

The super-agers also had developed increased thickness in an area of the brain associated with decision - making, impulse control and emotions and other functions that was not found in the brains of their peers or of healthy younger people.

Healthy people in their 70s have just as many young nerve cells, or neurons, in a memory - related part of the brain as do teenagers and young adults, researchers report in the April 5 Cell Stem Cell.

When Thompson's team looked at brain scans of 206 healthy people aged 70 to 80, they found that those with at least one copy of the FTO variant had 8 per cent less volume in their frontal lobes and 12 per cent less in the occipital lobes, compared with their counterparts lacking the variant.

Yvette Sheline and her colleagues at Washington University scanned the brains of 18 people with major depression and compared them with the brains of 17 healthy individuals.

People at risk for Alzheimer's disease who do more moderate - intensity physical activity, but not light - intensity physical activity, are more likely to have healthy patterns of glucose metabolism in their brain, according to a new UW - Madison study.

Out - of - body experiences normally occur when brain function is disturbed, such as after an epileptic seizure, but it is possible to reproduce the experience in healthy people

By examining the brains of these mice, the researchers observed a substantial decrease in inhibitory CA2 neurons, as compared to a control group of normal, healthy mice — a change remarkably similar to that previously observed in postmortem examinations of people with schizophrenia.

In another study, the brain of a patient who appeared to be in a vegetative state responded just like a healthy person's when asked to imagine playing a game of tennis.

The researchers tested samples of brain cells from people with MS and healthy control subjects and found evidence of the virus in the olfactory bulb in both groups.

In work showing the potential to use a brain - computer interface and virtual avatar to treat people with gait disabilities, researchers collected data from eight healthy subjects, all of whom participated in three trials involving walking on a treadmill while watching an avatar.

Interphone compared surveyed cell phone use in 6,420 people with brain tumors to that of 7,658 healthy people in 13 developed countries — Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the U.K. — to try to determine whether people with brain tumors had used their cell phones more than healthy people, an association that might suggest that cell phones caused the tumors.

Using brain scans, psychiatrist Daniel Eisenberg and his colleagues measured dopamine levels in the brains of 86 healthy people at different times of the year.

The team also scanned the brains of healthy volunteers, and people with Alzheimer's disease.

To test their theory, the researchers examined Del - 1 expression in brain tissue from people who had died from MS.. In MS patients with chronic active MS lesions, Del - 1 was reduced compared to both healthy brain tissue and brain tissue from MS patients who were in remission at the time of their death.

They used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure the brain activity of 20 healthy people after taking 100 micrograms of LSD.

«What many developmental diseases have in common seems to be the failure of brain cells to mature at the same rate as they do in healthy people,» says Dr Falk.

His team's first brain organoids were created from the cells of healthy people.

In a new study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, neuroscientists from the University of Chicago show that white matter in a region of the brain called the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) has less integrity and density in people with IED than in healthy individuals and those with other psychiatric disorders.

Connectivity is a critical issue because the brains of people with psychiatric disorders usually show very few physical differences from healthy individuals.

Brain scans In the study, researchers scanned the brains of 39 depressed patients and 37 healthy people using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fRMI).

In Maleki's most recent work, presented in June at the International Headache Congress, her team imaged the brains of migraineurs and healthy people between the ages of 20 and 65, and it made a discovery that she characterizes as «very, very weird.»

It has been observed that blood flow in the brains of people with the disorder is impaired when compared to healthy brains.

In September a healthy Nashville man died of a highly unusual fungal infection that invaded his brain — the first case in a meningitis outbreak that has claimed at least 30 lives and sickened more than 400 people in 19 states.

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.

Even in the brain tissue of the healthy person, a small area is detected with protein activity.

The findings are expected to advance our understanding of the brain's role in endurance exercise, how it can alter the physical limits of performance in healthy people and add further evidence to the debate on the use of legal methods to enhance performance in competition.

Ours is the first study describing how brain genes affect food intake and dietary preferences in a group of healthy people.»

The Raman images now show protein activity at neural cell level, but the sensitivity is high enough for detecting areas that are even smaller — as is the case with the brain sample of the healthy person.

In healthy people, brain cells link together at a single frequency of electrical activity, like tuning in to a radio station, says Robert McCarley of the VA Boston Healthcare System and Harvard University.

Just three to five minutes spent looking at views dominated by trees, flowers or water can begin to reduce anger, anxiety and pain and to induce relaxation, according to various studies of healthy people that measured physiological changes in blood pressure, muscle tension, or heart and brain electrical activity.

«Not only are there applications for healthy people to better realize their potential, but EEG - neurofeedback work has been extended to pathology, as in the case of children with attentional disabilities and [transcranial magnetic stimulation] for depression,» notes psychologist John Gruzelier of Goldsmiths College in London, who has been working on training musicians to control their own brain waves, thereby improving performance.

«Implanting electrodes into healthy people is not something we're going to do anytime soon,» says Alan Rudolf, the former head of the DARPA brain - machine research program.

But Fried is doubtful that healthy people will have chips installed in their brains to enhance their cognitive abilities anytime soon: «I think the notion of invading the brain will be too much for the foreseeable future.»

The brains of overweight middle - aged people resemble brains that are a decade older in healthier people.

Comparing levels of S1PR2 in people with MS, mice with a similar disease, and healthy humans and mice, the team found the groups with MS or the MS - like disease had higher levels of the protein, meaning the blood - brain barrier was more permeable.