Sentences with phrase «changes on brain scans»

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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.

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.

«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.»

«We know that processes involved in damaging the brain in a disease like Alzheimer's can start many years before changes become apparent on brain scans or people experience any symptoms.

In another study, those who reported SCI were also more likely to show changes in their brains on imaging scans, specifically demonstrating higher levels of beta - amyloid protein.

The neurobiology craze has many therapists offering clients lecturettes on neuroplasticity and myelination, and one Networker author reports showing them PET scans, presumably to prove that therapy really does change the brain.