Sentences with phrase «conduct functional studies»

Both systems are easily adaptable to neuroscience applications, including optogenetics, and they should make it much easier to conduct functional studies in the nervous system.

Not exact matches

RBT contracted Medicus Research, the premier contract research organization for the Dietary Supplement, Functional Foods and Botanical Drug industries, to perform a comprehensive analysis of independent studies conducted on behalf of RBT to substantiate numerous important health claims for its proprietary and process patented rice bran derivatives and products.

The study team conducted a series of behavioral and brain imaging studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

«Moving forward, we'll need to conduct additional studies of many more patients to show that getting functional scans in the first hours or days after a stroke could provide valuable information for predicting outcome and tracking recovery.»

«Our study exemplifies the utility of looking beyond phylogenetic criteria alone when conducting risk assessment for emerging RNA viruses and the need to include functional, ecologic, and pathogenic analyses of animal reservoirs,» says Jan Felix Drexler, M.D., the study's corresponding author and a professor of medicine at the Institute of Virology at the University of Bonn Medical Centre in Germany.

The study was conducted by using positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Given these connections between hormonal or reproductive life events and rheumatoid arthritis in women, researchers conducted an observational study to investigate the association of menopause with functional status in women with the disease.

The study, conducted at 19 German tertiary care centers (2006 - 2012), included 1,176 individuals for analysis of long - term functional outcome, 853 for analysis of hematoma enlargement, and 719 for analysis of OAC resumption.

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.

Conducted at the University of Iowa, this is the first neuroimaging study to use a cutting - edge technique — functional near - infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-- to enable researchers to track real time changes in brain activity as participants made these two types of stone tools.

Kessler will conduct a study of a combination therapy using dalfampridine — a drug recently approved to improve walking in patients with multiple sclerosis — with a standardized program of locomotor training, a rehabilitative intervention that has improved walking and other functional outcomes in persons with spinal cord injuries.

Innovative studies are also being conducted with Ekso (Ekso Bionics), the bionic exoskeletal device, the LokomatPro v6 (Hocoma), a robotic treadmill training device, and with functional electrical stimulation.

Unfortunately, the current functional studies are often conducted with limited sample size due to time and budget constraints.

This network funds pilot studies to expedite collaboration between the two groups, conduct model organism - based functional studies of disease gene variants, and develop new therapeutic strategies using model organisms.

The earliest published intrinsic functional connectivity study of autism was conducted by Cherkassky and colleagues, who used a seed region - of - interest (ROI) approach to demonstrate functional hypo - connectivity in anterior — posterior connections in adolescents and adults with ASD (Cherkassky et al., 2006).

A method for conducting functional MRI studies in alert nonhuman primates: initial results with opioid agonists in male cynomolgus monkeys.

A recent review of studies conducted mainly in adults highlights several methodological variables including concatenation of specific task blocks, the use of low - pass filtering, regression of main effects of task, and methods for selecting regions - of - interest that result in considerable heterogeneity between studies with respect to how functional connectivity is conceptualized and analyzed.

Zinchenko and her colleague, Marie Arsalidou, conducted a meta - analysis of 36 previous studies that used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain responses to social norms — such as fairness — and violations of norms.

The current study was thus conducted to assess the functional basis of processing non-local dependencies in music in the human brain, whilst controlling for local transition probabilities.

Here, we sequentially conducted both a case - control study and a clinical trial to investigate the potential effects of oxytocin on this difficulty at behavioural and neural levels measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging during a psychological task.

Unfortunately, say the study authors, functional tests often aren't conducted by doctors until patients are in their

A second study newly published in the Journal of Functional Food 3 conducted by Dr. E. Mitchell Seymour and Dr. Sara M. Warber from the University of Michigan found that the antioxidant capacity in the blood was elevated after eating whole frozen Montmorency tart cherries (45 or 90 cherries), and remained elevated even 12 - hours after eating the 90 cherries.

Dr. I Lerh Brisbin at the University of Georgia has said, «The few studies which have been conducted of the structure of the skulls, mandibles and teeth of pit bulls show that, in proportion to their size, their jaw structure and thus its inferred functional morphology, is not different than that of any breed of dog.

With respect to this, he states, The few studies which have been conducted of the structure of the skulls, mandibles and teeth of pit bulls show that, in proportion to their size, their jaw structure and thus its inferred functional morphology, is no different than that of any breed of dog.

As Dr. Lehr Brisbin of the University of Georgia told the American Pit Bull Foundation: «The few studies which have been conducted on the structure of the skulls, mandibles, and teeth of «Pit Bulls» show that, in proportion to their size, their jaw structure and thus its inferred functional morphology is no different than that of any breed of dog.»

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Assisted in conducting research for a study testing functional vision and visual attention in older adults.

Practical aspects of conducting large - scale functional magnetic resonance imaging studies in children

Studies were included in our meta - analyses if the following criteria were given: (I) included at least one clinical group with described aggressive behaviour, (II) in combination with a healthy control sample, (III) conducted during adolescence, (IV) reported whole brain gray matter volume alterations or whole brain functional neuroimaging data, (V) results are described using a standard reference space (Talairach or MNI) and (VI) the same threshold was used throughout the whole brain analysis.

The chapter includes the description of a framework for categorizing four types of studies (group design, single subject design, correlational, case studies) and four types of literature reviews (narrative, summative, systematic, meta - analysis) for conducting research syntheses which focus on the identification of the key characteristics of early childhood intervention practices and their functional or statistical relationship to the behavior the practices are intended to change or improve.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have provided evidence that individuals with conduct problems and high levels of CU traits (CD / CU +) process emotional stimuli differently from those with conduct problems and low levels of CU traits (CD / CU --RRB-.