Sentences with phrase «conducted brain scans»

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.

Then, the researchers conducted brain scans on those infants at about the time each would have been born had the babies not arrived early.

After taking samples and conducting brain scans, the researchers found that 41 percent of mothers of babies with microcephaly tested positive for Zika infection in blood or cerebrospinal fluid samples, compared with none of those whose babies did not have microcephaly.

Not exact matches

Additional tests — cognitive assessments, measurement of blood markers and MRI brain scans — were conducted at the trial's outset, at 6 months and at the end of the study period.

They will also be conducting positron emission tomography, or PET, scans to look for amyloid and tau pathology in their brains as they age.

To study such differences, clinical psychologist Eric Stice of the Oregon Research Institute mastered the delicate task of conducting fFMRI brain scans while people were eating.

To conduct the study, Port and researchers in the IU Bloomington Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences scanned the brains of 21 football players and 19 cross-country runners using fMRI technology.

Both functional and structural scans were conducted in a single session at the brain imaging unit of McGill's Montreal Neurological Institute, the hot afternoon before a Police concert.

In the largest study of its kind, the researchers conducted MRI scans at four U.S. sites to study the brains of 103 children with Tourette's and compared them with scans of another 103 kids of the same age and sex but without the disorder.

Sadato and colleagues conducted fMRI scans of the brains of 19 subjects while they engaged in two different exercises.

The group will conduct follow - up studies and will have regular brain scans until the subjects reach a certain age.

A positron emission tomography scan was also conducted to detect the presence of amyloid plaques and Alzheimer's - related proteins in the brain.

For one thing, as the researchers openly acknowledge, they didnâ $ ™ t conduct a baseline brain scan of the participants before they started the Pay It Forward game, so itâ $ ™ s possible, though unlikely given that participants were randomly assigned to the gratitude and control groups, that the participants who performed the gratitude task simply had more neural sensitivity to gratitude already, not because they performed the gratitude task.

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.

Peta has conducted the world's first brain scan trial of EFT for food cravings in overweight adults.

They conduct various brain tests such as MRI or PET scan to diagnose and assess patients for a neurological problem.

The new research builds on previous findings by the same investigators that showed a link between maternal nurturing and a larger hippocampus observed in brain scans conducted at the time the children reached school age.

In fact, a study conducted by Dr. Bianca Acevedo in 2010 used fMRI to study relationships that had never lost the initial «spark» that occurs early on and found that the brain scans of long - term couples mimicked those who were newly in love — with just one exception.

However, the advent of brain - scan technology allowed him to conduct the research needed to support his arguments.

The findings were derived after scientists studied the cases and brain scans of 58 male adolescents and young adults with conduct disorder and 25 «typical» individuals.