Sentences with phrase «detects early brain»

«New imaging technique detects early brain damage from hypertension.»

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Her brain can detect rhythmic breathing and control body temperature, so she's less likely to need breathing assistance should she be born early.

«That they can detect this difference in connectivity so early is something interesting,» says Hao Huang, who studies neonatal brain development at the University of Pennsylvania.

• During early and late states of infection, Zika RNA was detected in tissues, including the brain and male and female reproductive tissues.

Now, researchers in The Netherlands have coupled machine learning methods with a special MRI technique that measures the perfusion, or tissue absorption rate, of blood throughout the brain to detect early forms of dementia, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.

His team is now looking at patterns of gene activity in the four brains to work out whether it is possible to detect early signs associated with conditions like autism.

Current non-invasive techniques can't detect epileptic areas of the brain smaller than approximately eight to 10 square centimeters, so many early - stage epilepsy patients often go undiagnosed and untreated.

It will allow physicians to precisely identify small regions of abnormal brain tissue in early - stage epilepsy patients that can't be detected today using current technology.

The brain scan could detect the disease early on, so patients can start treatment sooner than they can today.

Research from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) shows that retinal changes may be detected earlier than brain changes.

Brain imaging using radioactive dye can detect early evidence of Alzheimer's disease that may predict future cognitive decline among adults with mild or no cognitive impairment, according to a 36 - month follow - up study led by Duke Medicine.

Earlier this year, another team reported using a brain machine interface to allow a quadriplegic to move his finger and arms, but that system directly activated arm muscles with brain signals detected by implanted electrodes, bypassing the damaged spinal cord.

What's more is that they detected the disease at early stages in the brains of babies that are less than a year old.

Early diagnosis of brain pathologies is hampered by the lack of specific biomarkers that can be detected in the blood during routine checks.

Glioma patients have follow - up MRIs to detect new brain cancers but the tests do not catch the tumors early enough to save lives.

Simoa assays can detect biomarkers associated with brain injury and disease at much earlier stages to understand the long - term effects and disease pathology.

Both arms will eventually converge into a single project to create reliable diagnostic tools by 2030 that can detect brain diseases early, he says.