When scientists ask people to view one of two images — a portrait or a photograph of a house — or to imagine either a face or a house, they can tell
from brain analyses which of the two the person is seeing or imagining.
Not exact matches
Detailed distributional
analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation and the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center is still forthcoming, but Ernie Tedeschi, a private sector economist and veteran of the Obama Treasury Department, crunched some numbers using Tax
Brain, an open source tax model
from the right - leaning American Enterprise Institute's Open Source Policy Center.
In our success - worshiping left -
brain society, we overvalue rationality, cognitive knowledge, control,
analysis, and work, and separate these
from aspects of ourselves that we undervalue — feelings, intuition, synthesis, body awareness, play, and other right -
brain functions.
A mechanistic physiologist
analyses my sitting at my word processor in terms of light waves hitting my retina
from the keyboard and the screen which then set in train chemical and electrical processes in my nerves and
brain.
02:34 - OK, that's it
from me, but if you like blood sports stick around for the news story and
analysis I'll be putting up shortly using my weakened, alcohol frazzled
brain.
For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used a technique recently borrowed
from the computer science field by neuroscientists — multivariate pattern
analysis — to examine
brain scans that were taken while people looked at a picture of someone who had rejected them.
Examining the
brain scans in the context of other disease markers
from spinal fluid
analyses and neuropsychiatric tests on the same participants showed that the rise and spread of tau in the
brain tracked more closely with declining mental function than did amyloid.
During slumber, our
brain engages in data
analysis,
from strengthening memories to solving problems
In the novel
analysis,
brain imaging was combined with machine - learning methodology, with which signals of a similar form were mined
from the
brain data.
Based on
analyses of current IQ data, he speculates that we are not born with more mental potential than our ancestors; however, because our modern
brain is expected to handle higher - level cognitive tasks
from a very young age, our mental capabilities have changed.
qBrain is built on an automated technology platform that will be used to perform similar
analyses of other mammalian
brains,
from prairie voles to marmoset monkeys and humans.
Further
analysis including in tissues
from more patients with other forms of epilepsy also showed that CLOCK RNA and protein were often significantly lacking in both in excitatory and inhibitory neurons in affected
brain regions.
«Applying these
analysis concepts to multichannel long - term EEG recordings
from 17 epilepsy patients with high temporal resolution allowed us to derive a sequence of functional
brain networks spanning several days in duration,» said Christian Geier, a doctoral student working with Lehnertz.
A slew of remarkable papers quickly followed:
Analyses were reported of DNA
from a 7,000 - year - old human
brain, a dinosaur, and a 23 - million - year - old insect preserved in amber.
An
analysis of more than 200,000 medical professionals followed for nearly 30 years finds that drinking up to five cups of coffee a day is associated with reduced risk of dying early
from heart and
brain diseases as well as suicide.
The latter half is a highly speculative
analysis of
brain scans collected
from Berns's beloved terrier mix, Callie, and a border collie named McKenzie.
Now, in proof - of - concept experiments with «joysticks» that measure force, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists report evidence that the slowdown likely arises
from the
brain's «cost / benefit
analysis,» which gets skewed by the loss of dopamine in people with PD.
Those tests don't give us the details we need to understand the nature of the pathology at the cellular level, so we modeled the disease to perform a systematic
analysis of the optic nerve,
from its origin in the eyes to termination in the
brain.»
An international team of roughly 300 scientists known as the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta
Analysis (ENIGMA) Network pooled
brain scans and genetic data worldwide to pinpoint genes that enhance or break down key
brain regions in people
from 33 countries.
In an
analysis of postmortem human
brain tissue
from 137 control subjects, they also found an association between the ECR47 risk variant and reduced ADGRL3 expression in the thalamus, a key
brain region for coordinating sensory processing in the
brain.
The neural network
from Google
Brain — one of the search giant's deep - learning teams — is able to perform eight tasks, including image and speech recognition, translation and sentence
analysis.
Using Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
from nuclear medicine, it is possible to quantify receptors, transporters and enzymes, in order to diagnose neurochemical differences in
brain disorders but also to make a detailed
analysis of the effects a drug has on the
brain.
The
analysis included 437 malignant childhood
brain tumor cases and 3102 controls
from two French studies.
The first
analyses of skull data
from the most recently discovered species of early human suggest that its
brain was surprising sophisticated
For the new
analysis, his team spent 5 years collecting
brain tissue
from 59 people who had died or had such tissue removed during surgery for epilepsy at different ages, ranging
from before birth to 77 years of age.
In a recent paper in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, UTMB's research team detailed their investigation on the relationship between inflammation, toxic tau and Alzheimer's onset by performing systematic
analyses of
brain and retina samples
from people with Alzheimer's and a mouse model of Alzheimer's.
The basic problem of separating signals is fundamental, appearing in a broad spectrum of applications ranging
from brain imaging
analysis to development of intelligent robots.
Throughout this process, the algorithm keeps track of which pixels came
from the original scans and which were filled in afterward, so that
analyses done later, such as measuring the extent of
brain damage, can be performed only on information
from the original scans.
C, left, Kaplan — Meier
analysis for
brain metastasis - free survival of mice inoculated with CSCs that were isolated
from CN34BrM / Vec or CN34BrM / miR7 -2.
The ENIGMA (Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta -
Analysis) Consortium was set up to analyze
brain measures and genotypes
from multiple sites across the world to improve the power to detect
The theme for today's SciLifeLab Science Summit was single cell
analyses,
from microbes to human
brain.
In addition, expression
analysis revealed that, like kakusei, Acks transcript expression levels transiently increase after seizure induced by awakening
from anesthesia (Figure 1B and C), and the induced Acks expression can be broadly visualized in several
brain regions (Figure 2).
Dr. Sonntag studies this concept on the molecular and cellular level using a translational research approach that integrates the
analysis of human material, such as postmortem
brains, primary cell systems, and neural cell populations generated
from patients» - or healthy individuals» - derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), or induced neurons (iNs), in combination with molecular, biochemistry, and lentivirus - mediated gene - engineering technologies.
The findings were the result of the collective
analysis of MRI
brain scans and DNA
from over 32,000 people worldwide.
Safety and clinical activity of ipilimumab in melanoma patients with
brain metastases: retrospective
analysis of data
from a phase 2 trial.
Ann Arbor, MI (OBBeC)- As early as one week after beginning treatment for
brain tumours, a new imaging
analysis method was able to predict which patients would live longer, researchers
from the University of Michigan...
In a series of steps combining 7T MRI, computational
analysis and painstaking laboratory staining techniques, the scientists probed slabs of tissue taken
from several places within the
brains of each of five Alzheimer's and five control
brain specimens.
(F) Immunohistochemical
analysis was done using
brain coronal sections
from these same mice with the antibody 6E10.
Jin's lab is characterizing basic rules of how the
brain executes actions
from multiple levels of
analysis and providing insights into action - related neurological and psychiatric diseases.
Miles G. Cunningham earned a PhD in 1993
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in «Transplantation Strategies for the
Analysis of
Brain Development and Repair».
Histopathological
analysis was performed on the placenta and
brain tissue
from infants who died.
In addition, detailed
analysis is needed on how our RIPK2 inhibitor 1 is metabolized and removed
from the blood, where it accumulates, or if it can cross the blood -
brain barrier.
In addition, our
analysis of the
brains of aged Polg mutator mice
from our own colony demonstrated a loss of respiratory chain proteins, which is indicative of mtDNA damage (Hauser et al., 2014).
October 18, 2011 Young human - specific genes correlated with
brain evolution Young genes that appeared since the primate branch split
from other mammal species are expressed in unique structures of the developing human
brain, a new
analysis finds.
While published results on acupuncture and fMRI were heterogeneous,
from a descriptive perspective most studies suggest that acupuncture can modulate the
brain activity within specific
brain areas, and the evidence based on meta -
analyses confirmed part of these results.
In
brain network
analyses involving networks
from multiple subjects, some researchers generate an average network in order to summarize the common network characteristics present among the study subjects [10], [11], [13], [27].
(D) Differences in
brain response between verum and sham acupuncture
from subtraction
analysis showed more activation in the sensorimotor affective / cognitive processing
brain regions and more deactivation in the amygdala / hippocampal formation for verum acupuncture.
However, modular
analysis of consistent functional neighborhoods in the
brain does in fact differ
from the results of ICA.
A separate
analysis showed a similar drop in netrin - 1 in affected neurons in rats whose axons
from the
brain to the spinal cord had been cut.
What I'm considering are: getting a stool
analysis; trying to find more leads
from the International Headache Society (ihs-headache.org) headache classification; asking for a MRI
brain scan (to rule out tumors / can they see infections on MRIs?)