Sentences with phrase «from brain imaging techniques»

Using data from brain imaging techniques that enable visualising the brain's activity, a neuroscientist at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and a Parisian ENT surgeon have managed to decipher brain reorganisation processes at work when people start to lose their hearing, and thus predict the success or failure of a cochlear implant among people who have become profoundly deaf in their adult life.

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

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.

A new imaging technique helps researchers map the damage from traumatic brain injury with unprecedented accuracy.

For the new study, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in Pittsburgh used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), an MRI technique that measures the integrity of white matter — the brain's signal - transmitting nerve fibers — to see if injuries to the nerves may be the root cause of these post-traumatic depression and anxiety symptoms.

To study possible brain injury from heading, the researchers used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), an advanced MRI - based imaging technique, on 37 amateur adult soccer players (median age 31 years) who had all played the sport since childhood.

For example, last year one of our «Young Investigators» reported that his project, the development of a new method to visualise fibre tracts in the brain using functional imaging techniques, was not only successful but he recently secured ongoing funding for it from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

In future studies, the researchers plan to use brain imaging techniques to determine if it is possible to identify a specific, smaller group of people who can benefit from the clot retrieval therapy seven to 24 hours after stroke onset, said Dr. Reza Jahan, professor of radiology and neurosurgery at UCLA, and a co-author of the study.

The core facility is a two - photon in vivo imaging platform developed at the Nonlinear bioimaging laboratory, a technique that allows for non-invasive structural and functional measurements in small animal models at different scales: from macroscopic imaging of the brain morphology to highly resolved microscopy of neuron populations, single neurons, and even subcellular structures.

Featuring lectures by speakers from the University of Minnesota, UNC, Duke, NCSU and Wake Forest University, the symposium is open to the entire scientific community and a broad spectrum of topics will be covered including the Brain Connectome project, the effect of music on brain function, novel MR and OCT imaging techniques for the lungs, and advanced ultrasound methodologies for tissue characterizaBrain Connectome project, the effect of music on brain function, novel MR and OCT imaging techniques for the lungs, and advanced ultrasound methodologies for tissue characterizabrain function, novel MR and OCT imaging techniques for the lungs, and advanced ultrasound methodologies for tissue characterization.

The company also took advantage of better imaging techniques that could document the presence of amyloid in the brain; in the previous two studies, anywhere from 20 % to 30 % of the volunteers did not actually have amyloid.

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