Sentences with phrase «functional brain changes»

Additionally, we hypothesise that duloxetine induces functional brain changes in emotional regulatory networks.

Methods: A systematic review was conducted using standardized search operators that included the presence of video games and neuro - imaging techniques or references to structural or functional brain changes.

Structural and functional brain changes related to different types of physical activity across the life span.

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fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) «is a functional neuroimaging procedure using MRI technology that measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow,» according to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) «is a functional neuroimaging procedure using MRI technology that measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow,» according to functional neuroimaging procedure using MRI technology that measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow,» according to Wikipedia.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure changes in blood flow, she found that as people received more information, their brain activity increased in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region behind the forehead that is responsible for making decisions and controlling emotions.

Preclinical and clinical research demonstrates that repeated substance exposure leads to molecular and functional neuroplastic brain changes that powerfully contribute to the vicious cycle of use.

Serious brain science around meditation has emerged only in about the last decade, since the birth of functional MRI allowed scientists to begin watching the brain and monitoring its changes in relatively real time.

Violence - related content in video game may lead to functional connectivity changes in brain networks as revealed by fMRI - ICA in young men.

Structural and functional connectivity changes in the brain associated with shyness but not with social anxiety.

With PET scans and functional MRI, we can observe fluctuations in brain activity by measuring changes in blood flow and levels of nutrients.

Specializing in research on modafinil, Minzenberg has captured the drug in action through functional MRI (fMRI) scans, which map brain activity through changes in blood flow and oxygenation as subjects engage in particular mental processes.

Arguably the most convenient and least invasive way of doing that is through functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI — a technique that measures changes in blood flow and blood oxygen levels in the brain, thereby showing which parts of the brain are activated when people perform various tasks.

Dr. Aron and colleagues based their study's conclusions on a neuroimaging study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

Her work is used in the assessment and detection of functional and anatomical change in the human brain through the course of Alzheimer's disease.

Using a functional MRI (fMRI) scanner, which detects changes in blood - flow patterns, the scientists monitored what was happening inside subjects» brains.

Scientists have long known that Alzheimer's disease is a gradual process and that the brain undergoes functional changes before the structural changes associated with the disease show up on imaging results.

A spinal cord injury changes the functional state and structure of the spinal cord and the brain.

Madhavan and her coworkers study how the brain changes in response to stroke, and how to tap into the brain's potential to help in a functional recovery.

Scientists have long known that the functional neural architecture for perception and cognition strongly depends upon plasticity: in other words, our brain has the capacity to change and adapt as a result of experience.

Because these functions are largely regulated in the frontal brain regions, a portable brain - imaging device (functional near infrared spectroscopy) was used to examine associated changes in the frontal brain function by placing biosensors on students» foreheads during testing.

At the end of the study period, the researchers found that the brains of the successful learners had undergone functional changes — the brain network was better integrated.

Ione Fine, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who studies brain changes and did not work on the project, says Amedi's work is the best evidence yet for functional constancy — the idea that areas of the brain do the same job even with different kinds of input.

«Puberty is a phase in which the brain reward system undergoes major functional changes,» said Spanagel.

«Multiple sclerosis: Functional change in brain as cause of cognitive disorders.»

Boulanger was senior author on a 2013 paper in the journal Learning and Memory that found that mice bred to produce less functional MHCI proteins exhibited striking changes in the function of the hippocampus, a part of the brain where some memories are formed, and had severe memory impairments.

For this research brain activity is also being recorded using a technique called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), which uses light to measure changes in blood concentration in the prefrontal cortex, it is a non-invasive and highly portable technique meaning it can be easily interchanged between car and simulator.

Whiplash symptoms that last years after a car accident but can not be seen in tests could be down to previously unseen functional changes in the pain and posture processing parts of the brain, according to research published in EBioMedicine.

The new research also gives insight into the mechanisms underlying the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to detect blood flow changes in the brain.

Dr. Vállez García and the team are now considering what to look at next, such as inflammation in the brain or changes in the structure of other functional regions.

Researchers have shown that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)-- an imaging technology that has sprouted only in the past decade — can detect changes in fetal brain activity in response to sounds from outside the womb.

Because aerobic exercise has been shown to lead to improvements in processing speed and functional changes within the frontal and other brain regions, it was included as one of the study groups.

He used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a means of measuring brain activity by detecting blood flow changes inside the brain, to measure differences in the strengths of communications between brain regions.

At roughly 100 minutes after each treatment, the team began testing brain activity in participants at rest with their eyes closed, first using a form of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) called arterial spin labeling to follow blood flow changes in the brain.

Brain response was gauged by functional MRI, which measures changes in blood flow as a proxy for neural activity.

«Though the «blind brain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Cabrain» wiring may change greatly in the blind in its frontal language related parts, it still retains the most fundamental topographical and functional connectivity organizational principles of the visual cortex, known as «retinotopic mapping» — the processing of two - dimensional visual images through the eye,» said co-lead researcher Amir Amedi, associate professor of medical neurobiology at the Hebrew University's Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - CaBrain Sciences and IMRIC, the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada.

And Dias and Ressler haven't provided evidence that the changes in the sperm were directly responsible for functional changes in the brain.

I am proposing a demanding criterion: that you be able to detect abnormalities in patients beforehand by such brain - imaging techniques as functional MRI [which measures blood flow in the brain], and then use imaging to see whether or not there is a change in those markers for the disease as the therapy progresses.

Using functional MRI, the researchers then determined that less than a minute of blue light exposure triggered changes in activity in regions of their brain associated with alertness and executive function.

Spence and colleagues use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) technology to determine whether someone is fibbing by tracing blood flow to certain areas of the brain, which indicates changes in neuronal activity at the synapses (gaps between the neurons).

For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns in human and animal brains in the resting state in order to figure out how different parts of the brain are connected and to identify the changes that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases.

To study how music preferences might affect functional brain connectivity — the interactions among separate areas of the brain — Burdette and his fellow investigators used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which depicts brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

«The cortical folding pattern itself may not be so important, but the disturbances in connections between brain regions implicated by the changes in cortical folding could provide critical clues to deficits in the integrity of brain circuits that contribute to symptoms and functional impairment in schizophrenia,» commented Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

The research made use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)-- which measures changes in the blood oxygen levels in the brain — and also multivariate analysis when comparing the brain activity of different viewers.

Schiff and Giacino, working with Columbia University neuroimaging expert Joy Hirsch and graduate student Diana Rodriguez - Moreno, started probing these unpredictable brains in 2001 using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which tracks the minute changes in blood oxygenation that correspond to neural activity.

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.

«Manipulating brain network to change cognitive functions: New breakthrough in neuroscience: Functional connectivity can be changed in both directions.»

Their brain activity was then compared using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a technology that measures neural firing through changes in blood flow.

Additionally the functional effects of DBS will be explored in several ways 1) we will look at changes in brain activation patterns in response to specific tasks by means of functional MRI 2) we will look at the striatal D2 binding using [123I] IBZM SPECT 3) we will look at neuropsychological functioning using cognitive tasks.

An approach called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), for example, records changes in blood flow that occur when a spark of activity passes through a particular brain region.

We know, for instance, quite precisely which receptors in the brain are responsible for changes in the functional connections between nerve cells, the synapses; we also know the rules, when synapses get stronger and when they get weaker.