Sentences with phrase «given brain scans»

They were given brain scans on the first visit.

In the new study, researchers led by Charles Hillman of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and Davis Moore, an Illinois graduate now at the University of Montreal, gave brain scans and thinking tests to 15 kids aged 8 to 10 who said they had been removed from sports games due to concussions.

Not exact matches

«Even without doing expensive fMRI scans, our results give us an idea of what areas of the brain might be supporting these exercise - induced memory benefits,» she wrote in the paper.

Late last week, the Food and Drug Administration gave its stamp of approval to the marketing of the world's first device designed to help diagnose ADHD — a disorder that plagues some 6.4 million children — by scanning a child's brain waves.

The researchers used MRI scans to look at the brains of women who had just given birth.

Given the results of a a new study reported in the British medical journal, The Lancet4 that children and young adults scanned multiple times by CT have a small increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors in the decade following their first scan, parents should make sure a CT scan is really necessary in treatment of their child after head injury.

Together, these scans gave the scientists a picture of brain activity that was finely resolved in time and space.

A team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health found that a chemical routinely given to stroke patients undergoing brain scans can leak into their eyes, highlighting those areas and potentially providing insight into their strokes.

The eyes glowed so brightly on those images due to gadolinium, a harmless, transparent chemical often given to patients during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to highlight abnormalities in the brain.

Neuroscientist Kevin Pelphrey, director of Yale University's Child Neuroscience Laboratory — and father of two children with autism — scanned the brains of children with autism after they were given a one - time dose of oxytocin.

«The scans we are looking at represent the baseline variability of ongoing activity in the brain at any given time.

But the current stance of our major research institutions maintains that, given time, the ever - accelerating juggernaut of data from yet more genomic (and proteomic) projects and brain - scanning studies might somehow drive a causeway of understanding through these so unexpected findings.

And many of those MRI and CT scans — and costs — are probably unnecessary, given the very low odds that serious issues lurk in the patients» brains.

In one 2015 study, researchers gave adolescents chocolate milkshakes and used fMRI scans to see how their brains reacted.

LIARS may fear polygraph tests and brain scans, but surely they wouldn't expect a simple drawing to give them away.

«ENIGMA's scientists screen brain scans and genomes worldwide for factors that help or harm the brain — this crowd - sourcing and sheer wealth of data gives us the power to crack the brain's genetic code,» said Paul Thompson, Ph.D., Keck School of Medicine of USC professor and principal investigator of ENIGMA.

Listening to scans may also give new insights into the differences and similarities between normal and dysfunctional brains.

Working in Spain, in affiliation with the Autonomous University of Barcelona, they used MRI scanning to examine the brains of 25 women who had never had children, both before they became pregnant and again from 3 weeks to a few months after they gave birth.

All monkeys were given initial MRI scans to ensure there were no hidden brain abnormalities.

Researchers scanned the brains of two voracious teenagers whose fat cells were unable to secrete leptin normally, but after being given the hormone for a week became pickier eaters.

The researchers gave 13 volunteers a simple visual recognition task to complete while scanning their brains.

When compared with MRI scans using the metallic enhancing agent gadolinium, DGE - MRI gave comparable results - showing details of brain structure and areas where tumors had disrupted the blood - brain barrier (BBB), which is a hallmark of the highest grade tumors.

When the researchers looked at brain scans of subjects at rest after giving yes - no answers — neither learning nor actively recalling the memory — they found the same pattern of activity as when subjects were doing the high - reward task.

Brain scans of the women before and after treatment gave credence to the theory that abnormal conditions in pain - related areas of the brain may be responsible for the syndBrain scans of the women before and after treatment gave credence to the theory that abnormal conditions in pain - related areas of the brain may be responsible for the syndbrain may be responsible for the syndrome.

«MRI scans give us a bird's eye view of the apnea - related difference in volume of various parts of the brain, but they don't tell us, at the cellular level, what happened to the affected neurons or when,» said co-author David Gozal, MD, professor of pediatrics, University of Chicago.

The researchers scanned the test - takers» brains as they were given the memory test.

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.

The findings don't prove that a single concussion caused the differences that were revealed in brain scans and thinking tests that were given an average of two years after a reported concussion.

The difference between the two scans can give doctors a good idea whether blood - thinners would be of any use to preserve the stroke victim's brain function, Thomalla said.

Then they were given a PET scan — a type of brain imaging test — to measure different levels of protein in their brain.

Brain scans have even shown that our brains SHRINK as we get older, unless we proactively protect them with keeping our minds active and maintaining a healthy diet that gives our body enough nutrients.

In April 2012, an MRI scan found what a surgeon later confirmed: I have an inoperable brain tumour that was giving me mild epileptic seizures.

Sharon, a burned - out physician, gives Henry, Mr. Anger, the bad news: The brain scan reveals an aneurism.

After enduring the embarrassment of attending a costume party out of costume and the nuisance of being stuck in an elevator during one of the building's common power outages, Laing gives a new neighbor the bad and not very true news that a brain scan has caught something serious.

«Help me on this one,» is not an unusual request from the doctor to the «patient,» and miracle to behold, the stiffs do indeed cooperate enough to give the good doctor a diagnosis that should have been obvious but is not, simply because their brains do not show this illness on CT scans.

Given a colourful brain scan image and exciting - sounding phrases that are pleasingly simple (such as «left - brain» or «kinaesthetic learner»), far too many of us jump up and down with pseudoscientific joy.

If you take musically naive participants and scan their brains before teaching them to read music and play the piano and then give them fifteen weeks of lessons and scan their brain again and you'll see physical changes.

In a new study, a group scientists gave volunteers a chapter of «Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone» to scan various regions of the brain for what happens there when reading.

Computed Tomography (CT) scans or low - field MRI may give some information about the brain, but are much less sensitive than high - field MRI.

In April 2012, an MRI scan found what a surgeon later confirmed: I have an inoperable brain tumour that was giving me mild epileptic seizures.

You know, I had a tumor, so the doctors gave me an MRI, and on the scans my neurologist found all this strange imagery from my brain.

The brain scan of a Chicago man accused of raping and killing a 10 - year - old girl was used to demonstrate that he was a psychopath and should not be given the death penalty.

In April 2012, an MRI scan found what a surgeon later confirmed: I have an inoperable brain tumour that was giving me mild epileptic seizures.