Sentences with phrase «human brain imaging studies»

«Previous animal and human brain imaging studies have suggested that psilocybin may have effects similar to other antidepressant treatments,» explained study senior author David Nutt, also of Imperial College London.

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In the new study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain responses in sleeping babies while they were presented with emotionally neutral, positive, or negative human vocalizations or nonvocal environmental sounds.

Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»

Evidence that animal pheromones don't always work in they way we thought, backed up by a growing number of brain - imaging studies in humans, is convincing some researchers that we really do make and respond to pheromones.

In the study, Dr. Barber and colleagues analyzed brain imaging data from the Human Connectome Project of 76 otherwise healthy participants reporting PLEs and 153 control participants.

Imaging studies that combine scans from many people, such as this diffusion image from the Human Connectome Project, don't identify brain variations in individuals.

Although brain - imaging studies of human participants watching funny cartoons or listening to jokes reveal the activation of evolutionarily ancient structures such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, more recently evolved, «higher - order» structures are also activated, including distributed regions of the frontal cortex.

«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.

In addition, brain imaging studies in rats and humans have shown alterations in gray matter volume and white matter integrity in the brain caused by the effects of chronic pain.

In the late 1990s brain - imaging studies revealed that discrete regions of the temporal lobe — a section of the human brain important for object recognition — fired up more strongly when people looked at faces than at any other thing.

Functional MR imaging taken while the animals received either a juice reward or VTA stimulation revealed that both induced activation of brain regions that previous studies in humans and other primates have associated with reward signaling by means of the neurotransmitter dopamine.

The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.

Combining several new techniques, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Ph.D., senior author of the study, and his colleagues at Harvard's Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, applied fast fMRI in an effort to track neuronal networks that control human thought processes, and found that they could now measure rapidly oscillating brain activity.

Brain imaging studies show that areas of the brain for memory and visually processing human faces in people with MCI are structurally and functionally transfoBrain imaging studies show that areas of the brain for memory and visually processing human faces in people with MCI are structurally and functionally transfobrain for memory and visually processing human faces in people with MCI are structurally and functionally transformed.

«It is a very bold theory,» says Arne Öhman, a psychologist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden who uses brain imaging and behavior studies to test how humans respond to visual threats.

«Our findings are clinically relevant as they identify a novel addiction target in rodents, along with parallel supporting evidence from brain imaging studies in human addicts,» explains Andon Placzek, lead author of the nicotine study.

The methods used to conduct studies on modern humans crafting ancient tools was limited until recently by brain imaging technology.

Although non-invasive methods to explore brain function in humans such as functional imaging and EEG / MEG have been informative regarding the potential role of a given brain area in a particular cognitive function, they lack the necessary temporal and spatial resolution to study brain microcircuits.

A second major theme is the development of methods for studying human brain structure and function using MRI and for integrating fMRI data with other imaging methods such as EEG.

Small, an expert on the brain imaging of human behavior, uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study how the brain of professional athletes plans complex movements, such as swinging a baseball bat.

Center investigators in psychology include Randolph Blake, who uses behavioral and brain - imaging techniques to study the neural bases of human visual perception, with an emphasis on binocular vision and motion perception.

Dr. Raichle's research led to the development and use of positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging, tools that have enabled scientists to safely and non-invasively study the living human brain and track and record its function in health and disease.

Brain aging in humans, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): magnetic resonance imaging studies of macro - and microstructural changes.

Recent functional imaging studies have revealed coactivation in a distributed network of cortical regions that characterizes the resting state, or default mode, of the human brain.

Magnetic resonance imaging techniques, including structural imaging (MRI), functional imaging (fMRI), and spectroscopy (MRS), which measures brain chemistry, are noninvasive and thus can be used both in humans and in animals to study multiple aspects of brain structure and function.

The first brain imaging studies investigating the human brain response to social chemosignals have used single monomolecular substances contained in human body fluids [19], [20].

He previously served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Brain Imaging and Modeling Section of the United States National Institutes of Health, where he conducted neuroimaging studies to examine human short - term memory.

In 2012, our laboratory initiated a study of AAN structural connectivity in ex vivo human brain specimens and in a living human subject - a study made possible by high resolution MRI scanners and high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) sequences developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Iimaging (HARDI) sequences developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical ImagingImaging.

Scientists can tell from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies that the areas of the brain devoted to speech and language are exceptionally large in humans.

Human brain activation in response to visual stimulation with rural and urban scenery pictures: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study Science of the Total Environment, 408 (12), 2600.

The study was approved by the Institutional Human Participants Review Board of Southwest University Imaging Center for Brain Research.

Whereas previous efforts for identifying personality differences relied upon simple, direct, human observation, neuroscience introduced powerful brain analysis tools like Electroencephalography (EEG), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to this study.