Sentences with phrase «images of brain scans»

These images of brain scans were taken while the subjects performed mathematical calculations involving serial addition.

Meanwhile the influence of neuroscience on education continues to mushroom, thanks to «opportunistic marketing» and promises that can not be kept and even, in one prominent case, the fraudulent use of misleading false - color images of brain scans.

She's looking at remarkable new images of brain scans of people on LSD — the first time they've ever been taken anywhere in the world.

This composite image of brain scans shows two traits of a highly impulsive individual.

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Plus, brain scans indicate that people who lost weight and kept it off for nine months reacted differently when shown images of high - calorie foods than before they lost the weight.

Helped by the recent development of fiber - optic - bundle - coupled laser - scanning confocal fluorescence imaging (Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy — CLE), which allowed the scientists to image blood flow more deeply in the brain than ever before.

Even the brain scan of a person looking at a single disgusting image was enough to predict their political tendencies, but more work will be needed to know exactly what these brain scan differences mean.

These are CT scan images of the skull roof (front bone in pink, parietal in green) and brain (in blue) of, top to bottom, a chicken, the birdlike dinosaur Zanabazar, the primitive dinosaur Herrerasaurus, and Proterosuchus, an ancestral form that diverged before the bird / crocodile split.

The monkeys» eye - focusing movements, coupled with scans of brain activity, revealed that they were «seeing» images shown in the «blind» part of their visual field, but only if their LGN was intact (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09179).

At the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a psychiatric team is mapping the brain's intricate web of neural connections, using images from MRI scans, to try to identify regions responsible for depression.

Editor's note: When reporting results from the functional MRI scans of dogs» brains, left and right were accidentally reversed in all images, the researchers report in a correction posted April 7 in Science.

These images of mouse brains compare laser scanning photostimulation maps of all the neurons connected to one central neuron in control mice (left) vs. mice dosed with valproic acid (VPA) to induce autism - like symptoms (right).

Images of the tumor cells are immediately created on an LCD screen observed as the surgeon scans the instrument across the tumor or brain surface.

A type of brain imaging, called diffusion tensor imaging, allows doctors to scan patients and produce vibrantly colored images of the brain's wiring.

In their next study, the researchers said they plan to show images to depressed patients of objects or people the patients dislike while their brains are scanned, Feng said.

«On a normal clinical MRI scan, you typically see the structural images of the brain, and for a mild brain injury like a concussion, we aren't able to see the underlying changes we were able to see using these advanced methods.»

The clearest proof is the ghostly image of a cyst in a brain scan, along with the presence of antibodies against tapeworms.

These participants also underwent MRI scans which collected images of their brain while they learned and remembered names that were associated with pictures of unfamiliar faces.

Collaborating with researchers from Canada, Europe, Japan, and, in the United States, the University of Texas, the brain atlas team has scanned 450 «normal» brains and used hundreds of thousands of images taken of 7,000 people around the world to compile three - dimensional color maps of the brain.

Brain scans created using functional MRI consist of a series of images in which different areas light up with varying intensity at different times.

Her team scanned 12 people's brains while they looked at hundreds of images of noses, eyes, mouths and other facial features and recorded which bits of the brain became active.

«These include different types of MRI scans, which use strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the inside of the brain, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans, which use a small amount of a radioactive drug, or tracer, to test how tissues in the brain are actually functioning.

At Week 1, the fMRI scans in the fasting state revealed that people taking the drug showed decreased brain activity in response to images of highly desirable foods in the attention - related parietal and visual cortices.

To learn more, the researchers compared unenhanced T1 - weighted MR images (T1WI) of 19 patients who had undergone six or more contrast - enhanced brain scans with 16 patients who had received six or fewer unenhanced scans.

This novel approach — combining information obtained simultaneously from MRI images of the stomach, feelings reported by the subjects, and brain scans — can offer new insights which would otherwise have been unknown, for example that activation in a brain area called the mid-temporal gyrus seems is in some way influenced by the increased water load in this experiment.

So with techniques normally used for studying prehistoric humans, researchers created a 3D image of Descartes's brain (above) by scanning the impression it left on the inside of his skull, which has been kept for almost 200 years now in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

When neuroscientists scanned the brains of obese individuals viewing images of desirable food, they found greater activity in brain regions rich in dopamine receptors.

To find out exactly where in the brain pareidolia arises, Kang and colleagues scanned the activity of people's brains while showing them images of light and dark pixels arranged randomly.

The atlas created using images from MRI scans of older people could aid diagnosis by comparing the patients» scans with a detailed map of the healthy aging brain.

In this study, the team imaged 43 patients undergoing ECT at three time points, before beginning treatment, after the second ECT session and within one week of completing treatment, resulting in 129 brain scans.

Today researchers at Texas A&M have figured out how to take images of the brain at a resolution of just 160 nanometers, but they've scanned only a rice - grain - size piece of mouse brain in any one trial.

The fMRI scans revealed significantly higher levels of activation in the amygdala, which controls emotion and motivation, in the brains of the male subjects compared to the females, despite the fact that both males and females expressed similar subjective assessments of their levels of arousal after viewing the images.

The participants» brains were scanned as they looked at images of their lost loves.

Via this system, the stroke specialists can not only view physical signs of a possible stroke in order to assess the patient's condition, but can speak to the patient, family members, nurses and attending physicians, as well as directly review CT scan images of the patient's brain.

CT scans use computers and rotating X-ray machines to create images of slices, or cross-sections, of the brain.

The NCBR serves as a repository for in vivo structural MRI scans of chimpanzee brains, in vivo and postmortem diffusion tensor images (DTI), as well as postmortem fixed and frozen brain specimens.

Magnetic resonance images (MRI scans) of everyone's brains were taken before and after they completed the meditation training, and a control group of people who didn't do any mindfulness training also had their brains scanned.

Researchers performed brain scans of volunteers while they viewed images, some sexually suggestive, and also asked their sexual behaviors within the past year.

Well, a blood test at the beginning of the study measured participants» estrogen and testosterone levels, then, individuals were exposed to images that could potentially evoke positive, negative, or neutral emotions while undergoing MRI brain scans.

Nineteen of the patients had initial brain image scans and then another scan a day after the second 25 mg dose.

A teen girl receives several mind - body scans that involve simulations that are hallucinations provided by computer programming supplied through cables attached to the girl's back; we see screens in the air that show images of her brain and nervous system as the girl sees the ghost of her dead mother screaming among flames in a building with flaming windows as the building uproots itself and slowly flies through the air; the girl grabs cables, falls, runs across buildings as the flying building crashes into a skyscraper and chunks of concrete fall and fill the screen until she speaks with the ghost and the simulation ends.

In these brain scans, activity in the right hemisphere is displayed on the left side of the image,...

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.

A 64 - slice Computed Tomography (CT) Scan to create high - resolution images of the heart, brain, or lungs in seconds;

It provides high quality images with excellent detail and resolution of the brain and spinal cord compared to other imaging tools, such as computed tomography (commonly referred to as a CAT scan).

The MRI images with significant lines and angles and three - dimensional reconstructions of the brain are depicted and dog's age at time of MRI scan noted.

One of these technologies is a computerized axial tomography scan (a.k.a CT or CAT scan) which uses x-rays to produce a series of images that show cross-sections of the brain.