Recent brain
imaging research shows that people project themselves onto avatars, explaining the potential of digital doppelgängers for treating phobias and anxiety disorders and in helping people lose weight and make better financial choices.
This finding led by a team of researchers at McGill complements previous
imaging research showing that emotional and physical pain both activate the same parts of the brain.
Not exact matches
Psilocybin intervenes specifically in this mechanism as
shown by Dr. Rainer Krähenmann's
research team of the Neuropsychopharmacology and Brain
Imaging Unit led by Prof. Dr. Franz Vollenweider.
Research points to the possibility of such a center in humans: functional
imaging has already
shown that the human amygdala — like the bat's amygdala — responds to species - specific emotive sounds, such as laughing and crying, Kanwal says.
Now, a
research group at the University of Tokyo (Professor Takuya Ueda, Professor Yukihide Tomari, Researcher Chunyan Yao and Research Associate Hiroshi M Sasaki,) and at Kyoto University (Researcher Hisashi Tadakuma), has developed a single - molecule imaging assay for observing target RNA cleavage by RISC in a test tube in real time for the first time, showing how RISC accurately cleaves and releases
research group at the University of Tokyo (Professor Takuya Ueda, Professor Yukihide Tomari, Researcher Chunyan Yao and
Research Associate Hiroshi M Sasaki,) and at Kyoto University (Researcher Hisashi Tadakuma), has developed a single - molecule imaging assay for observing target RNA cleavage by RISC in a test tube in real time for the first time, showing how RISC accurately cleaves and releases
Research Associate Hiroshi M Sasaki,) and at Kyoto University (Researcher Hisashi Tadakuma), has developed a single - molecule
imaging assay for observing target RNA cleavage by RISC in a test tube in real time for the first time,
showing how RISC accurately cleaves and releases targets.
Additionally, 2013 MRI
research from Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and McLean
Imaging Center at McLean Hospital
showed that the structural brain abnormalities of Doberman pinschers afflicted with canine compulsive disorder (CCD) were similar to those of humans with OCD.
Sandia Labs»
research began with a Laboratory Directed Research and Development project from 2014 - 2016 that demonstrated X-ray phase contrast imaging could show details where one material meets
research began with a Laboratory Directed
Research and Development project from 2014 - 2016 that demonstrated X-ray phase contrast imaging could show details where one material meets
Research and Development project from 2014 - 2016 that demonstrated X-ray phase contrast
imaging could
show details where one material meets another.
Moreover, brain -
imaging studies by researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Oregon
Research Institute
show that the brain's reward systems in overweight individuals respond weakly to food, even to junk food.
«Our finding of a link between bipolar disorder and the striatum at the molecular level complements studies that implicate the same brain region in bipolar disorder at the anatomical level, including functional
imaging studies that
show altered activity in the striatum of bipolar subjects during tasks that involve balancing reward and risk,» said TRSI
Research Associate Rodrigo Pacifico, who was first author of the new study.
In earlier
research, Jack's Brain, Mind & Consciousness lab used functional magnetic resonance
imaging to
show the brain has an analytical network of neurons that enables us to think critically and a social network that enables us to empathize.
In Optica, The Optical Society's journal for high impact
research, the researchers
show that their new optical coherence tomography (OCT)
imaging system can not only image both the front and the back of the eye, but can also image the interfaces of the eye's vitreous gel with the retina and lens with unprecedented detail.
While the system will be subjected to further
research to improve its performance towards the theoretical limit, it already
shows considerable promise for use in a wide range of applications, including ultra-fast
imaging with high - intensity X-rays and high - resolution full - field X-ray fluorescence
imaging.
Through a combination of single - molecule
imaging and bulk biochemical experiments, the
research team has
shown that the genome - editing ability of Cas9 is made possible by the presence of short DNA sequences known as «PAM,» for protospacer adjacent motif.
Previous brain -
imaging research has
shown that interpreting metaphors requires a variety of areas on both sides of the brain, compared with literal language, which is processed in known language areas in the left hemisphere.
He points also to brain -
imaging research that
shows native speakers of Chinese and native speakers of English process the same Arabic numerals in different parts of their brains, suggesting that language and culture influence even which neurons are recruited to deal with numbers.
The
research, published in JAMA Psychiatry,
shows the potential for brain
imaging «biomarkers» for attention problems.
A Vanderbilt University Medical Center - led
research team has
shown that magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) can detect changes in resting - state spinal cord function in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).
LOCATING PRE-HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS Researcher: Fuchou Tang, Assistant Professor, Biodynamic Optical
Imaging Center, Integrated Science
Research Center, Peking University Project: In a study published in Nature, Tang and his collaborators isolated pre-hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for the first time and
showed their unique transcriptome signatures before and during their maturation into HSCs (533:487 - 92, 2016).
1) Brain
imaging research techniques such as PET scans (positron emission tomography) and fMRI (functional magnetic resonance
imaging) clearly
show that the vast majority of the brain does not lie fallow.
«We have now examined this detail more closely, using a new method — laser - stimulated fluorescence
imaging,» explains Dr. Gerald Mayr of the Senckenberg
Research Institute, and he continues, «Our studies clearly
show that these bristles actually represent integumental structures.»
Now a
research team led by Broad Institute
Imaging Platform director Anne Carpenter and postdoctoral fellow Mohammad Rohban has shown that a high - throughput, computerized imaging technique for studying morphology, called Cell Painting, can provide insight into the cellular roles of genes or disease - linked gene alleles whose function or impact is u
Imaging Platform director Anne Carpenter and postdoctoral fellow Mohammad Rohban has
shown that a high - throughput, computerized
imaging technique for studying morphology, called Cell Painting, can provide insight into the cellular roles of genes or disease - linked gene alleles whose function or impact is u
imaging technique for studying morphology, called Cell Painting, can provide insight into the cellular roles of genes or disease - linked gene alleles whose function or impact is unknown.
Deep Earth
Imaging research will keep Australia at the forefront of resources sector capability and provides an enormous opportunity for the mining, equipment, technology and services (METS) sector to not only find those resources, but to
show others how to go about it.
Brain magnetic resonance
imaging obtained under
research protocols
showed normal brain volumes without any significant pattern of atrophy or white matter lesions.
The longer you stay in a state of caloric deficit, the more likely you are to hoover a box of Krispy Kremes,
shows brain
imaging in a study at Oregon
Research Institute.
Research is beginning to
show the connection In a 2005 study, researchers at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., used functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI), which measures activity in different areas of the brain, to see whether subjects could learn to control a brain region involved in pain and whether that could be a tool for altering their pain perception.
At the same time, magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) brain scans of those who drank the corn syrup drink
showed increased activation in a region of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, which has been tied to reward and cravings in past
research, compared with the men who drank the low - glycemic index drink.
Ongoing
research at Boston Children's Hospital
shows that brain
imaging and a child's family history of dyslexia, among a multifaceted array of other factors, can point to a predisposition for dyslexia well before that child ever steps foot in a kindergarten classroom.
Other
research has revealed that COAs have increased communication apprehension, more difficulty coping with stressful events, and magnetic resonance
imaging has
shown that they respond differently to emotional stimuli.