Sentences with phrase «imaging study shows»

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Imaging study shows brain changes linked to trauma, such as the floods and fire in Sendai, Japan, after the 2011 earthquake.

A brain imaging study shows that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome may have reduced responses, compared with healthy controls, in a region of the brain connected with fatigue.

There are neurological correlates for every form of mental activity and, as Biovin himself acknowledges, just because imaging studies show that religious experiences are correlated with activity in a particular part of the brain, it does not follow that that activity is the cause of religious experience.

Several critical factors led the team to hope he might benefit from DBS, including the fact that sometimes he did respond and an imaging study showed that language - processing regions of his brain activated in response to spoken words.

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

Neuro - imaging studies show acupuncture to calm areas of the brain that register pain.

Not exact matches

In brain - imaging studies, teen brains show more activation in regions that process rewards, motivations and emotions (the socioaffective circuitry in the subcortical, limbic regions) compared to children and adults.

Studies have shown that trying to use ultrasounds or other imaging to guesstimate whether the baby (or babies) will fit through mom's pelvis doesn't help the birth outcome.

The test, Raven's Progressive Matrices, usually entails both visual and symbolic reasoning, although brain imaging of study subjects with autism showed they were able to score well using only the areas of their brains associated with visual processes.

Imaging studies have shown that the brains of high - risk individuals look and behave differently from controls decades before the onset of Alzheimer's, and long before they start to accumulate amyloid - β or lose grey matter.

Brain - imaging studies have shown that psilocybin targets areas of the brain overactive in depression.

In fact, he and his colleagues last year published a study showing that the cost of medical imaging ordered by neurologists cost more than the cost of all visits to neurologists added together.

During imaging studies probing the causes of addiction, the insula often was activated when drug abusers were shown movies of others taking drugs or shown pictures of cocaine, heroin or nicotine.

Results of the study showed that there were a total of 393 suspected lesions found in soft tissue and bone using all imaging modalities, collectively.

In 2015 Oxford pediatric neuroscientist Rebeccah Slater and her colleagues published a pioneering functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study showing infants» brains respond to painful stimuli very similarly to those of adults.

«Our results show that healthy growth can be achieved by combining certain soil bacteria with grasses, even when plants are grown in extremely nitrogen - deprived soil,» said study coauthor Richard Ferrieri, director of Brookhaven Lab's Radiochemistry and Biological Imaging Program.

What is more, brain imaging studies have shown that people watching others yawning have more activity in parts of the brain associated with self - information processing.

«Our study shows simply adding one of our available cardiac imaging resources may more accurately predict a patient's risk or diagnose their disease, also giving us an opportunity to prevent them from experiencing a future cardiac event and possibly save more lives from the burdens of cardiovascular diseases.»

Brain imaging studies have shown that people with synesthesia tend to be wired differently: they display hyperconnectivity between parts of their brains related to their synesthetic experiences.

Researchers are also studying other imaging technologies for breast cancer treatment monitoring, such as MRI, X-ray imaging, and ultrasound, but Hielscher notes that these have not yet shown as much promise as this new technology.

Imaging studies have shown that when autistic children see a familiar face, their pattern of brain activation is different from that of normal children.

Brain - imaging studies have shown that most patients with frontotemporal dementia who develop skills have abnormally low blood flow or low metabolic activity in their left temporal lobe.

Previous imaging studies have revealed two brain regions that often show abnormal activity in these patients: the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC) and the amygdala.

One month after the study treatment — which involves chemotherapy followed by intravenous infusion of JCAR017 — follow - up imaging showed complete remission of the brain lesion.

In a study presented in the featured clinical investigation article of the November issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, they used 18F - fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET / CT imaging to show that the amount of cell - free tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream correlates with tumor metabolism (linked to cancer aggressiveness), not tumor burden (amount of cancer in the body).

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.

«Imaging studies in multiple types of chronic pain patients show their brains differ from healthy control subjects,» said Bushnell.

Through analysis of high - resolution anatomical magnetic resonance imaging of brain volumes, taken three times over the two - year study period, the researchers were able to determine that individuals with MCI or Alzheimer's showed greater losses in gray matter volume in both the basal forebrain and temporal lobe, compared with cognitively normal controls.

«We showed with this technique that we can detect very tiny tumors of just a few hundred cells,» Lu said, adding that the study pushed imaging boundaries, revealing smaller cancers than can be detected with current clinical imaging modalities.

A previous brain - imaging study had shown that atheists used this area of the brain more when they wanted to suppress supernatural ideas.

This phenomenon can be explained, in part, by brain - imaging studies that show music can tap into the limbic system of the brain.

An analysis of diagnostic test results from the Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain (PROMISE) trial — in which patients with stable chest pain were randomized to either anatomic or functional testing as an initial diagnostic strategy — showed that the presence and extent of coronary artery disease detected by CT angiography better predicted the risk for future cardiac events than did measures of exercise tolerance or restricted blood flow to the heart muscle.

Preliminary results of a study of patients with prostate cancer show that MR tractography may be a reliable quantitative imaging biomarker to assess prostate cancer treatment response to androgen deprivation and radiation therapy, according to a team of researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Previous studies have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans to show that similar areas of the brain are activated when someone is in pain and when they see another person in pain.

In their study the researchers showed different characters to test persons and recorded via functional magnetic resonance imaging the brain activity which was set into motion by the process of seeing.

Brain imaging studies have shown that stimulation over this region modulates the functioning of fronto - striatal circuits, leading to the release of dopamine, a key neurotransmitter in reward processing.

«With the extra imaging processing, we were able to definitively show that this warp is a visual blend of two separate discs,» says David Golimowski of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, US, who led the new study.

This study shows how these issues have been overcome with a newly developed imaging system, making it possible to image structures as small as 80nm or less anywhere in the cell.

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.

Imaging studies reveal that the striatum of obese individuals shows low levels of a receptor that responds to dopamine, termed the dopamine D2 receptor (D2R).

«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.

A 2014 behavioral study of expectant fathers showed that midpregnancy ultrasound imaging was a «magic moment» in the dads» emerging connection with their baby.

A new study from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg shows how what is termed chemical imaging can provide comprehensive information about the human skin with a very high level of precision.

The study showed that data from the combined imaging procedure improved specificity of the exam from 67 % for MRI alone, to 89 % when TOI (tissue optical index) from NIRST imaging was added.

Eden and her colleagues report on a new structural brain imaging study that shows, in addition to deafness, early language experience — English versus ASL — impacts brain structure.

Said Hasan Jilaihawi, MD, director of Interventional Cardiology Imaging at the Cedars Sinai Heart Institute, «Our study also shows that the novel technique of four - dimensional high resolution CT is superior to routinely used transthoracic cardiac echocardiography for the detection of these valve leaflet clots.»

Functional imaging studies have also shown that autistic minds show decreased activity and connectivity in areas of the so - called «social brain» — regions important for language, face recognition and emotion.

Makkar began the study when a high - resolution imaging study of one of the patients in a clinical trial who had stroke showed clot formation on the aortic valve leaflets that open and close to regulate the flow of blood.