Sentences with phrase «in brain scans»

Gone were the anxiety and obsessive thoughts that show up in brain scans of people who are in relationships in the early stages.

And one person's emotions may not look the same in a brain scan as another person's.

The study is the first to show that early tissue damage seen in brain scans does not necessarily indicate an increased risk of bleeding.

What got you interested in brain scans in the courtroom?

The answer might actually be evident in a brain scan, according to a study in which researchers posed actual terms like that to 108 young adults — and the stakes were real.

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.

Washington University neurologist Dr. Randall Bateman says researchers saw changes in the brain scans, spinal fluid, and blood of people with inherited Alzheimer's as much as 15 to 20 years before the onset of symptoms.

«Previous studies have suggested that resting state connectivity shown in brain scans is anchored by anatomical connectivity,» said co-senior author Anna Roe, professor of psychology.

Direction and place cells have been identified in people but the existence of grid cells had only been hinted at in brain scans.

People experience this as memory lapses or slowed insights, but scientists can actually see the physical changes in older brains when they examine details like the amounts of grey matter and white matter in brain scans.

They were amazed to find a large difference in the brain scans of these 2 - 3 year olds, showing that in the first few years of life a child's brain development relies heavily on nurturing by his parents.

Recent advances in brain scanning allow unprecedented access to our thoughts and mental states

They found that the test reliably detected amyloid - beta alterations in the blood of participants with mild cognitive impairment that also showed abnormal amyloid deposits in brain scans.

Neurobiologist Aniruddh Patel at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego looks for answers in brain scans and laboratory tests and also in the fancy footwork of what seems...

Agnosias have become particularly interesting to neuroscientists in the past decade or so, as advances in brain scanning techniques have allowed them to close in on what's going on in the brain.

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

In the new study, researchers trained a computer program to recognize patterns in the brain scans that represent signs such as brain - thinning or diffuse small - vessel narrowing, in order to predict the likelihood of bleeding.

It even lights up in brain scans when they look at faces.

«Plaques detected in brain scans forecast cognitive impairment.»

Patient risk factors are easy to identify in brain scans, enabling doctors to decide whether the risk to patients outweighs the potential benefits of receiving alteplase, the team says.

The new approach, published today in the International Journal of Stroke, can quantify visible brain injury from cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) and brain atrophy by translating the million plus bits of information stored in brain scans into a single measure, the «brain health index.»

Researchers looking at the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs found increased neural signals in the brain scans of people given them.

A study published in a recent issue of the journal Neuron revealed that fluorescent compounds used in brain scans prove might help researchers diagnose the disease, monitor treatment effectiveness, and test new drugs.

Recent studies have found that both cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-- more about this in a minute — and mindfulness techniques can make positive changes to your gray matter, ones actually visible in a brain scan.

Turning to journalism allowed no emotional space for absorbing the jarring reality that the white spots in my brain scan showed I was breakable — that something as basic as dexterity, let alone a long healthy life, was no longer a given.

The new research builds on previous findings by the same investigators that showed a link between maternal nurturing and a larger hippocampus observed in brain scans conducted at the time the children reached school age.

And lovesickness does present itself like fear, anxiety, and panic in brain scans.

In addition to monitoring disease symptoms, the researchers are looking for changes in brain scans and blood biomarkers of the disease.»

The researchers saw something interesting in the brain scans of short sleepers that they didn't see in the «normal» group: During their time in the MRI, their brain waves exhibited patterns more typically of sleep than of wakefulness.

In a brain scan of a normal child, there's lots of activity in the temporal lobes, which regulate emotions and important learning functions.

The rats all developed two separate fears, one for each tone, which showed up in brain scans as increased neural activity in the amygdala, a part of the brain directly related to fear.

While some brain injuries involve bleeding in the brain or skull fractures that a jury will be able to clearly see in brain scans or x-rays, these tools may not be precise enough to show more subtle damage.

But he needed to wait and see if that evidence would turn up in a brain scan.

What jumped out in those brain scans was that the areas of the brain in the lower parts of the prefrontal cortex were hyper, hyper, hyperactive in addicts and were correlated with their cravings.

[Visiting Google] this summer opened my eyes to what it would mean if, instead of thinking of biomarkers as something we measure in blood or in a brain scan, we also include things we can measure on a smartphone: your activity level, your sleep, your social activity, and your cognitive performance.

Occasionally, Bernick spots abnormalities — in a brain scan, a blood test, or the tests that the fighter performs in the exam room — that force a tough conversation about the risks of continuing with the sport.

As in the group predicted to be farther from onset, these behavioral changes were accompanied by changes in brain scans that reveal shrinkage.

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

Using the latest technology in brain scans, the research team at Emory University were able to discover that dogs are indeed capable of feeling love.