Sentences with phrase «in brain scans when»

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When he was 7 months old he started having seizures and we took him into hospital and they did brain scans which showed he has infantile spasms epilepsy caused by brain scarring from hypoglycaemia from not feeding properly in his first days of life.

that disclosed that, although doctors once believed that babies» brains were too underdeveloped to feel pain, MRI scans revealed that newborns» brains «light up» on an MRI in much the same way adult brains do when exposed to mild pain.

When you think about the fact that very young children especially can't exactly tell you that their head hurts or may make an exam difficult because they get cranky or tired or act out in a way that you can't determine «normal» behavior, it makes sense that a CT scan could be especially helpful in diagnosing brain injuries.

When Thompson's team looked at brain scans of 206 healthy people aged 70 to 80, they found that those with at least one copy of the FTO variant had 8 per cent less volume in their frontal lobes and 12 per cent less in the occipital lobes, compared with their counterparts lacking the variant.

«Brain scans show why people get aggressive after a drink or two: MRI study highlights how areas in the brain that temper aggression shut off when people drink alcohol.&rBrain scans show why people get aggressive after a drink or two: MRI study highlights how areas in the brain that temper aggression shut off when people drink alcohol.&rbrain that temper aggression shut off when people drink alcohol.»

Brain scans using fMRI showed that, when listening to English phonetic sounds, monolinguals, early bilinguals and late bilinguals» brains lit up in different areas.

When activated, sensors inside would scan the thousands of brain waves oscillating in a soldier's head; a microprocessor would apply pattern recognition software to decode those waves and translate them into specific sentences or words, and a radio would transmit the message.

If clinicians could use brain scans to identify vulnerable high - risk individuals in early adolescence when the brain is still developing, it may be possible to curb the development of the disorder and help prevent its most debilitating effects.

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.

When the viewers used old - fashioned red and blue 3D glasses, their brain scans suggested they were less engaged in the film than when modern polarised glasses were uWhen the viewers used old - fashioned red and blue 3D glasses, their brain scans suggested they were less engaged in the film than when modern polarised glasses were uwhen modern polarised glasses were used.

When the no - longer - naive subjects returned to the lab, their brain scans showed additional activity in regions associated with working memory and decision - making.

When he asked her to think about playing tennis, the fMRI scan showed activity in the supplementary motor area, just as in the brains of healthy volunteers.

So when she heard in 2010 that James Baraniuk at Georgetown University was looking for veterans with symptoms like hers to participate in brain - scan studies, she jumped at the chance.

The real - time fMRI scans revealed that when the volunteers successfully got the avatar to follow their gaze, brain areas involved in reward and motivation were activated.

«When we can run around all day long with a miniature MRI scanning apparatus strapped to our head, which could happen in the not too distant future, then we'll be able to see real sex differences in the brain.»

Even today, when a head injury or coma patient is brought to the ER, the person gets a CT scan to determine if there is a blood clot in the brain that requires surgery.

MRI scans of healthy siblings of the stroke patients showed activity in language centers in the left hemisphere of the brain when the participants heard speech.

But in many troops with TBI from blasts, clinicians see stroke - like symptoms indicative of vasospasm even when brain scans show no evidence of bleeding.

But when Donna approached Cephos of Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, for an fMRI scan, which picks up changes in blood flow and oxygenation in the brain,...

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.

Weeks later in another research lab, I will be scanned for brain function: what goes on in my brain when I experience fear or religious faith or when I make decisions.

When comparing the scan results for brain activity before treatment and after a year of stimulation, the researchers found that there were changes in the regions linked to anorexia, suggesting that deep brain stimulation was able to directly affect the related brain circuits.

When they compared magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans taken before and after for both groups, they found that auditory and motor areas of the brain linked respectively with hearing and dexterity grew larger only in the trainee musicians.

Using PET brain scans, they showed that those with impaired illness awareness also had reduced glucose uptake in specific brain regions, even when accounting for other factors linked to reduced glucose uptake, such as age and degree of memory loss.

Leonardo Cohen, at the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the study, thinks the next step should instead be to use the existing scanning method to train individuals to enter good brain states of their own accord, by rewarding them when they do.

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

The scans revealed that when praised, 13 of the dogs showed equal or greater levels of brain activity in the region that controls decision - making and signals rewards than when they received food, the scientists will report in an upcoming issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

A 2012 study using PET scans found that when crows viewed human faces that they associated with threat or care, the birds had increased activity in the amygdala, thalamus and brain stem — areas related to emotional processing and fear learning.

When he scanned their brains, Blanke found that the test subjects produced the signature brain patterns seen in others reporting an out - of - body state.

When the scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan brain activity, they saw that high and low frequency stimulation put the rats in completely different states of activity.

If you haven't heard of it, here's a quick definition from a 2008 paper by Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg, two scientists at the University of Oxford: «The basic idea is to take a particular brain, scan its structure in detail and construct a software model of it so faithful to the original that, when run on appropriate hardware, it will behave in essentially the same way as the original brain.»

«MRI scans give us a bird's eye view of the apnea - related difference in volume of various parts of the brain, but they don't tell us, at the cellular level, what happened to the affected neurons or when,» said co-author David Gozal, MD, professor of pediatrics, University of Chicago.

He was already scanning parts of the brain to study their function, so when he got the chance a year later to scan Kate, a woman in a vegetative state, he jumped at it.

New MRI scans show that dolphin brains are four to five times larger for their body size when compared to another animal of similar size, according to Lori Marino, a senior lecturer in neuroscience and behavioral biology at Emory University, and one of the world's leading dolphin experts.

Dr. Strathearn and others have used brain - scanning technology to show that the oxytocin - producing areas of a mom's brain light up when she sees her baby, and that this is associated with higher levels of oxytocin in the bloodstream.

What's more, researchers using functional MRI scans found that the women with alcohol in their system experienced greater brain activity when exposed to food aromas.

Fisher has found that the bit of our brain that creates dopamine (the Ventral Tegmental Area or VTA) is sparked by the act of falling in love: in scans you can see people's VTAs lighting up when they think about their romantic partner.

April 29, 2013 • In scans of sleeping infants» brains, certain areas light up when they hear angry voices.

And when teachers understand that, when they get that rest state, when we show them the brain scans and they say, «Wow, look at that, that brain is completely shut off,» then they also see what's going on in relation to that more kinesthetic, spatial - mechanical brain, and how much more it needs to move around, that it can't just sit and listen to words.

When the new brain scans were compared, researchers found that the boys with the disorder had more activity in the basal ganglia, a brain structure, than they had before taking Ritalin.

In a new study, a group scientists gave volunteers a chapter of «Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone» to scan various regions of the brain for what happens there when reading.

In a study published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 22 young adults had functional MRI scans of their brains to monitor activity when they were shown that electrical shocks were being sent to themselves, a friend, or strangeIn a study published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 22 young adults had functional MRI scans of their brains to monitor activity when they were shown that electrical shocks were being sent to themselves, a friend, or strangein Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 22 young adults had functional MRI scans of their brains to monitor activity when they were shown that electrical shocks were being sent to themselves, a friend, or stranger.

Here's what the brain scans revealed - the reward pathway in the dogs» brains only lit up when they heard words of praise in an approving tone of voice.