Sentences with phrase «in brain tests»

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After five long years of innovation, research, and testing, David Dickinson, CEO of start - up Zeo, based in Newton, Massachusetts, was confident that the product his company introduced last year»» a personal sleep monitor that gathers data from brain waves during sleep»» was unlike anything on the market.

In a statement, Brain Corp. said it is also testing its technology at its development partner sites.

The Whopperrito is the brain child of a Burger King franchisee, and Fortune reported in June that it had been tested at locations in Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

After taking samples and conducting brain scans, the researchers found that 41 percent of mothers of babies with microcephaly tested positive for Zika infection in blood or cerebrospinal fluid samples, compared with none of those whose babies did not have microcephaly.

The work is still in it's early stages — «Any effort to use electric current for stimulating the brain outside the laboratory or clinic could be dangerous and should be strongly discouraged,» Green cautions — but there are already places where the idea of electrical stimulation is being tested out in the real world.

For one, it's made it clear that using tools like PET scans and cerebrospinal fluid testing can help pinpoint which patients have amyloid present in the brain for the treatments to act on.

Pagan said that a larger, more comprehensive study must be done before determining the drug's true impact, but if the drug's effectiveness is confirmed in such tests, nilotinib could become the first treatment to impede the killing of brain cells that's consistent with Parkinson's, according to NPR.

Dong and his team tested their «memory prosthesis» by implanting the device in 20 patients who were already having brain implants placed to treat their epilepsy.

While the results can't conclusively prove that all those second screens are causing the changes to the brain (differences in brain structure could also lead people to be more likely to multitask), the researchers suggest that the results should nonetheless serve as a red flag for fans of multiple devices while further studies are carried out to test causality.

Assemble a brain trust of advisors to help you evaluate, develop, and implement a test of one of these new opportunities in a new market.

All the animals completed a series of cognitive tests at the start of the study and were injected with a substance that allows scientists to track changes in their brain structures.

25,000 patients will be enrolled in the first study ever to combine data from genetics, cognitive tests and online surveys to explore how genetics is related to Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Depression and certain brain functions.

The startup, which has been testing its cars in Mountain View, Calif., seeks to take on Urmson's former employer in developing the brain for autonomous cars.

You can measure serenity and «peace» using certain medical equipment, but there is nothing testing or measuring «spirituality» in such a measurement that records brain functions.

so prayers please, should i stay on disability, and i could whine and moan enough, and i am probably a fool for trying to be anything other than a disabled aids case with a disintegrating back and diabetes and brain damage who should not be testing my luck in nyc.

I hope that several prominent neurologists without a stake in the situation will step forward and volunteer to examine Jahi — and not just for a day or two but over an extended period of time, to test her brain and body functions thoroughly and determine whether she does indeed respond to requests.

I suspect because it is required to keep the belief going otherwise you would have to call in to question everything you believed in and that is a very deeply painful road — so most interpret it as a «test» rather than your brain working rationally because it is scary to go against tradition.

In August New Scientist reported that Aaron Schurger, leading a research team in France, had tested the assumption that the readiness potential is the signature of the brain preparing to acIn August New Scientist reported that Aaron Schurger, leading a research team in France, had tested the assumption that the readiness potential is the signature of the brain preparing to acin France, had tested the assumption that the readiness potential is the signature of the brain preparing to act.

So it seems to me that for those of us who call ourselves Christians, but who also have used the brain that God gave us to conclude that the planet is more than 6000 years old and that the actions of Noah and his family saved all the then living things — that we can retain faith in a God who would not joke around with Abraham just to test him.

I have had this creation in my brain for a while, but only recently tested it out.

Arming sideline personnel (especially a certified athletic trainer) with new, cutting edge tools and technology, including impact sensors to track hits and alert sideline personnel to those which might result in concussion or brain trauma from an accumulation of sub-concussive blows, and a battery of quick and reliable sideline assessment tests to make «remove from play» decisions;

As Dr. Robert Cantu explains in his 2012 book, Concussions and Our Kids, [15] it «takes more than one type of test to compile a comprehensive baseline,» because neurocognitive tests measure the thinking and reasoning parts of the brain (medial temporal lobe and front lobe), but concussions «also may cause trauma to the calcarine cortex, which is in the back of the brain and controls vision, and the cerebellum, at the top of the neck, where balance and coordination are measured.

ImPACT [Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing] and other cognitive testing wouldn't establish a baseline or reveal deficits in these areas of the brain [so] more and different evaluations are needed.Testing] and other cognitive testing wouldn't establish a baseline or reveal deficits in these areas of the brain [so] more and different evaluations are needed.testing wouldn't establish a baseline or reveal deficits in these areas of the brain [so] more and different evaluations are needed.»

Because nerves in the colon are linked to the brain, things like family problems, moving, taking tests, or even going on vacation can affect how the colon works.

When a school ignores brain - development basics to squeeze in more worksheets and tests, they're teaching to children's ears instead of their brains.

The K - D test, originally developed in the 1980's by optometrists Al King and Steve Devick at the Illinois College of Optometry, provides objective measures of many aspects of brain function, including subcortical (subconscious) pathways that extend beyond eye movements.

Researchers have found an association between physical fitness and the brain in 9 - and 10 - year - old children: Those who are more fit tend to have a bigger hippocampus and perform better on a test of memory than their less - fit peers.

Ten helmets tested by researchers reduced the likelihood of traumatic brain injury by an average of 20 percent compared with no helmet in a simulation using crash test dummies.

Using metaphors developed by FrameWorks and tested with audiences both in the United States and in Alberta, «How Brains are Built» infuses core story concepts with energy, accessibility, and high fidelity to the science.

In addition, because it tests for verbal memory, the SAC can not identify athletes who may suffer measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI), resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the heaIn addition, because it tests for verbal memory, the SAC can not identify athletes who may suffer measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI), resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the heain neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI), resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the head.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

Animal testing indicates that pesticides can cause permanent changes in brain chemistry that may lead to behavioral disorders, learning disabilities, and even long - term damage to the brain and nervous system.

Human milk, in contrast, is high in factors that promote brain growth; children who were breastfed tend to score higher on intelligence quotient (IQ) tests.

Cord blood stem cells can be used to treat dozens of diseases and are being tested in FDA - regulated clinical trials to help people with autism, brain injury, and other conditions.

The NOCSAE action to move forward the development of a more comprehensive helmet standard was taken on the heels of new NOCSAE - funded research which identified brain tissue response from a concussive event and the development of a new method to test helmets which replicates some of the rotational forces involved in a concussion.

Tests were conducted in Sweden by scientists, curious as to the affects ultrasounds may have on the human brain during development.

National and local health care officials said cuts in federal spending to combat the Zika virus means fewer pregnant women will be tested and there will be less money available to develop a vaccine and research how the disease affects fetal brains.

It's great being a big fish in a smallish pond — however if I had your brains, talent, and energy I wouldn't hesitate testing the salt water.

May, who has announced that funding for brain cancer research would be doubled and better diagnostic tests rolled out to all NHS hospitals in tribute, said the former Labour cabinet minister's dignity and courage were «as humbling as they were inspirational», adding: «Even at what must have been some of her most difficult moments, her compassion for others shone through.»

The only way to test an animal for rabies is on their brain tissue, which can not be done in a live animal.

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When B2M was administered to young mice, either via the circulatory system or directly into the brain, the mice performed poorly on tests of learning and memory compared to untreated mice, and neurogenesis was also suppressed in these mice.

These mice performed better than their normal counterparts on learning tests well into old age, and their brains did not exhibit the decline in neurogenesis typically seen in aged mice.

In a human brain, the cells would need to travel a matter of millimeters or centimeters, up to 20 times farther than the 500 microns tested here, he says.

Another clinical trial, which Kaplitt is not involved in, is testing the effect on depression of a deep brain stimulator implanted into the same brain area.

It has not been validated on blood samples from people with vCJD, because these have not been made available, says Moser — but the test can detect highly diluted vCJD brain homogenates, which contain the prion, in blood.

«For example, brain enhancers will not typically work in heart cells, which means that you must test your enhancer sequence in the correct cell type,» Dickel says.

A vaccine is now being tested in 160 people in Puerto Rico, and two drugs have emerged that may stop the virus from damaging the brain.