Sentences with phrase «include brain scans»

Hopefully, all new studies of therapies in HD will include brain scans, so scientists can see whether this loss of brain tissue is prevented.

His research has included brain scans of people in prayer, meditation, rituals, and trance states, as well as surveys of people's spiritual experiences and attitudes.

People carrying the HD mutation would be studied for a defined period of time (36 months), using a large array of measurements including brain scans, specialized motor measurements and examination by a physician.

Her most recent publication, Soothing The Threatened Brain: Leveraging Contact Comfort through Emotionally Focused Therapy (PLOS) included a brain scan study showing how contact with a loving partner mitigates threat and fear responses.

Her most recent publication, Soothing the Threatened Brain: Leveraging Contact Comfort through Emotionally Focused Therapy (PLOS ONE) included a brain scan study showing how contact with a loving partner mitigates threat and fear responses.

Her most recent, «Soothing the Threatened Brain: Leveraging Contact Comfort through Emotionally Focused Therapy» (PLOS ONE) included a brain scan study showing how contact with a loving partner mitigates threat and fear responses.

Because FU41 included a brain scan, 18 transportation was provided for individuals to come to New York University.

Not exact matches

Researchers scanned teenagers» brains while they listened to recordings of their mothers making different types of statements, including both loaded statements (criticisms) and neutral statements about the weather.

When Baird and colleagues used fMRI to scan teenagers» brains as they were asked a variety of «good idea or bad idea» questions, including biting a lightbulb, eating a cockroach and jumping off a roof, they found their insulae weren't as active as the adults».

MRI scans of 1,200 people, including 300 pairs of twins, will be used to compile an atlas of communication routes throughout the brain.

By combing through tens of thousands of published judicial opinions with the help of 17 law students and three undergraduates, using search terms such as «brain disorder,» «biological,» and «CT scan,» however, Farahany's team found that use of such evidence is growing for a wide range of violations including robbery, fraud, and drug possession.

No lie detector is anywhere near foolproof, and existing techniques, including polygraph tests and brain scans, have the added drawback of requiring specialised, expensive equipment, says Aldert Vrij, a forensic psychologist at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

[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.

«These include different types of MRI scans, which use strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the inside of the brain, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans, which use a small amount of a radioactive drug, or tracer, to test how tissues in the brain are actually functioning.

If brain - scanning tools become ubiquitous, novel possibilities for misuse will arise — cybersecurity breaches included.

The study measured a range of MS indicators and symptoms, including brain lesions on MRI brain scans of study participants, relapse rate, disabilities caused by the disease, body weight and cholesterol levels.

In the sample the researchers included scans from 16 patients who had subsequently developed serious bleeding within the brain.

Sylvia's scans showed that her musical hallucinations seemed to be generated by a network of higher brain regions, including those that process melodies and sequences of tones, and areas involved in imagery and memory.

They include psychological tests, brain scans and tests of blood or spinal fluid.

The parts of the brain that light up in the fMRI scans include regions that are associated with some of our most sophisticated forms of thought.

By scanning his subjects with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Ehrsson found the illusion involves interconnected areas of the brain, including the premotor cortex in the frontal lobe (responsible for sensory guidance of movement) and the intraparietal cortex in the parietal lobe (involved in locating and recognizing body parts).

Inside its three - story metal sphere researchers can interpret and interact with their data in new and intriguing ways, including watching electrons spin from inside an atom or «flying» through an MRI scan of a patient's brain as blood density levels play as music.

Brain scans reveal damage that leads to neurological and behavioral changes, including beach strandings

To test his theory, Newberg has scanned the brains of more than 20 adherents of spiritual practices, including Christian prayer and Tibetan Buddhist meditation.

Neurologist Nicolás Fayed and his colleagues in Zaragoza, Spain, performed MRI brain scans on 35 climbers (12 professionals and 23 amateurs) who had returned from high - altitude expeditions, including 13 who had attempted Everest.

a test of any kind - including blood tests, thinking tests and brain scans - that can measure or predict the progression of a disease like HD.

Participants were evaluated at enrollment and again six months later, which included fMRI brain scans and cognitive function testing.

To study brain changes involved in IED, Coccaro and his colleagues performed high - resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans in 168 people, including 57 who were diagnosed with IED, 53 healthy control subjects and another 58 control patients with psychiatric diagnoses.

Unlike other techniques, CT scans (and MRI scans) can show the inside of the head, including soft tissue, bones, brains and blood vessels.

Against that background, to satisfy the Lancet's patient - protection requirements, but without revealing to hospital authorities what was really going on, Wakefield falsely reported that a gruelling five - day battery of invasive and distressing procedures performed on the kids - including anaesthesia, ileocolonoscopies, lumbar punctures, MRI brain scans, EEGs, radioactive drinks and x-rays - proposed for the lawsuit, was approved by the Royal Free's ethics committee.

His research includes taking brain scans of people in prayer, meditation, rituals, and trance states, in an attempt to better understand the nature of religious and spiritual practices and attitudes.

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As evidenced by brain scanning, different areas of the brain including the occipital lobe are activated by different parts of this simple meditation.

Tests used include blood tests, brain scans (X-Ray, CT, MRI), and when needed a cerebrospinal fluid test (DSF).

The nudes and floral still lifes are all copies of famous European works by the likes of Ingres, Manet and Van Gogh that have been subtly and not so subtly altered to include suggestions of physical disabilities: walking canes, amputated limbs, brain scans.

i) The injury shows positive findings on a computerized axial tomography scan, a magnetic resonance imaging or any other medically recognized brain diagnostic technology indicating intracranial pathology that is a result of the accident, including, but not limited to, intracranial contusions or haemorrhages, diffuse axonal injury, cerebral edema, midline shift or pneumocephaly.

i) The insured person is accepted for admission, on an in - patient basis, to a public hospital named in a Guideline with positive findings on a computerized axial tomography scan, a magnetic resonance imaging or any other medically recognized brain diagnostic technology indicating intracranial pathology that is a result of the accident, including, but not limited to intracranial contusions or haemorrhages, diffuse axonal injury, cerebral edema, midline shift or phneumocephaly.

These latest brain scans include DTI (Diffuse Tensor Imaging), SWI (Susceptibility Weighted Imaging), and the very latest, FDA approved NeuroQuant (aka Quantitative Volumetric Analysis) The NeuroQuant is a statistically driven exam which actually measures the decrease in volume of the injured part of the brain.