When building these algorithms commenced two years ago, it had taken up to 72 hours for a bank of powerful computers to run through a mere 10 seconds of
individual brain data and extract important features.
Not exact matches
Our eyes and
brains are built for rapidly processing complex
data, but they prefer to analyze images and patterns over
individual letters and text.
Many neuroscientists had long believed that the only way to extract
data from the
brain specific enough to control an external device was to penetrate the cortex and sink electrodes into the gray matter, where the electrodes could record the firing of
individual neurons.
Brains of
individuals who died with Huntington's, Parkinson's or no neurological condition were analyzed using sequencing technology that provides a
data readout of the activity of all genes in the genome.
The ~ 200 GB of
data for each
brain was then analyzed with machine learning algorithms that identify
individual neurons by type, according to parameters «learned» from human experts.
The study looked at
brain MR images of 120
individuals, those at both high and low familial risk of depression, along with genotype
data.
The network - based approach, which can combine
individual patient
brain data and computer simulation, heralds the possibility of a personalized approach to chronic pain treatment.»
This hypothesis is supported by several observations so we decided to test it by scanning the
brains of
individuals of varying age with functional magnetic resonance imaging and analysing the
data both with fApEn and SampEn.»
«
Data for
brain scanning are noisy for an
individual,» he says.
A right to mental privacy would protect
individuals against unconsented - to intrusion by third parties into their
brain data, as well as against the unauthorized collection of those
data.
Sylco Hoppenbrouwers (VU Amsterdam), Erik Bulten and Inti Brazil (Radboud University) reviewed theoretical and empirical
brain and behavioral
data pertaining to fear and psychopathy and found that psychopathic
individuals have trouble detecting threats.
So, if a pharmaceutical company creates an Alzheimer's drug to target memory based on research into one type of memory — the part of the
brain responsible for finding missing objects, for example — but doesn't also have
data on the type of memory that helps
individuals remember the important people, places and things in their life, it runs the risk of producing a product that helps a person remember where they put the car keys, but not how they met their spouse.
With regards to the
brain structure
data, researchers found that the altruistic
individuals had a larger anterior insula compared to that of those who chose to escape without helping.
«What this is leading to is not just collecting
data from
individual babies but also understanding and building a four - dimensional map of
brain activity and how it should emerge in a normal baby.»
To protect privacy, the authors recommend that
individuals be required to opt in, as organ donors do, to sharing their
brain data from their devices, and that the sale and commercial use of personal
data be strictly regulated.
In this recent study, researchers analyzed
data on close to 200
individuals with a range of health conditions, including traumatic
brain injury (TBI), cancer and / or chronic pain, while others involved had no health problems.
It contains comprehensive behavioral and cognitive tasks, pedigrees, rearing history, neuroimaging
data, and postmortem
brains from the same
individuals in many cases.
At the 2013 Conference George Church presented an overview of his work in developing applications of atomically precise nanotechnology intended for commercialization, from
data storage to medical nanorobots to genomic sequencing to genomic engineering to mapping
individual neuronal functioning in whole
brains.
Almost no functional
brain imaging
data is available from
individuals who are considered «low - functioning.»
The need for a systematic approach to tractography validation and for a framework to perform statistical model testing in
individual brains has been claimed (Pestilli Nature: Scientific
Data 2015).
A group of well - known companies aims to be the first to analyse
brain scans together with genomic, clinical and phenotypic
data to study neurodegenerative diseases at a population level, then distil it down to an
individual's personal treatment plan.
Individuals who noted poorer sleep quality in the questionnaire exhibited less activity in the DACC area of the brain while performing the reappraisal task, and individuals who had reduced sleep efficiency according to the data from the actigraph exhibited higher DAC
Individuals who noted poorer sleep quality in the questionnaire exhibited less activity in the DACC area of the
brain while performing the reappraisal task, and
individuals who had reduced sleep efficiency according to the data from the actigraph exhibited higher DAC
individuals who had reduced sleep efficiency according to the
data from the actigraph exhibited higher DACC activity.
Medical advisor to Onnit, Dr. Dan Engle MD commented, «In my practice as a psychiatrist I have yet to come across a natural supplement with
data as strong as Alpha
BRAIN for healthy
individuals.