Sentences with phrase «into brain imaging»

It could allow the vast body of research into brain imaging to have a direct outlet that benefits patients.

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It also facilitates the ability to «feel into» what a baby needs: Areas of the brain that involve cognitive empathy and the internal imaging of, or resonance with, a baby, light up.

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As functional magnetic resonance imaging came into common use, researchers learned the brain was also involved.

But recent advancements in fetal imaging allowed her and her team to gain insight into a critical time period in brain development never previously accessible.

Steve: Some really interesting material in the article on brain imaging as a child grows from infancy into adolescence really and the thickness of parts of the brain.

Then came two papers that took placebo research into the age of brain imaging.

The new study is an example of what happens when epidemiology experiments — studies of patterns in health and disease — crash into studies of brain imaging.

«We got into human functional brain imaging very early,» Frith says.

The camera was then removed, and the fiber placed into the brain for imaging.

Peering into the subjects» brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that on average the regions of the brain that usually light up when an individual is aroused, the hypothalamus and fusiform gyrus, responded normally to moderately erotic images.

A powerful X-ray tomography scanner allowed the researchers to image particularly thick sections of the brains of mice, which afforded them views into intact neural areas much larger than are customary in microscope imaging.

The new research also gives insight into the mechanisms underlying the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to detect blood flow changes in the brain.

Like the map view of an Earth imaging program, this image of a brain section takes cues from actual imaging performed with highest - energy X-rays at a synchrotron and turns them into a graphic depiction.

In a quest to investigate the link between mind and brain, our Emerging Technology columnist inserts himself into a five - ton magnetic resonance imaging scanner and submits to neurofeedback sessions, in which he learns to play video games by altering his own brain waves.

Now MIT researchers have developed an imaging technique that, for the first time, enables three - dimensional mapping of serotonin as it's reabsorbed into neurons, across multiple regions of the living brain.

This phenomenon can be explained, in part, by brain - imaging studies that show music can tap into the limbic system of the brain.

But now, thanks to advances in brain imaging techniques and improved understanding of numerical cognition in general, new insights into the disorder have begun to emerge.

In their study the researchers showed different characters to test persons and recorded via functional magnetic resonance imaging the brain activity which was set into motion by the process of seeing.

It is the first time we have used these methods to look at brain imaging data and it has given some fascinating insight into how psychedelic drugs expand the mind.

Fourteen subjects spent 35 straight hours without getting a wink before being rolled into a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanners where their brains were observed while they viewed a set of 100 photos that became increasingly disturbing as they progressed.

«A critical aim of the President's BRAIN Initiative is to move neuroscience into a new realm where we can identify and track functioning neural networks non-invasively,» explains Guoying Liu, Ph.D., Director of the NIBIB program in Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Imaging scans showed he had suffered a hemorrhagic stroke, with bleeding directly into the substance of the brain.

Stirman further refined the designs and incorporated them into an overall two - photon imaging system that allowed the researchers to scan much larger areas of the brain.

According to Chataway, «Caution should be taken regarding over-interpretation of our brain imaging findings, because these might not necessarily translate into clinical benefit.

With the advent of modern imaging techniques that peer into the brain as it functions, though, we at least gain some perspective on our bad habits.

It was created by embedding a 65 - year - old woman's brain in wax, before slicing it into more than 7400 sections and imaging it (Science, doi.org/m3b).

They found that injecting into the carotid artery breast cancer cells that express markers allowing them to enter the brain — cells labelled with bioluminescent and fluorescent markers to enable tracking by imaging technologies — resulted in the formation of many metastatic tumors throughout the brain, mimicking what is seen in advanced breast cancer patients.

In addition to the normal tools of the cell biologist's trade, Simona's lab uses intravital imaging to peer into the brains of mice.

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So he and colleague Ahmad Hariri divided volunteers into two groups — one with the «short» variant and one without — and compared (using functional magnetic resonance imaging, which generates snapshots of the brain in action) how their amygdala responses differed when they were shown pictures of fearful faces, a common method for triggering an amygdala response.

But theres good news, whatever your level of obsessive compulsive behavior: Over the last decade or so, a flurry of research (some with high - tech imaging tools that let doctors peer into the brains of people with OCD) has yielded a better understanding of why some peoples disturbing thoughts and odd habits spin out of control.

Increasingly, biologists and neuroscientists are wading into the debate, armed with sophisticated brain imaging equipment that provides a window into the tangled neural circuitry that offers clues to our best intentions — and our worst.

Again, modern imaging methods are enabling this information to be translated to the developing human brain (27), and indeed, imaging with neuropsychology is an area where rapid progress is being made and needs to be made to translate the growing basic neuroscience knowledge of mechanisms into clinical relevance and application.