Sentences with phrase «into brain scanners»

Seeking answers, researchers have examined rodent brains and placed women into brain scanners to measure the women's responses to pictures or videos of babies smiling, babbling or crying.

Robert Lee Hotz, a science writer for the The Wall Street Journal said MacKinnon's story «lights up with the joy of great reporting and ambitious enterprise: Who else would put the world's most adventurous free climber into a brain scanner to probe the neural circuits that make most of us shudder, squirm and squeal with panic?»

Although this research didn't look specifically at sleepwalkers, it tallies with a previous study by Claudio Bassetti at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, who once managed to manoeuvre a sleepwalker into a brain scanner during a sleepwalking episode.

Not exact matches

It's still not quite like ordering a McDonald's Happy Meal, where you put somebody into the scanner, press a button, and the brain pictures come out, but we are probably going to get there.»

First, the thick section of brain rotated in the high - energy X-ray beam, which was transformed into an image analogous to the output of a CT scanner.

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.

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.

Grafman, an affable, gentle man with large eyes, is using his scanners to peek into brains as they wrestle with big questions such as politics and religion.

Next, after obtaining permission from their caregivers, the team put two brain - damaged patients into the scanner — a 20 - year - old female patient who fell into a coma in 2007 after suffering brain damage of unknown origins, and the 35 - year - old man.

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.

When these miserable souls go into a positron - emission tomography (PET) scanner, Wang sees the motivation regions of their brains go wild.