Sentences with phrase «magnetic resonance imaging scans»

All subjects underwent magnetic resonance imaging scans, which the researchers analyzed with specialized software to reveal differences in the volume of brain structures.

One abnormality that researchers have observed in functional magnetic resonance imaging scans of the brains of people with schizophrenia is an unusually low level of activity from a specific group of neurons near the brain stem.

Houston Baptist University presentedVirgil Grotfeldt, 274296, a hauntingly beautiful final body of works painted on magnetic resonance imaging scans of his brain shortly before the artist's long battle with cancer ended in February.

To begin with, the motor neurons that normally become active with speech are not in precisely the same place from patient to patient and have to be located with a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan before the electrode is implanted.

In a recent study, researchers performed functional magnetic resonance imaging scans on women who unwittingly sniffed newborn infants.

To investigate the effects of the disaster on residents, the researchers recruited 42 of their earlier subjects for magnetic resonance imaging scans 3 to 4 months after the quake.

In 2015, the United States effectively ended biomedical research on chimps, including magnetic resonance imaging scans, but Hopkins says that such scans could be useful for the aging population of animals retired from research facilities.

Magnetic resonance imaging scans pinpointed the right insular area as the culprit, a region deep inside the brain linked with the part of the nervous system that sets off stress - related responses.

On brain magnetic resonance imaging scans, the hippocampus was significantly smaller in veterans with predicted exposure.

Moreover, researchers can already interpret a person's neural activity from functional magnetic resonance imaging scans at a rudimentary level1 — that the individual is thinking of a person, say, rather than a car.

Within a week of the home visit, the participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning to determine how their brains reacted to the videotapes of themselves with their infants.

Today's animal care providers have access to high - quality computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans, plus echo cardiology and digital dental x-rays.

That may be about to change — researchers have managed to identify a particular pattern of brain waves, visible on a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan, which indicates the presence and intensity of physical pain.

Conventional legal wisdom holds that neurobiological evidence, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging scans, evaluations of cognitive impairment, or tests for genetic variants that might affect mental function, is primarily used to argue against the use of the death penalty in capital cases, Farahany says.

With the decreasing cost and increasing efficiency of genome sequencing, he predicts that sequencing a cancer genome in a patient will soon become a standard of care, similar to an magnetic resonance imaging scan before surgery.

Your doctor may order a magnetic resonance imaging scan or computed tomography scan to evaluate this possibility further.

Magnetic resonance imaging scans and periodic cognitive tests were used to assess brain volume and function.

The doctor may order additional diagnostic tests, such as a diagnostic mammogram, an ultrasound exam, or a magnetic resonance imaging scan to look for possible tumors (1, 2).