Sentences with phrase «measuring brain responses»

We also did work measuring brain responses to mental contrasting.

Now, researchers who have measured the brain responses of 125 infants — including babies who were born prematurely and others who went full - term — show that a baby's earliest experiences of touch have lasting effects on the way their young brains respond to gentle touch when they go home.

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Here's how: Functional resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure the brain's responses.

We use the electromyrograph (EMG) to measure muscle tension and the galvanic skin response indicator (GSR)-- almost a sort of lie detector — to chart emotional swings, and other instruments to measure brain waves (electroencephalograph — EEC) and body temperature.

At the same time, they measured the babies» pain response using EEG brain activity and facial expression.

While measuring brain activity with magnetic resonance imaging during blood pressure trials, UCLA researchers found that men and women had opposite responses in the right front of the insular cortex, a part of the brain integral to the experience of emotions, blood pressure control and self - awareness.

To measure the brain's response to sound, researchers play speech or music directly into the ears of study volunteers.

For more than 100 years, Poeppel reflected, speech experimentation had followed a simple plan: Ask a subject to listen to a specific word or phrase, measure the subject's response to that word (for instance, how long it takes him to repeat it aloud), and then demonstrate how that response is connected to activity in the brain.

When they next measured responses in the auditory regions of the brain, a more sensitive test, the mice responded to much quieter sounds: 19 of 25 mice heard sounds quieter than 80 decibels, and a few could heard sounds as soft as 25 - 30 decibels, like normal mice.

It has been particularly difficult to measure changes in electrical functions of cells grown within Organ Chips that are normally electrically active, such as neuronal cells in the brain or beating heart cells, both during their differentiation and in response to drugs.

In response to a question about the White House budget proposal's potential impact on NIH's ambitions, Collins pointed to passage late last year of the 21st Century Cures Act, a $ 6.3 billion measure that authorizes a decade of funding for the «moonshot» program to cure cancer, the Precision Medicine Initiative, the BRAIN initiative and efforts to combat opioid addiction.

These comprised not only «conventional» behavioral studies, but also the physical effects on the brains of test participants by measuring the Blood Oxygen Level - dependent (BOLD) response using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans.

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.

This was measured by their brain responses to English and Spanish sounds.

The research group of Professor Ryusuke Kakigi of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, in collaboration with Professor Masami K. Yamaguchi and Assistant Professor Hiroko Ichikawa of Chuo University first identified the characteristics of facial expression recognition of children with ADHD by measuring hemodynamic response in the brain and showed the possibility that the neural basis for the recognition of facial expression is different from that of typically developing children.

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.

Participants were observed, and brain responses to food and non-food aromas were measured using blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) response via fMRI scans.

Amazingly, all measured responses mimicked a human brain, making it the most realistic, responsive 3 - D human brain model to date.

Brain response was gauged by functional MRI, which measures changes in blood flow as a proxy for neural activity.

Researchers have developed a method to measure how the brain responds to electrical stimulation and use the response to maximize efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- a therapy that has been successfully used to treat advanced stages of Parkinson's disease.

Brain responses were measured with electroencephalography (EEG) which provides information on the early stages of visual perception.

In this study they measured phase response curves from a computer simulation of brain activity, predicted what stimulus patterns would suppress the neural oscillations, and then demonstrated that the stimulation patterns predicted to suppress the oscillations were in fact effective.

Researchers could measure such brain responses without requiring the kids to pay conscious attention to sounds, an advantage when it comes to working with young children.

Having outfitted the twelve participants with electrode caps, the researchers used a measure of the brain's electrical activity known as event - related brain potentials (ERPs) to monitor their physiological responses to different outcomes.

They showed this light pulse to people and measured their pupil response and brain activity, as well as asked them what they saw.

They underwent a brain scan using a technique called magnetoencephalography (MEG), which measures both the timing and location of brain responses to different gambling outcomes.

Scientists can perturb the brain with a magnet and analyze its electrical response to measure consciousness.

Immune cells called microglia activate as part of the body's inflammatory response, so the researchers used a brain imaging technique to measure a substance that increases in activated microglia.

«We were able to develop this very novel method to go to a single neuron and manipulate how it computes» by using drugs to block neurotransmitters at the level of a single nerve cell in a frog brain, and then measuring what happens to that neuron in response to frog calls, Alluri says.

Surprise is important because it is a measure of new information; something that the reward centers of the brain recognise as being of value, leading to a positive emotional response.

Libet also measured brain electrical activity immediately before a volunteer made a decision to press a switch in response to a visual signal.

After measuring millivolt changes in 58 brain cells in frogs in response to sound, the researchers used a mathematical model to convert the information into how much a brain cell was excited or inhibited by a given sound pulse.

We compared the subjective, cardiovascular, and brain DA responses (measured with PET and [11C] raclopride) to MP between controls and marijuana abusers.

The technique measures changes in the magnetic properties of blood as it transports oxygen to brain tissue in response to increased activity.

The team measured the pupils» response to light and examined the brains» visual response centers to show that signals from the eye were going to the appropriate areas of the brain.

Across 21st Avenue, in the department of special education at Peabody College, Paul Yoder has applied event - related potential (ERP), a way of measuring how the electrical activity of the brain changes in response to thoughts or perceptions, to evaluate ways to help children overcome language delays.

The administration technique was validated by measuring the brain activation in response to a rose - like smelling odor (phenyl ethyl alcohol) in 8 participants (see supplementary material S1).

The womenâ $ ™ s responses to both food and non-food aromas were measured using brain scans before a meal.

[6] One study in healthy adult volunteers found that a high - potency Ashwagandha extract taken for 14 days significantly improved reaction time in 5 of the 6 psychomotor performance tests measuring everything from attention span and brain to response speed to central integration, visuo - motor coordination and alertness, without being sedating or over-stimulating.

According to the article by Jennifer Schuessler, «Over the past two weeks, Mr. Grunberg has spent several hours a day writing his novella, while a battery of sensors and cameras tracked his brain waves, heart rate, galvanic skin response (an electrical measure of emotional arousal) and facial expressions.

DNB used a functional MRI study to measure the brain's response to the emotional choice between cash and card.

The brainstem auditory evoked response test, commonly abbreviated as BAER, reads electrical activity in the ear and brain to measure their response (or lack thereof) to sound stimuli.

Far from the therapy office, in the precisely measured environment of the research lab, brain scientists are discovering that a particular cluster of our neurons is specifically designed and primed to mirror another's bodily responses and emotions.

Instead, researchers found that hypersexual brains don't react in the same way as other addicts» brains — in fact, the neural responses to pornography only varied based on levels of sexual libido, rather than on measures of sexual compulsivity.

The study measured the brain's fear and pain response to electric shocks to the feet of married women before and after Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT).

An article in New Scientist in June 2008 by Alison Motluk reports a study in which researchers tested male brains by measuring erection response to visual erotic stimuli, including photos of naked women and couples having intercourse.