Sentences with phrase «neuroimaging study using»

A human neuroimaging study using diffusion tensor imaging revealed that the anterior insula is interconnected to regions in the temporal and occipital lobe, opercular and orbitofrontal cortex, triangular and opercular parts of the inferior frontal gyrus.

Dr. Aron and colleagues based their study's conclusions on a neuroimaging study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

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Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reports a link between reduced functional activation and reduced cortical thickness in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.

Even more important, this seminal work opens the road for comparative neuroimaging studies in which humans and other animals perform similar tasks using similar methodologies, and the results can be analyzed using similar strategies.

In a study under way at USP's Neuroimaging Laboratory (LIM - 21), the researchers are now seeking to correlate the cognitive profile observed in the two groups of cocaine - dependent patients with decision - making and resting - state brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Consequently, the magnitude of per - visit neuroimaging use found in this study suggests considerable overuse,» the authors write.

The team used diffusion neuroimaging to study development of the auditory cortex in the infants» brains.

«The novelty of this study is that it provides potential neuroimaging - based tools that can be used with new patients to inform about the degree of certain neural pathology underlying their pain symptoms,» said Marina López - Solà, a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Cognitive and Affective Control Laboratory and lead author of the new study.

Discover magazine uses a 2006 neuroimaging study to argue that cigarette health warnings spark cravings in smokers, rather than scaring them away.

In late 2012 he finally founded Neural Bytes, which models human brain processing using data from neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies.

A 2012 review from Stanford researchers analyzed over 50 studies that used neuroimaging - that is, MRI, fMRI, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and anything else that takes before - and - after pictures of the brain - to examine the brains of kids with a variety of mental illnesses: anorexia, ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder, depression, OCD, and schizophrenia.

This multimodal approach, published online this week in the journal Cortex, is distinct from many previous studies that have used a single neuroimaging measure.

There have been many studies of face perception in human using non-invasive neuroimaging and electrophysiological methods, but studies of face perception in children were quite limited.

They measured sugar concentrations in the brains of the study participants using magnetic resonance spectroscopy, a noninvasive neuroimaging technique.

The use of neuroimaging was part of an effort to find noninvasive ways of studying pig brain development that could also be applied in humans.

«Additional recordings with FO electrodes in patients with Alzheimer's disease will help us develop better tools based on computerized analysis of EEG signals and possibly functional neuroimaging studies to ascertain how common silent seizures are in Alzheimer's disease without the need for the minimally invasive electrodes we used in these patients.»

In the study, the researchers used behavioral tests, as well as neuroimaging, to investigate whether there is an influence of biological sex on facial recognition, according to Suzy Scherf, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience.

Conducted at the University of Iowa, this is the first neuroimaging study to use a cutting - edge technique — functional near - infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-- to enable researchers to track real time changes in brain activity as participants made these two types of stone tools.

It's hard «getting people to let go of their data», says Russell Poldrack, a psychologist at Stanford University in California who uses neuroimaging to study learning and memory.

With her $ 177,000 grant, Dr. Dobryakova in TBI Research will lead a study using neuroimaging to examine the neural mechanisms during feedback learning in individuals with TBI.

The conference will also include a panel of Penn researchers, discussing ongoing studies for future therapies, such as the use of advanced MRI neuroimaging as a potential diagnostic tool.

Neuroimaging will be used to study brain activity in the 3 - year study: «Effect of Feedback Presentation on the Fronto ‐ Striatal Network Activity and Fatigue in Individuals with MS.»

Neuroimaging will be used to study brain activity in the 3 - year study:

Andrew has also used neuroimaging research projects to study aging and dementia, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, depression, and other neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Major themes of Dr. Drevets studies have involved: 1) characterizing the pathophysiology of mood disorders using multimodal neuroimaging technologies; 2) delineating neural circuits in which dysfunction is associated with major depressive episodes; 3) elucidating effects of genetic variants associated with the risk for mood disorders on neural function, structure and receptor pharmacology; 4) investigating the neural mechanisms of antidepressant and mood stabilizing treatments, and 5) developing novel therapeutics for mood disorders.

New study demonstrates omega - 3 fatty acids increase blood flow to regions of the brain associated with cognition Guest Blog by Designs For Health According to a new study published last Thursday in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, by using neuroimaging,...

He studies the basic neural mechanisms of learning and memory, particularly emotional learning, in both human and animal subjects, using functional neuroimaging, electrophysiology and immunohistochemistry.

Using neuroimaging and behavioral methods, Luk studies bilingualism as an interactional experience that shapes cognition.

In this study, we built on previous neuroimaging studies of mathematical cognition and examined whether the same cognitive processes are engaged by two strategies used in algebraic problem solving.

Having done neuroimaging studies, I've often been unsure whether we truly were using the best research methods and statistics available.

This imaging study quantifies the association between neuroimaging measures and behavioral, health, and demographic variables in psychosis using an integrated multivariate approach.

Studies were included in our meta - analyses if the following criteria were given: (I) included at least one clinical group with described aggressive behaviour, (II) in combination with a healthy control sample, (III) conducted during adolescence, (IV) reported whole brain gray matter volume alterations or whole brain functional neuroimaging data, (V) results are described using a standard reference space (Talairach or MNI) and (VI) the same threshold was used throughout the whole brain analysis.

Her research interests focus on studying the neural correlates of PTSD using neuroimaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging) and treatment outcome research examining various pharmacological and psychotherapeutic methods.