Sentences with phrase «of brain imaging»

The mice that followed the high - fat diet were more anxious based on the results of brain imaging studies.

Then they were given a PET scan — a type of brain imaging test — to measure different levels of protein in their brain.

A specialized form of brain imaging finds that soccer players who head the ball more than 1,000 times a year face risks similar to those with head trauma.

The new results, though, muddy the interpretation of the brain imaging technique called functional MRI when it is used on infants.

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

«We had a lot of brain imaging data for university students before the earthquake,» he says.

The results show that the accuracy of brain imaging must be improved before it can be rolled out on a scale that could be useful to healthcare providers and patients.

The first experiment is a molecular biology version of brain imaging.

So Tsao forged ahead, using a technically impressive combination of brain imaging and single - cell stimulation.

But first author Dr. Sang - Young Kim and colleagues applied a new method of the brain imaging technique called MR spectroscopy to suppress the interfering signal and reveal the hidden glycine signal.

A report published in The Lancet Neurology evaluates for the first time how well different types of brain imaging tests work to detect Alzheimer's and predict how the disease will progress.

«For a long time, we've thought of brain imaging studies as mainly a way to corroborate or confirm aspects of brain function and pathology that we had already identified from studying a patient's behavior,» said Aysenil Belger, PhD, professor of psychiatry and psychology at UNC and the study's senior author.

These in turn depend on development of brain imaging tests or biomarkers that could be measured in the blood or other body fluids to allow a diagnosis of the disease in living people.

The MIT team now plans to study whether this kind of brain imaging could help identify children who are at risk of developing dyslexia and other reading difficulties.

Shortly before the report's release, the agency also revealed that problems at two other NIH manufacturing facilities had led to the suspension of a brain imaging study and several trials using engineered immune cells to treat cancer.

Analysis of brain imaging showed significantly increased neuronal activity after a two - month period of HBOT treatment compared to the control periods of non-treatment.

More generally, Hinton doesn't think the workings of the brain can be deduced solely from the details of brain imaging studies; instead, these data should be used to build and refine algorithms.

From the familiar problem of brain imaging creating overly simplistic pictures of brain function to bandwagon - jumping «neuro» disciplines like neuroeconomics, Paolo Legrenzi and Carlo Umiltà — distinguished Italian psychologists — argue that we have been collectively seduced by...

The team, led by doctoral candidate Amber Ruigrok and Professors John Suckling and Simon Baron - Cohen in the Department of Psychiatry, performed a quantitative review of the brain imaging literature testing overall sex differences in total and regional brain volumes.

«This ALCF award targets big data problems and our application of brain imaging does just that,» said Gursoy, assistant computational scientist in the X-Ray Science Division of Argonne's Advanced Photon Source.

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)- used to document changes in the brain's structure over a period of time and allows the physician to study the connections between different areas of the brain

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Perry Renshaw, MD, PhD, director of the Brain Imaging Center at McLean Hospital and senior author stated, «The development of an inexpensive, widely available intervention such as yoga that has no side effects but is effective in alleviating the symptoms of disorders associated with low GABA levels has clear public health advantage.

We think of the use of brain imaging for advertising research (so called «neuromarketing»), and paint visions of Tom Cruise walking past holographic billboards in Minority Report.

Now, using a combination of brain imaging and single - neuron recording in macaques, biologist Doris Tsao and her colleagues at the California Institute of Technology appear to have finally cracked the neural code for primate face recognition.

«This has fuelled a great deal of interest in the use of brain imaging to detect Alzheimer's disease and predict how and when dementia will develop in patients who are at risk.

The current study involved a type of brain imaging called positron emission tomography (PET), and applied two different approaches to examining dopamine levels.

Resting - state fMRI is a method of brain imaging that can be used to evaluate patients not performing an explicit task.

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.

A type of brain imaging, called diffusion tensor imaging, allows doctors to scan patients and produce vibrantly colored images of the brain's wiring.

Now, using a combination of brain imaging and single - neuron recording in macaques, biologist Doris Tsao and her colleagues at Caltech have finally cracked the neural code for face recognition.

The use of a particular type of brain imaging, resting state FMRI, can aid early diagnosis, Hillis said.

Raichle, a pioneer in the use of brain imaging, and his colleagues have observed that in brains at «rest» — when you are not thinking of anything in particular or even when you are asleep — dispersed areas are still buzzing with communication.

Using a combination of brain imaging and computer modeling, researchers found areas in the auditory, motor, and limbic regions to be activated during free listening to music.

Using a combination of brain imaging and computer modeling, they found areas in the auditory, motor, and limbic regions to be activated during free listening to music.

It includes the use of brain imaging, in addition to work in public school classrooms in Houston and Austin.