Sentences with phrase «on brain imaging»

Results on brain imaging studies have led to a better understanding of the neural circuits involved in social cognition and its implication in autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

ABSTRACT: Results on brain imaging studies have led to a better understanding of the neural circuits involved in social cognition and its implication in autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Lastly, the field of research on brain imaging for acupuncture is evolving rapidly which may indeed lessen the relevance of older results using sub-optimal methodologies and analysis techniques.

Small, an expert on the brain imaging of human behavior, uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study how the brain of professional athletes plans complex movements, such as swinging a baseball bat.

In the PLOS ONE paper, Chan and colleagues describe how three male rhesus macaques they studied displayed cognitive and motor impairments emerging at 16 months of age, and dystonia and signs of neurodegeneration on brain imaging at 24 months of age.

Early detection will also rely on brain imaging and other clinical signifiers.

Steve: Some really interesting material in the article on brain imaging as a child grows from infancy into adolescence really and the thickness of parts of the brain.

Currently, he is the Chief of the Unit on Brain Imaging in the Child Psychiatry Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Not exact matches

As anyone who has been following the subject of sports - related head injuries knows, the concern about RHI has continue to grow exponentially over the past four years, as researchers have used ever more sensitive and sophisticated imaging techniques such as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and fMRI to identify short -, medium, and long - term effects on the brain of RHI.

In addition, because it tests for verbal memory, the SAC can not identify athletes who may suffer measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI), resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the head.

Current research focuses on rapid sideline screening, the impact of a concussion on vision and brain processing, group therapy treatments, and better ways to use imaging to understand the pathology of concussion.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on the brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication.

Regardless of whether or not your baby is imaging a relaxing breastfeeding session, a nap on dad's chest, or is simply filing away the sights and sounds of the day, REM sleep is helping your baby's brain development.

Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on the underlying brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication.

The scanner, quiet enough for a baby to sleep inside, relies on a new brain - imaging technique called diffusion MRI, which maps long - distance white matter connections in the brain by tracking the movement of water.

Biologist Ann Cornell - Bell of Viatech Imaging in Ivoryton, Connecticut, put on display star - shaped cells, called astrocytes, from the rat hippocampus, a brain region associated with long - term memory.

The brain imaging found that, while none of the participants showed abnormalities on a standard MRI, the more advanced DTI revealed that participants with high blood pressure had damage to:

And long - term, people who've been in long - term relationships, through imaging studies and so on, we found that, you know, there is increased activity in pleasure centers of the brain; so love over time makes you feel better.

The eyes glowed so brightly on those images due to gadolinium, a harmless, transparent chemical often given to patients during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to highlight abnormalities in the brain.

Chemically intolerant individuals also show dysfunction in brain imaging on a SPECT scan, which tracks blood flow through tissue.

After imaging defiant metastatic cells in the brains of mice, researchers noticed that the cells that were able to survive grew on top of blood capillaries, each cell sticking closely to its vessel «like a panda bear hugging a tree trunk,» Dr. Massagué says.

The technology still has a lot of obstacles to overcome — the need for digital imaging that can adequately substitute for normal vision and the risk of infection resulting from brain surgery, to name two — but success could have a life - altering impact on the tens of millions of people worldwide suffering from impaired vision.

Functionalmagnetic resonance imaging, here being performed on graduate student Melissa Sáenz, tracks blood flow in the brain.

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.

The scans — done with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or fMRI — show which sections of the five brains became more active during the ads, thereby revealing what's really going on in people's heads.

Her most recent work relies on imaging of monkeys» brains.

Modern brain - imaging techniques that track blood flow and cell activity indicate the precuneus is involved in imagination, self - consciousness and reflecting on memories.

The result is that a large number of people whose brains appear normal on standard tests (X-ray, computed tomography, or magnetic resonance imaging) could actually have some form of injury whose course is not well understood.

Bristow then used a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner, or fMRI, to monitor any brain activity triggered by blinking, independent of the effect of eyelid closure on light entering the eye.

Scientists have long known that Alzheimer's disease is a gradual process and that the brain undergoes functional changes before the structural changes associated with the disease show up on imaging results.

Lamm and his group recently sought the answer to answer this question by combining measures of electrical activity in the brain (via electroencephalogram) with functional magnetic resonance imaging to show blood flow patterns in 25 participants getting rounds of shocks on their hands.

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.

Researchers have used imaging technology to spy on the brain as it corrects strongly held beliefs, shedding light on how we might learn from our mistakes.

Almost three - quarters of a century after chemist Albert Hofmann accidentally ingested LSD and experienced its mind - expanding effects, brain imaging has given researchers their first glimpse of how it causes its profound effects on consciousness.

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.

Thanks to experiments on animals and the advent of human brain imaging, scientists now have a working knowledge of the various kinds of memory as well as which parts of the brain are involved in each.

Because these functions are largely regulated in the frontal brain regions, a portable brain - imaging device (functional near infrared spectroscopy) was used to examine associated changes in the frontal brain function by placing biosensors on students» foreheads during testing.

His research largely focuses on new means to incorporate imaging methods to view cells of brain tumors with a hand held instrument that a neurosurgeon can use to visualize the individual cells during the progress of the operation.

«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.

They have used a clinical MRI scanner of the type all neuroscience centres have to carry out a special type of scan called a T2 - weighted imaging process which is able to reveal lesions in the brain's white matter that are centred on a vein — a known indicator of MS.

A clinical ultrasound imaging device (General Electric LOGIQe) was used, with the ultrasound probe applied at the scalp overlying the brain's temporal and frontal cortex (visible on the imaging screen).

Peering into the subjects» brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that on average the regions of the brain that usually light up when an individual is aroused, the hypothalamus and fusiform gyrus, responded normally to moderately erotic images.

The team embarked on a massive brain imaging study: Across 9 UK laboratories (University of Birmingham, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow, University of Kent, University College London, University of Oxford, University of Stirling, and University of York), 334 participants — 10 times the original amount — read sentences that were presented one word at a time, while electrical brain activity was recorded at the scalp.

To overcome these problems, Min and his team developed a new modality to visualize glucose uptake activity inside single cells based on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) imaging, and demonstrated its use in live cancer cells, tumor xenograft tissues, primary neurons and mouse brain tissues.

«Noninvasive brain imaging shows readiness of trainees to perform operations: Surgeons who trained on simulator had higher level of cortical activation and faster times for cutting tasks.»

Now, a study that used noninvasive brain imaging to evaluate brain activity has found that simulator - trained medical students successfully transferred those skills to operating on cadavers and were faster than peers who had no simulator training.

The work is «a real technical feat,» says cognitive neuroscientist James Haxby, chief of the Section on Functional Brain Imaging at the National Institute of Mental Health.

The Connectome project has focused almost entirely on imaging the brains of healthy adults to provide a «gold standard» baseline for understanding diseased or injured brains.

The imaging concentrates on a mesa - scale of the brain analogous to the map view of Google Earth.