Sentences with phrase «on their brain scan»

This is a possibility (albeit a medieval way of describing it) within the realm of psychology so it wouldn't necessary show up on a brain scan.

«But I would never tell a parole board to decide whether to release somebody or hold on to somebody, based on their brain scan as an individual, because I can't tell what are the causal factors in that individual.»

As the time interval between the two increases, the word suddenly pops into consciousness — accompanied by characteristic activity on a brain scan.

Patients showing gadolinium in the vitreous chamber at the later timepoint tended to be of older age, have a history of hypertension, and have more bright spots on their brain scans, called white matter hyperintensities, that are associated with brain aging and decreased cognitive function.

Could criminals be imprisoned for life based solely on brain scans?

We also used predictive modeling to show we could predict, with some degree of accuracy, how creative people's ideas were (based on brain scans) that had already been published.»

But overlaps on a brain scan don't necessarily mean the two function through identical pathways — the shared brain areas could relate to attention or emotional arousal, among other things, rather than pain itself.

That's one of the surprising findings of an unusual neuroscience study based on brain scans of the musician Sting.

Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group

«We know that processes involved in damaging the brain in a disease like Alzheimer's can start many years before changes become apparent on brain scans or people experience any symptoms.

The areas where the most Alzheimer's plaques typically form are highlighted in red and yellow on these brain scans.

The goal of this research is to develop criteria for identifying high - risk patients on brain scan while they are hospitalized.

Scientists were able to accurately predict how well a subject did on tests, based on their brain scan.

After cutting back on alcohol, Pagano says, damaged regions of the brain can start to «light up» again on brain scans.

Researchers have noted pleasure deficiencies shown on brain scans of a variety of people, finding that frequent abuse of food or drugs actually alters the brain, causing it to not light up with dopamine as it once did.Chronic overeating can also lead to diabetes and predisposes the body toward inflammation, insulin resistance, elevated blood pressure, psychiatric illness, poor digestion, hormone imbalance, and malnutrition.

The paper goes a lot more in depth than that, it basically shows that you can enhance specific brain functions through playing video games and that this effect is so pronounced it even shows up on brain scans.

The anatomical differences show up on brain scans.

Not exact matches

It followed 100 people aged 55 to 86 as they pursued a specific fitness regime, measuring the effects on their brains through tests and MRI scans.

Other studies, meanwhile, are examining tryp's potential efficacy as an antifungal agent; and as a prognostic indicator in patients with brain cancer (as seen by increased uptake of the amino acid on a PET scan).

For one, it's made it clear that using tools like PET scans and cerebrospinal fluid testing can help pinpoint which patients have amyloid present in the brain for the treatments to act on.

A day later, I had an MRI scan of my brain, and two days after that I was informed that I had several lesions on an optic nerve behind my right eye which required IV steroid treatment.

This book is packed full of empirical evidence, much of it shown with brain scans and papers on an 18 year study.

Scientists have scanned just a few hundred brains on meditation do date, which makes for a pretty small research sample.

«We all know that if you engage in certain kinds of exercise on a regular basis you can strengthen certain muscle groups in predictable ways,» Davidson says in his office at the University of Wisconsin, where his research team has hosted scores of Buddhist monks and other meditators for brain scans.

Charlotte Hornets forward Nicolas Batum undergwent a CT scan on his brain to determine the cause behind the painful migraines he's been dealing with, according to ESPN.com's Chris Haynes on Wednesday.

that is funny but Wenger on a serious note needs to go for a brain scan since a blind can see arsenal's problems and he can't is just madnesses

Former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar had to have a brain scan in 1993 after being hit on the head with a rock during a World Cup qualifying match between Zimbabwe and Egypt.

Once the scan started there was so much to focus on — from their brain development to the formation of their limbs — it didn't really hit me until we were in the parking lot that I was carrying two little boys.

Lastly, at the end of this film, Christopher Plummer was experimenting with a brain - scanning technology on two subjects and placed them in a room with a wired device on their heads.

that disclosed that, although doctors once believed that babies» brains were too underdeveloped to feel pain, MRI scans revealed that newborns» brains «light up» on an MRI in much the same way adult brains do when exposed to mild pain.

They were amazed to find a large difference in the brain scans of these 2 - 3 year olds, showing that in the first few years of life a child's brain development relies heavily on nurturing by his parents.

The abnormalities disclosed on post-season DTI scans among the players were closer to the scan of the one player with diagnosed concussion than to the normal brains in the control group.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

Then, the researchers conducted brain scans on those infants at about the time each would have been born had the babies not arrived early.

We headed back to Adelaide at about 32 weeks for another scan to check the measurements again and to see whether I could birth our baby back home, or whether (because of the possibility of fluid on the brain) I had to be in the city.

She's looking at remarkable new images of brain scans of people on LSD — the first time they've ever been taken anywhere in the world.

These are the first ever scans of a brain on LSD.

The frontal brain grooves on a H. naledi endocast, like those in modern humans, lie farther back than the grooves seen in the chimp MRI scan, Hurst contends.

Despite an explosion of research on the use of brain scans and other tools of science to help better determine a person's guilt or innocence, experts at a AAAS - organized discussion said hopes that neuroscience might transform the legal system are unrealistic for now.

A brain scan showed the man had a large cyst impinging on his brain.

But experts looking back at the 2007 case now say Hodges was part of a burgeoning trend: Criminal defense strategies are increasingly relying on neurological evidence — psychological evaluations, behavioral tests or brain scans — to potentially mitigate punishment.

In general, these interfaces rely on the user's ability to learn how to self - induce particular mental states that can be detected by brain - scanning technologies.

A close analysis of the brain scans revealed vastly different neural circuitry behind problems that seem similar on the surface.

Examining the brain scans in the context of other disease markers from spinal fluid analyses and neuropsychiatric tests on the same participants showed that the rise and spread of tau in the brain tracked more closely with declining mental function than did amyloid.

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.

The researchers fed the data from the scans into a machine - learning computer program, which eventually could identify which concept a volunteer was thinking about based on his or her brain activity.

Specializing in research on modafinil, Minzenberg has captured the drug in action through functional MRI (fMRI) scans, which map brain activity through changes in blood flow and oxygenation as subjects engage in particular mental processes.

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

For the first time in Super Bowl history, two scientists performed brain scans on people as they soaked in Super Bowl ads, which reportedly cost about $ 2.5 million for 30 seconds.

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.