Sentences with phrase «own neuroimaging studies»

A recent neuroimaging study found that fans experienced greater pleasure when watching a rival team fail, as opposed to non-rivals.

Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies from adults as well as behavioral studies with older babies (12) showed that human infants tested at 7 months perceive sensory dissonance similar to adults (53), that infants prefer to listen to consonant intervals (11, 30) and appear to discriminate consonant and dissonant music shortly after birth (28).

Concussions are typically associated with grossly normal structural neuroimaging studies.

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

The neural bases of numerosity processing have been investigated in structural and functional neuroimaging studies of adults and children, and neural markers of its impairment in dyscalculia have been identified.

In the NeuroImage study, 60 older men (aged 64 - 75 years) underwent an exercise test to measure their aerobic fitness.

Recent neuroimaging studies have revealed that chronic alcoholism can damage the cerebellum, which plays an important role in regulating motor control, attention and language.

Neuroimaging studies, in which the activity of different parts of the brain can be visualised, have provided some clues.

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.

Michel Paradis, an expert in neurolinguistics who is associated with McGill University in Montreal, came up with it in 1987, based on years of neuroimaging studies.

Over and over, neuroimaging studies find correlations between patterns of response to food cues and BMI or weight gain.

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 tools developed are being enhanced and extended with the goal of developing a flexible software package that provides an automated approach for neuroimaging studies by Alzheimer's dementia researchers at the Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix.

As a number of neuroimaging studies show, the early onset of permanent blindness alters the response of the neurons of the visual cortex and causes a cortical compensatory re-organization in the occipital lobe.

Neuroimaging studies have previously linked heartbeat interoception to the brain's insula and anterior cingulate cortex.

Many people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other stress - related disorders show increased activity in the right hemisphere of the brain — and in emotional, nonverbal processing — and decreased activity in the left, according to neuroimaging studies.

Neuroimaging studies show that some women's brains can compensate for the surging hormones of PMS, allowing them to better regulate their moods.

I am also co-Director of the Clinical Core of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Study along with related projects.

This work also calls into question neuroimaging studies that do not control for or report the time of day when scanning took place.

What's more, in a neuroimaging study in which the participants were shown images depicting human suffering, those who gave most generously during the online game also showed greatest activation in brain areas involved in empathy, emotion regulation and positive emotion.

Neuroimaging studies suggest that frontolimbic regions of the brain, structures that regulate emotions, play an important role in the biology of aggressive behavior.

A new Journal of Neuroimaging study provides insights into the biochemical mechanisms by which Tai Chi — a mind - body exercise — may provide both physical and psychological benefits.

«While neuroimaging studies can tell us a great deal about the brain's response to complex events, it's only by studying patients with brain injury that we can see if a brain region is actually needed to perform a given task,» said Dr Clark.

In Greene's neuroimaging study, emotional areas of the brain, rather than the prefrontal cortex.

He also cited neuroimaging studies showing that prolonged periods of reduced audio stimulation can lead to faster rates of atrophy, changing the brain's structure Additionally, social isolation caused by hearing loss may contribute to further brain decline, Lin said.

Beginning in the late 1990s, neuroimaging studies showed that a specific area of the parietal lobe — the IPS — is important for very basic numerical magnitude processing, such as deciding which of two numbers is larger.

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.

Neuroimaging studies by Peter Brugger of University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland have shown that the network of brain regions responsible for creating a sense of bodily self is different in people with the condition (Brain, vol 136, p 318).

This isn't just a clever analogy: In recent neuroimaging studies, Harvard psychologist Daniel Schacter has shown that remembering and imagining mobilize many of the same brain circuits.

In one neuroimaging study, researchers trained participants either to imagine how someone else might feel (empathy) or to project loving thoughts toward them (compassion).

However, this intriguing neuroimaging study of transsexuals before and after their female - to - male gender reassignment suggests that even adult men and women differ in brain structure within regions involved in language and speech.

Schulze added, «It is my hope that these findings will give an impetus to future neuroimaging studies evaluating different treatment options in BPD, such as psycho - or pharmacotherapy.»

Neuroimaging studies showed that such triggers set off an electrical wave of firing neurons that spread over the occipital cortex at a rate of several millimeters per minute.

The combination of behavioral and neuroimaging studies, she says, continues to provide a window into otherwise invisible mental processes.

«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.»

McAuley is working with Soo - Eun Chang, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, who is a stuttering expert and has been conducting neuroimaging studies in children who stutter on the MSU campus since 2009.

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.

Neuroimaging studies have linked intelligence to the developmental course of specific high - order brain regions (Shaw et al., 2006), total brain volume and focal brain structure (Thompson et al., 2001; Haier et al., 2004; Colom et al., 2006; Hulshoff Pol et al., 2006; Choi et al., 2008), microstructural organization of white matter (Chiang et al., 2009), and the functional dynamics of specific high cognitive brain regions (Duncan et al., 2000; Gray et al., 2003; Choi et al., 2008; Song et al., 2008).

A review of neuroimaging studies of young relatives of individuals with schizophrenia: a developmental perspective from schizotaxia to schizophrenia.

An Event - related Neuroimaging Study Distinguishing Form and Content in Sentence Processing.

The neuro - anatomical substrates of major depressive disorder (MDD) are still not well understood, despite many neuroimaging studies over the past few decades.

All students who were interested in participating and were not affected by standard safety - related contraindications for MRI (e.g., the presence of metallic implants) participated in the neuroimaging study.

Neuroimaging studies are conducted at the Rocco Ortenzio Neuroimaging Center at Kessler Foundation.

Latest trends in neuroimaging studies are focusing more on scalability issues both related to larger data samples and cpu intensive computational methods.

Data collection for the neuroimaging study began mid-way through February during subjects» first academic year in the graduate program, and all scanning was completed within 2 weeks.

The advent of large - scale neuroimaging studies has shown that neural measures can be strongly predictive of individual differences in fluid intelligence (e.g. Kievit et al., 2014; Ritchie et al., 2015).

She has over 10 years of experience in the research field in various areas including clinical trials studies, neuroimaging studies, drug addiction, and developmental psychology.

BACKGROUND Previous neuroimaging studies indicate abnormalities in cortico - limbic circuitry in mood disorder.

It is clear that methodological choices in both task - and resting - state approaches can affect outcomes in autism neuroimaging studies (Muller et al., 2011).