Sentences with phrase «previous brain imaging studies»

That's interesting because previous brain imaging studies of synesthetes have suggested that they might have an abnormally high number of neuronal connections.

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Previous imaging studies have found that in PTSD sufferers, parts of the brain involved in memory, fear, and mood control are smaller compared with the brains of people who come through their trauma more - or-less unscathed.

Previous imaging studies have revealed two brain regions that often show abnormal activity in these patients: the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC) and the amygdala.

Functional MR imaging taken while the animals received either a juice reward or VTA stimulation revealed that both induced activation of brain regions that previous studies in humans and other primates have associated with reward signaling by means of the neurotransmitter dopamine.

A previous brain - imaging study had shown that atheists used this area of the brain more when they wanted to suppress supernatural ideas.

Previous studies have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans to show that similar areas of the brain are activated when someone is in pain and when they see another person in pain.

Previous imaging studies, she notes, show no difference in brain activation when homosexual and heterosexual participants viewed pictures of their loved ones.

The mutated genes also interfered with how the brain's layers and halves relate to one another, a phenomenon confirmed by previous imaging studies of the autistic brain.

Zinchenko and her colleague, Marie Arsalidou, conducted a meta - analysis of 36 previous studies that used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain responses to social norms — such as fairness — and violations of norms.

The company also took advantage of better imaging techniques that could document the presence of amyloid in the brain; in the previous two studies, anywhere from 20 % to 30 % of the volunteers did not actually have amyloid.

«Previous animal and human brain imaging studies have suggested that psilocybin may have effects similar to other antidepressant treatments,» explained study senior author David Nutt, also of Imperial College London.

Whereas previous efforts for identifying personality differences relied upon simple, direct, human observation, neuroscience introduced powerful brain analysis tools like Electroencephalography (EEG), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to this study.