Sentences with phrase «researchers studied volunteers»

The researchers studied volunteers» brains by using magnetic resonance imaging.

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For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

The researchers behind the study that disrupted volunteers» sleep suggested there may be a nasty cycle at work in the relationship between bad sleep and increased Alzheimer's risk.

In a study at the University of the Philippines, researchers used a randomized cross-over design to compare the effects on blood glucose of brown rice and white rice on 10 healthy and nine Type 2 diabetic volunteers.

Determined to do so, the researchers devised a study in which they utilized volunteers from introductory psychology classes at Clemson.

Researchers doing a similar study for the milk industry heard about the experiment from a news story and volunteered to advise the district on its data collection.

In a new study, researchers placed 10 volunteers in different rooms with music from one of three regions — the United States, China, or India — playing on loop.

For example, in a prominent study with 58,000 volunteers, a Stanford researcher found that a model using Facebook likes (170 likes on average), predicted a whole range of factors, such as your gender, political affiliation, and sexual orientation with impressive accuracy.

To measure the brain's response to sound, researchers play speech or music directly into the ears of study volunteers.

A damning report on how the University of Minnesota (UM) protects volunteers in its clinical trials concludes that researchers inadequately reviewed research studies across the university and need more training to better protect the most vulnerable subjects.

In the new study, the researchers studied 33 volunteers in two age groups in the lab while they slept.

Researchers in the Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center at the W.G. (Bill) Hefner Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salisbury, N.C., evaluated 45 U.S. veterans who volunteered to participate in the study.

The researchers examined blood samples taken from peanut - allergic volunteers enrolled in an oral immunotherapy study.

Researchers derived data from the Harvard Aging Brain Study, an observational study of older adult volunteers aimed at defining neurobiological and clinical changes in early Alzheimer's disStudy, an observational study of older adult volunteers aimed at defining neurobiological and clinical changes in early Alzheimer's disstudy of older adult volunteers aimed at defining neurobiological and clinical changes in early Alzheimer's disease.

The experience places Woidislawsky at the nexus of two distinct quandaries in clinical research: What health information do researchers owe the volunteers in their studies, especially when it's not clear what it means?

The researchers recruited over 800 volunteers to participate in the study and asked each participant to guess the number of gumballs in a jar, which ranged over several orders of magnitude from 54 to more than 27,000.

When researchers presented this nightmarish dilemma to volunteers participating in an innovative neuropsychology study of morality at Harvard's Moral Cognition Lab last year, the responses were evenly split.

Researchers are still parsing out the precise physiologic effects of cold on the cardiovascular system, but some controlled lab studies run on volunteers have provided clues.

For Cooper, these results showed both that researchers had strong confidence in data from volunteers and revealed that the influence of citizen science on the study of birds and climate change was greater than is commonly acknowledged.

This latest smell prediction effort began with a recent study by olfactory researcher Leslie Vosshall and colleagues at The Rockefeller University in New York City, in which 49 volunteers rated the smell of 476 vials of pure odorants.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers found only 34 (0.31 %) healthy volunteers with serious adverse events, which are defined by the FDA as those that result in death; are life - threatening; require or prolong in - patient hospitalization; or cause a disability, congenital anomaly or birth defect.

Exercise researcher Neil King of the Queensland University of Technology in Australia says the study is novel, but he speculates that taking blood samples right before lunch may have interfered with the volunteers» appetites.

Cholesterol levels of the volunteers in the Cambridge study fell on average by 9.6 per cent — which the researchers say is «impressive given the relatively short duration of soy protein intake».

Researchers studied forty - nine probable and confirmed BDBV adult survivors and 157 of their seronegative contacts in this observational study that enrolled volunteers 29 months after the outbreak.

A 2009 study by Harvard University researchers showed that in just 10 days, three of eight healthy volunteers developed prediabetic blood - sugar levels when their sleep - wake schedule was gradually shifted out of alignment.

So for her graduate studies, she extensively surveyed organisms in Portuguese caves, and for a decade recruited volunteers and other researchers to her cause.

► «A damning report on how the University of Minnesota (UM) protects volunteers in its clinical trials concludes that researchers inadequately reviewed research studies across the university and need more training to better protect the most vulnerable subjects,» Jennifer Couzin - Frankel wrote Monday at ScienceInsider.

According to the researchers the methodology they employed for this study allowed them to make an important discovery without investing more money in genotyping or more effort to recruit volunteers.

The controlled environment of the CRC allowed the researchers to keep tabs on the volunteers» exact nutritional intake, rather than depend on volunteers» often unreliable food records — a drawback to many observational nutrition studies.

Researchers studied almost 2,000 healthy women volunteers from TwinsUK who had completed a food questionnaire designed to estimate total dietary flavonoid intake as well as intakes from six flavonoid subclasses.

Researchers, professional societies, funders and lobbyists increasingly push to replace clinical trials of randomly selected volunteers with studies of interventions for select samples of people who eat certain foods, take certain drugs or behave in certain ways.

In ongoing studies, the researchers spray influenza virus into the noses of volunteers via a mist, created by an atomizer that only produces particles larger than 10 microns.

Forgas reviewed several of his studies in which researchers induced either a good or bad mood in volunteers.

«It is known from previous studies in animals that the active neural pattern during a certain experience is reactivated once this experience ends, so the idea was to observe in a group of volunteers what happened at the brain level when a certain episode ended,» explains researcher Ignacio Soles.

To conduct their study, researchers enrolled hundreds of volunteers from families with one child affected by ASD and sequenced the complete genomes of every family member, including the parents and typically developing siblings.

A team of researchers studied adult volunteers with severe obesity (body mass index greater than 40) who participated in a comprehensive weight loss program.

As reported in a Researcher Letter, the study included 14 healthy, unacclimatized volunteers (7 male and 7 female participants, average age, 35 years) who were studied at baseline (1,119 feet), after ascent to 14,957 feet within 24 hours, and more than 14 days after return by fluorescein angiography.

In the NIMH study, researchers scanned the brains of 72 volunteers as they attempted to earn money in a computer game.

Researchers involved in the new study, conducted at the University of Iowa, confronted 30 volunteers with a set of situations in which one person had to be killed to save others.

The researchers performed a pilot study of Dynamic Glucose - Enhanced (DGE) MRI in four normal volunteers and three patients with brain tumors.

Although there was no control group, the researchers compared the volunteers» results to historical studies of GBM trials.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania instead studied six healthy young male volunteers to collect physiological information as they went about their normal daily lives.

The researchers conducted the study using eight male volunteers (non-athletes).

ResearchMatch has a large population of volunteers who have consented to be contacted by researchers about health studies for which they may be eligible.

Researchers isolated and then analyzed the HIV - 1 whole genome sequences from 68 newly infected volunteers in the Step study.

Working with seven female volunteers, all between the ages of 19 and 35, the researchers asked these study participants to chart their menstrual cycles using basal body temperature.

10/24/2007 Smoked Cannabis Proven Effective in Treating Neuropathic Pain Smoked cannabis eased pain induced in healthy volunteers, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Center for Medical Cannabis Research (CMCR.)

In the study, researchers offered volunteers a chocolate snack after they'd just eaten as much as they wanted of a similar snack food.

In the most recent study, presented last week at an annual conference of obesity experts, researchers gave 387 obese volunteers the balloon treatment or sugar - filled capsules, which were complete with catheters and designed to look like the real thing.

In the study, researchers mildly burned 15 men and women in a lab on two separate occasions, before and after the volunteers attended four 20 - minute meditation training sessions over the course of four days.