We review neuroimaging studies of autism, with an emphasis on functional magnetic
resonance imaging studies of intrinsic functional connectivity in children, adolescents and adults.
Brain aging in humans, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): magnetic
resonance imaging studies of macro - and microstructural changes.
Such differences have been identified in functional magnetic
resonance imaging studies of patients with fibromyalgia.25 If severe early breastfeeding - associated pain reflects pain catastrophizing, then aberrations in central nociception pathways may lead to both curtailed breastfeeding and perinatal depression.
A preliminary longitudinal magnetic
resonance imaging study of brain volume and cortical thickness in autism.
Design, Setting, and Participants Longitudinal cohort study analyzing 823 magnetic resonance imaging scans of 389 typically developing children and adolescents aged 4 to 22 years from the National Institutes of Health Magnetic
Resonance Imaging Study of Normal Brain Development with complete sociodemographic and neuroimaging data.
A functional magnetic
resonance imaging study of amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex responses to overtly presented fearful faces in posttraumatic stress disorder
Not exact matches
A
study published in Current Biology used functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fmri)
of the brains
of three to seven month old infants to assess brain activity in relationship to sound.
The
study team conducted a series
of behavioral and brain
imaging studies using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI).
A new
study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging using magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) reports a link between reduced functional activation and reduced cortical thickness in the brains
of patients with bipolar disorder.
Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor
of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute,
studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic
Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period
of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.
French researchers used clinical examinations and magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI)
studies to determine whether retired professional rugby players experience more serious symptoms
of cervical spine degeneration than people in the general population.
In a
study under way at USP's Neuroimaging Laboratory (LIM - 21), the researchers are now seeking to correlate the cognitive profile observed in the two groups
of cocaine - dependent patients with decision - making and resting - state brain activity, using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI).
Using magnetic
resonance imaging, Dr. Kahleová and colleagues then
studied adipose (fat - storage) tissue in the subjects» thighs to see how the two different diets had affected subcutaneous, subfascial and intramuscular fat (that is, fat under the skin, on the surface
of muscles and inside muscles).
In 2015 Oxford pediatric neuroscientist Rebeccah Slater and her colleagues published a pioneering functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI)
study showing infants» brains respond to painful stimuli very similarly to those
of adults.
At the start
of the
study, all the participants did some Web searching while the scientists monitored their brain activity by functional magnetic
resonance imaging.
Just before the teenage years, «the rate
of growth for many skills kind
of slows down,» says Deborah Waber, an associate professor
of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School's Children's Hospital Boston and the lead author
of a paper that reports the results
of the behavioral component
of the NIH Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Study of Normal Brain Development.
This
study used magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate the impact
of a very low calorie diet on heart function and the distribution
of fat in the abdomen, liver, and heart muscle.
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.
This is important to the
study of mental illness, says Cole, who made the discovery using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI), because it is easier to analyze a brain at rest.
Sinha and her colleagues used functional magnetic
resonance imaging to
study brain activity in people exposed to stimuli ranging from highly stressful — images
of mutilated bodies or someone pointing a gun — to neutral, such as a chair, table or lamp.
Different types
of cognitive tasks spur activity in various regions
of the brain, as indicated by
studies using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI).
The
study involved 3,896 participants who were free of clinical cardiovascular disease in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and who underwent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (
study involved 3,896 participants who were free
of clinical cardiovascular disease in the Multi-Ethnic
Study of Atherosclerosis and who underwent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (
Study of Atherosclerosis and who underwent cardiac magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI).
The UB researchers are conducting a longitudinal, five - year
study of these patients focused on the relationship between cerebral microbleeds, advances in magnetic
resonance imaging and clinical outcomes.
All
study participants underwent a type
of magnetic
resonance imaging called susceptibility - weighted
imaging that is specifically targeted to better image blood products.
Through analysis
of high - resolution anatomical magnetic
resonance imaging of brain volumes, taken three times over the two - year
study period, the researchers were able to determine that individuals with MCI or Alzheimer's showed greater losses in gray matter volume in both the basal forebrain and temporal lobe, compared with cognitively normal controls.
Using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI), an
imaging technique that measures brain activity, researchers examined all three groups at the beginning (baseline), middle, and end
of the
study while participants performed computer - based speed tasks in the scanner.
Brain scans In the
study, researchers scanned the brains
of 39 depressed patients and 37 healthy people using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fRMI).
But neither data from brain scanners — functional magnetic
resonance imaging — nor clinical
studies of patients with implanted electrodes have explained exactly how the cells in these face patches work.
At the meeting, attendees discussed four broad goals for the proposed Observatory: expanding access to large scale electron microscopes; providing fabrication facilities for new, nanosized electrode systems; developing new optical and magnetic
resonance brain activity
imaging technologies; and finding new ways to analyze and store the staggering amount
of data detailed brain
studies can produce.
Another article in the series tackles incomplete or unusable reports
of biomedical research, noting that in 241 functional magnetic
resonance imaging studies, fewer than two - thirds reported the number
of examinations and their duration; the resolution, coverage, and slice order
of images appeared in fewer than half.
The
study, published online July 29 in Cerebral Cortex, used functional magnetic
resonance imaging, or fMRI, to examine children's brain activity at rest and during two tasks: solving simple math problems and looking at pictures
of different faces.
The rules
of her Ph.D. program allowed her to carry out her research project anywhere; she decided to
study functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) in the United States.
«We used magnetic
resonance imaging to compare the health
of the brain's white matter and how strongly it connects different parts
of the brain,» explains Elizabeth Head, Ph.D., the
study's senior author.
In this
study, the researchers looked at the organization
of newborn brain tissue using Diffusion Tensor
Imaging (DTI), a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tec
Imaging (DTI), a magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) tec
imaging (MRI) technique.
The observation was validated using magnetic
resonance imaging of live
study participants by Eric Halgren, PhD, professor in the Department
of Neurosciences at UC San Diego School
of Medicine, and colleagues.
In this
study, researchers performed magnetic
resonance imaging on 106 boys between the ages
of 10 to 19 who were seeking treatment for Internet gaming disorder, a psychological condition that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders (DSM - 5) says warrants further research.
A proof -
of - concept
study authored by the Spectrum Health experts also opens the way for these techniques to be used in combination with a third tool — magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI).
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.
In their
study the researchers showed different characters to test persons and recorded via functional magnetic
resonance imaging the brain activity which was set into motion by the process
of seeing.
Beauchamp and Nath followed up on that
study with a new one in which they scanned people's brains with functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) as they played McGurk videos
of mismatched sounds and lip movements.
In a
study led by psychiatrist Ian Reid
of Aberdeen, Schwarzbauer and colleagues performed functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) scans
of nine depressed patients before and after ECT.
A 2012 review from Stanford researchers analyzed over 50
studies that used neuroimaging - that is, MRI, fMRI, magnetic
resonance spectroscopy (MRS), diffusion tensor
imaging (DTI), and anything else that takes before - and - after pictures
of the brain - to examine the brains
of kids with a variety
of mental illnesses: anorexia, ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder, depression, OCD, and schizophrenia.
For this placebo - controlled and age - matched functional magnetic
resonance imaging study a total
of 28 subjects were included (only males, mean age = 27.09, SD ± 7.06).
Mas Herrero is now using a combination
of TMS and functional magnetic
resonance imaging to determine which specific regions and circuits are responsible
of the changes found in this
study.
Led by Aarti Nair, a student in the SDSU / UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, the
study is the first
of its kind, combining functional and anatomical magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques and diffusion tensor
imaging (DTI) to examine connections between the cerebral cortex and the thalamus.
According to Ralph Adolphs, PhD, Bren professor
of psychology and neuroscience at Caltech, a contributing author, «Most data relevant to understanding psychiatric illness is derived from
studies that use functional magnetic
resonance imaging.
In
studying the functional behavior
of the brain, from control
of muscles to the formation
of memories, scientists are using such tools such as electron microscopy, recordings
of electrical signals from individual brain cells, and
imaging of brain structures and processes using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and high - resolution optical
imaging.
In the current
study, Brass and co-author Patrick Haggard, a professor
of cognitive neuroscience and psychology at University College London, asked 15 subjects to push a button on a keyboard while undergoing functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor brain activity; participants were instructed to occasionally skip the action.
In a 2006
study by Montague and others, pairs
of subjects had their brains scanned using functional magnetic
resonance imaging, or MRI, as they played a game requiring them to take turns.
Dr. Berman, Michael Gregory, M.D.,
of the NIMH Section on Integrative Neuroimaging, and colleagues, report on their magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI)
study published online, July 24, 2017 in the journal Scientific Reports.