Sentences with phrase «see in brain scans»

While some brain injuries involve bleeding in the brain or skull fractures that a jury will be able to clearly see in brain scans or x-rays, these tools may not be precise enough to show more subtle damage.

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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).

Doctors use CT scans in the brain to diagnose brain tumors or visualize injuries, bleeding, or any structural changes and infections that can occur and be difficult to see with an X-ray or routine exam.

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.

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.

The researchers scanned the participants» brains using magnetic resonance imaging to see if there were any differences in brain structure.

The monkeys» eye - focusing movements, coupled with scans of brain activity, revealed that they were «seeing» images shown in the «blind» part of their visual field, but only if their LGN was intact (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09179).

But he needed to wait and see if that evidence would turn up in a brain scan.

Currently there is no tool seen as a gold standard for diagnosing concussions, and imaging tests like CT - scans and MRIs are ineffective in the absence of structural damage to the brain.

Then she examined the brain scans of her subjects to see which areas of the brain became active and to see whether the age of the volunteers — ranging from 6 to 29 — made a difference in their responses.

In one 2015 study, researchers gave adolescents chocolate milkshakes and used fMRI scans to see how their brains reacted.

The recruits in the M - fit group displayed brain - scan patterns strikingly similar to those Paulus had seen in the SEALs and Nyad, suggesting the trained recruits had gotten better at anticipating stress and staying calm while facing it.

If any of the adult shark pooh - pooh - ers had been having their brains scanned at that moment, scientists would have seen increased activation in the amygdala and insula — two key parts of the brain's limbic system and important inputs to the mesocortical limbic circuit.

For now, the technology is limited to vision — working out what somebody is looking at from their brain activity (see «Mind - reading AI uses brain scans to guess what you're looking at»)-- but in principle there appears no reason why the entire contents of our minds couldn't be revealed.

«When we can run around all day long with a miniature MRI scanning apparatus strapped to our head, which could happen in the not too distant future, then we'll be able to see real sex differences in the brain.»

But in many troops with TBI from blasts, clinicians see stroke - like symptoms indicative of vasospasm even when brain scans show no evidence of bleeding.

Will we be seeing brain scans in the courtroom?

On both the acute and the three - month scans, researchers observed that the very long fiber tracks in the brains of the concussed players were damaged, and also saw «hyper - connectivity» in some areas of the brain, suggesting the brain may still have been trying to compensate for the injury.

Brain scans revealed activity in the fusiform face area, responsible for recognising real faces, they report in «Seeing Jesus in Toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia» (doi.org/vn8).

The new research shows that, in autism, connectivity in these networks that can be seen on fMRI scans is fairly similar regardless of whether the brain is at rest or performing a task.

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.

That's analogous to what we're seeing in the DTI scans of brains of those with blast injuries.»

Examining the children with brain scans, Dowell determined the spells were seizures like those seen in epilepsy.

Dr. Kanda noted that because patients with multiple sclerosis tend to undergo numerous contrast - enhanced brain MRI scans, the hyperintensity of the DN seen in these patients may have more to do with the large cumulative gadolinium dose than the disease itself.

It would also explain the excess brain size seen in the MRI scans.

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When he scanned their brains, Blanke found that the test subjects produced the signature brain patterns seen in others reporting an out - of - body state.

The researchers are also studying other molecules in the brain that are involved in depression and treatment response, and are recruiting people for further brain - scanning studies; see http://umhealth.me/placebodep for more information.

The evidence from MRI scans suggests that such Neanderthal - derived genetic variation may affect the way our brains work today — and may hold clues to understanding deficits seen in schizophrenia and autism - related disorders, say the researchers.

When the scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan brain activity, they saw that high and low frequency stimulation put the rats in completely different states of activity.

For example a next step is to scan premature babies and see how their myelin development differs from babies born full term; and how connections in the brains of babies who are at greater risk for developing autism differ from others.»

Researchers injected a tracer called gadolinium intravenously into the subjects and then scanned their brains to see how much got past the blood - brain barrier — which was noticeably leakier in those who had Alzheimer's.

Washington University neurologist Dr. Randall Bateman says researchers saw changes in the brain scans, spinal fluid, and blood of people with inherited Alzheimer's as much as 15 to 20 years before the onset of symptoms.

This is still an interesting paper but it would have been better to actually scan the 17 (or 40) patients» brains or follow up a sample of patients with brain injuries sustained in road traffic accidents, combat situations, etc., to see which ones become violent / criminal and whether this relates to the site and extent of the damage.»

Hopefully, all new studies of therapies in HD will include brain scans, so scientists can see whether this loss of brain tissue is prevented.

A new study of brain scans of 45 Brazilian babies suggests a worrying possibility, according to the New York Times: «Because some of the damage was seen in brain areas that continue to develop after birth, it may be that babies born without obvious impairment will experience problems as they grow.»

Brain scans with names like PET and SPECT allow us to see the chemical changes in the brains of live human beings.

The researchers saw something interesting in the brain scans of short sleepers that they didn't see in the «normal» group: During their time in the MRI, their brain waves exhibited patterns more typically of sleep than of wakefulness.

Dr. Strathearn and others have used brain - scanning technology to show that the oxytocin - producing areas of a mom's brain light up when she sees her baby, and that this is associated with higher levels of oxytocin in the bloodstream.

It wasn't until the 36 - year - old actress and model saw an ear - nose - and - throat doctor, and underwent imaging scans, that she got a correct diagnosis: an irregularity in the arteries lining her brain, called an ateriovenous malformation (AVM), that was causing the blood vessels above her ear to pulsate.

My husband and I used to stand in front of the shelves for ages, racking our brains while reading labels, trying to decipher the cryptic ingredients lists and using apps to scan the bar codes to see which product contained the least amount of harmful substances.

According to the brain scans from before and after the retreats, the researchers didn't see any changes in the relaxation group but did notice a change in the mindfulness group.

Fisher has found that the bit of our brain that creates dopamine (the Ventral Tegmental Area or VTA) is sparked by the act of falling in love: in scans you can see people's VTAs lighting up when they think about their romantic partner.

A teen girl receives several mind - body scans that involve simulations that are hallucinations provided by computer programming supplied through cables attached to the girl's back; we see screens in the air that show images of her brain and nervous system as the girl sees the ghost of her dead mother screaming among flames in a building with flaming windows as the building uproots itself and slowly flies through the air; the girl grabs cables, falls, runs across buildings as the flying building crashes into a skyscraper and chunks of concrete fall and fill the screen until she speaks with the ghost and the simulation ends.

If you scan guys in Japan, or do brain scans of guys in Japan or India, where I used to live, you see the same brain differences.

Once they see the scans, and see how much less of the boys» brains is working in these verbal areas, and see how much more is working in the spatials, they will utilize more graphics.

And when teachers understand that, when they get that rest state, when we show them the brain scans and they say, «Wow, look at that, that brain is completely shut off,» then they also see what's going on in relation to that more kinesthetic, spatial - mechanical brain, and how much more it needs to move around, that it can't just sit and listen to words.

With an MRI our veterinarians and veterinary radiologist can see soft tissues such as the brain or spinal cord, joints, and cardiovascular structures in even better detail than with radiographs (x-rays) or CT - scan.

In a resting state, participants» brains were scanned to see if there were any notable differences.