Sentences with phrase «shown on brain scans»

Researchers have noted pleasure deficiencies shown on brain scans of a variety of people, finding that frequent abuse of food or drugs actually alters the brain, causing it to not light up with dopamine as it once did.Chronic overeating can also lead to diabetes and predisposes the body toward inflammation, insulin resistance, elevated blood pressure, psychiatric illness, poor digestion, hormone imbalance, and malnutrition.

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This is a possibility (albeit a medieval way of describing it) within the realm of psychology so it wouldn't necessary show up on a brain scan.

This book is packed full of empirical evidence, much of it shown with brain scans and papers on an 18 year study.

They were amazed to find a large difference in the brain scans of these 2 - 3 year olds, showing that in the first few years of life a child's brain development relies heavily on nurturing by his parents.

A brain scan showed the man had a large cyst impinging on his brain.

Examining the brain scans in the context of other disease markers from spinal fluid analyses and neuropsychiatric tests on the same participants showed that the rise and spread of tau in the brain tracked more closely with declining mental function than did amyloid.

Patients showing gadolinium in the vitreous chamber at the later timepoint tended to be of older age, have a history of hypertension, and have more bright spots on their brain scans, called white matter hyperintensities, that are associated with brain aging and decreased cognitive function.

Chemically intolerant individuals also show dysfunction in brain imaging on a SPECT scan, which tracks blood flow through tissue.

First, Vanduffel's team scanned two monkeys» brains using functional MRI as they located the position of a green dot on a computer screen as fast as possible after being shown a «start» cue.

The scans — done with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or fMRI — show which sections of the five brains became more active during the ads, thereby revealing what's really going on in people's heads.

On all these science shows, over you know, now 12 or 13 years, I have had my brain scanned many times and finally it got to me.

Emily Cross and her colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig scanned the brains of 18 people with functional MRI while showing them photographs of a contortionist in ordinary positions — stretching to one side, for example — and in contorted postures such as lying on her stomach with her toes touching her forehead.

We also used predictive modeling to show we could predict, with some degree of accuracy, how creative people's ideas were (based on brain scans) that had already been published.»

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.

The study shows that one out of three stroke patients who present with at - risk brain tissue on their scans improve and some may walk out of the hospital saved from what would otherwise have been a devastating brain injury.»

The scans, performed on 113 babies born at between 22 and 29 weeks, show that the more premature a baby, the slower it develops nooks and crannies in the cortex, the outer surface of the brain vital for the most advanced mental capabilities.

The sedative paradoxically keeps his brain awake: PET scans show that on Ambien, his brain uses twice as much fuel.

In another study, those who reported SCI were also more likely to show changes in their brains on imaging scans, specifically demonstrating higher levels of beta - amyloid protein.

A study focused on how friendships are forged is like a case of «show me you brain scan and I'll tell you who your friends are.»

Those who said they felt fine on shorter sleep schedules also had brain scans that showed enhanced connectivity between parts of the brain associated with external sensory information and memory.

PET scanning shows us where the brain is active, functional MRI shows you what's going on in different parts of the brain and the excitability in neurons.

The consumption of blueberries and strawberries is associated with delayed cognitive aging by as much as 2.5 years — thought to be because of brain - localizing anthocyanin phytonutrients, as shown on functional MRI scans.

Scans after scans showed no ruptured vessel, but he did have a significant amount of blood on his bScans after scans showed no ruptured vessel, but he did have a significant amount of blood on his bscans showed no ruptured vessel, but he did have a significant amount of blood on his brain.

«Help me on this one,» is not an unusual request from the doctor to the «patient,» and miracle to behold, the stiffs do indeed cooperate enough to give the good doctor a diagnosis that should have been obvious but is not, simply because their brains do not show this illness on CT scans.

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.

The paper goes a lot more in depth than that, it basically shows that you can enhance specific brain functions through playing video games and that this effect is so pronounced it even shows up on brain scans.

The anatomical differences show up on brain scans.

i) The injury shows positive findings on a computerized axial tomography scan, a magnetic resonance imaging or any other medically recognized brain diagnostic technology indicating intracranial pathology that is a result of the accident, including, but not limited to, intracranial contusions or haemorrhages, diffuse axonal injury, cerebral edema, midline shift or pneumocephaly.

Her brain tumor, located in the pituitary gland, showed up on a CT scan, but the scan was misread by a student who had not finished radiology training.

... You might think that this preference for the sponsoring gallery was due to a kind of politeness... [but] the brain scans showed the same effect; the presence of the sponsor's logo increased the activity in the parts of the participants» brains that are related to pleasure... This suggested that the favor from the sponsoring gallery had a deep effect on how people responded to the art.

The new research builds on previous findings by the same investigators that showed a link between maternal nurturing and a larger hippocampus observed in brain scans conducted at the time the children reached school age.

The neurobiology craze has many therapists offering clients lecturettes on neuroplasticity and myelination, and one Networker author reports showing them PET scans, presumably to prove that therapy really does change the brain.

In the SPECT scans shown on the internet, you can view how the prefrontal areas of the brain are disrupted by marijuana and alcohol.