Sentences with phrase «study brain data»

Sounds like someone just wants to study brain data, also who knows the side effects.

Not exact matches

Researchers from the University of British Columbia recently pooled data from more than 20 studies to understand how practicing mindfulness affects the brain.

25,000 patients will be enrolled in the first study ever to combine data from genetics, cognitive tests and online surveys to explore how genetics is related to Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Depression and certain brain functions.

In a 2012 study, [8] researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) measured before - and - after data from the brains of a group of nine high school football and hockey players using an advanced form of imaging similar to an MRI called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

«Speed data for the brain's navigation system: Study indicates how speed information reaches the brain.»

In the first study to assess the relationship between structural and functional MRI data in bipolar disorder, Dr. Shantanu Joshi and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles focused on brain regions that play a role in mood dysregulation in the 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.

In the new study, researchers mined databases of genomic data from humans and chimpanzees, to find enhancers expressed primarily in the brain tissue and early in development.

But the current stance of our major research institutions maintains that, given time, the ever - accelerating juggernaut of data from yet more genomic (and proteomic) projects and brain - scanning studies might somehow drive a causeway of understanding through these so unexpected findings.

According to Dr. Cameron Carter, Editor of Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, the study is an important example of how more sophisticated approaches to analyzing brain imaging data examining transitions between mental states over time can measure altered brain dynamics that can identify subtle risk states or even track the transition from subclinical to clinical psychopathology.

Survey data reveals a high degree of medical consensus that shaking a young child is capable of producing subdural hematoma (a life - threatening pooling of blood outside the brain), severe retinal hemorrhage, coma or death, according to a study published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

In the study, Dr. Barber and colleagues analyzed brain imaging data from the Human Connectome Project of 76 otherwise healthy participants reporting PLEs and 153 control participants.

Human brains are constantly processing data to make statistical assessments that translate into the feeling we call confidence, according to a study published in Neuron.

Dr Vera Weisbecker of UQ's School of Biological Sciences said the study represented the first dataset comparing brain growth in different mammals, gathered through a novel method of non-invasive micro-CT (computed tomography) scanning which allowed the fast data acquisition of soft tissue growth in tiny mammals.

«Looking at the data from this unique vantage point enables us to study gene patterning that we all share,» says Mike Hawrylycz, Ph.D., Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Mammalian brain growth is studied in this paper which shows that a widely accepted hypothesis of how the mammalian brain proportions grow and evolve does not work, using a novel method of micro-CT scan that allows the first fast data acquisition of soft tissue growth in tiny mammals.

The plan is to use the data from these studies to create a comprehensive, three - dimensional simulation of a mammalian brain.

Patients with epilepsy often have ECoG arrays temporarily implanted in their brains to determine the location in the brain of epileptic seizures, so the scientists were able to study all the data collected from five such patients on healthy, seizure - free nights.

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 study, which will be published the week of Feb. 9 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is about how the brain makes sense of data from the fingers.

The study looked at brain MR images of 120 individuals, those at both high and low familial risk of depression, along with genotype data.

Specifically, the study relied on data collected at NYU ECoG, a center where brain activity is recorded directly from patients implanted with specialized electrodes placed directly inside and on the surface of the brain while the patients are performing sensory and cognitive tasks.

«I really worry about this study — I think it's flawed,» says Peter Snyder, a neurologist who studies ageing at Brown University's Alpert Medical School in Providence, R.I. Snyder agrees that data supporting the efficacy of brain training are sparse.

The Duke - NUS study examined the data of 66 older Chinese adults, from the Singapore - Longitudinal Aging Brain Studystudy examined the data of 66 older Chinese adults, from the Singapore - Longitudinal Aging Brain StudyStudy (1).

Conducting studies on brain synchrony — neural activity that is in sync among people — in real - world settings offers a great opportunity for new types of data, Dikker says.

The paper, published in Scientific Reports, details only the second study of ES in human brain data.

Inspired by human forgetfulness — how our brains discard unnecessary data to make room for new information — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory and three universities, conducted a recent study that combined supercomputer simulation and X-ray characterization of a material that gradually «forgets.»

The FDA authorized marketing the Brain Trauma Indicator after examining data from a clinical study of nearly 2,000 blood samples from patients with suspected concussions.

The system consists of 18 computer processors designed to analyze data the way that a human brain does — by studying one set of data and comparing it with another data set to find similarities and differences.

But while Chang's patients wait for the seizures, with the grids installed and already collecting data, many of the patients volunteer to have him collect more information about the brain's functions, as was the case with this study of speech and language.

The endocrinologists then enlisted the help of Rush researchers who specialize in the issues of the aging brain, and the expanded team set to work with data from three long - term group studies done at Rush from 1993 to 2012 — the Chicago Health and Aging Project (CHAP), the Religious Orders Study (ROS), and the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP).

The study, conducted by researchers at the Neonatal Data Analysis Unit at Imperial College London and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, analysed data on babies born between 2010 and 2015 to assess the number that may have sustained brain injury at or soon after biData Analysis Unit at Imperial College London and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, analysed data on babies born between 2010 and 2015 to assess the number that may have sustained brain injury at or soon after bidata on babies born between 2010 and 2015 to assess the number that may have sustained brain injury at or soon after birth.

In addition to collecting scans of brain structure and function, the research teams at 21 study sites around the country will regularly gather a trove of other information from each youngster, from psychological, cognitive, and environmental data to biological specimens such as DNA.

Based on the results of that test, Beaty and colleagues developed a predictive model and tested against brain scan data collected for earlier studies on creativity.

Beaty and colleagues reanalyzed brain data from previous studies and found that, by simply measuring the strength of connections in these peoples» brain networks, they could estimate how original their ideas would be.

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.

In late 2012 he finally founded Neural Bytes, which models human brain processing using data from neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies.

«It now appears that the chemical data supports the abundant circumstantial evidence that Dawson was the brains behind the hoax,» says geologist Stephen Donovan of the Naturalis Biodiversity Institute in Leiden, the Netherlands, who did not participate in the current study.

Scientists said the platform is part of LLNL's broader vision for countering emerging and existing threats, allows them to study the networks formed among various regions of the brain, and obtain timely, human - relevant data without animal or human testing.

Miller says the response in this study, published in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology, may confirm other research findings about polyunsaturated fats: «Recent data suggest that PUFA (but not MUFA) activates signaling in the brain to reduce appetite, so this may be one reason for the bigger weight drop between the groups.»

«We know from a previous study based on OSDUHS data that as many as 20 per cent of adolescents in Ontario said they have experienced a traumatic brain injury in their lifetime,» said Dr. Robert Mann, senior scientist at CAMH and director of the OSDUHS.

Studies suggest that computer models called neural networks may learn to recognize patterns in data using the same algorithms as the human brain

Research from Wageningen University in the Netherlands shows — for the first time — real time data of the brain, the stomach, and people's feelings of satiety measured simultaneously during a meal, in a study to be reported this week at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, held in Porto, Portstudy to be reported this week at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, held in Porto, PortStudy of Ingestive Behavior, held in Porto, Portugal.

Still, Sheehan said neuroscience already is one of the leaders in data sharing and management, with such resources as the NIH - funded National Database for Autism Research; an NIH - Defense Department sponsored data base on traumatic brain injury; the NIH - funded Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), which helps researchers to develop, share and collaborate on software tools for doing functional and structural imaging studies of the brain; and the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH initiative that makes neuroscience resources - data, materials, and tools - accessible via any computer connected to the Internet.

«Although studies in civilians indicate a 25 to 50 percent prevalence of hormonal deficiencies resulting from brain injuries, surprisingly there are limited data on their prevalence and symptoms in military veterans,» Wilkinson said.

One strength of the study is the combination of this decision - making test with the brain imaging data, says Peter J. Havel, a professor of nutrition at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved with the study.

«Our study looked at data over a five - year period and found elevated levels of two brain injury markers in the blood; now the question is whether they may signify permanent traumatic brain injury with long - term consequences.»

In the current study, the researchers used infradian cyclic locomotor activity in the mutant mice as a proxy for mood - associated changes, and examined their molecular basis in the brain by conducting prediction analyses of the gene expression data.