Sentences with phrase «study brain patterns»

The team used fMRI to study brain patterns in 23 people first after a night of peaceful sleep and then after a night without sleep.

Studying brain patterns of pests could also prove to be useful when combating infestations within the country's agriculture.

Not exact matches

One study showed 20 minutes of yoga could significantly improve brain functioning, another that a quick nap would seriously boost memory, while a third suggested that just shy of an hour of work followed by around a 15 - minute pause was the ideal work pattern.

A new study pinpoints these distinct brain patterns of activity.

In previous studies, the researchers reported multiple serotonin - related brain abnormalities in SIDS cases, including a decrease in serotonin in regions involved in breathing, heart rate patterns, blood pressure, temperature regulation, and arousal during sleep.

Some of the findings of the cognitive neuroscientists studying the brain scans of individuals from different political parties seem to suggest some interestingly patterns.

Groove patterns on the surface of modern chimpanzee brains throw a monkey wrench into proposals that some ancient southern African hominids evolved humanlike brain characteristics, a new study suggests.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used a technique recently borrowed from the computer science field by neuroscientists — multivariate pattern analysis — to examine brain scans that were taken while people looked at a picture of someone who had rejected them.

His analysis, published in late 2012, documented a pattern of changes throughout the brain in study participants with chronic pain.

The treatment group showed notable changes in the ability to identify and remember faces, which was corroborated by changes in brain patterns that arise when study participants saw a familiar face.

Researchers using MRI have discovered a common pattern of structural abnormalities in the brains of people with depression and social anxiety, according to a study presented being next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

People at risk for Alzheimer's disease who do more moderate - intensity physical activity, but not light - intensity physical activity, are more likely to have healthy patterns of glucose metabolism in their brain, according to a new UW - Madison study.

So subsequently people have been looking at this type of brain activity and this brain activity is very highly related to a person's genetic makeup, and they've looked at this through twin studies again, showing that identical twins had more similar patterns than non-identical twins.

In a study published in June in Psychological Science, Just and his colleague Robert Mason found that thinking about physics prompts common brain - activation patterns and that these patterns are everyday neural capabilities — used for processing rhythm and sentence structure, for example — that were repurposed for learning abstract science.

This is the first time a direct connection has been established between a person's eye movements and patterns of brain activity, which follows up on previous studies linking what we see to how we remember.

The study, led by the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences, found that younger and older adults show very different brain wave patterns when performing the same memory task.

A new study published in PLOS Computational Biology investigates how temporal acoustic patterns can be represented by neural activity within auditory cortex, a major hub within the brain for the perception of sound.

The new study is an example of what happens when epidemiology experiments — studies of patterns in health and disease — crash into studies of brain imaging.

«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.

By examining gene expression patterns, the new study found that parrot brains are structured differently than the brains of songbirds and hummingbirds, which also exhibit vocal learning.

Nevertheless, studies that compare the vivid imagery of dreams with daytime vision reveal similar patterns of activity in the visual cortex, the largest brain area devoted to vision.

«We were very curious to see what would happen if we were to change the expression pattern of Pax6 in developing mouse brain to mimic that observed in large - brained animals,» says Fong Kuan Wong, a PhD student in the lab of Wieland Huttner and first author of the study.

Helps your brain reinforce its memory traces by pacing your study and matching it to your sleep patterns

Anatomical studies confirmed the importance of the right rehabilitation schedule: Depending on the therapeutic design, different patterns of new nerve fibers that sprouted into the cervical spinal cord from the healthy part of the brain and thus aid functional recovery to varying degrees were apparent.

Imaging studies have shown that when autistic children see a familiar face, their pattern of brain activation is different from that of normal children.

The program has already found some new features of the fruit fly brain, said study coauthor Hanchuan Peng of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Va. «We can see very beautiful and very complicated patterns,» said Peng, who presented the results April 9 at the 51st Annual Drosophila Research Conference.

Feelings of empathy may seem subtle and personal, but this study, which used stories of human hardship to inspire feelings of empathic care and distress, found that the brain patterns associated with these feelings are consistent and predictable across individuals.

In an earlier study, Dyer discovered that hand motion directions corresponded with reliable neural signaling patterns in the brain's motor neocortex.

In the fall of 2003, two media researchers at the University of Southern California set up a study to look at the patterns of brain activity triggered by violent video games.

A new MRI study has found distinct injury patterns in the brains of people with concussion - related depression and anxiety, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

However, all regions of the human brain have molecular signatures very similar to those of our primate relatives, yet some regions contain distinctly human patterns of gene activity that mark the brain's evolution and may contribute to our cognitive abilities, a new Yale - led study has found.

«This is the first study that has examined how the patterns of intrinsic brain connectivity change with a cognitive load in children with autism,» Menon said.

«The pattern of activity in a brain region involved in spatial learning in the virtual world is completely different than when it processes activity in the real world,» said Mayank Mehta, a UCLA professor of physics, neurology and neurobiology in the UCLA College and the study's senior author.

«In pursuit of pleasure, brain learns to hit the repeat button: New study in mice shows how the brain learns to reproduce patterns of brain activity that lead to reward; provides insights for treating addiction and obsessive - compulsive disorder.»

Another study, published in September 2016 in PLOS Biology by Kevin LaBar of Duke University and his colleagues, attempted to match brain scans of people lying idle in a scanner to seven predefined patterns associated with specific emotions provoked in an earlier study.

In previous studies, the researchers reported multiple serotonin - related brain abnormalities in SIDS cases, including a decrease in serotonin in regions involved in breathing, heart rate patterns, blood pressure, temperature regulation, and arousal during sleep.

Since the pulses of light exert highly precise control over the neurons, it opens the possibility of very selective studies of firing patterns in brain regions of interest.

In addition, brain alterations revealed in the study show a consistent pattern representing a neurobiological marker that could potentially be used to positively identify GWI.

Thus, this study found that women who have recovered from anorexia nervosa show two related patterns of changes in brain circuit function that may contribute to their capacity to sustain their avoidance of food.

In this study they measured phase response curves from a computer simulation of brain activity, predicted what stimulus patterns would suppress the neural oscillations, and then demonstrated that the stimulation patterns predicted to suppress the oscillations were in fact effective.

Two new studies link patterns of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the blood to the integrity of brain structures and cognitive abilities that are known to decline early in aging.

Study two involved measuring patterns of brain activity in a different group of participants (non-musicians) who took part in a word generation task and a music perception task.

In this study, the researchers aimed to investigate task related brain activity and functional connectivity patterns following onset of a regional anesthetic nerve block during continuous noxious dental stimulation.

Proponents of the idea of multiple personalities have also performed controlled studies of biological differences among alters, revealing that they may differ in respiration rate, brain - wave patterns and skin conductance, the last being an accepted measure of arousal.

The ghostly voices and disordered thought associated with schizophrenia may result from faulty brain - wave patterns — essentially a mind gone out of tune — according to a new study.

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

«However, this study shows that actions come from preconscious brain activity patterns and not from the person consciously thinking about what they are going to do.»

Studies have reported altered methylation patterns in postmortem brains of people with autism.

But he and other neuroscientists say the study may be fatally flawed because it uses technology that can not reliably distinguish one type of brain wave pattern from

Reach for the hand of a loved one in pain and not only will your breathing and heart rate synchronize with theirs, your brain wave patterns will couple up too, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).