Sentences with phrase «take images of the brain»

[Jamie L. Hanson et al, Behavioral Problems After Early Life Stress: Contributions of the Hippocampus and Amygdala] Researchers took images of the brains of 12 - year - olds who had suffered either physical abuse or neglect or had grown up poor.

Today researchers at Texas A&M have figured out how to take images of the brain at a resolution of just 160 nanometers, but they've scanned only a rice - grain - size piece of mouse brain in any one trial.

There are established ways to address these questions: we can assess unusual movements, analyze changes in mood and thinking, and take images of the brain areas involved in HD.

By taking images of brains of those who routinely engage in contemplative practices, neuroscientist Richard Davison discovered that «their mental practice is having an effect on the brain in the same way golf or tennis practice will enhance performance.

Not exact matches

This ad shows the iPad 2 user looking at stock options, investment portfolios, and even images of the brain... a far cry from someone taking video of their family, or rocking out to a killer iTunes library.

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

God's image IS our brain, & if we could shrink ourselves to the size of a brain cell & go inside & take a look around, I imagine it would look a LOT like the universe does to us from Earth now.

Comparison images taken and two and four weeks postpartum revealed a small but significant increase in gray matter volume in specific areas of the brain.

She's looking at remarkable new images of brain scans of people on LSD — the first time they've ever been taken anywhere in the world.

Like the map view of an Earth imaging program, this image of a brain section takes cues from actual imaging performed with highest - energy X-rays at a synchrotron and turns them into a graphic depiction.

The DTI images — taken at an average of 20 days after birth — were used to associate maternal iron intake during pregnancy to differences in cortical gray matter and, to a lesser extent, in major axonal pathways within the underlying white matter of the brain.

Collaborating with researchers from Canada, Europe, Japan, and, in the United States, the University of Texas, the brain atlas team has scanned 450 «normal» brains and used hundreds of thousands of images taken of 7,000 people around the world to compile three - dimensional color maps of the brain.

At Week 1, the fMRI scans in the fasting state revealed that people taking the drug showed decreased brain activity in response to images of highly desirable foods in the attention - related parietal and visual cortices.

In the experiment, images were taken at several time points, every 1.5 seconds after injection of the contrast agent to see the blood perfusion patterns in the brain.

The two images are similar enough that the brain assumes they must be identical; it takes minutes of careful inspection to locate the disparities.

Positron - emission tomography images taken by cognitive scientists at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, for example, have shown that even when doing basic recognition or memorization exercises, seniors exploit the left and right brain more extensively than men and women who are decades younger.

Brown University brain scientists didn't just study how recognition of familiarity and novelty arise in the mammalian brain, they actually took control, inducing rats to behave as if images they'd seen before were new, and images they had never seen were old.

According to the principle, the brain's cortex manages the tremendous amount of sensory information — images, sounds, smells, etc. — flooding it constantly by reformatting the influx into various components called features, so that it takes very few neurons to process it.

During my years at GSK I took on roles of increasing responsibility, and developed a strong background in MRI, image processing and analysis, as well as in the application of translational approaches to study neuropsychiatric brain disorders.

We've seen before how Google is experimenting with its RAISR algorithm to add detail and sharpness to images, but a new paper from a team of Google Brain researchers shows how machine learning might take things to a whole new level.

Magnetic resonance images (MRI scans) of everyone's brains were taken before and after they completed the meditation training, and a control group of people who didn't do any mindfulness training also had their brains scanned.

The study took a dozen volunteers and kept them up all night, then looked at their brain's response to images of food.

We'll cover this in a future article, but for now take a look at the image below to give you an overview of the difference between the two brain fuel sources.

Michele Rosenthal: And so what we do in NLP is instead of talking and talking and talking about it, we take the — the feeling and the image that that creates in the brain and we literally start changing the image.

Here's a couple new images from the upcoming thriller in which struggling novelist Bradley Cooper takes a drug to unleash the full power of his brain.

Come to think of it, Brannigan is a bad name: it's locked right in on the monolithic image of Wayne as 110 - percent American tough guy with two fists and only one operational brain lobe, and whenever it takes four scriptwriters to come up with that kind of arithmetic, somebody's in trouble.

These images of brain scans were taken while the subjects performed mathematical calculations involving serial addition.

In fact a small part of me wonders if that image being planted in more brains could potentially cause people to take a second look at my book cover, subconsciously thinking where have I seen this before?

I visited him there to write about the Korean dogs for this website, and ended up adopting him, mainly because we hit it off, but probably also because of the images that lingered (in my brain, and the photos I took) from my own visit, six years ago, to Moran Market.