Sentences with phrase «than a brain scan»

It's still not clear whether the blood test will be more affordable than a brain scan or a spinal tap.

The goal was to precisely calculate a person's age from nothing more than a brain scan.

Not exact matches

Wireless powered implants, each smaller than a grain of rice, could serve as «neural dust» that can one day scan and stimulate brain cells.

Plus, brain scans indicate that people who lost weight and kept it off for nine months reacted differently when shown images of high - calorie foods than before they lost the weight.

There is actually MRI scans of Christians that show there brains are less active than the atheist.

The abnormalities disclosed on post-season DTI scans among the players were closer to the scan of the one player with diagnosed concussion than to the normal brains in the control group.

Former President Jimmy Carter said that his most recent brain scan showed no signs of cancer, more than three months after he began treatment for four melanoma tumors.

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.

Helped by the recent development of fiber - optic - bundle - coupled laser - scanning confocal fluorescence imaging (Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy — CLE), which allowed the scientists to image blood flow more deeply in the brain than ever before.

Even if a scan shows abnormal activity in a brain region associated with impulse control or regulation of emotions, such imaging provides no more than probabilistic information, Hyman said.

The EEG signal can be processed quickly, allowing fast response times, and the instrument is cheaper and more portable than brain - scanning techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging and positron - emission tomography.

When fed brain scans produced by students looking at fresh paintings by the same artists, the program correctly identified the painter better than chance alone: it was correct 83 per cent of the time among the six students who were art majors and 62 per cent of the time among the others (NeuroReport, DOI: 10.1097 / WNR.0 b013e3283331322).

Belger, the director of the UNC Neurocognition and Imaging Research Laboratory, and recent UNC graduate student Joseph Shaffer, PhD, compared brain scans from more than 100 people with schizophrenia against brain scans from people with no psychiatric diagnoses.

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.

Brain scans show that at times some areas are more active than others, but no region in a healthy brain is simply turnedBrain scans show that at times some areas are more active than others, but no region in a healthy brain is simply turnedbrain is simply turned off.

Kable and his colleagues» use of different types of scans provides a far more detailed picture of the interplay between brain anatomy and risk than does earlier research, Levy says.

The study showed that 13 trauma patients who had hit their heads and had CT scans showing new brain damage, as well as 39 trauma patients who had hit their heads and had normal CT scans, had significantly less ability to coordinate their eye movements than normal, uninjured control subjects.

When the viewers used old - fashioned red and blue 3D glasses, their brain scans suggested they were less engaged in the film than when modern polarised glasses were used.

Less than a quarter of drug - resistant patients, however, meet the medical criteria for the procedures, the main one being a distinct site of origin in the brain for their seizures (confirmed with brain scans and electroencephalography) that does not overlap with regions involved in essential functions, such as language.

Brain scans of patients with primary progressive MS showed fewer signs of damage and the patients» ability to walk deteriorated more slowly than in individuals who received a placebo, researchers reported in January in the New England Journal of Medicine.

A 2002 study using MRI scans showed that brain areas keeping aggression and impulsive behavior in check were relatively larger in women than in men.

They'll be just as revolutionary as the use of DNA evidence,» contends Kiehl, citing his recent study on impulsivity — «that brain scans were better than the PCL - R at predicting that psychopath offenders were four times more likely to reoffend.»

MRI scanning also showed that those who had had tDCS had more activity in the relevant brain areas for motor skills than the control group.

Brain scans improved prediction accuracy by 60 percent better at predicting reading difficulties than the compared to traditional assessments alone.

Using two data sets of functional MRI brain scans from more than 350 adult and child siblings during resting state, Fair and colleagues applied an innovative technique to characterize functional connectivity and machine learning to successfully identify siblings based on their connectotype.

Fathers with toddler daughters are more attentive and responsive to those daughters» needs than fathers with toddler sons are to the needs of those sons, according to brain scans and recordings of the parents» daily interactions with their kids.

Using brain scans to detect whether dyslexic children have improved their reading skills, rather than testing these children's reading skills

By scanning the brains of 87 healthy infants more than 200 times, researchers found that the infants» brains grew 64 % in the first 90 days, with the fastest growth in motor skill — related areas such as the cerebellum.

But overlaps on a brain scan don't necessarily mean the two function through identical pathways — the shared brain areas could relate to attention or emotional arousal, among other things, rather than pain itself.

The researchers obtained brain MRI scans on participants before and after the study, and found that resveratrol - treated patients lost more brain volume than the placebo - treated group.

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.

Brain scans suggest that handedness is more closely linked to motor control than to language.

The brain scan could detect the disease early on, so patients can start treatment sooner than they can today.

The scans revealed that when praised, 13 of the dogs showed equal or greater levels of brain activity in the region that controls decision - making and signals rewards than when they received food, the scientists will report in an upcoming issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

For the study, researchers conducted brain scans on 37 healthy smokers (those who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day) ages 19 to 61 using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in two different sessions: 24 hours after biochemically confirmed abstinence and after smoking as usual.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh constructed a detailed atlas of the human brain using MRI scans from more than 130 healthy people aged 60 or over.

Brain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account overall brain sizes — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bBrain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account overall brain sizes — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bbrain sizes — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bbrain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bwwg).

Brain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account the differing overall sizes of their brains — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than childrenBrain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account the differing overall sizes of their brains — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than childrenbrain matter in this area than children did.

Schiff's group now hopes to clarify this mess by finding a way to gauge the brain's status directly rather than through the filter of a scan.

To test his theory, Newberg has scanned the brains of more than 20 adherents of spiritual practices, including Christian prayer and Tibetan Buddhist meditation.

MRI scans of the patients» brains showed that those in the tDCS group had more activity in the relevant brain areas for motor skills than those in the control group.

Professor Kathy Rastle, from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway said, «The results were striking; people who had focused on the meanings of the new words were much less accurate in reading aloud and comprehension than those who had used phonics, and our MRI scans revealed that their brains had to work harder to decipher what they were reading.»

Brain scans hold potential in preventing suicide, which claimed more than 41,000 lives in the United States in 2013.

MRI scans done on more than 20 astronauts reveal new results on how microgravity can affect the human brain.

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.

In a 2016 study from JAMA Psychiatry, senior citizens whose brain scans showed the development of amyloid protein clusters were 7.5 times more likely to be classified as lonely than those whose scans were negative.

«Both before and after meditation training, study participants» brain activity was examined using a special type of imaging - arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging (ASL MRI)- that captures longer duration brain processes, such as meditation, better than a standard MRI scan of brain function.

And MRI brain scans showed the brains of those with high B12 levels were bigger than the folks with low B12.

When the new brain scans were compared, researchers found that the boys with the disorder had more activity in the basal ganglia, a brain structure, than they had before taking Ritalin.

So they did brain scans and discovered that the cabbies» hippocampal areas, the part of the brain associated with spatial reasoning, were larger than those of other adults.