Sentences with phrase «trained brain researcher»

When Harvard - trained brain researcher Dr. Jill Bolte says she had a stroke of insight, she means it literally.

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A «brain training» iPad game developed in Britain may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at home and at work, researchers said on Monday.

A version of the speed training program developed for this trial is now commercially available through the brain fitness company Posit Science, but the researchers are working on making other types of training available as well.

Their conversations culminated in a 2006 Trends in Cognitive Sciences paper in which they discussed new models for training researchers and practitioners in mind, brain, and education.

At Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, researchers have surgically implanted electrodes in the brains of monkeys and trained them to move robotic arms at MIT, hundreds of miles away, just by thinking.

University of Adelaide researchers have shown that it is possible for stroke patients to improve motor function using special training involving connecting brain signals with a computer.

Johns Hopkins researchers followed more than 2,800 adults age 65 and older who attended 10 one - hour brain - training classes over the course of six weeks.

In a new study, researchers based at Osaka University reported on their use of brain - machine interface (BMI) training with a robotic hand on 10 phantom limb patients to investigate the association between changes in symptomatic pain and cortical currents during phantom hand movements.

«At this point, people (administering) ImPACT may not have very much training in neuropsychological testing or standardized test administration or data interpretation,» said lead author Kathryn Higgins, a postdoctoral researcher with the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior at Nebraska.

A University of Illinois at Chicago researcher will test whether brain stimulation combined with gait training can improve patients» ability to walk after a stroke, under a $ 1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

In particular, he says, the initiative will support a new breed of neuroscientist, one trained not as a classical brain researcher but as a physicist or mathematician, computer scientist or engineer — researchers who may never have received NIH funding before.

In addition, the researchers will examine the physiological function of the cerebral cortex to see if brain plasticity changed after training.

The researchers also were able to use models trained with data from one human subject to predict and decode the brain activity of a different human subject, a process called cross-subject encoding and decoding.

But, the researchers warn, the jury is still out on whether many brain - training exercises improve the overall functioning of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, or only hone its ability to complete the specific task being trained.

By examining the brains of bees trained to different tasks, the researchers found that the number of connections between nerve cells may hold the answer to questions about individual cognitive differences.

«We were interested to know whether intense environmental demands such as musical training at an early age influenced actual brain growth and development,» Gottfried Schlaug, the lead researcher says.

The researchers then ran the experiment again, this time injecting some of the rats» brains with extra IGF - 2 at different times after their training, such as immediately after a shock or more than a day later.

Some researchers speculate that the brain is so readily trained for compassion and generosity because those traits carry adaptive value.

Researchers recommend increased documentation, institutional diversity, and bias training in a new paper published in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS), a SAGE Journal.

Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, studied how high - intensity interval training (HIIT) alters the brain's glucose metabolism in physically inactive insulin resistant people.

They trained the dogs to lie motionless inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scanner for seven minutes and then the researchers played recordings of the dogs» trainer.

One of the two brain - training methods most scientists use in research is significantly better in improving memory and attention, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.

In a randomized clinical study involving adults age 56 to 71 that recently published in Neurobiology of Aging, researchers found that after cognitive training, participants» brains were more energy efficient, meaning their brain did not have to work as hard to perform a task.

They decided to compare directly the leading types of exercises and measure people's brain activity before and after training; that had never been attempted before, according to Blacker, now a researcher at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for Advancement of Military Medicine Inc..

Johns Hopkins researchers suspected the problem wasn't the idea of brain training, but the type of exercise researchers chose to test it.

The researchers scanned participants» brains before and after training.

Researchers are now studying the possible benefits of starting brain training during treatment or combining it with other interventions.

In this issue, journalist and former researcher Simon Makin takes a hard look at whether brain - training games — such as those offered by Lumosity — really can improve your thinking and stave off dementia.

When they transplanted embryonic brain cells into mice that had already been conditioned to fear a sound, the researchers found these mice were significantly more responsive to extinction training.

A fight has broken out among scientific researchers over whether or not brain training beats back the effects of aging.

Training monkeys on a two - choice visual task, researchers found that the animals» brains kept track of recent successes and failures.

The researchers then altered their technique to train the «wrong» side of the brain: for example, a patient who was missing their left arm was trained to move the prosthetic arm by decoding movements associated with their right arm, or vice versa.

In 2014, researchers at Karolinska Institutet reported that they had discovered a mechanism behind the beneficial effect of exercise training on the brain.

In a new study in mice, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden show that exercise training induces changes in skeletal muscle that can purge the blood of a substance that accumulates during stress, and is harmful to the brain.

Researchers at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have discovered for the first time that computerized brain training can result in improved cognitive skills in individuals with bipolar disorder.

«We know that cognitive impairment can be devastating for people with schizophrenia and there is a push to look at solutions, including medication options, brain training and brain stimulation techniques,» said lead author Gagan Fervaha, a researcher in the Complex Mental Illness program at CAMH and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.

A «brain training» iPad game developed and tested by researchers at the University of Cambridge may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at work and living independently, according to research.

In order to assess the effectiveness of using phonics the researchers trained adults to read in a new language, printed in unfamiliar symbols, and then measured their learning with reading tests and brain scans.

Researchers have found that both strength - endurance training and dancing increased hippocampal volume in the brain, but the latter had the greatest impact.

«Helping to shape research on traumatic brain injury and being involved in training future rehabilitation researchers is fulfilling in itself.

To get to the root of balance in the brain, the researchers first trained mice to walk across a balance beam, while the beam was nudged at specific intervals.

Kessler Foundation is also known for its training of rehabilitation researchers in stroke, as well as in brain injury, spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis.

Now researchers at the INSEAD - Sorbonne University Behavioral Lab and the University of Bonn said they have discovered how the brain lights up when under the sway of the placebo effect, a potential step in figuring out how to train people to recognize when they are falling victim to this habit of human nature.

University of Newcastle researcher Dr Vincent Candrawinata recommends sticking to brain training that involves real - world activities and offers novelty and challenge.

In a 2011 study published in the journal Psychiatry Research, for instance, researchers scanned the brains of participants who had little or no previous experience with mindfulness training.

University researchers are conducting important laboratory and classroom research and there is a growing body of teachers and school leaders who recognize one of the great ironies of education in the United States today: that the organ of learning is the brain but few educators have ever had any training in how the brain works, learns, and most importantly for students, changes.

Other studies have shown possible links between musical training in early childhood and structural changes in the brain, but researchers contend this study will provide more insights.

Experience a mind - body approach to mindfulness with Jim Cahill, a leading brain researcher trained in classical mindfulness methods under the guidance of the Dalai Lama's interpreter.

Also, if an ACC marker predicts better response, researchers might develop cognitive training that specifically targets this region, which could increase brain activation to accelerate or boost response to more traditional intervention.