Sentences with phrase «underwent brain scans»

They underwent brain scans, a mental health assessment, and took memory and thinking skills tests at the start of the study.

When Joshua Greene presented this and similar dilemmas while people underwent brain scans, he found that executive function areas of the prefrontal cortex were active, suggesting that people were consciously reflecting over this decision.

Each time they visited the lab, the participants underwent brain scans while playing a game that involved receiving monetary rewards of $ 10 and $ 1.

In the Cardiovascular Health Study in the USA, 3,660 people aged 65 and older underwent brain scans to detect so called silent brain infarcts, or small lesions in the brain that can cause loss of thinking skills, dementia and stroke.

The concussed players underwent brain scans at 13 hours and again seven weeks after their head injury, and the uninjured players had brain scans at the same time.

When studying honesty, neuroscientists usually ask people to either tell the truth or lie while undergoing a brain scan.

A team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health found that a chemical routinely given to stroke patients undergoing brain scans can leak into their eyes, highlighting those areas and potentially providing insight into their strokes.

Take a recent experiment in which French and English scientists had volunteers play a simple game while undergoing a brain scan.

In the experiment, four groups of subjects — voice - hearers (both psychotic and non-psychotic) and non-voice hearers (psychotic and non-psychotic)-- were repeatedly presented with a light and a tone at the same time while undergoing brain scans.

For example, a marijuana study participant typically undergoes a brain scan while being shown a picture of a bong, and researchers analyze the brain activation in response to the cue.

They underwent a brain scan using a technique called magnetoencephalography (MEG), which measures both the timing and location of brain responses to different gambling outcomes.

People who suffer a stroke often undergo a brain scan at the hospital, allowing doctors to determine the location and extent of the damage.

«Individuals with MS and healthy participants will undergo a brain scan while performing a learning task with two feedback conditions (monetary and non-monetary feedback) and a no - feedback condition,» Dr. Dobryakova described.

Not exact matches

Michael Schumacher has undergone a second brain surgery and a neurological scan shows that his condition, though still critical, has improved «slightly» in an update provided by his doctors Tuesday.

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.

GOOD DOGS To see how dogs process speech, these pooches were trained to undergo MRI brain scans.

Each participant underwent an MRI and PET scan to measure brain structures and levels of the serotonin transporter.

They played these clips to 22 people and 11 dogs while the subjects» brains were undergoing functional MRI scans.

The finding suggests that this type of scan could be used to identify children whose risk was previously unknown, allowing them to undergo treatment before developing depression, says John Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology and a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT.

Importantly, by scanning the subjects» brains while they underwent these tests, the scientists were able to establish a cerebral mechanism for that deficit in object memory.

Fathers also underwent functional MRI brain scans while viewing photos of an unknown adult, an unknown child, and their own child with happy, sad or neutral facial expressions.

These participants also underwent MRI scans which collected images of their brain while they learned and remembered names that were associated with pictures of unfamiliar faces.

In one experiment, Cook's team tested 30 sea lions, each of which had undergone an MRI scan to assess brain damage because of suspected toxin poisoning or other health problems.

In this new study, subjects were first screened for mental and physical health and then underwent MRI spectroscopy scans designed to detect the concentration of neural compounds in specific regions of their brain.

Next, the resting participants underwent two scans with another fMRI method known as blood oxygen level — dependent, or BOLD, to track connections and apparent information flow between brain regions.

To understand how the brain reacts to humor, Reiss and his team had test subjects rate the hilarity of cartoons while undergoing fMRI brain scans.

Participants were screened for risk - taking behaviors, such as drug and alcohol use, sexual promiscuity, and physical violence and underwent functional MRI (fMRI) scans to examine communication between brain regions associated with the emotional - regulation network.

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.

To learn more, the researchers compared unenhanced T1 - weighted MR images (T1WI) of 19 patients who had undergone six or more contrast - enhanced brain scans with 16 patients who had received six or fewer unenhanced scans.

The subjects underwent MRI brain scans before and after 4 weeks of the testosterone administration.

Subjects completed cognitive tests and underwent PET scans of their brains.

Within a week of the home visit, the participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning to determine how their brains reacted to the videotapes of themselves with their infants.

All subjects underwent magnetic resonance imaging scans, which the researchers analyzed with specialized software to reveal differences in the volume of brain structures.

The state's athletic commission requires that fighters undergo a brain imaging scan and annual blood tests for viruses like hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV.

In this study, the team imaged 43 patients undergoing ECT at three time points, before beginning treatment, after the second ECT session and within one week of completing treatment, resulting in 129 brain scans.

Shamanic practitioners (n = 15) underwent 8 minute brain scans while they listened to rhythmic drumming and entered a trance state (or remained in non-trance in a control condition).

Almost all brain and pituitary tumor patients undergo repeated MRI scans after treatment to observe for the possible recurrence of their tumors.

Recently, fMRI researchers have begun to realize that the brain's intrinsic network patterns may undergo substantial changes during a single resting state (RS) scan.

A co-worker at the agency claimed he had overheard Wilson's supervisor saying that she should not be placed on jobs because of her complaint, so Zevin had the co-worker undergo questioning about the incident during a brain scan by Cephos, one of several American companies that claim they can reliably use fMRI to establish whether somebody is telling the truth or lying.

It wasn't until the 36 - year - old actress and model saw an ear - nose - and - throat doctor, and underwent imaging scans, that she got a correct diagnosis: an irregularity in the arteries lining her brain, called an ateriovenous malformation (AVM), that was causing the blood vessels above her ear to pulsate.

The participants underwent physical exams, genetic testing and brain scans.

The study participants underwent a type of brain scan known as single - photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and took a series of computer - based tests designed to gauge real - world cognitive function.

Well, a blood test at the beginning of the study measured participants» estrogen and testosterone levels, then, individuals were exposed to images that could potentially evoke positive, negative, or neutral emotions while undergoing MRI brain scans.

A total of 147 adult volunteers underwent MRI scans to assess the link between sleep and brain volume.