Sentences with phrase «use brain connectivity»

The researchers found a way to use brain connectivity (i.e. connections in the brain) to predict the best possible relief of Parkinson's Disease symptoms.

Not exact matches

They used MRI scanning to look at the functional brain connectivity patterns between the two activities.

The team's approach relied on methods developed in the past decade or so to study «functional connectivity» in the adult human brain — essentially using fMRI to determine which brain regions have synchronized activity when the subject is not engaged in any particular task.

For instance, knowing if there is a simple increase or decrease in connectivity between brain regions compared to healthy individuals, or whether those with autism use entirely different brain regions to implement cognitive flexibility will enable researchers to better design interventions to improve cognitive flexibility skills.

The researchers used the MRI sequences of more than 1,000 test subjects to create a «connectivity map» of the average human brain.

The in vitro model was used to extensively characterize the differences between neurons from different regions of the brain and to mimic the system's connectivity.

A different but also rapidly growing research direction deals with the use of connectivity measures to link brain structure and cognition.

For this study, researchers used resting - state fMRI to examine the connectivity, or communication, between brain areas.

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.

Scientists used a type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), known as diffusion weighted imaging, to measure the brain connectivity in 260 infants at the ages of 6 and 12 months, who had either high or low risks of autism.

In the first study to examine the intrinsic functional connectivity of the brain in relation to social media use, Dar Meshi and colleagues observed connectivity between regions of the brain previously established to play a role in self - cognition, in 35 participants.

The authors used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate connectivity in two brain networks involved in social processing: theory of mind (ToM, otherwise known as the mentalizing system, which allows an individual to infer what others are thinking, their beliefs, their intentions) and the mirror neuron system (MNS, which allows people to understand the meanings and actions of others by simulating and replicating them).

A group of researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at Illinois, led by psychology professor Aron Barbey and postdoctoral researcher Tanveer Talukdar, investigated whether individual differences in brain connectivity were associated with decision - making, using functional MRI and a comprehensive test of decision - making.

«Most previous studies have focused on using one technique at a time, even though we have evidence that there are alterations in the brain in autism in terms of structure, white - matter connectivity, and brain chemical concentrations.

«To examine the connectivity from any one site to other brain regions, we used a data base of functional MRI images and a technique that enables you to see correlations in spontaneous brain activity.»

To study how music preferences might affect functional brain connectivity — the interactions among separate areas of the brain — Burdette and his fellow investigators used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which depicts brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

This technique uses fMRI brain scanning to monitor the functional connectivity between two brain regions, while participants performed a simple motor - imagery task.

The HCP seeks to map brain connectivity at a macroscopic scale, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

«Nonetheless, we think that we can use optogenetics to put together a larger picture of connectivity between other types of neurons in other areas of the brain.»

More recently, I have demonstrated the feasibility of using fMRI in combination with pharmaco - genetic silencing to dissect the circuital basis of complex behaviors, and demonstrated for the first time that the mouse brain contains distributed resting - state functional connectivity networks, including plausible homologues of the human default - mode (DMN) and salience networks.

The FlyEM team strives to unravel the neural connectivity of the fly brain using Electron Microscopic (EM) imaging.

Researchers used MRI to assess the strength of functional connectivity in the default - mode network, which are the regions of the brain most active when a person is in wakeful rest.

Neuroimaging of the spinal cord will be used to assess how the combination therapy can strengthen connectivity of the pathway between the brain and injured spinal cord and how the improved connectivity explains gains in walking and balance function.

Classification of schizophrenia and bipolar patients using static and time - varying resting - state FMRI brain connectivity

Recently, functional network connectivity (FNC, defined as the temporal correlation among spatially distant brain networks) has been used to examine the functional organization of brain networks in

Classification of schizophrenia and bipolar patients using static and dynamic resting - state fMRI brain connectivity

«Using strength testing and specialized EEG and neuroimaging techniques, we will look at the effects on handgrip strength and the level of functional brain - to - brain and brain - to - muscle connectivity that modulates maximal muscle force.

These 2 modalities were used to investigate connectivity within the default mode network, a set of brain regions — including medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), medial temporal lobes (MTLs), and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) / retropslenial cortex (RSC)-- implicated in episodic memory processing.

Whole - brain connectivity approaches have also provided evidence of hypo - connectivity of social processing - related brain circuits in adolescents with ASD (Gotts et al., 2012), though a recent systematic investigation using both ROI - based and ICA - based analytic approaches found very few examples of functional hypo - connectivity in adults with ASD compared with age - matched control participants (Tyszka et al., 2013).

These results can be translated into a connectivity - based targeting strategy for focal brain stimulation that might be used to optimize clinical response.

These measures have been used to characterize large - scale networks in the human brain (Bressler and Menon, 2010; Sporns, 2011), and have paved the way for increasingly sophisticated investigations of brain connectivity in ASD (Kennedy and Adolphs, 2012).

Using fMRI techniques, we will study the effects of intranasal oxytocin and social support on brain activation patterns and functional connectivity in the acute aftermath of the traumatic event.

Her research project at the GRID Lab, which is affiliated with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), investigated how learning to use a BCI affects connectivity in the brain beyond the BCI implantation site.

These measurements were used to quantify connectivity changes in the brain due to BCI learning.

And studies using functional MRI measures have shown that the amount of cortical brain area used is greater during eccentric contractions than in concentric contractions (Yao et al. 2014), while functional connectivity between the primary motor cortex and other parts of the brain is reduced (Yao et al. 2016).

These increases * in brain connectivity are both structural and functional and although they compensate for gray matter loss, it starts degrading with prolonged use of marijuana.

Dr. Johnson's research uses advanced magnetic resonance images of the animal brain in order to study the structure and connectivity of the white matter in the equine brain as well as to identify MRI biomarkers for canine degenerative myelopathy and to improve our ability to understand and diagnose canine epilepsy.

In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that more socially connected people have brains characterized by stronger intrinsic connectivity between the amygdala and other brain regions subserving social cognition, using resting - state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fcMRI).

Investigating brain connectivity heritability in a twin study using diffusion imaging data.