Sentences with phrase «uses brain mapping»

Modern neurotheology uses brain mapping techniques to investigate the premise that humans have a common trait, possibly located in the brain, that is definable as spiritual or religious experience.

Researchers analyze intelligence using brain mapping and cognitive testing in people with and without brain injury

Not exact matches

«We showed that the approach doctors have been using for 130 years of mapping brain lesions to symptoms only gets you so far,» Siegel said.

«If we get better at mapping the brain areas responsible, it will lead to more precision in the use of technologies that may repair these damaged connections, like deep brain stimulation.»

At the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a psychiatric team is mapping the brain's intricate web of neural connections, using images from MRI scans, to try to identify regions responsible for depression.

But the owl's brain uses input from the eyes to keep its auditory map up to date.

Neuroscientists are now using optogenetics to map brain activity and test the effectiveness of an on / off switch in treating disorders.

To test that idea in the ragworm, Tomer used a technique he had developed to examine the complex brains of small creatures with unprecedented clarity: He created a high - resolution map of the worm's brain cells according to the genes they express, not just their shape and location.

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

The researchers used a technique called laser scanning photostimulation to map the connections between individual subplate neuron cells in the brains of the mouse pups.

In the study, the researchers then used a combination of different techniques to map the connections from the habenula to the frontal area of the brain, and to precisely control the activity of neurons in these regions.

«Brain mapping using depth electrodes represents a potential alternative to the WADA test in cases where the side of speech dominance is uncertain,» said Dr. Miller.

University of Florida surgeons use mapping software to plan the insertion of an electrode into a patient's brain.

For instance, magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a neuroimaging technique used to map brain activity and trace pathological abnormalities, such as epileptic tissue.

He later used the map to simulate a human - scale brain on an IBM supercomputer.

Brain imaging techniques revealed that men found their way out of the maze using the left hippocampus, a memory storage region that also governs spatial mapping in the physical environment.

Stolk plans future studies with Knight using fine - tuned brain mapping on the actual surfaces of the brains of volunteers, so - called electrocorticography.

Scientists in the US are planning to map the brain activity of the dragonfly as it hunts, using a specially built backpack to transmit electrical signals from the insect's active neurons to a computer.

Here are «heat maps» of the brain, made using the mathematical model to predict the distribution of different neurons.

By mapping how the brain generates and processes emotions, they hope to discover ways people might use the power of their own minds to overcome the crippling impact of fear or depression, and maybe even improve their physical health as well.

A team of multidisciplinary researchers with expertise spanning biotechnology, information technology, and medicine have used a combination of several «omics technologies to map proteins down to the single cell level, showing both proteins restricted to certain tissues — such as the brain, heart, or liver — and those present in all tissues.

Waves in your brain make smells stick to your memories and inner maps: When I was a child I used to sit in my grandfather's workshop, playing with wood shavings.

The new research focused on just nine genes, those most strongly associated with autism in recent sequencing studies, and investigated their effects using precise maps of gene expression during human brain development.

Using CT scans, the scientists painstakingly mapped the affected brain regions of each participant, then pooled the data to build a collective map of the brain.

Rushworth is now mapping the circuit using diffusion - weighted MRI, which tracks the movement of water through the brain, to find out which areas the DPFC is linked to.

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.

Ultimately, MICrONS aims to map every neuron and synaptic connection within a 1 - cubic - millimeter chunk of tissue from the mouse visual cortex, and use those detailed brain connection maps to design computer architectures able to perform tasks that are easy for a brain but out of reach for artificial intelligence.

To test whether the hippocampus could actually form spatial maps using only visual landmarks, Mehta's team devised a noninvasive virtual reality environment and studied how the hippocampal neurons in the brains of rats reacted in the virtual world without the ability to use smells and sounds as cues.

The researchers enrolled epilepsy patients at Wake Forest Baptist who were participating in a diagnostic brain - mapping procedure that used surgically implanted electrodes placed in various parts of the brain to pinpoint the origin of the patients» seizures.

NIRSIT allows the researchers to monitor the subject's brain activation changes and analyze the results in an intuitive way, using both the 3D brain mapping images as well as the oxy - deoxy graphs covering the prefrontal area of the brain.

UNIGE neuroscientists thus asked how these spatial maps are used by the brain itself when it performs specific tasks.

One of the classic images used in introductory biology and psychology courses is the motor homunculus: a deformed map of the body drawn on the primary motor cortex, showing which brain areas control different body parts.

Using electrodes implanted in the brains of three people to treat their epilepsy, Edward Chang and colleagues at the University of California in San Francisco mapped brain activity as the volunteers spoke in English.

However, they do not allow us to know whether this information was used to perform the task, or if it reflects the consequences of this task — in other words, spreading information in our brain,» continues Valérian Chambon, researcher at the Departement d'études cognitives at the ENS.. The mapped regions outside of the posterior superior temporal lobe are thus false positives, in a way.

Now a team of researchers has used computer - vision and machine - learning techniques in fruit flies to create behavior anatomy maps that will help us understand how specific brain circuits generate Drosophila aggression, wing extension, or grooming.

The pair have already successfully begun to use DTI to map brain structure at the level of nerve fibres, and it could be fruitful to follow connections out from a point activated by TMS, says Johansen - Berg.

A team led by psychologist Jordan Grafman and neurologist Paolo Nichelli found that the overall strategy the brain uses for chess can be broken down into simpler functions and mapped to specific areas.

And we use the neural data from her brain and the map of her brain signals we've generated to understand what she's trying to do and make that happen.

The atlas created using images from MRI scans of older people could aid diagnosis by comparing the patients» scans with a detailed map of the healthy aging brain.

For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns in human and animal brains in the resting state in order to figure out how different parts of the brain are connected and to identify the changes that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases.

The team then used software to plot clustering data from six people on a single brain map, pictured below.

Researchers at Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and their colleagues used data from such maps to develop a statistical approach that reveals details about brains» internal networks.

and «And what eyes they were», it was used to build the first map of how the brain processes the building blocks of speech — distinct units of sound known as phonemes.

«Grape - derived compounds may promote resilience against depression, researchers find: New study used DNA epigenetic mapping to analyze novel inflammatory mechanisms influencing brain circuitry associated with depression.»

January 4, 2006 Chemical signaling helps regulate sensory map formation in the brain Researchers from the University of Chicago have uncovered an important mechanism used by the developing brain to pattern nerve connections in the part of the brain that interprets visual signals.

Using the brain recordings generated while the participants navigated the city, the researchers were able to develop a neural map that corresponded to the city's layout.

Using electrodes implanted in the brains of three people to treat their epilepsy, Edward Chang and his colleagues at the University of California mapped brain activity in each volunteer's motor cortex as they pronounced words in American English.

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

Approach: Wu's group used Brainbow, a transgenic technique originally devised to map individual neurons in the brain, to label cells stochastically using gene cassettes that code for four uniquely expressed fluorescent proteins.

PULLMAN, Wash. — A WSU research team for the first time has developed a computer algorithm that is nearly as accurate as people are at mapping brain neural networks — a breakthrough that could speed up the image analysis that researchers use to understand brain circuitry.