Not exact matches
Exercise can help you relax, increase your
brain power, and even improve your body
image, even if you don't lose any
weight.
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.
The researchers showed
images of people of normal
weight or overweight people to 70 female patients consulting the Clinic for Mental and
Brain Diseases (CMME) of Sainte Anne Hospital.
To hit the target, the
brain had to coordinate such variables as muscle movements, visual
images, and the
weight of the stone.
Adult
brains are less malleable than juvenile ones, much as a Boltzmann machine trained with 100,000 car
images won't change much upon seeing another: Its synapses already have the correct
weights to categorize a car.
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 researchers
imaged each participant's
brain using structural magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion -
weighted imaging.
In T2 -
weighted images, cerebrospinal fluid has an increased signal relative to
brain, and fat has almost no signal.
In T1 -
weighted images, cerebrospinal fluid has a low - density relative to
brain, while the fat has a high - signal intensity.
This
image is a
weighted post contrast MRI of a dog's
brain showing a lesion in the cerebellum.