Sentences with phrase «whether brain scans»

Researchers are now studying how genetics play a role and whether brain scans can help determine if a child has bipolar disorder.

Not exact matches

Before and after the ten weeks, all received brain scans and completed a cognitive exam, as well as a test designed to assess decision making and risk tolerance (for example, whether they were more likely to choose a smaller reward now or a larger reward later).

We headed back to Adelaide at about 32 weeks for another scan to check the measurements again and to see whether I could birth our baby back home, or whether (because of the possibility of fluid on the brain) I had to be in the city.

«But I would never tell a parole board to decide whether to release somebody or hold on to somebody, based on their brain scan as an individual, because I can't tell what are the causal factors in that individual.»

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

It's still not clear whether the blood test will be more affordable than a brain scan or a spinal tap.

Smith says her group is investigating whether PET imaging of serotonin could be a marker to detect progression of disease, whether alone or in conjunction with scans that detect the clumping protein known as amyloid that accumulates in the brains of those with Alzheimer's disease.

Then she examined the brain scans of her subjects to see which areas of the brain became active and to see whether the age of the volunteers — ranging from 6 to 29 — made a difference in their responses.

Then, as he scanned their brains, the subjects were shown another set of letter strings and had to judge whether their grammar was valid.

Now, UCLA researchers have developed a way to use brain scans and machine learning — a form of artificial intelligence — to predict whether people with OCD will benefit from cognitive behavior therapy.

John - Dylan Haynes at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, Germany, analysed brain scans of people deciding whether to add or subtract numbers.

Merim Bilalic at the University of Tübingen in Germany used fMRI to scan the brains of eight international chess players and eight novices while they identified either geometrical shapes or whether the pieces on a chess board were in a check situation.

Those brain scans might not look like the scans of people told to lie, for instance, about whether they'd taken a watch off a lab table.

A federal court in Tennessee heard arguments yesterday and today on whether lie detection technology based on fMRI scans of brain activity should be admitted in a criminal case involving a psychologist accused of defrauding Medicare.

So we wanted to find out whether a single brain scan in an NHS hospital scanner could also be effective in distinguishing between patients known to have MS and patients known to have non-MS brain lesions.

Using brain scans to detect whether dyslexic children have improved their reading skills, rather than testing these children's reading skills

Dan Jones asks whether we would abandon our belief in free will if brain scans could predict our every action...

The researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan 21 of the participants» brains while they viewed pairs of short film clips showing classmates of varying status within this social network, telling them all they needed to do was indicate whether the clips in each pair were the same or different, and that this task was unrelated to the first part of the experiment.

The blood test would provide hospitals and clinicians with a relatively quick screening tool to help them decide whether a CT scan would be likely to pick up any brain injury.

The new research shows that, in autism, connectivity in these networks that can be seen on fMRI scans is fairly similar regardless of whether the brain is at rest or performing a task.

Gabrieli and his colleagues used functional MRI scanning to monitor the naturally fluctuating brain activity of 20 volunteers and investigate whether the brain enters such a learning state.

A brain scan could reveal whether you would respond to a placebo or not.

Currently, brain scans help doctors know when a stroke has occurred, and also contain information on whether a stroke survivor may be at risk of developing cognitive problems or dementia.

Patient risk factors are easy to identify in brain scans, enabling doctors to decide whether the risk to patients outweighs the potential benefits of receiving alteplase, the team says.

A brain scan may be able to predict whether a patient with back pain will recover or develop persistent pain

«The scans don't have the resolution to determine whether brain cells have shrunk or been lost completely,» he added.

To test whether friendship, and more generally, social network proximity, is associated with increased similarity of real - time mental responding, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan subjects» brains during free viewing of naturalistic movies.

This is still an interesting paper but it would have been better to actually scan the 17 (or 40) patients» brains or follow up a sample of patients with brain injuries sustained in road traffic accidents, combat situations, etc., to see which ones become violent / criminal and whether this relates to the site and extent of the damage.»

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.

Hopefully, all new studies of therapies in HD will include brain scans, so scientists can see whether this loss of brain tissue is prevented.

People in the study only had brain scans at the end of the trial, which means the researchers couldn't say whether their brains had gotten smaller over time.

THURSDAY, May 17, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- A new MRI scanning technique can help doctors better nail down when a person has suffered a stroke and whether clot - busting drugs will help preserve their brain.

The difference between the two scans can give doctors a good idea whether blood - thinners would be of any use to preserve the stroke victim's brain function, Thomalla said.