Sentences with phrase «with brain scans»

But I don't think anybody has pursued this line with brain scans yet.

Because the tumour is located in an area of the brain which makes surgery risky, Alix is on a watchful waiting program, with brain scans every six months to monitor for progression.

Examining the children with brain scans, Dowell determined the spells were seizures like those seen in epilepsy.

I have coupled the answers of these questionnaires with the brain scans we have collected over the years, which allowed us to detect these differences».

Less than a quarter of drug - resistant patients, however, meet the medical criteria for the procedures, the main one being a distinct site of origin in the brain for their seizures (confirmed with brain scans and electroencephalography) that does not overlap with regions involved in essential functions, such as language.

The edifice of research being built with brain scans is flawed.

This book is packed full of empirical evidence, much of it shown with brain scans and papers on an 18 year study.

Most reported some type of cognitive ailment, and all were monitored with brain scans.

«OCD treatment could someday start with a brain scan.»

Feusner, who also is a professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said if the study's results are replicated, OCD treatment could someday start with a brain scan.

«If we can detect these areas with a high degree of precision with a brain scan, we can spare our patients additional surgery,» said Loeb.

Law is already in bed head with brain scanning, of course.

Not exact matches

After taking samples and conducting brain scans, the researchers found that 41 percent of mothers of babies with microcephaly tested positive for Zika infection in blood or cerebrospinal fluid samples, compared with none of those whose babies did not have microcephaly.

Other studies, meanwhile, are examining tryp's potential efficacy as an antifungal agent; and as a prognostic indicator in patients with brain cancer (as seen by increased uptake of the amino acid on a PET scan).

As we all know, religious thinking confuses «what would I do» with «what would my magic agency do» as per brain scans of activity and where it is localized.

Brain scans of perfumers have found that the olfactory parts of their brains actually grew more developed as they got older, not the other way around, as with most people.

Charlotte Hornets forward Nicolas Batum undergwent a CT scan on his brain to determine the cause behind the painful migraines he's been dealing with, according to ESPN.com's Chris Haynes on Wednesday.

Former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar had to have a brain scan in 1993 after being hit on the head with a rock during a World Cup qualifying match between Zimbabwe and Egypt.

Lastly, at the end of this film, Christopher Plummer was experimenting with a brain - scanning technology on two subjects and placed them in a room with a wired device on their heads.

Doctors use CT scans in the brain to diagnose brain tumors or visualize injuries, bleeding, or any structural changes and infections that can occur and be difficult to see with an X-ray or routine exam.

The abnormalities disclosed on post-season DTI scans among the players were closer to the scan of the one player with diagnosed concussion than to the normal brains in the control group.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

Using brain scans to compare the gray matter of children with RAD to typically developing children, the researchers found significantly reduced volume of gray matter in the area of the brain known as the left primary visual cortex.

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital performed preseason brain scans of 65 varsity athletes — 23 from collision sports (with routine, purposeful body - to - body contact), 22 from contact sports (where contact is allowed, but is not an integral part of the game) and 20 from non-contact sports.

With MRI scans, we found that babies fed more breast milk had larger brain volumes.»

Researchers used health data gathered during recent personal interviews with the subjects, and also analyzed data from MRI scans showing the current state of the subjects» brain cortices.

To investigate the neural underpinnings of extreme intelligence, he compares a scan of his own brain to Einstein's brain, which has long intrigued scientists with its anatomical anomalies.

Even if a scan shows abnormal activity in a brain region associated with impulse control or regulation of emotions, such imaging provides no more than probabilistic information, Hyman said.

She engages K - 12 students in her neuroscience research through lab visits and internships for students from low - performing schools, and compliments her research by meeting with each study participant to discuss their brain scans, as well as their college plans and potential interest in a science career.

The first PET scan of a person with Cotard's revealed that metabolic activity in the frontal and parietal regions of the brain was so low as to resemble that of someone in a vegetative state (Cortex, doi.org/mmt).

By keeping only those scans for which the fetus was relatively still, they found that, as expected, the two halves of the brain formed denser and more numerous connections with each other as the weeks passed.

In July, Steven Laureys at Liège University Hospital in Belgium performed the first brain scan of a person with Cotard's.

Brain scans of musicians as they improvised in a musical dialogue with another player showed that the improvisers used regions involved in syntax during production of language.

When Thompson's team looked at brain scans of 206 healthy people aged 70 to 80, they found that those with at least one copy of the FTO variant had 8 per cent less volume in their frontal lobes and 12 per cent less in the occipital lobes, compared with their counterparts lacking the variant.

The monkeys» eye - focusing movements, coupled with scans of brain activity, revealed that they were «seeing» images shown in the «blind» part of their visual field, but only if their LGN was intact (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09179).

Gregory Samanez - Larkin, a neuroscientist at Stanford University in California, scanned the brains of 110 men and women aged 19 to 85 with functional MRI as they played 100 rounds of a game in which they had to choose one of three possible investments.

With PET scans and functional MRI, we can observe fluctuations in brain activity by measuring changes in blood flow and levels of nutrients.

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.

UNSETTLING it may be, but following the gaze of a virtual face during a brain scan is helping to unravel brain activity that is key to complex human social interactions: activity that may be atypical in people with autism.

One week later, the researchers showed the volunteers the object again and asked them which odour or sound they associated with it, while scanning their brains.

The scientists recommend that people with advanced - stage fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, which mostly affects teenagers and young adults, receive regular neuroimaging scans because of the tumor's apparent ability to metastasize to the brain.

These contrasting patterns of activity can now be detected via brain scans, and could one day help determine if patients with brain damage are conscious.

Yvette Sheline and her colleagues at Washington University scanned the brains of 18 people with major depression and compared them with the brains of 17 healthy individuals.

What jumped out in those brain scans was that the areas of the brain in the lower parts of the prefrontal cortex were hyper, hyper, hyperactive in addicts and were correlated with their cravings.

Belger, the director of the UNC Neurocognition and Imaging Research Laboratory, and recent UNC graduate student Joseph Shaffer, PhD, compared brain scans from more than 100 people with schizophrenia against brain scans from people with no psychiatric diagnoses.

Examining the brain scans in the context of other disease markers from spinal fluid analyses and neuropsychiatric tests on the same participants showed that the rise and spread of tau in the brain tracked more closely with declining mental function than did amyloid.

Patients showing gadolinium in the vitreous chamber at the later timepoint tended to be of older age, have a history of hypertension, and have more bright spots on their brain scans, called white matter hyperintensities, that are associated with brain aging and decreased cognitive function.

Neuroscientist Kevin Pelphrey, director of Yale University's Child Neuroscience Laboratory — and father of two children with autism — scanned the brains of children with autism after they were given a one - time dose of oxytocin.

Functional MRI scans showed this triggered increased activity in two brain regions associated with rejection.

Yet he cautions the accuracy of amyloid PET scanning — the standard against which the blood test is being measured — remains controversial, compared with true gold standard of Alzheimer's, a postmortem inspection of brain tissue.