... suggests that the long-term change in visual behavior is not driving the brain's remapping. Instead, the brain changes appear to be a relatively passive response to visual deprivation.
"Macular ...
... formation in older humans who exhibit some early brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD ... amyloid imaging with an associative memory functional brain imaging paradigm to study older humans ...
Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in American veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries.
... used cutting-edge technology to explore the idea that the complex behavioral, psychological, emotional and brain changes associated with alcoholism are likely due to how networks of proteins respond ...
... no relationship between higher fitness levels and brain changes in the group of people without dementia. ... volume lost. Evidence shows decreasing brain volume is tied to poorer cognitive performance, ...
... to developing the compulsive rigid symptoms that are characteristic of OCD. This study shows that these brain changes run in families and represent a candidate vulnerability factor. The current ...
... risk factor for Alzheimer's disease have neurological changes that are detectable long before clinical symptoms may appear. Functional MRI brain imaging revealed that these symptomless carriers of ...
... frequencies spread out across the auditory part of the brain. In a new study, published August 6 ... social environment, basic auditory properties in its brain change to become more finely tuned. In human ...
... samples, while four displayed no Alzheimer's disease–related brain changes. The patients were injected with a marker known as carbon 11–labeled Pittsburgh Compound B ([11C]PiB) ...
... researchers don't yet know whether these brain changes were caused by more walking or whether participants walked better because brain activity in these key areas increased. This question will be ...
... one of the leading causes of disability, second only to cardiovascular disease, by the year 2015.
Brain changes induced by stress and depression
The areas of the brain that are most affected by the ...
The brains of people who commit suicide are chemically different to those who die from other causes, a study suggests.
... with greater impulsivity.
"We are beginning to understand how genetic factors can lead to structural brain changes that may make people more vulnerable to alcoholism," Dr. Hill said. "These results ...
... positron emission tomography scans, Pittsburgh Compound B (PIB), can reveal the presence of amyloid plaques, a key brain change that many neurologists suspect either causes Alzheimer's or ...
... show that exercise may reduce age-related changes in brain vasculature and blood flow," said presenter ... MR angiography to depict blood vessels in the brain.
Using a novel method of three-dimensional (3 ...
