Science news articles about 'brain scans'

SYDNEY, July 26 (UPI) -- Australian researchers said brain scans may someday show if a person has aggressive tendencies.

... of daily practice in Zen meditation with 12 others who had never practiced meditation. While having their brains scanned, the subjects were asked to focus on their breathing. Every once in a while, ...

Using brain scans, researchers have confirmed that a certain part of the brain records actions – whether these are being performed or just watched.

Brain scans of older people in a noisy lab machine give biological backing to the idea that distraction hampers memory with aging, researchers reported Wednesday.

... William Hedgcock (University of Iowa) explain the reasons for this decoy effect. Volunteers had their brains scanned while they made choices between several sets of equally appealing options as well ...

... history, mental status tests, neurological evaluations and blood tests. Physicians typically use brain scans only to exclude conditions that can also cause memory deficits, such as strokes and brain ...

MRI brain scans should be included as a diagnostic test for early Alzheimer's disease, experts conclude.

Brain scan as Rorschach Test: what you see is in the mind of the beholder, not necessarily the beholdee. read more

... imaging (fMRI) to track real-time brain activity as study participants read and process ... eye movements, participants are immobilized within the brain-scanning device and presented with text one-word- ...

Scientists have used brain scans to read people's memories and work out where they were as they wandered around a virtual building.The landmark study by British researchers demonstrates that powerful ...

... in PTSD with those in other psychiatric disorders such as depression, are necessary before brain scans can be used as an additional diagnostic tool for the disorder. Dolcos added it is also important ...

... PTSD and those without it moves scientists a step closer to the possibility of being able one day to use brain scans to help diagnose the condition. The search for the footprints left in the brain by ...

Brain scans and memory tests may work as an early warning system for Alzheimer's disease, researchers said Tuesday.

... at certain cues and making monetary decisions. The scientists calculated how accurately they could tell from the fMRI brain scans which mental task each participant was engaged in. "We take 129 of ...

... have mild cognitive impairment that included memory loss. However, people who had infarcts on their brain scans were more likely to experience mild cognitive impairment in abilities other than memory ...