Science news articles about 'functional brain imaging'
Big steps forward in human functional brain imaging, but collaborations key to patient benefit
... through the flow of blood a new article provides reflections on the field of human functional brain imaging ...Millisecond brain signals predict response to fast-acting antidepressant
... electromagnetic activity lasting only milliseconds – the speed of communications in neural circuits – whereas other functional brain imaging techniques can only capture activity that last ...New study finds obese women more impulsive than other females
... said. T he UAB researchers are now conducting delay-discounting studies using functional brain imaging (fMRI). The researchers are using the UAB Civitan ...Not just your imagination: The brain perceives optical illusions as real motion
... concentric circles appear to rotate continuously (see below). The resulting article, Functional brain imaging of the Rotating Snakes illusion by fMRI ...Brain activity predicts people's choices
... postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London, used functional brain imaging to explain why people reevaluate ...Early warning: Key Alzheimer's brain changes observed in unimpaired older humans
... and colleagues combined amyloid imaging with an associative memory functional brain imaging paradigm to study older humans who did not exhibit significant memory impairment ...New therapy gives hope for very severe depression
... metabolism But what is the exact effect of the stimulation of the nucleus accumbens? 'We were able to show using functional brain imaging methods that the stimulation changes metabolic ...Queen's study exposes cognitive effects of Parkinson's disease
... could further upset a patient's cognitive balance. Mr. Cameron is now conducting functional brain imaging in Parkinson's patients to determine which parts ...Study shows tranquil scenes have positive impact on brain
... . The research, which was published in the journal NeuroImage, uses functional brain imaging to assess how the environment impacts upon ... out functional brain scanning at the University of Sheffield to examine brain activity when people were presented with images ...Noninvasive brain stimulation helps improve motor function in stroke patients
... with patients who underwent physical and occupational therapy coupled with placebo stimulation. In addition, functional brain imaging showed that the therapy's effect was correlated ...Why Can Some Blind People Process Speech Far Faster Than Sighted Persons?
... group of real individuals with such superhuman mental abilities--blind people. Moreover, functional brain imaging now reveals how they achieve their extraordinary ...How does anesthesia disturb self-perception?
... changes the way we perceive the outside world and our own body. The teams are now using functional brain imaging to characterise the regions concerned ...Brain scientists offer medical educators tips on the neurobiology of learning
... Medical School. The research In the past 50 years, behavioral approaches combined with functional brain imaging and computational neuroscience have revealed strategies ...Doing good so you don't feel bad: Neural mechanisms of guilt anticipation and cooperation
... in motivating cooperation. The researchers combined a formal behavioral model of guilt aversion with functional brain imaging to identify neural structures involved ...Ancient footprints show human-like walking began nearly 4 million years ago
... human ancestors. The team used a new statistical technique, based on methods employed in functional brain imaging, to obtain a three-dimensional average ...
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