News tagged with brain scans
Remembering the future: Our brain saves energy by predicting what it will see
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered that the brain saves energy by predicting what it is likely to see. According to scientists in the Department of Psychology at the University of Glasgow in collaboration ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Reward-driven people win more, even when no reward at stake
Whether it's for money, marbles or chalk, the brains of reward-driven people keep their game faces on, helping them win at every step of the way, even when there is no reward at stake, suggests a surprising ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Toyota technology has brain waves move wheelchair
(AP) -- Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command.
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Patient presumed vegetative communicates via brain scan: study
(AP) -- Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them - findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and care for ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 03, 2010 |
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Scientists discover area of brain that makes a 'people person'
Cambridge University researchers have discovered that whether someone is a 'people-person' may depend on the structure of their brain: the greater the concentration of brain tissue in certain parts of the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 20, 2009 |
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Study: Love music? Thank a substance in your brain
Whether it's the Beatles or Beethoven, people like music for the same reason they like eating or having sex: It makes the brain release a chemical that gives pleasure, a new study says.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 09, 2011 |
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When it comes to intelligence, size matters
A collaborative study led by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University has demonstrated a positive link between cognitive ability and cortical thickness in the brains of healthy ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Brain doesn't need vision at all in order to 'read' material
The portion of the brain responsible for visual reading doesn't require vision at all, according to a new study by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and France.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Brain scan can tell if a smoker will quit (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain scans showing neural reactions to pro-health messages can predict if you'll keep that resolution to quit smoking more accurately than you yourself can. That's according to a new study ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 31, 2011 |
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More evidence that Alzheimer's disease may be inherited from your mother
Results from a new study contribute to growing evidence that if one of your parents has Alzheimer's disease, the chances of inheriting it from your mother are higher than from your father. The study is published in the March ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Mouse brain seen in sharpest detail ever
The most detailed magnetic resonance images ever obtained of a mammalian brain are now available to researchers in a free, online atlas of an ultra-high-resolution mouse brain, thanks to work at the Duke Center ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Brain scans show children with ADHD have faulty off-switch for mind-wandering
(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain scans of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have shown for the first time why people affected by the condition sometimes have such difficulty in concentrating. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 05, 2011 |
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New microscope records firing of thousands of individual neurons in 3-D
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some disorders of the brain are obvious -- the massive death of brain cells after a stroke, the explosion in the growth of cells that marks a tumor. Other disorders, such as autism, schizophrenia ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Mental maturity scan tracks brain development
(PhysOrg.com) -- Five minutes in a scanner can reveal how far a child's brain has come along the path from childhood to maturity and potentially shed light on a range of psychological and developmental disorders, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Gene linked to ADHD allows memory task to be interrupted by brain regions tied to daydreaming
Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) say brain scans show that a gene nominally linked to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) leads to increased interference by brain regions associated ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 16, 2010 |
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Neuroimaging
Neuroimaging includes the use of various techniques to either directly or indirectly image the structure, function/pharmacology of the brain. It is a relatively new discipline within medicine and neuroscience/psychology.
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