News tagged with functional magnetic resonance imaging
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Strong link found between concussions and brain tissue injury (w/ Video)
Concussions, whether from an accident, sporting event, or combat, can lead to permanent loss of higher level mental processes. Scientists have debated for centuries whether concussions involve structural damage ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Training can improve multitasking ability
(PhysOrg.com) -- Training increases brain processing speed and improves our ability to multitask, new research from Vanderbilt University indicates.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Future angst? Brain scans show uncertainty fuels anxiety
(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has spent a sleepless night anguishing over a possible job loss has experienced the central finding of a new brain scan study: Uncertainty makes a bad event feel even worse.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Researchers find genetic link between physical pain and social rejection
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA psychologists have determined for the first time that a gene linked with physical pain sensitivity is associated with social pain sensitivity as well.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Researchers Find Alcoholics Display Abnormal Brain Activity When Processing Facial Expressions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that individuals who have a long history of alcoholism, but who have been abstinent for at least a month up to many years, showed abnormal ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Why anorexic patients cling to their eating disorder
Anorexic patients drastically reduce food intake and are often not capable of changing their behavior. This can lead to life-threatening weight loss. Using MRI technology, scientists at Heidelberg University Hospital have ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Researchers find differences in how adolescent girls’ and boys’ brains react to peer interaction
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), including a Georgia State University scientist, have found differences between girls and boys in how parts of the brain develop in ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Can brain scans read your mind? Neuroscientists provides new insights
(PhysOrg.com) -- "If you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts could tell" -- Gordon Lightfoot
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Brain's center for perceiving 3-D motion is identified (w/ Video)
Ducking a punch or a thrown spear calls for the power of the human brain to process 3-D motion, and to perceive an object (whether it's offensive or not) moving in three dimensions is critical to survival. ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Scientists reveal secret of girl with 'all seeing eye'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered how a 10-year-old girl born with half a brain is able to see normally through one eye. The youngster, from Germany, has both fields of vision in one eye and is the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Childhood adversity may affect processing in the brain's reward pathways
New research shows that childhood adversity is associated with diminished neural activity in brain regions implicated in the anticipation of possible rewards.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Brain emotion circuit sparks as teen girls size up peers
What is going on in teenagers' brains as their drive for peer approval begins to eclipse their family affiliations? Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Breakthrough in 3-D Brain Mapping Enables Removal of Fist-Sized Tumor
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technology involving the fusion of four different types of images into a 3-D map of a patient's brain has helped University of Cincinnati (UC) specialists successfully remove a fist-sized ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Biology knows best -- human-like vision lets robots navigate naturally
(PhysOrg.com) -- A robotic vision system that mimics key visual functions of the human brain promises to let robots manoeuvre quickly and safely through cluttered environments, and to help guide the visually impaired.
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Imaging the hypnotized brain: Neural mechanisms of suggested paralysis
Although there is no doubt that hypnosis can impact the mind and behavior, the underlying brain mechanisms are not well understood. Now, new research provides fascinating insight into the specific neural effect of the power ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 24, 2009 |
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