News tagged with magnetic response

Researchers provide atomic view of a histone chaperone

Mayo Clinic researchers have gained insights into the function of a member of a family of specialized proteins called histone chaperones. Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography, they ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Youth at risk for obesity show greater brain activity in response to food

Do people overeat because they experience less reward from eating or because they experience more reward from eating? In the March 23, 2011 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience Oregon Research Institute (ORI) senior scient ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Crying baby draws blunted response in depressed mom's brain

Mothers who are depressed respond differently to their crying babies than do non-depressed moms. In fact, their reaction, according to brain scans at the University of Oregon, is much more muted than the robust ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Revealing the wiring that allows us to adapt to the unexpected

Wouldn't life be easy if everything happened as we anticipated? In reality, our brains are able to adapt to the unexpected using an inbuilt network that makes predictions about the world and monitors how those predictions ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Perceived intentions influence brain response

People generally like to see generous people rewarded and selfish people punished. Now, new research reveals a critical link between how we perceive another's intentions and our evaluation of their behavior. The study, published ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Functional MRI may predict response of hepatocellular carcinoma to chemoembolization

A research team from United States investigated whether intra-procedural diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging can predict response of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) during transcatheter arterial chemoembolization ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In The Brain, Early-Stage Intense Passionate Love Seems To Be Universal

(PhysOrg.com) -- Close relationship researchers have previously found that Easterners (those from collectivistic cultures such as China) seem to regard love differently from Westerners (those from individualist ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 28, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Brain imaging may help diagnose autism

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) process sound and language a fraction of a second slower than children without ASDs, and measuring magnetic signals that mark this delay may become a standardized ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Electrochemical technique follows the motion of individual microparticles in space and time

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many bacteria are able to 'swim' through liquids by means of a flagellum. When doing this, some bacteria follow attractants, some flee from harmful substances, and others align themselves using light, gravity, ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0