News tagged with mental image
Brain imaging provides window into consciousness
Using a sophisticated imaging test to probe for higher-level cognitive functioning in severely brain-injured patients provides a window into consciousness -- but the view it presents is one that is blurred in fascinating ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Research may lead to treatment of a variety of mental disorders
One of the first studies published from the University of Missouri Brain Imaging Center (BIC) gives researchers insight into the brain and memory and may provide researchers clues to treating a variety of debilitating disorders.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 25, 2011 |
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Scientists find evidence for 'chronesthesia,' or mental time travel
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to remember the past and imagine the future can significantly affect a person's decisions in life. Scientists refer to the brain’s ability to think about the past, present, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Video: Teen body image -- reality versus perception
For many, the topic of teen body image conjures thoughts of overweight adolescents battling the scale, peer separation and depression, but a recent study conducted by Michelle Frisco and Jason Houle of Penn ...
Dec 15, 2010 |
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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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Don't I know you? Research sheds light on memorial retrieval
We have all had the embarrassing experience of seeing an acquaintance in an unfamiliar setting. We know we know them but can't recall who they are. But with the correct cues from conversation or context, something seems ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Are teenagers wired differently than adults?
Parents have long suspected that the brains of their teenagers function differently than those of adults. With the advent of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, we have begun to appreciate how the brain continues to develop ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Oprah, Luke Skywalker and Maradona -- new study investigates how our brains respond to them
Pictures paint concepts of a thousand words- now, for the first time, scientists studying the brain have worked out how words paint concepts in our minds.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
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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A rush of blood to the head -- anger increases blood flow
Mental stress causes carotid artery dilation and increases brain blood flow. A series of ultrasound experiments, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Cardiovascular Ultrasound, also found that this dilatory reflex ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Stress disrupts human thinking, but the brain can bounce back
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new neuroimaging study on stressed-out students suggests that male humans, like male rats, don’t do their most agile thinking under stress. The findings, published this month in the Proceedings of the Na ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Body weight linked to children's self-esteem
(PhysOrg.com) -- National statistics show one in four children in Canada are obese, yet very little research has been done to find out what effects, if any, being overweight has on their self esteem and well-being.
Jan 20, 2009 |
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