News tagged with mri brain scan
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 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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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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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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Fighter pilots' brains are 'more sensitive'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cognitive tests and MRI scans have shown significant differences in the brains of fighter pilots when compared to a control group, according to a new study led by scientists from UCL.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Study of babies' brain scans sheds new light on the brain's unconscious activity and how it develops
Full-term babies are born with a key collection of networks already formed in their brains, according to new research that challenges some previous theories about the brain's activity and how the brain develops. The study ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Mother's flu during pregnancy may increase baby's risk of schizophrenia
Rhesus monkey babies born to mothers who had the flu while pregnant had smaller brains and showed other brain changes similar to those observed in human patients with schizophrenia, a study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 11, 2010 |
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Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited
They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are? Actually, say UCLA researchers, it can.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Dips and Swells of Your Brain May Reveal Early Mental Disorders
(PhysOrg.com) -- John Csernansky wants to take your measurements. Not the circumference of your chest, waist and hips. No, this doctor wants to stretch a tape measure around your hippocampus, thalamus and ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Brain bypass surgery sparks restoration of lost brain tissue
Neurosurgeons at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto Western Hospital, have for the first time, initiated the restoration of lost brain tissue through brain bypass surgery in patients where blood flow to the brain is ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 18, 2011 |
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Uncovering early stages of Alzheimer's Disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- A major Australian study has provided new insights into the loss of structure in regions of the brain and its potential association with Alzheimer's Disease.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 26, 2010 |
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Adult autism diagnosis by brain scan
Scientists from the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London have developed a pioneering new method of diagnosing autism in adults. For the first time, a quick brain scan that takes just 15 minutes can identify ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 10, 2010 |
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Healthy older brains not significantly smaller than younger brains, new imaging study shows
The belief that healthy older brains are substantially smaller than younger brains may stem from studies that did not screen out people whose undetected, slowly developing brain disease was killing off cells in key areas, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Exercise helps protect brain of multiple sclerosis patients
Highly fit multiple sclerosis patients perform significantly better on tests of cognitive function than similar less-fit patients, a new study shows.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 18, 2010 |
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