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 | 4.9 / 5 (22) | 6

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 | 5 / 5 (10) | 0 |

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 | 3.8 / 5 (9) | 13 |

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 | 4 / 5 (7) | 0

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 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 1

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 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 0 |

Brain Regions Responsible for Empathy Mapped by Researchers

Columbia University researchers have shown for the first time that two brain systems are primarily responsible for allowing humans to accurately predict the emotions of others. Psychology professors Kevin ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

Jun 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 1

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 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 0

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 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

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 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Experts warn over health check brain scans

A new study has voiced concern about the growing market for brain screening tests, which people can buy as part of a general health MOT.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

Sep 03, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

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 | 5 / 5 (1) | 2

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 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

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 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

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