News tagged with mri brain scan

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

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

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

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Jan 09, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 6

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

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

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

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

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created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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, ...

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created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

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

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

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 ...

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created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Aug 10, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New guideline: MRI better than CT scans at diagnosing stroke

Doctors should use a diffusion MRI scan to diagnose stroke instead of a CT scan, according to a new guideline from the American Academy of Neurology. The guideline is published in the July 13, 2010, issue of Neurology.

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created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Larger head size may protect against Alzheimer's symptoms

New research shows that people with Alzheimer's disease who have large heads have better memory and thinking skills than those with the disease who have smaller heads, even when they have the same amount of brain cell death ...

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created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 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.

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created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0