News tagged with neuroimaging
Deciphering hidden code reveals brain activity
(PhysOrg.com) -- By combining sophisticated mathematical techniques more commonly used by spies instead of scientists with the power and versatility of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a Penn ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Researchers find similarities in brain activity for both habits and goals
A team of researchers has found that pursuing carefully planned goals and engaging in more automatic habits shows overlapping neurological mechanisms. Because the findings, which appear in the latest issue of the journal ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Beat it: how the brain perceives rhythm
(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain uses distinct timing mechanisms to measure the duration between the intervals in a sequence of sounds, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust.Researchers from the Wellcome ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Alzheimer's disease may be easily misdiagnosed
New research shows that Alzheimer's disease and other dementing illnesses may be easily misdiagnosed in the elderly, according to early results of a study of people in Hawaii who had their brains autopsied after death. The ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Scientists boost perception using rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation
Researchers at the University of Glasgow and University College London (UCL) have, for the first time, enhanced visual perception through rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the brain.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Flash of fresh insight by electrical brain stimulation
Are we on the verge of being able to stimulate the brain to see the world anew - an electric thinking cap? Research by Richard Chi and Allan Snyder from the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney suggests that this ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Color-changing 'blast badge' detects exposure to explosive shock waves
Mimicking the reflective iridescence of a butterfly's wing, investigators at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a color-changing ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 29, 2010 |
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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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A fifth of a second: Falling in love is more scientific than you think
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new meta-analysis study conducted by Syracuse University Professor Stephanie Ortigue is getting attention around the world. The groundbreaking study, "The Neuroimaging of Love," reveals falling in love ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 20, 2010 |
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Neuroscientists: Two heads are better than one -- with the right partner
In the new age of coalition governments, the question of whether two heads are better than one is more relevant than ever. A study published today in the journal Science, neuroscientists from UCL (University College London ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 26, 2010 |
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Robots provide insight into human perception
Research using a robot designed to express human emotions has revealed unexpected insights into how our perception is affected by anthropomorphism, or giving human characteristics to non-human animals or things.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 18, 2010 |
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3 biomarkers in spinal fluid appear helpful to classify patients with Alzheimer's disease
A "signature" consisting of three biomarkers in the cerebrospinal fluid was present in 90 percent of patients who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease but also was found in more than one-third of cognitively normal ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 09, 2010 |
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Laughter is not just funny
(PhysOrg.com) -- Everybody enjoys a laugh but new research from an international team shows it's not as simple as you might think.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Impulsive, weak-willed or just too much dopamine?
It's a common scenario: you're on a diet, determined to give up eating cakes, but as you pass the cake counter, all resolve disappears... Now, scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Hallmark Alzheimer's disease changes found in retinas of humans and imaged in live animals
The nerve cell-damaging plaque that builds up in the brain with Alzheimer's disease also builds up in the retinas of the eyes - and it shows up there earlier, leading to the prospect that noninvasive optical imaging of the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Neuroimaging
Neuroimaging includes the use of various techniques to either directly or indirectly image the structure, function/pharmacology of the brain. It is a relatively new discipline within medicine and neuroscience/psychology.
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