News tagged with functional magnetic resonance imagery
Computer simulations explain the limitations of working memory
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) have constructed a mathematical activity model of the brain's frontal and parietal parts, to increase the understanding of the capacity of the working ...
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Imaging the hypnotized brain: Neural mechanisms of suggested paralysis
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Although there is no doubt that hypnosis can impact the mind and behavior, the underlying brain mechanisms are not well understood. Now, new research provides fascinating insight into the specific neural effect of the power ...
MRI techniques evolving towards better assessment of liver fibrosis
Jan 02, 2008 |
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[B]They could potentially replace liver biopsy[/B] MRI imagery is emerging as a non-invasive way to determine the existence and extent of hepatic fibrosis. It could eventually help the development of pharmacologic strategies to ...
Precuneus region of human and monkey brain is divided into 4 distinct regions
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Nov 02, 2009 |
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A study published this week in PNAS provides a comprehensive comparative functional anatomy study in human and monkey brains which reveals highly similar brain networks preserved across evolution.
Successful neurosurgery with transcranial MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound
Jun 22, 2009 |
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The Magnetic Resonance Center of the University Children's Hospital Zurich has achieved a world first break through in MR-guided, non-invasive neurosurgery. Ten patients have been successfully treated by means ...
Research Gives New Perspective On Brain Activities
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Victoria (Canada) researcher Phil Zeman has developed a new and less expensive procedure for analyzing EEG (electroencephalogram) data that identifies the location of special brain activities.
Intel wants a chip implant in your brain
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chip maker Intel wants to implant a brain-sensing chip directly into the brains of its customers to allow them to operate computers and other devices without moving a muscle.
Visual learners convert words to pictures in the brain and vice versa
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 25, 2009 |
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A University of Pennsylvania psychology study, using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to scan the brain, reveals that people who consider themselves visual learners, as opposed to verbal learners, have a tendency ...
Cracking the brain's numerical code
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 24, 2009 |
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By carefully observing and analyzing the pattern of activity in the brain, researchers have found that they can tell what number a person has just seen. They can similarly tell how many dots a person has been presented with, ...
Differences in language-related brain activity affected by sex?
Feb 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Men show greater activation than women in the brain regions connected to language, according to researchers from CNRS, Université de Montpellier I and Montpellier III. This work is published in the ...
Should I stay or should I go? Neural mechanisms of strategic decision making
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 27, 2009 |
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A new study demonstrates that when faced with a difficult decision, the human brain calls upon multiple neural systems that code for different sorts of behaviors and strategies. The research, published by Cell Press in the ...
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