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Autistic Individuals can Be 'trained' to Comprehend Visual and Vocal Cues

...y in these children. While undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), 18 ASD boys between the ages of 7 and 17, as well as a control group of 18 typically developing (TD) boys, viewed cartoon drawings of children in conversational settings while listening to short vignettes that ended wi...

X-ray Mammography Aids in Breast Cancer Detection

Use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plus X-ray mammography for...ly also. MRI is an imaging procedure that uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy to make images of organs and structures inside the body. The r...

Gulf War Veterans Exhibit Memory Impairment

...e, and joint pain, fatigue. The researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to record discrepancies in brain volume. It revealed a statistically significant correlation between lower brain volume and poor performance on the learning test. Simon Wessley, director of the Centre for Military Health Re...

Negative Emotions Affect Old and Young Differently

...heir brain activity was monitored using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the online edition of New Scientist reported. However, when winning money, activity in the "emotion" area was the same regardless of age, says the study published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience. L...

Sleep Deprivation can Affect Competent Decision-making

...ed healthy volunteers as they underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the use of MRI to measure the haemodynamic response related to neural activity in the brain or spinal cord of humans. The authors found that the nucleus accumbens, an area in the brain involved with the anticipation of rew...

Does Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields Cause Cancer?

...y substantial evidence linking exposure to electro magnetic firelds and cancer. The study found that most peop...of an association between occupational exposure to magnetic fields in the electric utility industry and risks for leukemia, brain cancer, and breast cancer," re...

Higher Intake of Calcium and Vitamin D Linked With Brain Lesions in Older People

...Duke and the University of North Carolina examined magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans from 232 men and women (79 men, 153 women) between the ages of 60 and 86 (average age 71). All the subjects had at least some brain lesions of varying sizes, including the extremely miniscule ones often seen in even heal...

Poor and Chronically Ill in Korea Pay More for Healthcare

...nsive diagnostic tests such as ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging. The researchers used a nationally representative survey of 39,060 individuals and examined out-of-pocket expenditures, out-of-pocket spending burden ratio, and health care use by socioeconomic status, insurance type, health care ...

Some High Blood Pressure Drugs may Help Reduce Dementia Risk

...y a panel of physicians after reviewing results of magnetic resonance imaging and other tests. "These results suggest that there is more to treating blood pressure than achieving a goal of 140/80," said Sink. "Which drug you choose for blood pressure control can have broader implications. We know that ACE i...

Library Of Brains To Aid Study of Brain Development In Children

...ommonly used by psychologists. They also underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of their brains, a procedure deemed safe for children. The study, which took six years to complete, tracked children from different age ranges for four years each. The results from the different groups were combined to produ...

Adolescents Brains Fully Develop Between 10-12 Years

...lopment include structural brain imaging with MRI, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to study the development of different brain structures and the creation of connections between them, and even changes in brain chemistry. The final goals of the project are to offer a...

Trauma Exposure can Affect Brain Function Several Years After Event

...fearful and calm faces while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure their bilateral amygdala activity (part of the brain that judges emotional intensity, and that forms and stores emotional memories) between 3.5 and 4 years after September 11, 2001. All of the participants had so...

Nanomedicine Gives the Way for Nerve Cell Regeneration

... at the University of Miami , researchers show how magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) may be used to create mechani...y based approach designed that includes the use of magnetic nanoparticles and magnetic fields for addressing the challenges associated with regeneration of cent...

Yoga Helps to Combat Depression, Anxiety

...ain's primary inhibitory neurotransmitter. Using magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, the researchers c...he acquisition of the GABA levels was done using a magnetic resonance spectroscopy technique developed by J. Eric Jensen, PhD, an assistant professor of psychia...

UCLA Imaging Study Reveals How Pure Oxygen Harms the Brain

...he United States." Harper's team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to capture detailed pictures of what occurs inside the human brain during two different breathing scenarios. The technique detects subtle increases in blood flow triggered by the activation of different parts of the brain, ca...

MRE, An Accurate Tool for Non-invasive Diagnosis of Liver Diseases

... studies have found that a new imaging technique - magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) - is an accurate tool for non-invasive diagnosis of liver diseases. The studies were conducted by a team of researchers led by Richard Ehman at Mayo Clinic. As part of one study, researchers conducted MRE examinatio...

Magnets to the rescue of Alzheimers patients

...owth of new neurons in the brains of mice using a magnetic stimulus in the region associated with memory. ...uld need to be replicated in humans. Trans cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been used to treat certain disorders, including depression and schizophrenia a...

Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury can Be Predicted Using MRI

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), radiologists can better predict the likelihood of full or partial recovery of patients with acute spinal cord injuries (SCI), according to a study published in the June issue of the journal Radiology. "Our study demonstrat...

Activists Urge Greater Medical Support for Gulf War Veterans Exposed to Sarin Gas

... potential exposure levels faced by the troops and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the brains of military personnel in the exposure zone. It found signs of brain changes that could be due to exposure, showing that troops who had been exposed at higher levels had about 5 percent less white matter than...

Blood Test may Help Signal Tumor's Remission, Return in Throat Cancer Patients

...mor will return later. Clinical exams, X-rays, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are currently used to monitor a patients progress, but observation by these methods has been difficult due to the scarring that occurs from radiation. Finding better markers for detecting cancer as it begins and then monitor...

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