It's conceivable that movies and TV programs will be vetted before their release by brain-imaging companies.
Scientists at the institute are conducting some of the first experiments using magnetoencephalography, or MEG, brain-imaging machines on children.
Brain-imaging studies have already shown that, in boys with autism, the amygdala develops early and stops growing around the age of eight.
Dr Morgan points to clinical research by his group, and recent brain-imaging studies by Rainer Thomasius at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany.
Then he urges Weiner's colleague, Norbert Schuff, to include a subset of patients not yet on medication in a brain-imaging study Schuff is doing.
"It's a little like mind reading, " says Henrik Walter, a neurologist and psychiatrist with the University Clinic of Ulm, Germany, where he conducts brain-imaging work for DaimlerChrysler.
In a recent study by the developmental psychologist Laurence Steinberg at Temple University, teenagers did a simulated high-risk driving task while they were lying in an fMRI brain-imaging machine.
Some brain-imaging studies suggest that people who regularly use the Internet become more skillful in tracking down data and some video games appear to help players improve visual acuity.
Brain-imaging studies have also documented impairments in offenders.
Using brain-imaging studies, Carlson and her colleagues have shown that after just a few months, people who volunteer show beneficial changes in their brains similar to those that other research teams have seen with exercise.
"Carnegie Mellon is one of the very few places that can both test for face blindness and perform the brain imaging in our state-of-the-art imaging center, " Behrmann said in a press release.
Daniel Langleben, of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, uses a brain-scanning technique called functional magnetic-resonance imaging to probe his subjects' honesty.
Functional-imaging studies of the brain have revealed another tantalizing clue: During the aura phase, a wave of electrical activity sweeps over the outer, furrowed layer of the brain known as the cortex, at a pace of 2 to 3 millimeters per minute.
The brain imaging technology is being developed for a US-led effort to map the human brain called the Human Connectome Project.
After analyzing data from 47 independent brain imaging studies, researchers found that the rule-breaking behavior common to people with antisocial, violent, and psychopathic tendencies may result partly from damage to the neural circuitry in the brain that underlies moral decision-making.
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Ten years ago, doctors wanted better brain imaging, but now 90% of them want post-processing data and algorithms.
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To study the neurology of tickling, Dr Blakemore and her team stuck volunteers into a magnetic-resonance-imaging machine (which monitors oxygen flow to the brain, and thus indicates the amount of activity in that organ's various parts).
Dr. Wolinsky said the next study he expects to pursue will use functional MRI imaging to measure changes in the brain in people participating in cognitive-training exercises, he said.
And although imaging studies show that middle-aged people may use different brain regions to do the same old tasks, cognitive tests show that apart from brute speed, the brain's abilities are not diminished in middle age.
Researchers at 11 institutions are mapping the largest conduits among brain regions by combining four imaging techniques, including a new method called diffusion magnetic-resonance imaging that allows researchers for the first time to accurately map the white matter of nerve fibers.
Adrian Cheng invented a powerful non-invasive, high-speed microscope technology for imaging the activity of thousands of cells in the brain simultaneously, in real time, offering a view of neural circuits at work.
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Neuro-imaging shows that this deception stimulates the production of naturally occurring painkilling chemicals in the brain.
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Imaging studies have begun to reveal CBT can render long-term physiological changes in the brain, just as antidepressants can.
Imaging studies show that the best readers have the most brain activity in the rear, instant-word-forming area when they read.
Using the latest brain imaging technologies, researchers have been able to prove that we human beings are neurologically wired to over-estimate the size of risks, under-estimate our ability to handle them, and downplay the costs of inaction.
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