Our understanding of how the brain works has changed greatly as brain imaging technology has advanced.
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Fewer brain imaging scans when people faint but show no other signs of neurological disorder.
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Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital are pushing brain imaging to its limit using a purpose built scanner.
Ten years ago, doctors wanted better brain imaging, but now 90% of them want post-processing data and algorithms.
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But this concept has been lower to take hold in brain imaging, and the associated emerging field of neuroinformatics.
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It collaborates with a team of Cambridge University neuroscientists at the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre at Addenbrooke's hospital, Cambridge.
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The brain imaging technology is being developed for a US-led effort to map the human brain called the Human Connectome Project.
As brain imaging technology has advanced, so too has our understanding of how our brain processes information, assesses potential risks and makes decisions.
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But Professor Robin Murray, of the Institute of Psychiatry, in London, said he was sceptical that brain imaging could provide all the answers.
The study involved scientists from the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre in Cambridge and a Belgian team at the University of Liege.
Dr Singer said the research was the first time that brain imaging technology had been used to show how we empathise with the plight of others.
Researchers at Northwestern, in a small study using brain imaging, have found preliminary evidence that being in a positive mood aids the creative process in problem solving.
Lucina Uddin, a cognitive neuroscientist at Stanford, and her colleagues are now studying whether brain imaging of this network can serve as a biological marker of autism in kids.
"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.
The campaign seeks to re-educate Americans to the view that addiction is a brain disease and presents convincing evidence that drug and alcohol abuse causes neurological changes that can be seen in brain imaging studies.
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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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Brain imaging studies show that investors as a whole get more and more used to big returns, and thus take bigger and bigger risks in a bull market--and then the bubble pops and stockholders start selling like mad.
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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At a meeting with Michael Weiner, an expert on brain imaging and a professor at UCSF, Grove tells Weiner what he should talk about at a January meeting of experts on growth factors that Grove has organized with the Michael J.
Gregory S. Berns, a psychiatrist at Emory, is using brain imaging to demonstrate the effects of peer pressure on individual perception, with the idea of explaining the development of fads, from investment trends to the popularity of Burberry plaids and belly button rings.
Using functional brain imaging, researchers have found that ambiguity in choices activates the amygdale, the region in our brain that also gets triggered by fear or threat, while at the same time it leads to decreased activity in the striatal system, which responds to potential rewards.
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.
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