These people fasted for 12 hours and then underwent continuous brain scanning for 48 minutes.
Prof Jamie Ward has studied Mr Wannerton's brain in detail using brain scanning techniques.
He said brain scanning techniques and medication had advanced, and treatments based on a patient's genetic make-up were being tested.
Another keyboard replacement involves various brain scanning technologies, such as when wheelchair-bound people can control a computer with an eyeball flick.
It markets brain scanning equipment to neurologists for imaging Alzheimer's suspects.
As much fun as brain-scanning sounds, for now, Chopra ultimately wants people to learn the general practices of mind-body wellness.
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Daniel Langleben, of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, uses a brain-scanning technique called functional magnetic-resonance imaging to probe his subjects' honesty.
In a separate news article I have written about the extraordinary brain-scanning technique which is being used to help some vegetative patients to communicate.
Ultimately, doctors hope to use the disease-slowing drugs in conjunction with new brain-scanning methods being tested at General Electric and elsewhere that will detect early signs of amyloid buildup.
Berman works in the lab of John Jonides, a psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Michigan, who is in charge of the brain-scanning experiments on the original Bing subjects.
In one study in 2004 researchers at the University of Toronto used positron emission tomography scanning to track the brain activity of 14 depressed patients who had successfully been treated with CBT, comparing them with 13 patients who got better by taking only Paxil.
The practical benefits of this scanning system could prevent, or at least lessen brain deficits caused by lack of nutrients from the placenta.
Second, their brain functions, as measured by electrical activity and high-tech scanning, are dissimilar.
Such neurochemical work, though preliminary, may tie in with scanning studies conducted to try to find out which parts of the brain are involved in religious experience.
Central to this project are advanced MRI scanning techniques, which the scientists say are able to pick up on details of the growing brain that have been difficult to capture until now.
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