His project, called Brainscape, is aiming to be a mega repository for brain scans.
The researchers took brain scans of 40 volunteers to measure the size of the prefrontal cortex.
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The researchers used brain scans to trace the brain's pain responses in 29 volunteers.
Whether brain scans will help us understand and sort out behavior disorders more effectively is another question.
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Professor Michael Kopelman, a neuropsychiatrist, told the Old Bailey that brain scans of Mr George had produced "severely abnormal" results.
The study will undoubtedly lead to better ways of identifying those most at risk from their brain scans.
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Unfortunately, brain scans are too expensive, time-intensive, and fraught with technical challenges to use on a routine basis.
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Brain scans also show that the patients' brains are more active than before.
It would also be cruel to run brain scans on someone who was possibly facing the moment of death.
However, brain scans also showed that fewer brain lesions, damaged areas of tissue, formed in patients given the drug.
Maybe companies should pay less attention to what small "focus groups" say and more to what their brain scans reveal.
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Butler envisions a time when brain scans will be mandatory each season for all children who want to play football.
It approached psychiatrist and neurologist Mark George at the Medical University of South Carolina, who looked at brain scans of patients.
Brain scans of psychopaths show areas of the brain that govern emotion in psychopaths aren't as active as a normal adult's.
They are using high-tech brain scans on vegetative and minimally conscious patients to try to understand why some recover and others don't.
She has used brain scans to track the activity of chemicals in the brains of people in various states of romantic agitation.
Just like DNA, he believes brain scans will eventually be standard fare.
Brain scans show that skipping breakfast makes fatty, high calorie foods appear far more attractive later in the day, according to researchers.
But they do not ask for brain scans of the type used by neuroscientists in Cambridge and Ontario to search for hidden awareness.
Doctors have also been asked not to refer patients for brain scans "solely for reassurance" that they do not have a brain tumour.
He said brain scans had shown that hearing loss in patients was also down to the way a dying brain tried to handle sound.
In 2009, Yaling Yang, Robert Schug and I conducted structural brain scans on 27 psychopaths whom we had found in temporary-employment agencies in Los Angeles.
The scientists plan to combine those brain scans with medical records and demographic information in electronic dossiers that can be analyzed on the project's supercomputer.
Brain scans showed humans can process and respond very quickly to signs of physical pain in others, but took longer to show admiration of compassion.
Similarly, people with MS who had inflammatory lesions that were visible on brain scans also had faster retinal thinning than those without visible brain lesions.
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The researchers scrutinised the brain scans to see if they could find any patterns that tallied with the protein level results from the lumbar puncture tests.
But increasingly, brain scans can spot these tangles well before they're at risk of bleeding raising the question of what to do for patients, if anything.
Dr. Fisher studied brain scans of hundreds of subjects who had recently fallen into or out of love, and who agreed to be recorded by an MRI.
Brain scans conducted more than 26 years later suggested that those who had migraines with auras at least monthly in midlife were more likely to have brain infarcts.
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Brain scans can reveal inflammation and scarring, but it is not clear how early these changes might occur in the disease and whether they accurately reflect ongoing damage.
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