Instead, insights from brain studies may enable orthodox economists to develop a richer definition of rationality.
And long-term brain studies have demonstrated that the structure of the brain can change based on behavior and environment.
Indeed, many behavioural economists are extremely pessimistic about the chances that brain studies will deliver any useful insights, points out Mr Camerer with regret.
The new brain cancer studies tested it as initial treatment for glioblastoma, the most common and deadly type of tumor.
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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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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He would, however, like to donate his brain to Boston University and its School of Medicine and Sports Legacy Institute, which studies brain disease and head trauma.
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.
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.
At that point, Jones said he decided to donate his own brain to the Sports Legacy Institute -- which studies the link between sports and brain trauma -- for research upon his death.
Animal studies have shown brain abnormalities persisting four years after amphetamine use stops.
Along with studies of the brain, Dr Weinstein wrote a number of papers on the practical uses of psychiatry.
Although many studies have found brain areas that light up when pain is present, the new work is the first to develop a combined signature from all these signals that can be used to measure pain.
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.
Studies have shown that brain injury increases the risk of violent and aggressive behavior.
Dr. Goadsby and colleagues at UCSF are conducting more imaging studies to determine what brain activity occurs during the premonitory phase.
Older people who lose too much weight increase their risk of falls and fractures, said Greenwood, who studies diet and the brain but was not involved in the current research.
Important insights to emerge from the panel included the plasticity of the brain in recovering from traumatic injury over time, as well as preliminary studies suggesting that certain genetic mutations may influence susceptibility and recovery after traumatic brain injury as well as early-onset dementia.
As an individual continues to walk, studies have shown, the brain eventually self-corrects errors and evens out the gait.
Dr Miller has conducted studies on the effects of brain-training games on learning.
Rather, Mr. Holmes's studies focused on how the brain works chemically and psychologically, and the effect that has on human behavior.
What about the studies on cell phones and brain cancer?
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In his new book Mr Gazzaniga uses animal studies to argue that the brain is shaped by the tasks before it, pointing out that the brains of New World carnivorous bats are more similar to those of Old World carnivorous bats than they are to New World fruit bats, despite these being their closer cousins.
Michael Studdert-Kennedy, a psychologist at the Haskins Laboratory, in New Haven, Connecticut, and one of the most vigorous critics of the approach, argues that other studies have shown that the brain processes speech sounds completely differently from non-speech sounds, and that the hearing problem identified by Dr Merzenich's group thus has nothing to do with dyslexia.
However, as the story goes, a neuroscientist performing these studies happened to scan his own brain seeing the same patterns.
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There have been a few studies of heavy usage and rare brain tumors, but these cases are few and far between.
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