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Researchers at Duke University in Durham, N.C., have used functional MRI to demonstrate how people make decisions about attractiveness and what that attractiveness is worth. The research was published online Feb. 16 in the Journal of Neuroscience.
A combined technique utilizing functional MRI and mental-imagery tasks have proven that a small proportion of patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative or minimally conscious state may have brain activity reflecting some awareness and cognition, according to the results of a study published online Feb. 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Post-traumatic stress symptoms may present a neurofunctional marker of decreased activity of the hippocampus in youth with a history of interpersonal trauma, said a new study's lead author Victor Carrion, MD, child psychiatrist and associate professor of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University in Calif., and his colleagues.
A study published in the December issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology shows that 95 percent of radiation oncologists incorporated advanced imaging technologies, such as MRI, PET, SPECT, 4DCT, functional MRI and MR spectroscopy, into radiation therapy planning.
Resonance Technology of Northridge, Calif., an MRI-compatible technology company, is introducing a new entertainment delivery system for the MRI environment, as well as a high-resolution functional MRI (fMRI) panel at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference.
A difference in brain activity patterns may explain why some people are able to maintain a significant weight loss while others regain the weight, according to a functional MRI (fMRI) study published last month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Researchers, using whole-brain event-related functional MRI, have determined that a low-effort, high-accuracy memory activation task is sensitive to Alzheimer's disease risk factors, such as family history and apolipoprotein E e4.
A new technology involving the fusion of four different types of images to create a 3D brain map has helped University of Cincinnati physicians remove a fist-sized tumor from the brain of an Indiana woman.
An observer feels more empathy for someone in pain when that person is in the same social group, according to a functional MRI (fMRI) study in the July 1 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
In a neuroimaging study designed to examine motor execution in children with autism, researchers uncovered a new insight into the neurological basis of autism.
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By way of functional MRI (fMRI), researchers from the Imaging Institute at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio were able to observe the default-mode network-0a neural network in the brain--and determine that genetics have an effect on this and several other networks.
Researchers have reportedly identified a biological marker in the brains of those exhibiting post-traumatic stress disorder using magnetoencephalography (MEG), based on a study published Jan. 20 in the Journal of Neural Engineering.
Intra-amygdala abnormalities and engagement of a compensatory frontoparietal executive control network, which are cognitive theories of generalized anxiety disorders (GADs) were consistent with the findings of a study published in the December edition of Archives of General Psychiatry, which studied the functional connectivity at a subregional level in the human brain that may mark GADs.
Optoacoustics (Booth 1202) is introducing its new dual-channel optical microphone for functional MRI (fMRI) environments, the FOMRI-III, at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting in Chicago this month.
Seiji Ogawa, PhD, of the Hamano Life Science Research Foundation in Tokyo, who discovered that MRI could be used to measure oxygen flow in the brain in real time, making functional MRI (fMRI) possible, has been named as a possible winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize by researchers at Thomson Scientific, the science unit of Thomson Reuters.
In a functional MRI (fMRI) study, neurologists and psychiatrists at Columbia University in New York City have identified an area of the brain involved in the earliest stages of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders, according to findings published Monday in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Ducking a punch calls for the human brain to process 3D motion; thus, perceiving an object that is moving in three dimensions is critical to survival, according to findings published online in Nature Neuroscience earlier this month.
The cognitive processes involved with honesty suggest that truthfulness depends more on absence of temptation than active resistance to temptation, according to a study to be published online this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Although there is no doubt that hypnosis can impact the mind and behavior, the underlying brain mechanisms are not well understood. New research published in the June 25 issue of Neuron, however, uncovers the influence of hypnotic paralysis on brain networks involved in internal representations and self imagery.
Duke University chemists are using a modified polarization technique that produces stronger MRI signals to better see molecular changes that could signal health problems such as cancer, according to research published in the March 27 issue of Science.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.