- Methylene Blue Shows Promise For Improving Short-term Memory
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... committee. The participants underwent functional MRI (fMRI) before and one hour after low-dose methylene blue or placebo ... task that measured reaction time to a visual stimulus. The fMRI results also showed an increased response during short-term memory tasks ...
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- Softwares For FMRI Yield Erroneous Results
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... subjects," he says. When examinations are done using fMRI, for example, images from 20 healthy people are compared with images from ... the calculations." How may of the studies done with fMRI need to be redone? "I can't answer that; many of them were done 10 to ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2016 - 5:52am - 0 attachments
- Out Of Tune: Mismatch Of Vascular And Neural Responses Suggests Limits Of FMRI
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... of blood--including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)--assume that vascular changes reflect a proportional change in local ... With resolution typically at about one millimeter, the fMRI signal represents the blood flow averaged across many blood vessels. Using ...
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- Gene And Tonic: Genetic Link In Binge-drinking Teens
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... reward. Whilst they carried out the tests, they underwent fMRI scans. The teens were then scored, as per the mice, according to their ...
Article - News Staff - May 12 2016 - 7:25am - 0 attachments
- Come To Think Of It Or Not: Study Shows How Memories Can Be Intentionally Forgotten
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... They designed a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment to specifically track thoughts related to memories' contexts, ... of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth. "We used fMRI to track how much people were thinking of scene-related things at each ...
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- Psilocybin Reduces Psychological Pain After Social Exclusion
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... researchers applied functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate these processes. Using a second imaging technique, ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2016 - 3:15pm - 0 attachments
- Why LSD Is So Groovy, Man
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... Now, the first functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI) of people's brains while on LSD help to explain this phenomenon known as ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2016 - 11:30am - 0 attachments
- Complex Learning Dismantles Barriers In The Brain
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... they took part in a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) experiment to test the impact of their learning on regions of the brain. ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2016 - 6:44am - 0 attachments
- Graphic Cigarette Warnings Trigger Brain Areas Key To Quitting Smoking
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... who administered functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to the volunteers. "The amygdala responds to emotionally powerful ... --did not change participants' responses. Similar fMRI results have been reported in brain studies of adolescent smokers and ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2016 - 7:54pm - 0 attachments
- Giving Support To Others - Not Just Receiving It - Has Beneficial Effects
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... a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which can show activation of specific brain areas in response to different types of tasks. In all three areas studied, fMRI scans showed brain activation that correlated with individual differences ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2016 - 8:46am - 0 attachments
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