People s brain. Medical search. Frequent questions

Are pandemic-related stressors impacting uninfected people's brain health? (massgeneral.org)
The findings offer an initial snapshot of what happens in the brain as young and old people try to access long-term memories, and could shed light on why some people's cognitive abilities decline with age while others remain sharp. (sciencedaily.com)
Dr Cole took this basic technique and refined it by testing it on publicly available datasets of MRI scans of more than 2,000 healthy people's brains, resulting in normalized maps which accurately predicted the person's age. (news-medical.net)
The so-called 'brain-to-brain' communication system uses EEG sensors to 'read' thoughts in people's heads, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to transmit thoughts into people's heads. (metro.co.uk)
But experts at MIT say the efficiency claims are 'incredibly doubtful', as the technology to scan people's brains via EEG caps is still in its infancy. (metro.co.uk)

A method for predicting someone's 'brain age' based on MRI scans could help to spot who might be at increased risk of poor health and even dying at a younger age. (news-medical.net)
They performed a structural analysis in search of differences in gray and white matter volume based on MRI scans of the brains of 80 individuals between 18 and 49 years of age, divided into four groups of 20 each: cisgender women, cisgender men, transgender women who had never used hormones, and transgender women who had used hormones for at least a year. (medicalxpress.com)

Crucially, those with 'older brains' were statistically more likely to die before the age of 80, with the average discrepancy between brain age and chronological age being eight years for deceased males and two years for deceased females. (news-medical.net)

Everyone needs support after something as traumatic and life changing as a brain injury. (brainline.org)
People who have had a severe traumatic brain injury often struggle to remember recent events or conversations. (wmfe.org)
JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: Most traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs are the mild type - a concussion. (wmfe.org)
KAHANA: So in this study, for the first time, we actually tested this therapy in patients who had a history of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. (wmfe.org)
BrainLine asked our online community to share their personal definitions of traumatic brain injury, and the list below captures some of the many responses so generously provided by people with TBI. (brainline.org)
Every individual's experience with traumatic brain injury is unique, but there are many common symptoms and emotions. (brainline.org)
With the Big Game coming up, we're working with our friends at LoveYourBrain to raise awareness about racial disparities in the causes and consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI), and what we can do about it. (benjerry.com)
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a bump, blow, or jolt to the head that disrupts brain functioning. (benjerry.com)
Moving Beyond "Hand Waving": Why Do People Sleep a Lot After a Traumatic Brain Injury? (psychiatrictimes.com)
Your patient is recovering from a traumatic brain injury. (psychiatrictimes.com)
Although this research was conducted in cases of fatal brain trauma, nonetheless it provides insights that will help scientific investigators and clinicians think more specifically about disruptions in sleep and wakefulness following any traumatic brain injury. (psychiatrictimes.com)
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 1.5 million Americans sustain some type of traumatic brain injury (TBI) annually. (uclahealth.org)
UCLA researchers are using a radioactive tracer, which binds to abnormal proteins in the brain, to see if it is possible to diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy in living patients. (wfdd.org)
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is found among people who've had head injuries. (wfdd.org)
The neurological injuries, such as stroke or traumatic brain injury, is a major problem in Argentina and worldwide public health. (bvsalud.org)
Therefore, the aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of existing psychoeducational and psychotherapeutic intervention programs for families of people who had suffered a traumatic brain injury or a stroke. (bvsalud.org)
Stroke and traumatic brain injury. (bvsalud.org)

Scientists have determined that addiction is a brain disease. (healthline.com)
The findings by Brown University scientists offer clues about how misused drugs affect healthy brains and hint at an undiscovered link between glutamate and mood. (brown.edu)
Humans will be turned into cyborgs - with scientists sticking AI implants deep into their brains. (dailystar.co.uk)
Scientists managed to capture the unique event while monitoring the brain waves of an 87-year-old-epilepsy patient. (bgr.com)
So brain scientists are looking for ways to help. (wmfe.org)
Scientists wanted to find out if tDCS - which comes in two active varieties, anodal or cathodal - could boost auditory processing in people with schizophrenia. (ucla.edu)
For decades scientists have wondered what changes in the brain might underlie these enhanced auditory abilities. (washington.edu)
Scientists have found that the areas of the brain that control memory and skills such as planning and organizing improve with exercise. (cdc.gov)

The researchers had 34 young adults (18 to 30) and 34 older adults (65-85) perform a mental arithmetic task while their brain activity was measured through functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI. (sciencedaily.com)
FMRI reveals brain regions mediating slow prosodic modulations in spoken sentences. (mpg.de)
Brain responses related to prosodic information in natural speech: An event-related fMRI study. (mpg.de)
In the next phase of the study, the researchers used an imaging technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to compare the brains of healthy women to the brains of women affected by anorexia. (promises.com)
Both teams measured neural responses in study participants while participants listened to a sequence of Morse code-like tones that differed in frequency while the fMRI machine recorded brain activity. (washington.edu)

People who are adept at any or all of the six skills below have a strong brain reserve, and therefore can recover from insults to the brain such as neurodegenerative disease. (bigthink.com)
A recent study led by a Boston University neuropathologist, found that 99% of 202 deceased former pro football players' brains showed signs of neurodegenerative disease. (benjerry.com)

Think2Switch is designed to be a simple and nearly universal bridge connecting brain signals to switch-enabled devices such as a wheelchair, light or electric toy. (troymedia.com)
From that toy, they might progress to controlling a game or moving a power wheelchair, and from there, they might progress to more control with the brain signals. (troymedia.com)
In other words, people with relatively strong signals have relatively small degrees of body self-misperception, while people with relatively weak signals have relatively large degrees of body self-misperception. (promises.com)
The study represents the first demonstration and the first peer-reviewed report of people with tetraplegia using brain signals to control a robotic arm in three-dimensional space to complete a task usually performed by their arm. (brown.edu)
Two players 'transmitted' answers in a Tetris-style game, by staring at flashing LEDs, which made their brains emit particular signals. (metro.co.uk)
The white matter contains nerve fibers that send signals from one part of the brain to another. (stroke.org)
The research team showed that an area of the brain called the hMT+ - which in sighted individuals is responsible for tracking moving visual objects - shows neural responses that reflect both the motion and the frequency of auditory signals in blind individuals. (washington.edu)
The brain is made up of fat and the fat is necessary for the electrical signals to fire and process at the correct speed. (uclahealth.org)
Migraines are thought to occur when blood flow in the brain is altered and certain nerves in the brain send abnormal pain signals throughout the head. (medlineplus.gov)

In addition, depressive symptoms partially explained the association in community-dwelling older people without dementia in Japan. (webmd.com)
Third, "Symptoms of depression were found to partly explain the relationship between social isolation and brain volumes, but accounted for only 15% to 29% of the association. (webmd.com)
There is increasing evidence that computer-assisted training can help people with schizophrenia overcome some of their symptoms, with better outcomes in their daily lives. (yahoo.com)
Raznahan's team plan to compare brain regions in people with and without psychiatric or brain disorders, to see if they can identify differences that might explain symptoms or help guide treatment. (newscientist.com)
Participants who reported greater symptoms related to mood and mental and physical fatigue had higher brain levels of one of these inflammatory markers. (massgeneral.org)
Also, since the start of the pandemic, the severity and prevalence of symptoms of psychological distress, fatigue, brain fog, and other conditions have increased considerably in the United States, including among people not infected with SARS-CoV-2. (massgeneral.org)
Participants who reported a higher burden of symptoms related to mood and mental and physical fatigue showed higher levels of translocator protein in certain brain regions, compared with those reporting little or no symptoms. (massgeneral.org)
In this section for people with brain injury, you'll find information about getting a good diagnosis, managing and treating your symptoms, and finding help in your own community. (brainline.org)
For instance, people with anxious and depressive symptoms have lower confidence in their abilities and may not update their global self-beliefs in the face of new positive experiences. (ucl.ac.uk)
Some people with Alzheimer's pathology never show symptoms of the disease. (bigthink.com)
An individual with a substantial brain reserve is able to tolerate age-related changes without showing clinical symptoms of disease. (bigthink.com)
The small study involved seven military personnel - five veterans and two active duty - who'd had brain injuries and experienced CTE-type symptoms, such as memory loss and mood swings. (wfdd.org)
Doctors suspect stiff-person syndrome based on symptoms but use electromyography and blood tests to help confirm the diagnosis. (msdmanuals.com)
Stiff-person syndrome (formerly called stiff-man syndrome) affects mainly the brain and spinal cord (the central nervous system), but it causes symptoms similar to those of some peripheral nerve disorders. (msdmanuals.com)
The diagnosis of stiff-person syndrome is suggested by symptoms. (msdmanuals.com)
Treatment of stiff-person syndrome focuses on relieving symptoms. (msdmanuals.com)
About one-third of people with migraine experience a temporary pattern of neurological symptoms called an aura. (medlineplus.gov)

Lower frequency of social contact was associated with decreased total and cognitive function-related regional brain volumes," the report says. (webmd.com)
Our study showed that for older people, getting regular exercise may be protective, helping them keep their cognitive abilities longer. (sciencedaily.com)
Some older adults without noticeable cognitive problems have a harder time than younger people in separating irrelevant information from what they need to know at a given time, and a new study could explain why. (sciencedaily.com)
The participants completed a battery of cognitive and behavioral tests, and neuroradiologists reviewed the brain images for development-related abnormalities. (rsna.org)
Brain stimulation could be used to treat cognitive deficits frequently associated with schizophrenia, according to a new study from King's College London. (kcl.ac.uk)
In the study, published today in Brain , the researchers set out to use one particular form of neuromodulation - transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) - to see if they could undo some of these cognitive deficits in 28 people with schizophrenia. (kcl.ac.uk)
An improvement in cognitive performance was seen in those who had tDCS (and not in participants who received a 'sham' intervention), but only 24 hours after the brain stimulation was applied. (kcl.ac.uk)
Although an early study into neuromodulation and schizophrenia, this research is the first to suggest that tDCS could improve cognitive performance by changing activity in the brain. (kcl.ac.uk)
Dr Natasza Orlov , first author from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, said: 'It's critical that we address some of the cognitive deficits seen in people with schizophrenia, as these determine how people do in real world settings, such as work and relationships. (kcl.ac.uk)
There is a group of people that longevity researchers call 'SuperAgers,' who are in their 80s and beyond, but have the cognitive function of those decades younger. (cnbc.com)
Cognitive reserve is your mind's ability to resist damage to your brain. (bigthink.com)
What are brain reserve and cognitive reserve? (bigthink.com)
Specifically , "The term 'cognitive reserve' is thus meant to represent physiological robustness within functional brain networks, while the term 'brain reserve' refers to differences in available structural neural substrates. (bigthink.com)
Another way to think about it: consider brain reserve the hardware while cognitive reserve is the software running inside of it. (bigthink.com)
There are other instances of teachers returning to work after having a stroke even though brain tissue associated with cognitive tasks has been destroyed. (bigthink.com)
3 In a separate ballroom dance program, older people experiencing mild cognitive impairment improved their thinking and memory after a 10-month-long ballroom dancing class. (cdc.gov)

There is currently a lack of effective treatments and an urgent need for new interventions to address these problems in short-term memory and decision making, which are often severely impaired in people with schizophrenia. (kcl.ac.uk)

The start-up, which was founded by the billionaire in 2016, aims to implant a computer interface in the human brain to provide long-term treatment for neurological conditions such as dementia, Alzheimer's and spinal cord injuries. (nme.com)
People with large brain reserves can circumvent Alzheimer's. (bigthink.com)
The systems are designed to boost memory and thinking in people with a range of conditions, including Alzheimer's disease. (wmfe.org)
two dozen people who had Alzheimer's dementia and 28 healthy "control" subjects who were cognitively intact. (wfdd.org)

Fox continued: "The next step in terms of research will be targeting this brain circuit with brain stimulation interventions to see if addiction improves. (healthline.com)
People in a minimally conscious state have been "woken" for a whole week after a brief period of brain stimulation. (lifeboat.com)
The researchers applied tDCS with tasks which specifically tapped into 'working memory' and 'executive functioning': the principle was that 'training' the brain in regions that are typically poorly performing in schizophrenia would be enhanced by the brain stimulation technique. (kcl.ac.uk)
HAMILTON: The study, which appears in the journal Brain Stimulation, involved eight people. (wmfe.org)
Several other companies are also working on brain stimulation systems. (wmfe.org)
UCLA researchers have found that people with schizophrenia were able to more accurately determine whether two auditory tones matched or differed, after receiving a type of electrical brain stimulation. (ucla.edu)
Transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS, is a non-invasive neural stimulation technique that passes a weak electrical current (equivalent to a nine-volt battery) through the brain, changing the ability of neurons to respond to stimuli. (ucla.edu)

In the first major study of its kind, researchers using MRI have identified structural abnormalities in the brains of people with one of the most common genetic causes of autism, according to a new study in Radiology . (rsna.org)
Neuroplasticity of sign language: Implications from structural and functional brain imaging. (mpg.de)
Analytical operations relate structural and functional connectivity in the brain. (mpg.de)
Structural architecture supports functional organization in the human aging brain at a regionwise and network level. (mpg.de)
The use of MRI scans in structural psychiatric and neurological research has increased in recent decades, thanks mainly to more advanced technology and data analysis, but few such studies have focused on transgender people. (medicalxpress.com)
Brain reserve specifically references individual differences in the brain's structural properties that affords one resilience against neurodegenerative diseases. (bigthink.com)
It remains unclear whether individual differences in swallowing performance are associated with variations in structural brain signatures. (bvsalud.org)
The findings suggested that in older people, structural variations of the brain may play a key role in individual differences in swallowing performance. (bvsalud.org)

The study found a link between loneliness in older adults and less brain volume, especially in the areas that are affected by dementia. (webmd.com)
First, decreased brain volume was found in the hippocampus and amygdala, the report says. (webmd.com)
Analysing these, they found that some particular areas expanded more than others in people who had an overall larger brain size. (newscientist.com)
Past research has found that people with larger brains do tend to have a higher IQ, but the relationship is subtle - brain size only accounts for around 5 per cent of the variation in IQ, says Raznahan. (newscientist.com)
The team also found that some brain regions were smaller than expected in bigger-brained individuals - those involved in processing emotion, movement, and vision. (newscientist.com)
When looking at people who had no signs of memory and thinking problems at the start of the study, researchers found that those reporting low activity levels showed a greater decline over five years compared to those with high activity levels on tests of how fast they could perform simple tasks and how many words they could remember from a list. (sciencedaily.com)
The study found that brain pathology seen across all types of addiction map to a common brain network. (healthline.com)
Here is a look at the most common types of rehabilitation, along with some alternative treatments that some people with TBI have found to be helpful. (brainline.org)
They found that tDCS was linked with changes in brain activity in regions associated with working memory and executive functioning, as well as in the cerebellum, a part of the brain increasingly recognised as important in learning. (kcl.ac.uk)
Still, he found a way for them to communicate by using their brain activity to select letters to formulate sentences. (healthline.com)
As a neuroscience researcher and author of 'The Age-Proof Brain,' I've found that it's our behaviors , not just our genes, that have a powerful impact on our brain's destiny. (cnbc.com)
Lead author Dr Marion Rouault said: "We found that people performed the tasks equally well in the presence and absence of feedback - however, they clearly underestimated their ability when feedback was withheld. (ucl.ac.uk)
Instead, the researchers found that in the absence of feedback, people built up their estimates of ability by tracking changes in their confidence about individual decisions. (ucl.ac.uk)
When the technique was tested on a study population of older adults in Scotland, they found that the greater the difference between a person's brain age and their actual age, the higher their risk of poor mental and physical health, and even early death. (news-medical.net)
The researchers also stress that while the technique has great potential, there is still a relatively large margin of error, with the absolute error in determining brain age across all of the MRIs found to be five years. (news-medical.net)
Previous studies have found that sexual differentiation of the brain in transgender individuals does not accompany differentiation in the rest of the body. (medicalxpress.com)
We found that trans people have characteristics that bring them closer to the gender with which they identify and [that] their brains have particularities, suggesting that the differences begin to occur during gestation," said Giancarlo Spizzirri, first author of the study. (medicalxpress.com)
We found that Receivers are able to learn which Sender is more reliable based solely on the information transmitted to their brains. (metro.co.uk)
Doctors found blood clot in her brain after the initial tests and moved her to surgery. (indiatimes.com)
Researchers additionally found that 48 of 53 brains of former college players also showed signs of CTE. (benjerry.com)
Right: When researchers examined the range of frequencies each vertex of the brain was selective to, they found tuning tended to be narrower for blind individuals, which may underlie the enhanced ability of blind individuals to pick out and identify sounds in the environment. (washington.edu)
Other clinical trials for people with breast cancer can be found here . (facingourrisk.org)
In earlier studies, our group and others have found that specific brain regions that mediate speech, language and motor functions are asymmetric or larger in one hemisphere than the other, and the larger region is often functionally dominant. (stutteringhelp.org)
The omega-3s found in plant-based foods are not the same as the omega-3s that are necessary to support brain health. (uclahealth.org)

The study , which was conducted by a team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), is published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity . (massgeneral.org)
From the medical literature on psychostimulants, White and her team wanted to look in the anterior cingulate cortex, which is a "hub" brain region that connects multiple brain networks involved in emotion, decision-making and behavior. (brown.edu)
Another important contribution of the study is that it shows transgender "doesn't just refer to different kinds of behavior that people develop," according to Carmita Abdo, coordinator of the Sexuality Research Program (ProSex) at the Psychiatry Institute of Hospital das Clínicas and principal investigator of the study. (medicalxpress.com)
Today we'll be discussing brain-gut behavior, research, and treatment in IBS with Dr Laurie Keefer. (medscape.com)

The deletion carriers displayed features of brain overgrowth, including the extension of the cerebellum toward the spinal cord. (rsna.org)
In stiff-person syndrome, these antibodies attack nerve cells in the spinal cord that control muscle movement. (msdmanuals.com)
in the brain, which leads to inflammation, particularly of blood vessels and the membrane that covers the brain and spinal cord (meninges). (medlineplus.gov)
AVMs typically involve the brain but occasionally are associated with the spinal cord and its dura. (medscape.com)

When we examine brain function in a person who is addicted, we see unusually low or high activity in the brain centers and circuits responsible for pleasure, learning and memory, and motivation to perform and inhibit certain behaviors," Bisaga, who was not involved in the research, said. (healthline.com)
These results are consistent with prior studies showing that the pathology seen in individuals with addiction centers on brain networks and regions involved in regulating craving or wanting the drug, reward-related attention, emotion and risky decision-making," Bisaga said. (healthline.com)
Autism spectrum disorders affect more than 3.5 million people in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (rsna.org)
At the University of Illinois at Chicago, through the CDC-funded Prevention Research Centers' Healthy Brain Research Network, researchers designed a Latin ballroom dance program for older sedentary adults. (cdc.gov)

People with deletions tend to have brain overgrowth, developmental delays and a higher risk of obesity," said study author Julia P. Owen, PhD, a brain researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle, who was at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) during the study. (rsna.org)
Those with duplications are born with smaller brains and tend to have lower body weight and developmental delays. (rsna.org)

Second, participants who had the least social contact had more white matter lesions indicative of brain damage. (webmd.com)
Studies have shown people with white matter lesions are at increased risk for stroke or developing problems with thinking and memory. (stroke.org)

Using The Virtual Brain to reveal the role of oscillations and plasticity in shaping the brain's dynamical landscape. (mpg.de)
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study examined how the brain's "recruitment" of the hMT+ region might help blind people track the motion of objects using sound. (washington.edu)

July 13, 2023 -- More social interaction could be good for seniors' brain health and help prevent dementia, new research suggests. (webmd.com)

The cerebellum is one brain structure that contributes to brain reserve. (bigthink.com)
Located at the rear of the brain, the cerebellum plays an essential role in motor control in humans. (bigthink.com)
The cerebellum is also the brain region that contains the highest number of neurons. (bigthink.com)
The GMV of the left posterior cerebellum (from cerebellum crus to lobule VIII) was significantly positively correlated with SWE, as evidenced by the results of whole- brain and cerebellum -specific VBM analyses. (bvsalud.org)

We've come up with a way of predicting someone's brain age based on an MRI scan of their brain,' explained Dr James Cole, a research associate in the Department of Medicine, who led the study. (news-medical.net)
When you scan someone's brain, the subject takes a digital Rorschach test. (pcgamer.com)

In 12 people with schizophrenia, researchers applied tDCS via electrodes on the scalp to the auditory cortex, the part of the brain that processes auditory information. (ucla.edu)

Older people were a fraction of a second slower at answering the questions than younger participants, particularly when there was interference, but the more dramatic difference showed up in the brain scans. (sciencedaily.com)
In this new study, subjects were first screened for mental and physical health and then underwent MRI spectroscopy scans designed to detect the concentration of neural compounds in specific regions of their brain. (brown.edu)
By combining MRI scans with machine learning algorithms, a team of neuroscientists led by researchers at Imperial College London has trained computers to provide a predicted 'brain age' for people based on their volume of brain tissue. (news-medical.net)
Following this fine-tuning, it was then applied to scans of 669 people from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936, a well-studied group of adults all born in 1936 who had undergone MRI scans at age 73, giving them a score for predicted brain age. (news-medical.net)
Volumetric MRI scans were acquired, and anatomical brain regions that mediate speech and language functions were measured and the groups were compared. (stutteringhelp.org)
The FDDNP tracer, which is radioactive, binds with the abnormal proteins in the brain and then appears in neural PET scans. (wfdd.org)
And, it should be noted, the former players - all of them professionals who'd played in the NFL - had brain scans consistent with those of people who had died and had autopsies that confirmed CTE. (wfdd.org)

Sequential effects of propofol on functional brain activation induced by auditory language processing: An event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study. (mpg.de)
Functional MR imaging exposes differential brain responses to syntax and prosody during auditory sentence comprehension. (mpg.de)
Now, a pair of research papers published the week of April 22 from the University of Washington - one in the Journal of Neuroscience , the other in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - use functional MRI to identify two differences in the brains of blind individuals that might be responsible for their abilities to make better use of auditory information. (washington.edu)

Currently they are examining self-belief formation in people with anxiety and depression and seeking to understand the neural underpinnings of self-belief in the human brain. (ucl.ac.uk)
Inferring multi-scale neural mechanisms with brain network modelling. (mpg.de)
As with physical exercise, brain exercises keep your neural connections growing. (bigthink.com)

Every psychiatrist has encountered patients who have had TBIs-from mild concussions as a consequence of collisions on the soccer field or falls on icy steps to devastating brain injuries after motor vehicle accidents or barroom fights. (psychiatrictimes.com)
Almost a quarter-million people who experience a TBI are hospitalized and roughly 50,000 people die due to these injuries. (uclahealth.org)

This concept refers to one's ability to improvise in order to maintain healthy cognition, which requires co-opting other brain regions to accomplish new tasks. (bigthink.com)
Their brains routed those tasks through other regions. (bigthink.com)
There's this idea that blind people are good at auditory tasks, because they have to make their way in the world without visual information. (washington.edu)

Nearly 14% of new brain tumor diagnoses occur in persons under 20 years of age. (wikipedia.org)
This suggests that any changes in the brain and brain cells induced by neuromodulation may take some time to occur. (kcl.ac.uk)
This syndrome can occur due to certain illnesses and leads people to lose the ability to move any muscle in their body even as they remain fully conscious and aware of what's going on. (healthline.com)
This is important as numerous forms of brain plasticity occur there. (bigthink.com)

The study doesn't prove that social isolation causes the brain to shrink. (webmd.com)
Since the study involved only older Japanese people, a limitation is that the findings may not be generalizable to people of other ethnicities and younger people," Neuroscience News wrote. (webmd.com)
Neurology: "Association Between Frequency of Social Contact and Brain Atrophy in Community-Dwelling Older People Without Dementia: The JPSC-AD Study. (webmd.com)
In a study of healthy adults without COVID-19, higher brain and blood levels of various markers of inflammation were detected in participants tested after lockdowns compared with before lockdowns. (massgeneral.org)
After lockdowns, the study participants demonstrated elevated brain levels of two markers of neuroinflammation-translocator protein (measured using positron emission tomography) and myoinositol (measured using magnetic resonance spectroscopy)-compared with pre-lockdown participants. (massgeneral.org)
People who reported light to no exercise experienced a decline equal to 10 more years of aging as compared to people who reported moderate to intense exercise, according to a population-based observational study. (sciencedaily.com)
The number of people over the age of 65 in the United States is on the rise, meaning the public health burden of thinking and memory problems will likely grow," said study author Clinton B. Wright, MD, MS, of the University of Miami in Miami, Fla., and member of the American Academy of Neurology. (sciencedaily.com)
For the study, researchers looked at data on 876 people enrolled in the Northern Manhattan Study who were asked how long and how often they exercised during the two weeks prior to that date. (sciencedaily.com)
Bisaga pointed out how this study is different because it focused on brain networks instead of regions of the brain. (healthline.com)
Access the study, "Brain MR Imaging Findings and Associated Outcomes in Carriers of the Reciprocal Copy Number Variation at 16p11.2. (rsna.org)
A new study used MRI to show how ADHD drugs affect the brains of healthy people. (brown.edu)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] - A new study shows that healthy people who take attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs experience a surge in the neurotransmitter glutamate in key parts of the brain. (brown.edu)
This is the first time that an increase in brain glutamate in response to psychostimulant drugs has been demonstrated in humans," said Tara White, an assistant professor in the Brown University School of Public Health and lead author of the new study. (brown.edu)
A newly published study in Nature Communications shows it may now be possible for people living in a completely locked-in state (CLIS) to communicate with the outside world. (healthline.com)
Niels Birbaumer, PhD, leader of the study and a former neuroscientist at the University of Tübingen, told Healthline his goal was to demonstrate that people with CLIS can communicate, "and it worked. (healthline.com)
The participant in this study had microelectrode arrays implanted in two motor areas of his brain after researchers received written consent from the man's family. (healthline.com)
This study answers a long-standing question about whether people with complete locked-in syndrome (CLIS) - who have lost all voluntary muscle control, including movement of the eyes or mouth - also lose the ability of their brain to generate commands for communication," Jonas Zimmermann , PhD, a study author and Senior Neuroscientist at the Wyss Center in Geneva, said in a statement . (healthline.com)
Study senior author, Dr Stephen Fleming, said: "We were interested in how people estimate their ability in specific situations. (ucl.ac.uk)
A patient's unexpected death during a study has given us the first recording of a dying human brain . (bgr.com)
While the study wasn't designed to record a dying human brain, it did give us some great insight. (bgr.com)
Lateralization of emotional prosody in the brain: An overview and synopsis on the impact of study design. (mpg.de)
Researchers at the University of São Paulo's Medical School (FM-USP) in Brazil used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to complete the first study conducted in Latin America to investigate brain volumes in transgender individuals. (medicalxpress.com)
The study is expected to stimulate interest in research on the brain structure of transgender people . (medicalxpress.com)
According to a study published in 2013 in the journal Behavioural Brain Research, anorexics apparently have specific brain abnormalities that contribute to or cause their distorted body image. (promises.com)
In the study published in Behavioural Brain Research, a team of German researchers examined how well these areas work together in women affected by anorexia. (promises.com)
After reviewing the results of the imaging procedure, the authors of the study concluded that the people with anorexia have an unusually low level of connectivity or signal strength between two of the three brain areas involved in accurately processing body images. (promises.com)
A new study in Nature reports that two people with tetraplegia were able to reach for and grasp objects in three-dimensional space using robotic arms that they controlled directly with brain activity. (brown.edu)
A new study suggests another added benefit: a lower risk of lesions in the brain that increase the chances of dementia, stroke and falls in older adults. (stroke.org)
People who initially reviewed our study were worried 130 would be too low for these older adults," said Dr. William White, the study's lead investigator and a professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine's Calhoun Cardiology Center in Farmington. (stroke.org)
The second study examined how the brains of people who are born blind or become blind early in life - referred to as "early blind" individuals - represent moving objects in space. (washington.edu)
Our study shows that the brains of blind individuals are better able to represent frequencies," Chang said. (washington.edu)
Right now, accurately diagnosing CTE requires the close study of brain tissue during autopsy, to identify the telltale abnormal proteins that kill brain cells. (wfdd.org)
Small says the study paves the way for deeper investigation of CTE's brain changes. (wfdd.org)
Introducing a Latin ballroom dance class to people with dementia living in care homes, benefits and concerns: A pilot study. (cdc.gov)
My mentor assigned me to a study to teach people living with IBS Herbert Benson meditation . (medscape.com)

Addiction can also have a genetic component and there is evidence to suggest certain people are more predisposed to developing substance use disorders than others. (healthline.com)
Researchers from at Brigham and Women's Hospital investigated data from over 100 studies of addiction research and discovered abnormal patterns with substance use disorders linked to a specific brain network. (healthline.com)
The breakthrough suggests we may be on the verge of creating a device that can be used at home to help people with disorders of consciousness communicate with friends and family. (lifeboat.com)
Examples of these groups include women, people with a personal history of sexual abuse, gay men, people affected by depression, the children of alcoholics, athletes, people with a family history of eating disorders, and people who make their living in fields that highlight outward appearances. (promises.com)
Stiff-person syndrome often occurs in people with type 1 diabetes, certain autoimmune disorders, or certain kinds of cancer. (msdmanuals.com)

The research was performed on almost 9,000 people in Japan without dementia. (webmd.com)
Researchers say it suggests there are potential benefits of social engagement in maintaining brain volume and preventing dementia. (webmd.com)
Around the world, 50 million people suffer from diseases of dementia. (bigthink.com)
For many years, the top pro football league in the US employed a 'race norming' dementia test to determine whether Black players would qualify for payouts in a brain-injury settlement. (benjerry.com)

tDCS applies a small, painless electrical current across the brain through two electrodes applied to the scalp. (kcl.ac.uk)
Our brains are designed in a really lucky way in that the motor cortex and the activation of imagined movement can be read directly from electrodes just placed on your scalp," said Eli Kinney-Lang, lead scientist at BCI 4 Kids Calgary. (troymedia.com)
Brain-zapping electrodes have treated seizure patients with promising results, and bizarre and unexpected side-effects of calmness and positivity means they are now being probed as a radical treatment for depression. (dailystar.co.uk)
The pair reckon that brain-boosting electrodes will soon become "like plastic surgery " - with people spending shedloads in order to become smarter and stay ahead of the pack. (dailystar.co.uk)
The BrainGate2 pilot clinical trial employs the investigational BrainGate system initially developed at Brown University, in which a baby aspirin-sized device with a grid of 96 tiny electrodes is implanted in the motor cortex - a part of the brain that is involved in voluntary movement. (brown.edu)

LONDON (Reuters) - A 'brain training' iPad game developed in Britain may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at home and at work, researchers said on Monday. (yahoo.com)
People with schizophrenia have difficulty discriminating between tones of differing frequencies. (ucla.edu)
The technique could present an inexpensive strategy for improving the lives of people with schizophrenia in ways currently unaddressed by medication. (ucla.edu)

deposition was detected in brain tissue by using Western blot analysis with Sha31 monoclonal antibody: epitope amino acids 145-152 (YEDRYYRE) of the sheep PrP sequence. (cdc.gov)

TBIs can range from more mild incidents that cause the head and brain to jolt forward or backward quickly, damaging or creating chemical changes to the brain, to higher-impact events that directly affect the brain and its function. (uclahealth.org)

Dr. Adam Bisaga , Medical Director of Ophelia and a professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, pointed out how the brain function of a person with addiction can be altered. (healthline.com)

Research has also shown that doctors routinely fail to provide appropriate treatment to people of color who report experiencing pain. (benjerry.com)
Though not everyone with head trauma develops CTE, the group that's come to be most associated with it is football players, whose brains can be routinely jarred by hard hits. (wfdd.org)

Someone could go to their doctor, have a brain scan and the doctor could say 'your brain is 10 years older than it should be', and potentially advise them to change their diet or lifestyle or to start a course of treatment. (news-medical.net)
I don't feel good about stamping INSANE on their files based on a few scraps of information gleaned from an invasive brain scan. (pcgamer.com)
Could your boss scan your brain at work? (metro.co.uk)

The study's authors Dr Marion Rouault, Professor Peter Dayan and Dr Stephen Fleming, from the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, set out to investigate how people learn from their abilities in the absence of feedback. (ucl.ac.uk)

In person centered planning , groups of people focus on an individual and that person's vision of what they would like to do in the future. (biav.net)

Meta-reviews of prior studies have attempted to discover the joining of abnormalities to similar brain regions, as opposed to similar brain networks. (healthline.com)
Researchers were able to test whether different types of neuroimaging abnormalities were connected to a common brain network. (healthline.com)
It was surprising to see that brain imaging abnormalities across so many different substances of abuse map to the same brain circuit," Dr. Michael Fox, MD, PhD , a corresponding author on the paper and founding director of the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women's Hospital, told Healthline. (healthline.com)
Many people with autism have abnormalities at a specific site on the 16th chromosome known as 16p11.2. (rsna.org)

AVMs are mainly discovered in younger people from age 20 to 40 years. (medscape.com)
Neil Vora] Yes, children younger than five years of age, people with weakened immune systems, and older adults are at particularly high risk for serious illness with Salmonella . (cdc.gov)

These findings indicate a possible brain circuit that can be applied to neurostimulation treatments. (healthline.com)
The findings, published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology , not only provide clues about how these drugs affect healthy brains, they also hint at a previously undiscovered link between glutamate and mood. (brown.edu)
If the initial findings could be applied to a screening program, the technique could be used to inform health practitioners, showing whether or not a patient had a healthy brain age or was above or below the line, similar to how body mass index (BMI) is used today. (news-medical.net)

A brain tumor is an abnormal growth of cells within the brain or inside the skull, and can be cancerous (malignant) or non-cancerous (benign). (wikipedia.org)
Auras are thought to be caused by abnormal nerve signaling and associated changes in blood flow that spread across the brain. (medlineplus.gov)

In the United States in 2000, survivors of benign primary brain tumors outnumbered those who had cancerous primary brain tumors by approximately 4:1. (wikipedia.org)

Metastatic brain cancer is over six times more common than primary brain cancer, as it occurs in about 10-30% of all people with cancer. (wikipedia.org)
This is a list of notable people who have had a primary or metastatic brain tumor (either benign or malignant) at some time in their lives, as confirmed by public information. (wikipedia.org)
THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN UPDATED on 04/17/20: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Tukysa (tucatinib) for use in combination with trastuzumab (Herceptin) and capecitabine for patients with advanced or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer, including patients with brain metastases (disease that has spread to the brain). (facingourrisk.org)
The following are studies looking at treatment for people with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. (facingourrisk.org)

Exercise in older people is associated with a slower rate of decline in thinking skills that occurs with aging. (sciencedaily.com)

This suggests that the same brain circuit might be a therapeutic target for treating many different types of addiction. (healthline.com)
Now, animal research suggests that physical fitness also benefits the brain. (peoplespharmacy.com)
This suggests that in blind people, area hMT+ is recruited to play an analogous role - tracking moving auditory objects, such as cars, or the footsteps of the people around them. (washington.edu)

Our approach uses the discrepancy between their chronological age and what we call their brain-predicted age as a marker of age-related atrophy in the brain. (news-medical.net)

BOSTON - New research indicates that for some individuals-even those who have steered clear of becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2-societal and lifestyle disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic may have triggered inflammation in the brain that can affect mental health. (massgeneral.org)
While COVID-19 research has seen an explosion in the literature, the impact of pandemic-related societal and lifestyle disruptions on brain health among the uninfected has remained under-explored," says lead author Ludovica Brusaferri, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at MGH and Harvard Medical School. (massgeneral.org)
Our results suggest that moderate to intense exercise may help older people delay aging of the brain, but more research from randomized clinical trials comparing exercise programs to more sedentary activity is needed to confirm these results. (sciencedaily.com)
New research demonstrates a common brain network among people with substance use disorder. (healthline.com)
Our brain imaging data is also helping to understand how this is happening, which will support future research in this field. (kcl.ac.uk)
The research shows that the mind continues to work in a dying human brain, even when the blood has stopped flowing to it. (bgr.com)
As published in Scientific Reports , research conducted in Brazil using magnetic resonance imaging points to variations in the volume of the insula, a brain region associated with body image. (medicalxpress.com)
Our goal in this research is to develop technology that will restore independence and mobility for people with paralysis or limb loss," said lead author Dr. Leigh Hochberg, a neuroengineer and critical care neurologist who holds appointments at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Brown University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard. (brown.edu)
Research has shown that people who are born blind or become blind early in life often have a more nuanced sense of hearing, especially when it comes to musical abilities and tracking moving objects in space (imagine crossing a busy road using sound alone). (washington.edu)
Its brain benefits have been supported by research . (uclahealth.org)
As far as the evidence and the research shows, that style of eating has shown to be the most beneficial in terms of promoting brain health. (uclahealth.org)

Instead of simply looking to see which parts of the brain were most active while listening, both studies examined the sensitivity of the brain to subtle differences in auditory frequency. (washington.edu)

These expanded areas are the same regions that have grown relatively larger throughout our evolution, and they continue to grow in our early lives, becoming relatively larger in adult brains than they are in child brains. (newscientist.com)
Person-centered planning is a process for selecting and organizing the services and supports that an older adult or person with a disability may need to live in the community. (biav.net)

This is important because this is an area of the brain that receives very similar auditory information in blind and sighted individuals," Fine said. (washington.edu)
For a sighted person, having an accurate representation of sound isn't as important because they have sight to help them recognize objects, while blind individuals only have auditory information. (washington.edu)
Left: Researchers began by measuring responses in the auditory cortex to find a map of how frequency responses were represented in the brain. (washington.edu)

It turns out that in larger human brains, regions involved in bringing together information are hyperexpanded - but we don't know what affect this might have on brain function yet. (newscientist.com)
These regions seem to be involved in integrating information from across the brain, he says. (newscientist.com)
It could just be that certain regions need to be relatively larger in larger brains. (newscientist.com)
The various gray matter brain regions contain a mass of synapses and nerve endings (called neuropils) that can change volume dynamically. (medicalxpress.com)
The warm colors represent regions of the brain that showed the greatest response to low-pitched tones, while blue colors represent regions that responded more to high-pitched tones. (washington.edu)
These results provide strong evidence that adults with PDS have anomalous anatomy in perisylvian brain regions. (stutteringhelp.org)

PCP helps the person construct and articulate a vision for the future, consider various paths, engage in decision-making and problem solving, monitor progress, and make needed adjustments in a timely manner. (biav.net)

The results showed some striking differences in the brain structures of deletion and duplication carriers compared with non-carriers. (rsna.org)
The results do appear to be a sort of brain-to-brain connection," the Weinersmiths said. (dailystar.co.uk)
As such, the results from other dying human brains could be quite different. (bgr.com)
The results showed variations in the volume of the brain region called the insula in both hemispheres for both groups of transgender women. (medicalxpress.com)
Our results raise the possibility of future brain-to-brain interfaces that enable cooperative problem solving by humans using a 'social network' of connected brains. (metro.co.uk)
TBI results in chronic, complex, and often debilitating health issues for millions of people worldwide every year. (benjerry.com)

They compared the area of 80,000 points across the cortex - the large part of our brains that is involved in higher functions like thinking. (newscientist.com)
So, the left side of the brain is usually dominant for language functions, and the plenum temporale, a portion of language cortex, is larger in the left hemisphere in most right-handed adults. (stutteringhelp.org)
For the 4 sCJD MM1 cases, brain homogenate (10%, temporal cortex) were also inoculated in tgHu. (cdc.gov)

For decades physicians have been trying to find a way to help people with 'locked in' syndrome. (healthline.com)
Person Centered Planning is an ongoing problem-solving process used to help people with disabilities plan for their future. (biav.net)
And it's that variability which may open the door to a whole host of potential ways that we can help people improve. (wmfe.org)
The lesions can also prevent the nerve fibers from relaying the messages that help people walk and move safely. (stroke.org)

They all had systolic blood pressure (the top number) of 150 or higher and brain MRIs showing lesions known as white matter hyperintensity lesions that are common in older adults. (stroke.org)

The National Cancer Institute estimated 22,070 new cases of primary brain cancer and 12,920 deaths due to the illness in the United States in 2009. (wikipedia.org)
If I decide they're not, I use a series of bizarre machines to root around inside their brains and 'treat' the illness. (pcgamer.com)
People who become infected with Salmonella typically develop illness, including diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps. (cdc.gov)
Salmonella infection can also cause serious illness, including brain, joint, or bloodstream infections. (cdc.gov)
Tracey Hodges] Are certain people more likely to get a serious illness? (cdc.gov)

Now, we're finding that there are different targets for our brain-gut treatments. (medscape.com)

The differences between the two drugs also indicate that ADHD medications can have different effects on glutamate and other compounds in the brain. (brown.edu)

People with severe brain trauma can fall into a coma. (lifeboat.com)
Like previous participants, all were being evaluated for severe epilepsy, so they already had wires inserted in their brains. (wmfe.org)
And you should also know that reptiles and amphibians should not be kept in other facilities, such as nursing homes, where there are people also at increased risk of severe infection. (cdc.gov)

Researchers accounted for other factors that could affect brain size, including smoking, exercise, and diabetes. (webmd.com)
The difference also remained after researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect brain health, such as smoking, alcohol use, high blood pressure and body mass index. (sciencedaily.com)
How do parcellation size and short-range connectivity affect dynamics in large-scale brain network models? (mpg.de)
TBI does not affect all people equally-there are big racial disparities in the causes, risk, medical care, and health outcomes. (benjerry.com)
Chronic migraines affect about 1 in 50 people worldwide. (medlineplus.gov)

Not all brains are built equally. (bigthink.com)

This provides an elegant example of how the development of abilities within infant brains is influenced by the environment they grow up in. (washington.edu)

The researchers recorded around 15 minutes of brain activity surrounding the time that the heart stopped beating. (bgr.com)
Brain activity varies with modulation of dynamic pitch variance in sentence melody. (mpg.de)
For example, at any time during one's life, a brain region's density may increase owing to more activity, leading to a subtle rise in the volume of local gray matter ," said Busatto. (medicalxpress.com)

These exaggerated responses persist for a long time, even in people who were able to abstain from use, and as a result many individuals repeatedly relapse. (healthline.com)
Older individuals who had more difficulty with interference also had more frontal brain activation than young adults. (sciencedaily.com)
We observed specificities in the brains of trans individuals, an important finding in light of the idea of gender ideology. (medicalxpress.com)
Brain structures vary greatly among individuals. (medicalxpress.com)

According to one researcher, it was thought people with complete paralysis might no longer be capable of communicating, even mentally. (healthline.com)

Neuroscience News: "Loneliness in Elderly Tied to Brain Volume Reduction. (webmd.com)

Yet little is known about what effects these drugs have on healthy brains, White said. (brown.edu)
This is the first time we've seen a link between increases in brain glutamate and increases in positive emotion in healthy people - with both changes happening in real time," said White, who is based at Brown's Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies . (brown.edu)
Keeping your brain healthy is not all about Sudoku, Wordle or crossword puzzles. (cnbc.com)
Analysis revealed that those with a brain age older than their chronological age performed worse on standard physical measures for healthy aging, including grip strength, lung capacity and walking speed. (news-medical.net)
As noted above, one nun kept her brain healthy by doing crossword puzzles. (bigthink.com)
A healthy diet is important for the brain as well as the body. (uclahealth.org)

AVMs are rare, occurring in about 1 in 100,000 people. (medscape.com)

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