Memories are made of this: Scientists find brain's remembering mechanism

AP Online;  August 20, 1998 ;     655 words ......sophisticated imaging techniques to watch people's neural activity and, for the first time, show which parts of the...enough that scientists can measure split-second neural activity as a person's brain processes an experience. At...been told this was a memory test. But after the MRI ...

Memories are made of this: Scientists see how brain remembers

AP Online;  August 21, 1998 ;     642 words ......sophisticated imaging techniques to measure people's neural activity _ and accurately predicted in advance whether they...enough that scientists can measure split-second neural activity as a person's brain processes an experience. At...been told this was a memory test. But after the MRI ...

UCI RESEARCHER IDENTIFIES BRAIN ACTIVITY THAT 'SETS THE STAGE' FOR...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 28, 2006 ;     519 words ......release: Researchers have identified the neural activity that occurs when the brain "sets the...University College London, looked at neural activity that preceded the presentation of...alerted them of the upcoming word. Neural activity caused by the cue was monitored through...

FED: MRI scans for knees and MS, but AMA says more is needed

AAP General News (Australia);  October 20, 2007 ;     468 words ......General News (Australia) 10-20-2007 FED: MRI scans for knees and MS, but AMA says more is...GPs will be able to refer patients for MRI scans of knees and for suspected multiple sclerosis...the power to directly refer people for MRI scans to fast track the diagnosis of knee problems...

Monitoring Neural Activity In Vivo

The Scientist;  September 27, 2004 ;     407 words ......which is typically activated during neural activity, to a green fluorescent protein (GFP...long-term (minutes-to-hours) changes in neural activity. Another method, the synapto-pHluorin-bas...Wachowiak and colleagues,2 highlights neural activity occurring at the ...

Our brains determine what our eyes see

The Hindustan Times;  November 21, 2007 ;     343 words ......as optical illusions, patterns of neural activity within specific brain regions systematically...Imaging (fMRI) to measure patterns of neural activity in the middle temporal (MT) region...the study found that the pattern of neural activity in the MT region was highly similar...

McLean Researchers Uncover Link Between Ritalin and Brain; Discovery Could...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  July 31, 2002 ;     700+ words ......forms of activity-overall movement and neural activity in an obscure area of the brain, the...displayed less kinetic movement and neural activity levels in their vermis appeared to...Whether the apparently high levels of neural activity in the vermis of the most active boys...

U. Chicago bird brain study reveals cognitive benefits of sleep

University Wire;  November 14, 2000 ;     700+ words ......the model of Australian zebra finch neural activity to conclude that a good deal of learning...song and "learn." By monitoring the neural activity, the researchers discovered that the...in silence. It was found that the neural activity during playback while sleeping and...

Caution: Brain working

The Scientist;  November 3, 2003 ;     700+ words ......areas of the brain, and presumably neural activity, in real time. The technique could...techniques to compare fMRI signals with the neural activity entering the area and the activity...researchers correlate blood flow to neural activity, the connection hasn't been solidly...

FED: MRI scans for knees and MS but AMA says more is needed

AAP General News (Australia);  October 21, 2007 ;     136 words ......General News (Australia) 10-21-2007 FED: MRI scans for knees and MS but AMA says more is...practitioners will be able to refer patients for MRI scans of their knees and suspected multiple...the power to directly refer people for MRI scans to fast track knee and MS detection...

Brain Stains

The Scientist;  November 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ......encoded optical reporters light up neural activity, even in vivo | By Aileen Constans...product is sensitive to changes in neural activity - for instance, fluctuations in calcium...encoded probes can be used to monitor neural activity in living systems via fluorescence...

Washington, Connecticut Inventors Develop Intracranial Electrical...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 9, 2006 ;     482 words ......inducing a lasting change in neural activity to effectuate a particular...neural-function. Such lasting change in neural activity is defined as 'neuroplasticity...region in the brain where neural activity is typically present to perform...

FED: MRI scans for knees and MS, but AMA says more is needed=2

AAP General News (Australia);  October 20, 2007 ;     300 words ......General News (Australia) 10-20-2007 FED: MRI scans for knees and MS, but AMA says more is...allow rural GPs to refer patients for MRI scans without the need for a specialist consult...unable to access specialist referral for MRI scans at all because of the travel costs involved...

Anatomy of apprehension. (amygdala may allow people to identify signs of...

Science News;  November 9, 1996 ;     160 words ......Moreover, the sight of frightened faces selectively sets off neural activity in this structure, indicating that it specializes in tracking...the fear perceived in the photos grew in intensity, so did neural activity in the amygdala, Dolan's team asserts in the Oct. 31 Nature...

Grass roots call to stop MRI scans; BOXING.

The Birmingham Post (England);  August 3, 1998 ;     253 words ......should suspend the controversial use of MRI scans which have recently resulted in upwards...is happy with what is happening. The MRI scans have been introduced on the recommendation...resume using the CAT scans while the MRI scans are reviewed. Jim Pridding, a referee...