Tool detects fetal brain activity. (Stimulated by Light).

OB GYN News;  December 15, 2002 ;     162 words ......may prove useful for evaluating fetal brain activity. Using the scanning device--called...were able for the first time to detect brain activity in fetuses stimulated by flashes of...may eventually be useful for tracking brain activity and assessing damage in fetuses at...

Aerobic activity may stimulate brain activity

University Wire;  May 8, 1998 ;     321 words ......in aerobics regularly have electric brain activity similar to those of young adults, according...numerous graduate students, examining brain activity of aerobically active and sedentary...males, because the female participants' brain activity did not differ as much. However, ...

Mind Reading is Here.(The Technologist)(brain activity)

Newsweek International;  February 4, 2008 ;     580 words ......the weapon. Pay dirt: his pattern of brain activity screams hammer as loud and clear as...prospect of reading thoughts by decoding brain-activity patterns is no longer difficult to...thought is associated with a pattern of brain activity, says neuroscientist John-Dylan Haynes...

Osaka University, Hitachi Jointly Succeed in Obtaining Brain Activity...

JCNN News Summaries - Japan Corporate News Network;  July 19, 2005 ;     132 words ......obtaining the images of a person's brain activity after he consumes alcohol. Using an...research group has observed changes in the brain activity triggered by acetaldehyde, a metabolite...concentration in the body and affect the brain activity and body. Details of this discovery...

Brain activity may affect immune functions.

United Press International;  September 4, 2003 ;     212 words ......attitude -- it might also involve your brain activity. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madis...emotional and physical health, as well as brain activity and affective style, Davidson says none established a direct link between brain activity and immune function. The latest ...

Women's brains present hormonal mystery.(research indicates women can...

Science News;  August 9, 1997 ;     470 words ......fail to show surges in the frontal brain activity that has been considered crucial for...hormone and boast much more frontal brain activity. Alternate brain networks, which perhaps...that gonadal steroid hormones affect brain activity and certain cognitive skills, such...

Multi-tasking affects brain activity.(Brief article)

Youth Studies Australia;  December 1, 2006 ;     242 words ......resource imaging (fMRI) scans of participants indicated brain activity in the hippocampus (the area of the brain used to process...participants performed the sorting task by itself, while brain activity shifted to the striatum (the area used for storing information...

Basic exercise can improve brain activity for aging adults, study shows

Charleston Gazette;  February 17, 2004 ;     270 words ......45-minute walk three times a week. Their brain activity was measured by magnetic resonance...the exercise program showed increased brain activity and had an 11 percent improvement on...cardiovascular walking program, had lower brain activity than the other group and only showed...

Tests on U.S. mine survivor show brain activity

AP Worldstream;  January 10, 2006 ;     374 words ......a partial coma but showed signs of brain activity, doctors said Tuesday. Mourners prepared...doctors had performed tests of McCloy's brain activity, which showed a lot of activity on...important to us that he has a lot of brain activity," Bailes said. On Monday, authorities...

Brain activity.

RCR Wireless News;  August 6, 2001 ;     400 words ......magnetic resonance images to study the brain activity of people doing one complex task compared with brain activity in people performing two tasks...because driving and dialing requires brain activity in two different parts of the brain...

Tracking down the roots of dyslexia.(research links dyslexia and brain...

Newsweek;  March 16, 1998 ;     258 words ......of the National Academy of Sciences. The differences in brain activity support the idea that dyslexia stems from a problem translating...be used to track what kind of intervention might restore brain activity to normal in children who are slow readers. If we treat...

Images of intellect: brain scans may colorize intelligence. (positron...

Science News;  October 8, 1994 ;     700+ words ......investigation documented sharp drops in overall brain activity for another eight men after 1 to 2...reasoning ability showed the least brain activity while playing Tetris. Many researchers...Haier uncovered a substantial jump in brain activity for 14 high-IQ men who tackled a ...

Study: Brain activity reveals mother tongue

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  May 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ......in other languages by analyzing our brain activity while we read, scientists working with...say were surprising differences in brain activity when the subjects were shown words...We didn't expect a big difference in brain activity" when they switched from one language...

Surviving miner shows signs of brain activity

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 11, 2006 ;     129 words ......disaster remained in a partial coma but showed signs of brain activity, doctors said Tuesday as mourners said farewell to the last...means, but it is very important to us that he has a lot of brain activity." He said McCloy's recovery could be a lengthy process.

Peering into the developing brain. (researchers obtain the first ever...

Science News;  November 15, 1997 ;     210 words ...Investigators have for the first time imaged the language-related brain activity of a 15-month-old girl just learning to speak. These snapshots...child to remain motionless long enough to have his or her brain activity imaged. Hirsch and her colleagues sedated the child and...