Drug to treat ADHD has similar effect on children with reading disorders
...ADHD is characterized by inattention, but previous neuroimaging studies have examined the brain dysfunction associated with impulsivity. "This is one of few studies that used a test for attention rather than a cognitive test for impulsivity," said Shafritz. "It is also the first study, using fMRI to find that the...Prenatal alcohol exposure has effects far beyond fetal alcohol syndrome
...in regions," she said. "We plan to use innovative neuroimaging procedures to help target when and where the damage occurs. By also identifying critical moderators of the relation between alcohol exposure and outcome, we hope to improve the ability to identify affected individuals and thus better understand the ...National Institute on Aging Neuroimaging Initiative for Alzheimer's disease
...ute on Aging is launching a landmark study to find neuroimaging and other methods for monitoring the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) aimed at significantly reducing the time and cost of clinical trials. In the last few decades, great strides have been made in understanding the genetics and biology of Alzh...National Institute on Aging, industry launch Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative
...t is the most comprehensive effort to date to find neuroimaging and other biomarkers for the cognitive changes ass...ould become a landmark study in the development of neuroimaging and other biomarkers, helping us to find biological changes early so that we can identify the people...MRI shows brain changes underlying language deficits in autism
...easures -- for example neurocognitive, genetic, or neuroimaging tests -- then we may be able to more selectively and effectively treat people with debilitating neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and SLI."...Certain components of the brain's 'executive functions' are compromised early in abstinence
..., and more research is needed. I think functional neuroimaging techniques provide the best methods for observing the component executive deficits in action, and to pinpoint the exact regions of the brain that are functioning abnormally. Swartzwelder said the next important step is to determine how long the dysf...How brain gives special resonance to emotional memories
...distinguish the new study from previous functional neuroimaging studies, said the researchers. First, to identify the brain regions associated with the memory-enhancing effect of emotion, the study identified the brain regions whose activity during memory formation predicts what items would be remembered or forgo...Highlights summarized for movement disorders research at 56th annual meeting
.... This change was mirrored by improvements seen on neuroimaging that suggest an increase in sprouting of the remaining dopamine-producing neurons. Several caveats remain, however this was an open-label trial in a small number of patients, and only autopsy results can confirm beneficial effects on the cells withi...Hormone may offer hope for treating some behavioral disorders
...dministration of this agent can be monitored using neuroimaging methods, therefore providing an important method for studying both brain and behavioral effects of secretin. Finally, and perhaps most promising given that abnormalities of amygdala function have been implicated in a variety of behavioral and psychia...World's Alzheimer's disease experts to showcase latest research
...ting Diagnosis: cognitive testing, biomarkers and neuroimaging Causes: amyloid, tau and other disease mechanisms Animal and other model systems for doing research Care issues: patient management and social-behavioral research Human and animal prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob and "Mad Cow" Alzheim...New guidelines for cerebral palsy recommend early neuroimaging tests
...the Child Neurology Society are recommending early neuroimaging tests on children with suspected cerebral palsy as well as early screening for related disorders in new practice guidelines published in the March 23 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. While it is not yet...Exercise sharpens focus, decision-making among aging adults
...tion in human subjects along with state-of-the-art neuroimaging -- focused on actual changes in brain function and the capability of previously non-active aging adults to improve their ability to ignore distractions. It ties brain changes to cognitive changes, Kramer said. "We continue to find a number of cogniti...Award-winning research affirms use of hypnosis in eliminating pain
...te students in her Neurocognition Laboratory. Her neuroimaging studies demonstrate that, during hypnotic analgesia, highly hypnotizable people have more physiological flexibility involving an active inhibitory process of supervisory, executive control by the anterior frontal cortex interacting with and modulatin...Brain area identified that weighs rewards
...ocial reasoning--a possibility suggested by recent neuroimaging studies in humans. "We'll have to be very clever in these experiments," said Platt. "After all, what is moral judgment for a monkey? So, we'll have to develop a way to measure whether a monkey perceives another violating a social norm, for example, a...NCCAM funds Centers of Excellence for Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
...r: Bruce R. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D. Through the use of neuroimaging techniques such as functional MRI (fMRI) as well as physiological and gene microarray studies, this Center will study how acupuncture affects human brain activity. The research projects in this Center will seek to understand the neurobiology of acup...New horizons in cortical cartography
...ources of neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging data will become powerful and pervasive tools for basic and clinical neuroscience....UNC forms Conte Center for multidisciplinary schizophrenia research
...nfancy to early adulthood and use state-of-the-art neuroimaging to examine brain function in high-risk adolescents and young adults. The Center also aims to develop a model for genetic and cellular influences of the GABAergic interneurons, which regulate the neural pathways most closely associated with the develo...Memory training may help some Alzheimer's patients in the early stages of the disease
...ts benefited equally (some didn't improve at all), neuroimaging might reveal the mechanisms involved, as well as why they do or don't respond to training. "In developing any kind of intervention," says Clare, "we need to understand not just whether it is effective, but for whom it is or is not effective. This i...Verbal memory test best indicator of who will have Alzheimer's disease, new study says
...s and Boulos looked at both neuropsychological and neuroimaging tests to determine their ability to detect preclin...ges in the hippocampus were the best volumetric or neuroimaging measure but in general volumetric measures were less sensitive to preclinical stages of the dementia...New practice guidelines focus on neuroimaging of premature and low birth weight babies
...nd evaluating treatment effectiveness." Although neuroimaging has proven to be extremely helpful for the assessment of injury to the preterm infant's brain, and may provide useful information for evaluating the infant with neonatal encephalopathy, there are significant problems associated with imaging of the cr...