Studies on adults show a particular pattern of brain activity: When your senses detect something, such as a moving object, the vision center of your brain activates, even if the object goes by too fast for you to notice.
A similar pattern of brain activity is found in people addicted to drugs.
Scientists from the University of Colorado, Boulder may have found a pattern of brain activity that identifies the disease.
Helen Fisher, the Rutgers anthropologist, believes that romantic love has three phases, lust, attraction and attachment, each one with a distinct pattern of brain activity.
This confirmed that the film clip evoked the same pattern of brain activity in all the participants, as in the 2004 study.
The researchers compiled this information to develop a computer model that would predict the pattern of brain activity triggered by any image.
Schalk's team then used specially designed decoder algorithms to predict the vowels and consonants of the word, using only the pattern of brain activity.
Her pattern of brain activity appeared to be delayed compared to that of healthy people, a pattern that has previously been seen in people with brain damage.
A consistent pattern of brain activity can be seen in non-autistic people when distinguishing between happy, sad and neutral faces, but people with autism struggle with this kind of emotion recognition.
In a paper published last year, the Wisconsin team reported that older adults (the average age was 64) who regulated their emotions well showed a distinctly different pattern of brain activity than those who didn't.
The Martinos researchers have also shown that acupuncture elicits the same characteristic pattern of brain activity, regardless of the type of acupuncture or placement of the needle, a finding that supports results from some clinical trials.
