Sentence examples for pictures of brain from inspiring English sources

Unlike standard M.R.I. scans that take static pictures of brain anatomy -- used when doctors search for abnormalities -- functional imaging captures the brain in action as it plans, schemes, imagines and hallucinates.

Often conflating poverty and neglect, he worried about the impact on children's brains, basing his concerns on controversial science and using grainy pictures of brain scans to make his point.

To follow-up to a CT or MRI scan, a PET test can be used to provide the physician with a greater understanding of specific areas of the brain including two- and three-dimensional pictures of brain activity.

Fancy color pictures of brains in action became a fixture in media accounts of the human mind and lulled people into a false sense of comprehension.

Normal scalp-based electroencephalography (EEG) is easy to do, but it really can only get a very blurry picture of brain activity near the surface, because it has to detect all that through your hair, skin, skull, etc.

To find out, a team of researchers led by Pierre Maquet of the University of Liege in Belgium used positron emission tomography (PET) to get a three-dimensional picture of brain activity.

A more differentiated picture of brain activity during sleep and its relation to dreaming is suggested by neuroimaging studies, which show that REM sleep is characterized by a shift in regional activation patterns compared to both wakefulness and NREM sleep (Dang-Vu et al. 2007; Nir & Tononi 2010; Desseilles et al. 2011).

The method was also able to detect the effect of the enzyme in a metabolic reaction (Fig. 7) and to give a clearer and more principled picture of brain area interactions than simple averaging (Fig. 6).

The quantitation of metabolites using diverse approaches can provide a more complete picture of brain activities which may be useful for comprehension of the biochemical processes as well as a means of providing a source of non-protein-based biomarkers.

Examples of fluorescence immunostainings and pictures taken of brain sections during the laser capture microdissection process can be found in Harris et al. (2008).

I have M.R.I. pictures of my brain (no obvious holes or bulges) and soon will undergo the ultimate test of marital love: my brain will be scanned while my wife's name is subliminally flashed before my eyes.