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.
"I thought the science behind the movie was pretty on target," he said, explaining that homing in on specific areas of the brain is similar to his work in tracking brain activity using magnetic resonance imaging -- though memory-zapping remains one step beyond.
Unlike other drugs that target specific areas of the brain, solvents were thought to act on all brain regions.
Resembling a large wand, rTMS is an FDA-approved treatment for depression in which a low-frequency electromagnetic pulse is applied to specific areas of the brain through the scalp, never directly touching the brain; it is performed safely in your doctor's outpatient office.
Using brain imaging, Goadsby and colleagues recently identified specific areas of the brain that are activated in the pre-headache phase.
Five studies proposed that acupuncture can have specific functional effects in the brain and used fMRI to correlate acupuncture points to specific areas of the brain with specific sensory or motor functions [ 38, 39, 63, 74, 78].
fMRI principally measures blood oxygen level-dependent signals that are correlated to the blood flow into different regions of the brain, which in turn give physicians information on the functional activity of specific areas of the brain [ 155].
In looking at brain scans of people while enjoying a good laugh researchers observed that while emotional responses appear to be confined to specific areas of the brain, laughter seems to be produced via a circuit that runs through many regions of the brain.
Because nerve cells grow but do not regenerate, the brain is the organ best suited for the accumulation of metabolic errors colocalized in specific areas of the brain over an extended period.
In contrast, patch clamp in brain slices enables the investigation of semi-conserved neuronal circuits, and the measurement of neurotransmission in specific areas of the brain.
