Seminar Papers
The researchers have found that music can help the patient with severe injury to remind their lives or memory.
Underlying mechanism is not fully understood. However, music may elicit the positive and negative emotion so memory can be activated.
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Researchers have found that the reading can heighten the connectivity in the temporal sulcus which is associated with language processing.
These heightened connectivity is also seen in the central sulcus even though the reader spends long time in the fMRI scanner.
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Read more: http://www.futurity.org/reading-novels-leaves-shadow-activity-brain/
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Toolbox of iterative dual-regression with sparse prior was released on NITRC (http://www.nitrc.org/projects/iterdrwsp/)
Iterative Dual-Regression with Sparse Prior (IDRwSP) is aimed to better estimate an individual’s neuronal activation using the results of an independent component analysis (ICA) method applied to a temporally concatenated group of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data (i.e., Tc-GICA method).
In detail, an ordinary DR approach estimates the spatial patterns (SPs) of neuronal activation and corresponding time courses (TCs) specific to each individual’s fMRI data with two steps involving least-squares (LS) solutions. The proposed approach employs iterative LS solutions to refine both the individual SPs and TCs with an additional a priori assumption of sparseness in the SPs (i.e., minimally overlapping SPs) based on L(1)-norm minimization.
Toolbox was developed under MATLAB framework (additionally require SPM8).
Please refer the reference paper to know more details (click here), and site it when you want to use in research purpose.
(Kim YH, Kim J, Lee JH., Iterative approach of dual regression with a sparse prior enhances the performance of independent component analysis for group functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data., Neuroimage. 2012.)
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Yong-Hwan Kim (whiteneng@gmail.com)
Germany researchers have found that the deep brain stimulation (DBS) probably helps Parkinson’s patients drive.
As a result, Parkinson’s patients with deep brain stimulation have less errors than without treatment during driving task.
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Read more: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/270109.php
Some people can’t pass away the bakery or sweet treatment shop. There are some reasons in our brain.
Scientists have found that some of us are hard-wired to enjoy the sugary food. So, the human brain reacts differently to the sugary foods such as chocolate, cake, and so on.
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Please refer to the news on recently published article in the journal Science.
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5208/20131206/poor-brain-wiring-behind-dyslexia.htm
The virtual-reality therapy is usually used for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients increasingly. This therapy makes the patient confront their trauma virtually and overcome from the trauma.
Even though the quarter of patient can recover from own jury, these method which makes the patient face to their trauma also can restore patients’ memory.
It indicates that the virtual-reality therapy is not always good therapy for PTSD patients.
Read more: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-does-virtual-reality-therapy-fo
In this news, the researchers were trying to find out how the brain works under the situation of supermarket bargains.
The study have focused on the rational and emotional workings of the brain while shopping.
As the result, the brain can work logically or rationally for around 40 min. after beginning weekly shop.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-24995031
The team including the economist, neuroscientist, psychologist will conduct the experiment to explore how the economic stress affect the brain of fatus. In this article, previous study and how to divide into two groups (experimental group and control group).
If we have more friends or more sociable character, we have more bigger and better connection in brain. This finding comes from Oxford University.
Especially there are strong connection between the various brain regions related the sociability including anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).