Brain Imaging Analysis Can Identify Participants under Regular Mental Training

Brain Imaging Analysis Can Identify Participants under Regular Mental Training

Multivariate pattern recognition approaches have become a prominent tool in neuroimaging data analysis. These methods enable the classification of groups of participants (e.g. controls and patients) on the basis of subtly different patterns across the whole brain. This study demonstrates that these methods can be used, in combination with automated morphometric analysis of structural MRI, to de...

Intraoperative molecular imaging can identify lung adenocarcinomas during pulmonary resection.

BACKGROUND More than 80,000 people undergo resection of a pulmonary tumor each year, and the only method to determine if the tumor is malignant is histologic analysis. We propose that a targeted molecular contrast agent could bind lung adenocarcinomas, which could be identified using real-time optical imaging at the time of surgery. METHODS Fifty patients with a biopsy-proven lung adenocarcin...

Can molecular imaging techniques identify biomarkers for neuropsychiatric disorders?

Podem as técnicas de imagem molecular identificar biomarcadores nos distúrbios neuropsiquiátricos? The phenomenological paradigm used for neuropsychiatric diagnosis is still hegemonic in the currently adopted classifications. This paradigm, however, has the particular caveat of not including any information from biological or pathophysiological mechanisms. With recent advances in the methods fo...

How Can Brain Imaging Help Education

Volume 1—Number 3 © 2007 the Authors Journal Compilation © 2007 International Mind, Brain, and Education Society and Blackwell Publishing, Inc. 140 ABSTRACT — Although many articles have addressed the relationship of neuroscience and education at a theoretical level, none has considered as a practical matter how one integrates neuroscientifi c data into a behavioral theory that uses hypothetica...

Coaching under pressure: mental skills training for sports coaches