For more than a century, brain imaging has been a story of trade-offs: sharp pictures but slow timing, or fast signals with ...

Death has always been one of humanity’s greatest mysteries, but a completely accidental brain scan captured something that might change how we think about our final moments. What scientists discovered ...

MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is an incredible technique that was first used to scan patients in the 1970s and 1980s. It uses radio waves, giant magnets, and computational tools to visualize ...

Our bodies change as we get older, and one undesirable result is that we become more vulnerable to age-related issues. Particularly, old age is characterized by a significant physical and mental ...

The traumatic events that firefighters, first responders and law enforcement workers witness can lead to severe mental health struggles in their daily lives. A 2023 study by the National Highway ...

The tool could help assess a person's risk of experiencing dementia, as well as trace the development of cognitive decline after it's begun. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

Researchers compared a traditional Chinese medicine, Yueju Pill, with a standard antidepressant and found both reduced ...

Gamma brain waves are rhythmic electric processes in nerve cells called neurons. Nerve activity in the brain allows for communication throughout the brain to carry out functions such as memory, ...

A new study provides the first visual evidence showing that brain circuits in living animals can be activated by ultrasound waves projected into specific patterns (holograms). Led by scientists at NYU ...

In a new study published in Neuron titled, “Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms,” researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of ...