Get the Picture? New High Resolution Images Show Brain Activity Like Never Before A new neuroimaging study was able to show activity in sub-regions of the PAG with more precision than ever before.
Financial Boom and Bust Drivers, All in the Mind? Biological mechanisms in the brains of traders lead them to predict how others will behave, resulting in stock marketing bubbles crashing; a new study suggests.
Speedier Scans Reveal New Distinctions in Resting and Active Brain Using MEG brain scans, which are a speedier alternative to fMRI, researchers are discovering new insights into how brain regions work together.
Has Evolution Given Humans Unique Brain Structures? Comparing fMRI scans of human brains and those of rhesus monkeys, researchers believe they have new evidence which proves humans have unique cortical brain networks.
Shedding New Light on Infant Brain Development Researchers find the infant brain does not control its blood flow in the same way as the adult brain. The findings could change the way researchers study brain development in infants and children.
Behavioral Therapy for Children With Autism Can Impact Brain Function Using fMRI for before-and-after analysis, a team of researchers discovered positive changes in brain activity in children with autism who received a particular type of behavioral therapy.
Researchers Describe Technology that Lets Spinal Cord Injured Man Control Robot Arm with Thoughts Researchers describe how an electrode array sitting on top of the brain enabled a 30-year-old paralyzed man to control the movement of a character on a computer screen in three dimensions with just his thoughts. It also enabled him to move a robot arm to touch a friend’s hand for the first time in the seven years.
Pioneering Research Helps to Unravel the Brain’s Vision Secrets A new study has identified the two areas of the brain responsible for our perception of orientation and shape. Research found that the two neighbouring areas, known as human visual field maps, process the different types of visual information independently.
Listeners Mindfulness Enhanced by Meditation Technique New research explores how mindfulness meditation could enhance both musical engagement and performance. Additional research into mindfulness meditation could potentially lead to new treatment for mental illness and brain injuries.
Research Reveals How the Human Brain Adapts to Injury Scientists used a new combination of neural imaging methods to discover how the human brain adapts to injury. The research shows that when one brain area loses functionality, a back-up team of secondary brain areas immediately activates, replacing not only the unavailable area but also its confederates.
Brainwave Training Boosts Network for Cognitive Control and Predicts Mind Wandering Using several neuroimaging methods, a team of researchers working at the University of Western Ontario have now uncovered that functional changes within a key brain network occur directly after a 30-minute session of noninvasive, neural-based training.
Researchers Create a Universal Map of Vision in the Human Brain Researchers create a map of vision in the brain based upon an individual's brain structure, even for people who cannot see. Their result can, among other things, guide efforts to restore vision using a neural prosthesis that stimulates the surface of the brain.
Autistic Adults Have Unreliable Neural Responses, Carnegie Mellon-Led Research Team Finds Neuroscientists take the first step toward deciphering the connection between general brain function and emergent behavioral patterns in autism. Study shows that autistic adults have unreliable neural sensory responses to visual, auditory and somatosensory, or touch, stimuli.
How Genetics Shape Our Addictions: Genes Predict the Brain’s Reaction to Smoking Have you ever wondered why some people find it so much easier to stop smoking than others? New research shows that vulnerability to smoking addiction is shaped by our genes.
Predicting How Patients Respond to Therapy A new study led by MIT neuroscientists has found that brain scans of patients with social anxiety disorder can help predict whether they will benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy.
