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·June 18, 2022·5 min read

Brain ‘Fingerprinting’ Provides Insights Into Mental Health of Young Adolescents

Neuroimaging of a person's unique brain activity may help predict mental health problems during adolescence, a new study reports.

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·June 2, 2022·5 min read

Brain Scans Remarkably Good at Predicting Political Ideology

Brain scans taken while people perform tasks and while resting accurately were able to predict a person's political persuasions. The findings provide evidence that partisan political stances may have biological roots.

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·October 10, 2019·5 min read

Brain scans may provide clues to suicide risk

Neuroimaging can be used to assess a person's risk of suicidal behavior. Those with mood disorders, a history of suicidal thoughts, and those with a history of suicide attempts have less connectivity in the cognitive control network. They also have reduced connectivity between the cognitive control network and the default mode network.

This is one of the baby brain scans from the collection

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·September 23, 2019·2 min read

Baby brain scans made available online to advance research

Researchers from the Developing Human Connectome Project have released over 500 brain scans from newborn babies as part of an open-source effort to allow other researchers to study human brain development.

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·October 21, 2017·6 min read

Boosting Social Skills With Brain Scanning

A new study aims to use neuroimaging technology to better understand the networks behind social interactions.

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·February 13, 2017·5 min read

Brain Scanners Allow Scientists to ‘Read Minds’ – Could They Now Enable a ‘Big Brother’ Future?

Researchers question just how far fMRI research should go when trying to understand what exactly is going on inside our heads.

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·July 23, 2015·9 min read

Early Detection of Alzheimer’s May be Possible With Saliva Test and Other New Tests

Researchers suggest a number of new tests for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, including a saliva test.

This image shows MRI scans from the research paper.

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·May 27, 2015·2 min read

Alzheimer’s Biomarker Could be Identified by Neuroimaging Test

A new study reports a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease could be detected with the help of neuroimaging technology.

This illustration compares a normal brain to an alzheimer's brain.

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·June 28, 2013·3 min read

Identifying Alzheimer’s Using Space Technology

According to the ESA, software which processes satellite pictures taken from space is helping researchers establish a simple method for wide-scale Alheimer's screening.

The image shows an mri brain scan of a patient with MS.

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·June 12, 2013·2 min read

New Imaging Technique Holds Promise for Speeding MS Research

Researchers have developed a new MRI neuroimaging technique which detects brain lesions associated with multiple sclerosis in finer detail than ever before. The technique could be a powerful tool for evaluating new treatment options for the disease.

The image shows a patient undergoing MRI neuroimaging.

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·June 5, 2013·2 min read

Neuroimaging May Offer New Way to Diagnose Bipolar Disorder

Researchers suggest MRI could prove an effective tool in diagnosing mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder. Using advanced computational models, researchers were able to correctly distinguish bipolar patients from healthy individuals with 73% accuracy based on brain scans alone.

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·January 30, 2013·2 min read

Ultrasound Reveals Markers for Down’s Syndrome

Researchers have found that some second-trimester markers for Down’s syndrome detected by ultrasound increase the risk of giving birth to a child with the condition. The findings could help address the risks pregnant women face in having a child with Down’s syndrome.

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brain scans

Brain ‘Fingerprinting’ Provides Insights Into Mental Health of Young Adolescents

Brain Scans Remarkably Good at Predicting Political Ideology

Brain scans may provide clues to suicide risk

Baby brain scans made available online to advance research

Brain Scanners Allow Scientists to ‘Read Minds’ – Could They Now Enable a ‘Big Brother’ Future?

Early Detection of Alzheimer’s May be Possible With Saliva Test and Other New Tests

Alzheimer’s Biomarker Could be Identified by Neuroimaging Test

Identifying Alzheimer’s Using Space Technology

New Imaging Technique Holds Promise for Speeding MS Research

Neuroimaging May Offer New Way to Diagnose Bipolar Disorder

Ultrasound Reveals Markers for Down’s Syndrome

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