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·December 16, 2025·5 min read

fMRI Signals Often Misread Neural Activity

fMRI signals don’t always match the brain’s true activity levels, overturning a core assumption used in tens of thousands of studies. In about 40% of cases, an increased fMRI signal appeared in regions where neural activity was actually reduced, while decreased signals sometimes showed up in areas with heightened activity.

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·August 11, 2022·7 min read

How Not to Use Brain Scans in Neuroscience

While neuroimaging may be a standard in neuroscience and psychology research, a new study says researchers are massively underestimating how large the study sample must be for a neuroimaging study to produce reliable findings.

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·April 29, 2021·5 min read

Ultra-High Field MRI Detects Differences in Brain’s Hippocampus

A neuroimaging study of people with Down syndrome reveals subtle differences in the structure and function of the hippocampus.

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·March 25, 2021·5 min read

Massive Study Reveals Few Differences Between Men and Women’s Brains

A large-scale meta-analysis reveals men and women's brains do have slight differences. However, the differences are due to brain size and not sex or gender. Researchers say brain differences between men and women are small and inconsistent once an individual's head size is accounted for.

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·March 18, 2021·5 min read

Babies Pay Attention With Down Payment From Immature Brain Region

Neuroimaging reveals when babies focus their attention, they utilize areas of the frontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with more advanced functions and previously believed to be immature in children under a year of age.

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·March 13, 2021·3 min read

MRI Scans More Precisely Define and Detect Some Abnormalities in Unborn Babies

MRI imaging is more adept at detecting fetal abnormalities than conventional ultrasound imaging.

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·March 2, 2021·6 min read

The Most Detailed Look Yet at the Neuroscience of Placebo Effects

Patients who reported a greater reduction in pain following being administered a placebo showed larger reductions in brain areas associated with pain construction.

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·February 22, 2021·4 min read

Politics and the Brain: Attention Perks up When Politicians Break With Party Lines

Neuroimaging study reveals that when politicians take politically incongruent stances, people show stronger activation in the insula and anterior cingulate.

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·January 3, 2021·4 min read

A First Look at How the Psychedelic Salvinorin A Works in the Brain

As with other psychedelics, salvinorin A increased activity across the brain. However, salvinorin A use resulted in more random and disconnected signaling in the default mode network, a brain network associated with relaxing and daydreaming.

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·December 17, 2020·6 min read

Big Brains and White Matter: New Clues About Autism Subtypes

Two new studies shed light on brain development and changes in ASD. Researchers found the development of white matter tracts in the brain was linked to the severity of autism symptoms. Additionally, larger brain size at age 3 was linked to a larger brain size later in childhood.

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·November 20, 2020·4 min read

Memories Create ‘Fingerprints’ That Reveal How the Brain Is Organized

Researchers identified several brain areas that acted as hubs for information processing across brain networks that contribute to memory recall. They observed how activation patterns within these networks differed on an individual level, based on personal levels of recall detail and imagination.