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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 3, 2022·6 min read

Fetal Brain Imaging Predicts Neurodevelopment of Babies With Congenital Heart Disease

Smaller brain volume found in fetal MRI brain scans predicts the outcome of children with congenital heart disease across all domains of neurodevelopment.

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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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·May 27, 2022·5 min read

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Shows Brain Inflammation in Vivo for the First Time

Neuroimaging technology allowed researchers to capture the activity of microglia and astrocytes in the brain. The researchers were able to quantify alterations in the morphology of different cell populations implicated in neuroinflammation.

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·April 18, 2022·6 min read

A Clearer Picture of Multiple Sclerosis

A newly identified sign called a central vein sign could help doctors to determine whether white spots on a patient's MRI scans are the result of multiple sclerosis or a different disorder.

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·April 12, 2022·10 min read

Poverty and Crime Linked to Differences in Newborns’ Brains

Infants born to mothers living in poverty have smaller volumes of gray and white matter across the entire brain. Additionally, babies born to mothers who live in high crime areas showed differences in brain activity to those whose mothers lived in safer areas. Those born to mothers who experienced crime had weaker neural connections between brain areas that control and process emotions. Maternal stress, researchers say, could be a main factor in the differences in neuroanatomy and brain connectivity.