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·June 20, 2014·3 min read

PET Scans Peer into Minimally Conscious Mind

Researchers suggest PET scans are better able to identify patients in a minimally conscious state than other imaging technologies.

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·June 20, 2014·7 min read

Seeing the Inner Workings of the Brain Made Easier by New Technique

Researchers improve on their original technique for peering into the intact brain.

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·June 18, 2014·4 min read

Portable Brain Mapping Device Allows Researchers to See Where Memory Fails Student Veterans

Using a portable brain mapping device, researchers discover limited prefrontal cortex activity among student veterans with PTSD when asked to recall information from simple memory tasks.

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·June 13, 2014·3 min read

Reward Response May Demonstrate Why Quitting Smoking Is Harder for Some

Researchers identify an aspect of brain activity that helps to predict the effectiveness of a reward-based strategy as motivation to quit smoking.

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·June 12, 2014·5 min read

When Good People Do Bad Things

New research finds being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal morality.

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·June 12, 2014·7 min read

New Insight into How the Brain Regulates Its Blood Flow

Researchers report they have identified a new component of the biological mechanism which controls blood flow in the brain.

The basal ganglia can be seen as the two darker spots in this image.

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·June 11, 2014·4 min read

MRI Brain Scans Detect People with Early Parkinson’s

Researchers have developed a simple MRI technique which could help with early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.

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·June 10, 2014·4 min read

Inside the Adult ADHD Brain

Researchers find key differences in a brain communication network between adults who had recovered from childhood ADHD, and adults that had not.

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·May 29, 2014·4 min read

Creatures of Habit

A new study reports people affected by substance abuse, eating disorders and OCD share a common pattern of decision making and similarities in brain structure.

The image shows the different cerebral ateries from a sagittal section of the human brain.

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·May 27, 2014·3 min read

Sex-Specific Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow Begin at Puberty

Different levels of cerebral blood flow between males and females during puberty could give hints to developing differences in behavior between the two sexes and sex-specific pre-disposition to certain psychiatric disorders, a new study suggests.

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·May 27, 2014·4 min read

Outgrowing Emotional Egocentricity

In order to overcome their egocentric take on the world, the supramarginal gyrus region of the brain must be developed in children, a new study reports.