Chronic pain affects nearly one in five adults worldwide and remains one of the leading causes of disability. Unlike acute ...

We have various ways of seeing what the brain is up to, from low-resolution electrodes that track waves of activity that ripple across the brain, to implanted electrodes that can follow the activity ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, is one of the most advanced tools for understanding how we think. As a person in an fMRI scanner completes various mental tasks, the machine produces ...

In a new study, investigators from McLean Hospital (a member of Mass General Brigham), Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Drug Abuse – Intramural Research Program (NIDA-IRP) ...

Functional MRI (fMRI) (IMAGE) Hokkaido University Caption Experimental setup: subjects were placed into two fMRI scanners and attempted to align the cursor shown on their displays by adjusting the ...

This is a cross-section through the outer layers, or cortex, of the brain (bottom), showing how the NexGen 7T fMRI will be able to focus on smaller areas of the brain - regions the size of a poppy ...

In 2013, Japanese researchers published a study describing a method for "recording dreams" by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain activity associated with particular ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) captures coarse, colorful snapshots of the brain in action. Although this specialized type of magnetic resonance imaging has transformed cognitive ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, the findings could redefine how memory ...