Advances in brain imaging technology have expanded the ability of medical professionals to observe neurological activity associated with cognitive function. Imaging tools allow clinicians to study ...

Neanderthal skull discovered in 1908 in France. (Luna04/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann ...

Differences in brain connectivity are linked to several neurodevelopmental disorders, yet scientists still struggle to ...

Fifty years on from American chemist Pal Laterbur detailing the first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), scientists have marked this historic medical anniversary with the sharpest-ever scans of a mouse ...

The researchers want to better understand the fundamental physics of the pencil beam and the mechanisms behind its self ...

FUS utilizes multiple beams of relatively low-frequency ultrasound (generally within 0.2–3 MHz, depending on the application ...

A routine brain scan can look clear but still leave surgeons guessing. Two benign tumors near the pituitary gland often appear nearly identical on MRI. Choose the wrong one, and the entire surgical ...

Parkinson's disease does more than cause tremor and trouble walking. It can also affect sleep, smell, digestion and even thinking. That may be because the disease disrupts communication in a brain ...

Scientists who use imaging to understand the brain's complexity often focus on the strongest signals and ignore the rest. But this strategy, researchers warn, may reveal only the tip of the iceberg. A ...

Somewhere in your skull right now, there is no math department. No region of the brain exists solely to process equations, ...

MIT researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a new bioimaging method that's ...