Neuroscience
A new study shows how neurochemicals affect fMRI readings
The brain is an incredibly complex and active organ that uses electricity and chemicals to transmit and receive signals between its sub-regions.
Mar 18, 2024
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News tagged with magnetic brain stimulation
Neuroscience
Review explores personalized brain mapping and navigated neuromodulation
Brain atlases aid in understanding the intricate human brain, supporting research on functional circuits, behaviors, and diagnostics. They come in structural and functional forms, revealing anatomy and active areas during ...
Feb 6, 2024
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Neuroscience
Scientists show focused ultrasound can reach deep into the brain to relieve pain
You feel a pain, so you pop a couple of ibuprofen or acetaminophen. If the pain is severe or chronic, you might be prescribed something stronger—an opioid pain killer that can be addictive under some circumstances.
Feb 5, 2024
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Neuroscience
Brain control in infancy linked to cognitive ability in toddlers
In a new study, Yale researchers offer a look into how infants' brains work and change over time, and how these processes can be disrupted by preterm birth. The findings, the researchers say, could point to treatments that ...
Oct 16, 2023
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Neuroscience
Common brain network detected among people with substance use disorder
A new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital suggests a common brain network exists among people with substance use disorder. By evaluating data from across more than 144 studies of addiction, the team found ...
Sep 25, 2023
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Neuroscience
Researchers discover potential treatment for nicotine dependence
New research from the University of Missouri School of Medicine suggests there may be another way to treat cigarette cravings. Researchers found that theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation (TBS)—strong, rapidly fluctuating ...
Sep 20, 2023
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Neuroscience
The role of the bilateral motor cortices in speech perception
Understanding how the motor cortex is involved in active inference of speech perception and decisions is important to understanding human language intelligence, which may inspire the next generation of AI. However, three ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers identify subtype of depression using surveys, cognitive tests, and brain imaging
Scientists at Stanford Medicine conducted a study describing a new category of depression—labeled the cognitive biotype—which accounts for 27% of depressed patients and is not effectively treated by commonly prescribed ...
Jun 23, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way
Powerful magnetic pulses applied to the scalp to stimulate the brain can bring fast relief to many severely depressed patients for whom standard treatments have failed. Yet it's been a mystery exactly how transcranial magnetic ...
May 16, 2023
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Neuroscience
Study shows brain stimulation can be used for classical conditioning
Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have successfully implemented a special form of classical conditioning. They showed on a group of 75 people that effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can be triggered ...
Apr 24, 2023
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