Diagnostic Procedure: Functional MRI

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Brain scan can reveal the risk of psychiatric hospitalization

One in four psychiatric patients in Denmark are readmitted and that carries major personal and societal costs. But can we predict who will be readmitted, while others return to everyday life without symptoms? That is exactly ...

How the human brain builds our sense of time

How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in everyday life, perceive the duration of events around us? The answer lies in how the brain constructs ...

MRI scans reveal how the brain processes toxic workplace abuse

What happens in the brain when someone witnesses toxic behavior in the workplace? Researchers at Rutgers Business School, in a first-time collaboration with the Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research at the Rutgers ...

The brain region associated with moral inconsistency

Why don't some people practice what they preach? Researchers reveal that a brain region called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is involved. The researchers used fMRI imaging to identify brain activity patterns ...

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