A new study led by researchers at Mass General Brigham suggests that different brain regions activated by creative tasks are ...

A massive new study sheds light on how cannabis affects the brain, particularly during cognitive tasks. Researchers analyzed ...

Researchers have long used one version of this technology, known as blood oxygen level–dependent functional MRI (BOLD fMRI), to study how the human brain works. This method detects changes in blood ...

The findings suggest that reconsideration of current clinical guidelines, which support MRI only for symptomatic brain lesions, might be warranted, reported Kamran Ahmed, MD, of Moffitt Cancer Center ...

Brain injuries are a leading cause of death and long-term disability in infants. Among the most common is neonatal ...

When new findings about the brain are reported based on “brain scans” of human beings, they very frequently involve magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI employs a magnetic field to collect ...

Heavy weed use appears to dull the brains of young adults, particularly affecting their short-term working memory, a new ...

It also involves for some subset of the subjects, collecting brain activity. So we have people in the MRI machine and we measure their brain activity as they’re performing a number of kinds of ...

A pregnant woman holds her baby bump with an inset image of an MRI scan. MRI scans can show how the brain changes over time. A pregnant woman holds her baby bump with an inset image of an MRI scan.