Researchers at Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Radboud University and the University of Oxford's Wellcome Center for Integrative Neuroimaging, report that attenuation of the brain's intrinsic ...

It all started with a rejected grant proposal. Ahmad Hariri, a neuroscientist at Duke University, was interested in using so-called “task fMRI”—in which subjects perform specially designed cognitive ...

Bennett et al. argue for the importance of multiple comparisons correction in fMRI studies through humorous research on a dead fish. This is a poster presented by Bennett and colleagues at this year’s ...

For example, simple tapping of fingers in one hand is capable of increasing blood flow by 60% in the motor area of the brain. Because of this fact, BOLD changes in magnetic resonance signal is ...

The brain is an incredibly complex and active organ that uses electricity and chemicals to transmit and receive signals between its sub-regions. Researchers have explored various technologies to ...

How do scientists peer into the brain to better understand what is happening, where, and why? By taking advantage of the brain’s electromagnetic properties or by sending radioactive markers into the ...