1. Novel MRI Sensor Provides Brain's Molecular View
(Communities/MRI)

MIT neuroscientists have designed a new MRI sensor that responds to the neurotransmitter dopamine, an achievement that may significantly improve the specificity and resolution of future brain imaging procedures. ...

2. fMRI Reveals How Brain Categorize Objects
(Communities/MRI)

... that demonstrates the interdepartmental cooperation at Carnegie Mellon, neuroscientists Marcel Just and Vladimir Cherkassky and computer scientists Tom Mitchell and Sandesh Aryal have arrived at results ...

3. American Society of Neuroimaging 2010 Annual Meeting
(Radiology Conferences/Conference News)

... representing neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, and other neuroscientists who are dedicated to the advancement of any technique used to image the nervous system. You can view more information ...

4. Brain Functions Differently in People with Depression
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

School of Medicine neuroscientists have identified a key difference in the way the brain functions in people who are depressed compared with those who are not. The study, published in a recent issue ...

5. MRI Lie Detection to Get a Dry Run in Court
(Communities/MRI)

... community should be much larger, including a broader swath of neuroscientists, statisticians, and memory experts. If the broader scientific community is included in the fact-finding, Greely doesn't expect ...

6. Scientists identify the neural circuitry of first impressions
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

NYU and Harvard University have identified the neural systems involved in forming first impressions of others. Neuroscientists at New York University and Harvard University have identified the neural ...

7. Leading European Universities Choose Elekta to Deliver Advanced 3D Brain Mapping Tool for Research
(Company News/Elekta Group)

... fields that pass through brain tissue and the skull, which can then be recorded outside the head using Elekta Neuromag. The first whole-head MEG in Russia, neuroscientists and those in related fields ...

8. UC Davis Researchers to Map Brain Patterns of Alzheimer's Disease
(Communities/MRI)

... science research. The department has 37 full-time faculty members, 24 of whom are clinical neurologists and 13 are basic or clinical neuroscientists. Most of the department's basic science research is ...

9. Call for ‘neuroethics’ as brain science races ahead
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

Neuroscientists are making such rapid progress in unlocking the brain's secrets that some are urging colleagues to debate the ethics of their work before it can be misused by governments, lawyers or advertisers. ...

10. Drugs for Parkinson's disease may ease stroke-related disability
(Imported/Imported)

... neglect) from slowness to act on a stimulus (motor neglect) has been a persistent problem for neuroscientists. In a common laboratory test of neglect's effects, patients watch a video screen for the appearance ...

11. Combining brain scans and behavioral tests aids early identification of at-risk readers
(Imported/Imported)

... alone. according to new research in the June issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, which is published by the American Psychological Association (APA). Neuroscientists at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon universities ...

12. Interactive 3D map in OR can guide neurological surgeons through the brain during procedure
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

... is strongly dependent on image guidance, and in order to fully explore the massive amount of data provided by modern imaging devices, neuroscientists and neurosurgeons are steadily asking for improved ...

13. Brain network related to intelligence identified
(Imported/Imported)

A primary mystery puzzling neuroscientists -- where in the brain lies intelligence? -- just may have a unified answer. A new model identifies the stations along the routes intelligent information processing ...

14. Brain region that can be stimulated to reduce the cognitive deficits of sleep deprivation identified
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... been adopted by neuroscientists worldwide, and is known as cognitive reserve. The theory of cognitive reserve suggests that some individuals are better able to cope with age-related or other neuropathology ...

15. Advertisers, neuroscientists trace source of emotions in brain
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

With the help of neuroscientists, advertisers are closing in on the holy grail: mind reading. That's what is suggested in a paper published in the journal Human Brain Mapping. First came direct marketing, ...

16. First look: Princeton researchers peek into deepest recesses of human brain
(Imported/Imported)

...  The Princeton group wants to understand how the brain's physical structures give rise to the functions of the mind, a field known as cognitive neuroscience. For years, neuroscientists focused on the ...

17. Contemplative brain network less complex in children
(Imported/Imported)

... results appear online this week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1] Neuroscientists including co-author Marcus E. Raichle, M.D., professor of radiology, of anatomy and neurobiology ...

18. Call for ‘neuroethics’ as brain science races ahead
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

Neuroscientists are making such rapid progress in unlocking the brain's secrets that some are urging colleagues to debate the ethics of their work before it can be misused by governments, lawyers or advertisers. by ...

19. Stroke damage keeps brain regions from 'talking' to each other
(Imported/Imported)

Neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have linked a common post-stroke disability to impaired communication between brain regions.Neuroscientists at Washington University ...

20. Lithium builds gray matter in bipolar brains, UCLA study shows
(Imported/Imported)

Neuroscientists at UCLA have shown that lithium, long the standard treatment for bipolar disorder, increases the amount of gray matter in the brains of patients with the illness.Neuroscientists at UCLA ...