A starry sky can be stunning—even inside a hospital emergency room.

An international team, led by researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), has shown—for the first time in a realistic ...

ASX medtechs are taking brain diagnostics beyond the hospital or clinical settings to the front lines of care for better ...

Brain imaging refers to the usually non-invasive or minimally invasive techniques that enable imaging the structure or function of the brain. Brain imaging techniques take advantage of X-rays ...

This brain damage can be measured using techniques like MRI scans, helping healthcare providers track the disease's progression and detect it early. Your brain has two main types of tissue: gray ...

In studies where people were asked to explicitly clear their mind of any thoughts, for instance, brain scans revealed reduced activity in certain regions like the supplementary motor cortex and ...

A 2015 study − one of the first brain scan studies on male pornography users − found a correlation between pornography use and reduced gray matter in part of the brain’s reward system ...

These paintings are both by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian but display strikingly different styles. The house on the left is representational; the colorful squares on the right are more abstract.

This allowed them to study not just weight and body measurements, but also brain scans and cognitive test results across time. Based on the data, the team identified five different obesity ...

Computer tomography scans, or CT scans, are an invaluable tool for diagnosing cancer and other conditions. But in a cruel twist, the medical imaging technique may be more harmful than once thought ...

and experiencing a personality shift from “outgoing” to “unfeeling” — all symptoms of an undiagnosed abnormality in her brain. Hannah-Ireland Durando, 24, was a self-described “party ...

Specifically, we wanted to understand which brain regions become active when we're speaking and listening, and how these patterns relate to the specific words and context of the conversation.