Researchers found found that as people's arousal levels dwindle during an fMRI, such as if they become more relaxed and sleepy, resulting changes in breathing and heart rates alter blood oxygen levels ...

Novel, noninvasive testing is able to predict dementia onset with 80% accuracy up to 9 years before clinical diagnosis. The results suggest resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) could be used to ...

In a new study, investigators from McLean Hospital (a member of Mass General Brigham), Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Drug Abuse – Intramural Research Program (NIDA-IRP) ...

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 ...

For three decades, functional neuroimaging (fMRI) has been shaping the understanding of the human brain. A major obstacle for fMRI research is that information about brain responses is mixed with ...