Observed brain changes illuminate a link between emotional attachment and decision-making deficits in people with hoarding ...

Depression affects millions of people worldwide, but much is still unknown about this illness and treatments don't always ...

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 ...

Research has shown that smartphone addiction causes major increases in brain activity, requiring the brain to work harder to complete simple tasks.

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 ...

Inside the MRI machine, he pressed a button on a joystick ... While neuroscientists have long defined addiction as a brain disease, tools to fight the U.S. drug crisis that is behind 100,000 ...

The research was led by the Addiction Recovery Research Center at ... Research subjects agreed to undergo MRI brain scans while they practiced either episodic future thinking or recent past ...

University of New Mexico researchers studying the health risks posed by gadolinium, a toxic rare earth metal used in MRI ...

The study found that people with a history of alcohol abuse showed weaker communication between the mOFC and dPAG when they experienced these negative feelings. In other words, the part of the brain ...