neuroimaging

Getting to know someone can ease loneliness, but new research shows it physically alters brain alignment in surprising ways. When people of different generations make art together, their neural synchronization takes a completely unexpected path.

A recent study reveals how the developing brain processes facial expressions based on gender and emotion, finding that elevated anxiety alters how children react to threatening faces.

AI reveals a striking two-speed cleanup system that helps the sleeping brain clear away harmful waste. During deep sleep, a waterlike fluid moves through and around the brain, helping remove metabolic waste associated with disorders including Alzheimer’s disease. This cleanup process is known as the glymphatic system. It was first described in 2012 by Maiken [...]

The brain is a black box of densely packed neurons, blood vessels and immune cells, all locked away in a sealed skull. Washington University in St. Louis’ Song Hu has dedicated his career to unlocking that puzzle box by developing new ways to “see” inside, and his team’s newest innovation could give researchers a new view of how brain cells and blood vessels work together and what happens when th…

What makes the brain fall asleep? For nearly a century, scientists have looked to structures deep within the brain for the answer. In the traditional view, these regions control when we sleep and wake, while the cerebral cortex--the part of the brain involved in perception, thought, and memory--is largely a passive follower.

BackgroundNeuroimaging studies of internet gaming disorder (IGD) have primarily focused on reward-related and executive-control networks. However, sensory processing of addiction-related cues, particularly visual processing, may also contribute to IGD. Whether the intrinsic hierarchical organization of the visual system is altered remains unclear.MethodsThe study included 35 individuals with IGD …

A large study found that a history of multiple depressive episodes is tied to heightened brain activity during emotional processing. The findings suggest each episode leaves a biological signature, increasing vulnerability to future relapses.

Johns Hopkins researchers developed CloudScope, a cloud-based microscope enabling continuous, remote brain imaging in freely moving mice, revealing disease progression, seizures, cellular changes and behavior over extended periods. The post CloudScope Enables Continuous Remote Monitoring of Brain Activity in Freely Moving Mice appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News .

IntroductionActive brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) aim to enable communication and control without requiring physical movement. BCIs operate by detecting and decoding distinct patterns of brain activity associated with intentionally-generated mental tasks and translating them into commands for external devices. Motor imagery (MI) tasks involving the imagined movement of body parts are the most c…

Sleep does much more than give the body a chance to rest. While we sleep, the brain goes through important changes that may help clear away substances produced during normal daily activity. Scientists are increasingly interested in this nighttime cleaning process because poor removal of waste may be connected with brain aging and disease. A […] The post This Gentle Sound May Boost the Brain’s Nig…

_bioRxiv_. forthcomingMoral cognition is a complex process, which recruits a wide range of mechanisms. It is not clear whether any of them reliably reflects moral content in the stimulus. We set out to test whether a specific mechanism of moral content representation and/or detection exists, and where it is, if it exists. To that end we used uni- and multi-variate analyses, including inter-subjec…

Morphologically detailed dendrites possess powerful computational capabilities but are computationally expensive. Therefore, exploring how large-scale, detailed multi-compartment neural networks achieve learning proves challenging, presenting significant obstacles both in learning algorithms and simulation infrastructures. Here, we provide an extension to the DeepDendrite framework to enable the …

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02430-w Using a combined approach of monkey electrophysiology, artificial neural networks and human psychophysics, Xue et al. show that neuronal interference from irrelevant information underlies behavioral errors under task uncertainty.

What are mirror neurons and how do they impact the way we move through our daily lives? Just like bodily movement, emotional states are also observable by the brain.