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Wayne State University researchers are using photoacoustic imaging to observe brain activity and, in the process, discovering more about how it responds to different types of learning and experiences.

In a recent study published in Nature Communications Psychology, researchers from NYU led by Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at NYU Tandon and Neurology at NYU Grossman School of ...

Depression is one of the most widespread mental health disorders worldwide, affecting approximately 4% of the global ...

A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The brain’s structure changes in spurts, according to a new study. In the study, they compared the brains of 3,802 people between ...

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A new study suggests that children with ADHD may exhibit a distinctive, measurable pattern of brain activity that could reflect differences in neural efficiency. The researchers focus on aperiodic EEG ...