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Neuroimaging is commonplace, but do you know what you’re getting into? Katrina Lawrence/AFP

Adventures in blobology: 20 years of fMRI brain scanning

By Jakob Hohwy, Monash University

This month, fMRI brain imaging celebrates its 20th anniversary. And so it should. It has come to dominate cognitive neuroscience. Massive amounts of precious funding are poured into it and thousands of…
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Neuroscience has made great gains but the best is yet to come. Jenn and Tony Bot

Picking your brains: what’s going on inside your head?

By Geoffrey Donnan, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health

Welcome to On the brain, a new Conversation series by people whose job it is to know as much as there is to know about the body’s most complex organ. Here, Professor Geoffrey Donnan, a world-renowned stroke…

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Pain can be objectively measured

University of Michigan

Scientists have found a means to objectively quantify pain. University of Michigan researchers have found the brain’s signature…

Making the brain transparent

Stanford University

Scientists have developed a new technique to study the brain, by making it transparent. Using a post-mortem mouse brain…

New way to measure pain

University of Colorado

Researchers have developed a technique for measuring pain using magnetic resonance imaging. Over four studies they identified…

Brain maps reveal where decisions happen

Caltech, University of California, The University of Iowa

Data studied over 30 years has revealed that reasoning and behavioural control depend on a different area from decision-making…

Depression diminishes ability to hate

Molecular Psychiatry

Depression affects various areas of the brain including the area that controls the feeling of hatred, according to a study…

Seeing eye-to-eye is key to copying

University of Nottingham

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but how do our brains decide when and who we should copy? New research…

How to navigate the brain

Washington University

A new brain-mapping technique has been developed to provide rapid access to brain landmarks that were previously accessible…

Brain changes make quitters moody

Archives of General Psychiatry

Findings from a brain imaging study may provide clues for why some individuals with heavy cigarette-smoking habits experience…

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