Neuroimaging

A massive analysis of brain scans suggests that reduced gray matter volume and white matter integrity mediate aggressive behavior in patients with schizophrenia, providing new insights into the biology of violence.

By measuring brainwaves and startle reflexes on a smartphone, researchers discovered that psychopathic traits like boldness overload attention to ignore threats, while meanness is tied to a biological deficit in emotional processing.

A recent study suggests the brains of teenage girls with depression fail to adapt to repeated social rejection. This lack of habituation in the amygdala provides evidence for disrupted social learning during a sensitive developmental period.

A new study of over 18,000 adults suggests that the location of body fat, not just overall BMI, is critical to brain health. Researchers found evidence that deep belly fat is particularly damaging to the brain's white matter.

A recent study reveals that the human brain uses the physical length of a multi-digit number as a rapid visual shortcut to estimate its size, occurring within just 150 milliseconds of seeing the symbols.

A new study explores how different types of fitness—aerobic, strength, balance, and flexibility—affect the brains of university students. The findings suggest that men and women's brains respond differently to certain types of physical fitness.

A new neuroimaging study reveals that people with higher levels of autistic traits process self-conscious emotions differently. Researchers discovered that altered communication between specific brain regions explains why these individuals tend to experience heightened shame and reduced guilt.

New research published in Psychophysiology reveals that artificial intelligence can decode brain waves to detect when a person reads taboo words. The findings show these socially inappropriate words leave a unique neural footprint, even during active emotion regulation.

Mice wearing specialized goggles reveal that the brain’s internal visual networks rewire themselves to match the exact patterns they see in the world. The study shows how visual feedback loops actively learn to predict our surroundings.

When children watch their parents interact, their brains sync up with the adults via an invisible biological alignment. A new scanning study reveals that this synchronization provides a vital pathway for emotional learning and protects kids against behavioral struggles.

A new study reveals that the size of a specific language-processing region in a fetus's brain can predict how many words that child will be able to say at two to three years of age.

Are the eyes really the window to the soul? New electroencephalogram research provides evidence that the brain works much harder to evaluate an expression when the rest of the face is hidden.

A new study finds that an inability to properly digest fructose alters the gut microbiome, triggering low-grade inflammation. This digestive disruption may contribute to anxiety and depressive behaviors by alarming the brain's immune system.

A new clinical trial mapped the sleeping brains of people with insomnia after they took a cannabis-based drug. The treatment altered deeper sleep stages and reduced dreaming, though participants experienced no cognitive impairment the morning after.