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Intravital brain imaging is a powerful method for observing neurons, glial cells, and their surrounding environments in living animals. It facilitates the study of neurological diseases, drug efficacy ...

If the genome is an instruction manual, then the chemical modifications that comprise the epigenome are like highlighters and sticky notes. Each epigenetic mark tells cells which parts of the manual ...

Raymond Y. Huang, MD, Ph.D., of the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is the corresponding author of a paper published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, "Comparative Analysis ...

Researchers are using an advanced brain imaging method called MEG to understand why Parkinson’s drug levodopa doesn’t work equally well for everyone. By mapping patients’ brain signals before and ...

A popular technique for studying brain disorders, known as lesion network mapping (LNM), appears to have a fundamental ...

A new doctoral dissertation shows that gambling disorder is linked to brain networks involved in self-control and brain ...

A brain cap and smart algorithms may one day help paralyzed patients turn thought into movement—no surgery required.

Some say you’re only as old as you feel. Others say you’re as young as you think. But how old is your brain really? Scientists have been developing and refining methods to accurately measure the age ...