The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in their ...

Scientists have developed a new machine learning method that reveals surprisingly consistent intrinsic brain patterns across different subjects by disentangling these patterns from the effect of ...

After traumatic brain injury (TBI), some patients may recover completely, while others retain severe disabilities. Accurately evaluating prognosis is challenging in patients on life-sustaining therapy ...

Depression affects millions of people worldwide, but much is still unknown about this illness and treatments don't always work. Ph.D. candidate Jesper Pilmeyer examined patients' brains using MRI ...

Zijiao Chen can read your mind, with a little help from powerful artificial intelligence and an fMRI machine. Chen, a doctoral student at the National University of Singapore, is part of a team of ...

Craving is known to be a key factor in substance use disorders and can increase the likelihood of future drug use or relapse. Yet its neural basis — or, how the brain gives rise to craving — is not ...

Have you ever met someone and felt an instant connection? Research from UCLA and Dartmouth suggests that our brains recognize familiar feelings before we even speak.

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), also known as brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), offer hope to those who have lost the ability to move or communicate. The pattern-recognition capabilities of ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...