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Alzheimer's disease: Mapping the brain's decline
Imaging the brains of Alzheimer's patients provides insights into the way this insidious disease progresses.
- Sarah C. P. Williams
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Older people are more susceptible to swindlers
Brain scans reveal the elderly are worse than younger adults at picking out untrustworthy faces.
- Zoë Corbyn
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Snapshots explore Einstein’s unusual brain
Photos reveal unique features of genius’s cerebral cortex.
- Mo Costandi
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Brain scans of rappers shed light on creativity
Functional magnetic resonance imaging shows what happens in the brain during improvisation.
- Daniel Cressey
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Perspective: Brain scans need a rethink
Head movement can bias brain imaging results, undermining a leading theory on the cause of autism, say Ben Deen and Kevin Pelphrey.
- Ben Deen
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Perspective: Imaging autism
Several studies in the past two years have claimed that brain scans can diagnose autism, but this assertion is deeply flawed, says Nicholas Lange.
- Nicholas Lange
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Scientists read dreams
Brain scans during sleep can decode visual content of dreams.
- Mo Costandi
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Neuroscience: Idle minds
Neuroscientists are trying to work out why the brain does so much when it seems to be doing nothing at all.
- Kerri Smith
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Neuroscience: The mind reader
Adrian Owen has found a way to use brain scans to communicate with people previously written off as unreachable. Now, he is fighting to take his methods to the clinic.
- David Cyranoski
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Crystal–clear brains
An ingenious technique allows the monitoring of brain-wide patterns of neuronal activity in a vertebrate at the cellular level, while the animal interacts with a virtual environment. See Article p.471
- Joseph R. Fetcho
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BOLD strides in brain imaging
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Turning point: Marc Modat
A postdoc’s development of a software code leads to numerous publications early in his career.
- Virginia Gewin
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Brain imaging: fMRI 2.0
Functional magnetic resonance imaging is growing from showy adolescence into a workhorse of brain imaging.
- Kerri Smith
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Brain nerves line up neatly
Imaging study finds neural connections form regular grid.
- Helen Shen
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Neuroscience: Making connections
Is a project to map the brain’s full communications network worth the money?
- Jon Bardin
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Clear up this fuzzy thinking on brain scans
France has banned commercial applications of brain imaging. So why approve its use in court, asks Olivier Oullier.
- Olivier Oullier
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Alzheimer's-disease probe nears approval
Imaging technique could help to resolve questions about brain plaques associated with the condition.
- Heidi Ledford
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Ringing in the brain
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From maps to mechanisms through neuroimaging of schizophrenia
- Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
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Biomarkers: casting the net wide
To have any hope of affecting the course of Parkinson's disease, early diagnosis is essential. Rachel Jones assesses progress so far.
- Rachel Jones
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Brain-imaging programme suspended after violations
FDA investigation at Columbia University serves as warning to other centres, say experts.
- Brendan Borrell
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Reproducibility of brainscan studies questioned
Some magnetic resonance imaging studies could be less reliable than has been presumed.
- Richard A. Lovett
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Brain scan allows unconscious patient to communicate
Imaging technique pierces vegetative state.
- Heidi Ledford
Scans: Enhanced medical vision