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Imaging technique can see you think
Date: November 30, 2016 Source: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Summary: Fast fMRI has been used to image rapidly fluctuating brain activity during human thought. fMRI measures changes in blood oxygenation, which were previously thought to...
Vitter Successfully Includes Small Business Innovation Legislation in Major Defense Spending Bill
NDAA to include 5 year reauthorization of successful, job-creating Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship...
Tackling Mental Illness Through Advanced Imaging Of Neural Pathways
By: Gary Boas "Anxiety disorders and depression are widespread among adolescents in the U.S., affecting as many as one in four 13 to 18 year olds. Determining the best course of treatment can be difficult, though, as we still don’t fully understand the biology of the...
Breakthrough Prize for Illuminating the Brain's Secret Code
Optogenetic stimulation of the brain recognized with $3M Breakthrough Prize... "A revolutionary technique that switches brain circuits on and off has taken neuroscience by storm and is now undergoing a new round of innovation By Simon Makin Light piped into the brain...
NIH refocuses research into chronic fatigue syndrome
by John Cohen "In the wake of mounting criticism that researchers pay scant attention to myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced that it is increasing efforts to figure out what causes...
Scanning fast and slow: current limitations of 3 Tesla functional MRI and future potential
How can fMRI acquisition and analysis be improved for functional connectivity studies? What populations are hard to scan reliably? Which areas of the brain are troublesome? Here is a great review from one group's perspective. Do you agree with the authors? Did they...