The research, which was published in the journal NeuroImage, uses functional brain imaging to assess how the environment impacts upon our brain functions...
10 Vote(s)
September 17, 2010
July 9, 2010
Brain Aging: Men and Women Do It Differently
Improved structural and functional brain imaging technologies provide assistance in understanding brain gender differences. A Japanese study of the effects of age and gender has been recently published in Human Brain Mapping. The study focussed on brain gray and white matter volumes in a variety of brain regions. Gray matter volumes declined with age in both genders. In the younger subjects,
16 Vote(s)
16 Vote(s)
Comments Off
October 15, 2009
The latest verdict on using brain imaging for lie detection
Excitable tabloids, technophile lawyers and gullible entrepreneurs have all spent the last few years salivating over the prospect of functional brain imaging delivering us the first form of truly scientific, objective lie detection. Not so fast. Most research that's tested the potential of functional brain scanning for lie detection has compared brain activity between lying and honest conditions
14 Vote(s)
14 Vote(s)
Comments Off