Can diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) detect acute brain lesions? Can it also assess the probability that carbon monoxide poisoning has initiated delayed neurological sequelae (DNS)? According to a study conducted by researchers from the Asan Medical Center at the University of Ulsan College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea, the answer is yes.  

While football, food and commercials will be on the minds of many this coming Sunday for the Super Bowl, biomechanics experts watching the game will be preoccupied with something a little different: head injuries.  

A recent study published in the January issue of JAMA has shown that dimensional and heritable cognitive and psychopathology factors are associated with white matter patterns in the brain apparent in adolescents diagnosed with mental illness or who show symptoms.  

Highly active regions of brains in those receiving hand transplants may compensate for reorganizational changes responsible for moving and feeling, according to a release from the University of Missouri. Such innovative research grabbed the attention of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), which awarded the researchers a $1.7 million grant.

New research from the University College of London (UCL) and the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) found that epilepsy correlates with thickness and volume differences in the gray matter of several areas of the brain.

In a few years, brain images of more than 1,000 newborns and another 500 fetuses will be generated through a high-resolution MR imaging project in hopes to find the source of neurological disorders at or before the time of birth, according to a recent article by the Financial Times.  

Scientists from the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering and the University of Geneva in Switzerland have developed a virtual reality (VR) technology that is taking research and data of the brain to an entire new dimension.  

For all the challenges faced by preterm babies, limited research explores how birth early in the third trimester can affect hearing and understanding speech. A team of researchers, using MRI, found children born prematurely were more likely to face speech and language problems by the age of 2.