Drinking a can of pop or a cup of fruit juice every day may increase chances of negatively impacting memory and development of smaller overall brain volumes and smaller hippocampal volumes, according to data from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS).

After 20 years of treating patients with neurological problems, Yuval Zabar discovered something he had never seen before.

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston University School of Medicine used brain MRIs in a new study to find the effects of alcoholism on the brain’s reward system may be different in women and men.

A team of researchers from the Center for Community Research at DePaul University are using electrical neuroimaging to better understand why the brain is less efficient in people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine researchers have found that the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (DACC) may have to work harder to modify negative emotional responses in people with poor sleep who have depression or anxiety.

Researchers at Baycrest Health Sciences’ Rotman Research Institute found that retired professional ice hockey players involved in their neuropsychological study were free from significant brain impairment on objective testing. However, these players reported a high level of emotional, behavioural and cognitive challenges.

A group of neuroscientists used functional MRI (fMRI) to discover links between being patient and imagination in the brain. According to findings, imagining an outcome before acting upon an impulse may help increase patience without relying on increased willpower.

When patients who suffer from migraine underwent PET scans, researchers found a reduction and fluctuation of dopamine in their brains during the headache attack.