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.

Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago have two types of technology to predict how well a deaf child can learn language after receiving cochlear implant surgery. 

The educational potential and comfortability of virtual reality in healthcare were revealed during an invasive surgery at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, according to a recent report by ABC, KSAT.  

Who needs psychics when artificial intelligence (AI) can read minds? New research released in December from Kyoto University in Japan has shown AI can decode thoughts on the scientific platform, BioRxiv, according to a recent report by CNBC.

The experience of a surgeon's operation room is now comparable to that of going to a movie theater—including the use of 3D glasses.