Head trauma and sports—most notably football but also hockey, soccer and boxing—have been the focus of plenty of media coverage. Recent studies have shown an overwhelming majority of deceased football player’s brains contained evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

Teams at 21 locations across the country are using MRI to study 10,000 children from the time they are 9 or 10 years old into young adulthood. Now, according to Science magazine, the researchers will release data for 4,500 participants in an openly accessible, anonymized database.

A team of Italian researchers used resting-state fMRI to examine functional connectivity abnormalities in the brain in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). They wanted to see how abnormalities in cerebellar dentate nuclei (DNs) affect an individual’s balance, posture and muscle tone.

New research from a Spanish team of researchers used MRI to explore whether subclinical obsessive-compulsive symptoms in children could be related to the brain’s structure.

For the parents of a sick child, physicians unable able to make a firm diagnosis and move forward with treatment options can be infuriating—to put it lightly.  

The hills are alive with the sound of music, as the song goes—and so is your brain, according to new neuroimaging research by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). According to a recent article in Washington Post, the NIH is beginning to explore how the brain processes music partially due to an increase in using music in patient care programs and facilities.

Researchers have understood amyloid-Beta and tau proteins in the brain are early warning signs for Alzheimer’s disease. Atrophy in the hippocampus is another physical change in such patients. But a recent study examined the link between brain volume and protein deposits.

In rare cases, brain lesions can lead previously law-abiding individuals to criminal behavior. Researchers, led by Ryan Darby, MD, an assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, examined MRI and CT scans to see if such injuries can lead to deteriorated decision-making and a disregard for morality.