Nearly half of retired National Football League players may suffer from traumatic brain injuries, according to results of a diffusion tensor imaging study set to be presented next week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Vancouver, Canada.

Researchers from the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan have used PET imaging to examine the respective impacts of genetics and environmental factors on the brain, according to study results published in the March issue of Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Brazilian researchers have teamed up with scientists from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicince to describe certain CT features of Zika-related microcephaly, according to a letter to the editor recently published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are using fMRI to show how the diabetes and weight loss drug liraglutide affects brain receptors to make the body react differently to enticing foods.

A distinctive brain biomarker imaged using fMRI could be a sign of memory problems in schizophrenia patients and may lead to a better understanding and more effective treatment of the disease, according to results of a study published in Biological Psychiatry.

Researchers in China have used diffusion MRI to show that the right brain’s white matter tracts are abnormal in patients with primary insomnia. 

A miniscule chunk of visual cortex belonging to a nameless tiny brown mouse is providing new insights into the secrets of the brain and its complex neural connections.

Patients suffering from subjective cognitive decline (SCD) have measurable increased activity in certain areas of the brain on resting-state MRI, a characteristic that may be used to predict the development of Alzheimer’s disease and other diseases associated with diminished cognitive capacities, according to results of a study published in the journal Radiology.