Depression affects millions of people worldwide, but much is still unknown about this illness and treatments don't always work. Ph.D. candidate Jesper Pilmeyer examined patients' brains using MRI ...

Late-life depression is characterized by persistent emotional distress and cognitive dysfunction, yet understanding the specific brain dynamics and molecular mechanisms involved remains limited. Here, ...

Gestures accent and illustrate our communication. Although previous studies have uncovered the positive effects of gestures on communication, little is known about the specific cognitive functions of ...

Neuroscientists have set up computer frameworks that can help model individual brain dynamics. The complexity of the human brain -- 86 billion neurons strong with more than 100 trillion connections -- ...

Tunable Bessel beam two-photon fluorescence microscopy enables high-speed volumetric intravital imaging of subcellular dynamics within living mouse brains with fully tunable spatial resolution and ...

Pregnancy is a transformative time in a person's life where the body undergoes rapid physiological adaptations to prepare for motherhood - that we all know. What has remained something of a mystery is ...

Each circle is a neuron, only those that are significantly active are shown at each point of time and the size of the circle is scaled with the amount of activity of that neuron. See research paper in ...

Stress influences what we learn and remember. The hormone cortisol, which is released during stressful situations, can make emotional memories in particular stronger. But how exactly does cortisol ...

Motor imagery electroencephalography (EEG) signals depict changes in brain activity during imagined limb movements. Conventional methods, however, often fail to capture these spatiotemporal variations ...