A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain ...

Figure 1. Overview of the MIf-PET system and example results from a visual oddball task in healthy and Alzheimer's disease participants. (a) Prototype of the high-resolution, upright PET scanner under ...

We all have negative thoughts from time to time. But what if those fleeting moments of pessimism were doing more than just dampening your mood? According to new research, the way you think doesn't ...

A research team from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has achieved a breakthrough in brain imaging by developing the world's first technology to ...

The brain is never completely at rest. Even without external input, it produces spontaneous neural activity that creates synchronized fluctuations across different regions - a process known as ...

Discover how Iconeus One, the premier functional ultrasound (fUS) system for neuroscientists, is transforming brain function studies. Based on ultrafast plane-wave sonography, Iconeus One offers ...

Multiphoton microscopy is a valuable tool for neuroscience research, allowing scientists to observe functional brain activity in real time through high-resolution imaging. An essential component of ...

People with substance use disorder—whether addicted to alcohol, cocaine, heroin, or nicotine—share a strikingly similar ...

The human brain has no conventional lymph nodes, no obvious drainage pipes. For most of medical history, scientists assumed ...

Nature heals the soul, but what does it do to the brain? Have you ever been on a camping or hiking trip to a national park ...