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How Smartphone Breaks Affect Your Brain

December 10, 2025

People who struggle with smartphone use might experience changes in their brain activity when they take a break from their devices. This is what a recent study found out. The study looked at how the brain behaves when it's not doing anything specific, called resting-state. It compared two groups: th

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Brain Connections and Schizophrenia: What's the Link?

October 20, 2025

Schizophrenia is a complex mental health condition. It affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. Scientists have been trying to understand what happens in the brain of someone with schizophrenia. They think it might be about how different parts of the brain talk to each other. Recently, rese

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How the Brain Handles New Information: A Look at the Subcortex

June 25, 2025

The brain's ability to update information is a complex process. Recent studies have focused on the role of dopamine and the striatum in this process. Researchers used a special type of MRI, called 7 Tesla fMRI, to scan the brain while people performed a memory task. They found that when new informat

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Meditation's Role in Pain Management: What's Happening in the Brain?

June 2, 2025

Meditation has become a popular way to handle both mental and physical issues. It's not just one thing, but a bunch of different practices with some shared basics. People have always talked about how good meditation is for you. Now, scientists are using fancy brain scans to see exactly what happens

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Driving in a Magnetic Box: The Brainy Way to Test Driving Skills

April 16, 2025

People are trying to figure out how to build a driving simulator that works well inside an fMRI machine. This is not easy. The fMRI machine is a big, noisy, and powerful magnet. It is used to look at the brain while it is working. The driver must lie down and look at a screen. The simulator has to b

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What's the Deal with FMR1 and Mental Health in Women?

April 8, 2025

The FMR1 premutation is a genetic variation that has been linked to various mental health conditions. However, the connection is not always clear. This is partly because of something called ascertainment bias. This is when the way people are selected for a study can skew the results. To get a better

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Migrating Towards Migraine: The fMRI Headache

February 11, 2025

Migraines aren't just headaches; they're a complex neurological condition. Researchers have been using fMRI scans to learn more about what's happening in the brain during a migraine. Studies have shown different things. Looming limitations come from the mixed bag of variables and m

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Brain Surgery Mapping: How Resting MRIs Compare

January 2, 2025

Ever wondered how doctors pinpoint the exact spot in the brain where epilepsy seizures start? One common tool is resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI). A recent study dug deeper into how well this method works compared to other techniques like intracranial EEG and actual surgery results. The resear