Posts Tagged ‘neuroimaging’
FDA-approved, Cybin-sponsored clinicial trial to measure ketamine’s impact on the brain via Kernel Flow neuroimaging helmet
Kernel’s Brain-Imaging Helmet Approved For Clinical Trial On Patients Using Ketamine (Forbes): The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a clinical trial using a neuroimaging helmet made by Los Angeles-based Kernel to track what happens in the brain when a human takes a psychedelic dose of ketamine.
Read MoreLet’s welcome Mental Health Month (May) by appreciating our beautiful brains
Between Thought and Expression (Cerebrum): Greg Dunn was on his way to a Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania when he realized that bringing the brain’s beauty to life was a more suitable role for him than lab work. He started in ink, inspired by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean paintings and the similarities…
Read MoreNeuroimaging, big data and mental health: A survey of the land
Mental and degenerative disorders are among the most costly and common causes of disability in society today. Because the brain is the most complex organ in the human body, diagnosing and treating problems when things go wrong poses enormous challenges. Even before the 1990s was designated the Decade of the Brain, the potential of neuroimaging—the…
Read MoreEvolution of Cajal’s drawings: Award-winning image shows neuroimaging progress in a century
About the Image: “With this image I want to illustrate the large advances made in imaging methods over the past century, allowing modern neuroscientists to look at neurons in ways that Cajal could have only dreamed of. The composition was created by mirroring an image of two pyramidal cells of a mouse hippocampus.
Read MoreUpdate: The placebo effect works even when people know they are taking a placebo
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring 14 research findings, resources and tips for brain health … and starting with this fascinating study: #1. Wow. The placebo effect works even when people know they are taking a placebo #2. Beating Alzheimer’s Disease will require a combined physical/ mental approach: From the ten factors found…
Read MoreFlexibility is good except when it isn’t: Study finds how scientists can reach different conclusions analyzing the same brain scans
Neuroimaging: Many Analysts, Differing Results (Dana Foundation): For decades, both the research and medical communities have relied on neuroimaging tools like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to give them a window into the living human brain. Such scans have provided unprecedented insights into the brain’s structure and function – and the field, as a whole,…
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