Flexibility is good except when it isn’t: Study finds how scientists can reach different conclusions analyzing the same brain scans

By SharpBrains | August 4, 2020

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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What’s in it for me: Ten critical questions to navigate media coverage of latest scientific findings

By Greater Good Science Center | September 24, 2015

Here at Greater Good, we cov­er research into social and emo­tion­al well-being, and we try to help peo­ple apply find­ings to their per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al lives. We are well aware that our busi­ness is a tricky one. Sum­ma­riz­ing sci­en­tif­ic stud­ies and apply­ing them to people’s lives isn’t just dif­fi­cult for the obvi­ous rea­sons, like 

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