A new tool—the SPECT scan—is offering ... “Looking at a picture of my brain, it just took the stigma out of it,” he told KTLA. “It’s like, okay, I’m not crazy.” ...

A study of 20,000 anxiety disorder patients shows how negativity bias affects brain structure, cognitive function and mental health, supporting the view that mental illness is brain illness.

“Looking at a picture of my brain, it just took the stigma out of it,” Fiorenze said. “It’s like, okay, I’m not crazy.” After ...

Brain death determination sits at the fraught intersection of critical-care medicine, ethics, and organ-donation logistics.

When a patient with a brain injury is unresponsive ... Many hospitals use CAT scans or standard MRIs — along with physical exams — to determine if a patient’s mind is still active.

In studies where people were asked to explicitly clear their mind of any thoughts, for instance, brain scans revealed reduced activity in certain regions like the supplementary motor cortex and ...

But instead of celestial bodies sparkling in the night, doctors in South Korea were gazing at bright brain lesions punctuating a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. The resulting pattern ...

A small new study shows reactions in the brain in people who were given psilocybin in a controlled setting. By Andrew Jacobs If you had to come up with a groovy visualization of the human brain on ...