Damage to the brainstem – the brain’s ‘control centre’ – is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a study suggests.

The new technique could enable detailed studies of how brain cells develop and communicate with each other.

An MRI method purported to detect neurons’ rapid impulses produces its own misleading signals instead, an MIT study finds.

Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.

MIT researchers are discovering which parts of the brain are engaged when a person evaluates a computer program.

Imaging techniques could replace the need for invasive tissue biopsies in helping rapidly determine whether cancer treatments are working effectively,

An algorithm that analyses MRI images and automatically detects small changes in knee joints over time could be used in the development of new treatments for arthritis.

Machine learning and AI are highly unstable in medical image reconstruction, and may lead to false positives and false negatives, a new study suggests.

A specialized MRI sensor reveals the neurotransmitter’s influence on neural activity throughout the brain.

Noninvasive measurements of calcium could reveal neurons’ roles in different types of behavior.