For more than a century, brain imaging has been a story of trade-offs: sharp pictures but slow timing, or fast signals with ...

The traumatic events that firefighters, first responders and emergency workers witness can lead to mental health struggles in their daily lives. A 2023 study showed first responders were more likely ...

When Darwin Quiroz first started working with optics as an undergraduate, he was developing atomic magnetometers. That experience sparked a growing curiosity about how light interacts with matter, an ...

Researchers are using an advanced brain imaging method called MEG to understand why Parkinson’s drug levodopa doesn’t work equally well for everyone. By mapping patients’ brain signals before and ...

Imagine walking into a doctor’s office at 45 and getting a single brain scan that tells you not just how old your brain is, but how quickly your entire body will age over the next decades. This isn’t ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

A new technology that uses clinical MRI machines to image metabolic activity in the brain could give researchers and clinicians unique insight into brain function and disease, researchers at the ...

A new, high-performance brain-computer interface (BCI) can be rapidly implanted through a minimally invasive procedure. The ...

Anyone who spends time in the close company of a pet knows how to read the emotions of another blood. When my border collie cowers, I know she is afraid, and when she bows, head down, butt up with ...