Imaging

Imaging’s Groundbreaking Discovery: 30 Years Later

Q&A with Randy L. Buckner, Ph.D., on the road to discovering the default network, the pattern of brain activity triggered as we think about the past and the future.

Neuroimaging: Many Analysts, Differing Results

70 teams processed the same collection of fMRI data – using different software, taking different steps, and setting different thresholds—and came to different conclusions more than half the time. With today’s huge datasets and multiple methods of analysis, it’s critical that researchers describe their methods precisely so others can reproduce their results.

Functional Imaging of the Fetal Brain

Results from improved techniques—including finding brain tissue in a moving fetus in moving amniotic fluid—add to the argument that the seeds of some disorders are present before birth.

fMRI: Still Not a Mind Reader

Advances in fMRI and other brain scanning tech enable researchers to “decode” brain activity with increasing accuracy, but ethical concerns remain.

Imaging Technologies and Their Applications in Neuroscience

Imaging Techniques At-a-Glance

Psychiatrists Explore a ‘Circuits First’ Approach to Mental Illness

Researchers discuss potential of brain scanning for diagnosis and treatment at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.

Q&A with Karel Svoboda, Ph.D.

A scientist who helped pioneer two-photon microscopy chats about the development, current capabilities, and enormous promise that will permit neuroscientists go where they have never gone before.

What Neuroimaging Really Measures

Aniruddha Das's recent results seem to challenge the widespread assumption that functional MRI imaging reflects local neural activity underlying the given task

fMRI: Not a Mind Reader (Yet?)

Laboratory demonstrations of “mind reading” with functional MRI have been increasingly impressive, but significant real-world applications are still years away.