Replacing a missing brain lipid may calm overactive blood vessels and restore healthy blood flow—opening a new path toward treating dementia.

Vascular dementia has long been overshadowed by Alzheimer’s disease, yet it is one of the leading causes of cognitive decline ...

40% of functional magnetic resonance imaging reflect misleading blood flow and brain energy use, proposing improved diagnosis can be achieved from new methods.

For almost three decades, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been one of the main tools in brain research. Yet a new study published in Nature Neuroscience fundamentally challenges the ...

Dementia has long been framed as a slow, irreversible loss of neurons, but a new line of research is shifting attention to ...

A new study fundamentally challenges how fMRI data are interpreted, finding no valid coupling between oxygen content measured ...

When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers ...

Mental illness is often described in abstract terms, but is rooted in the brain. A study reveals that genes influencing ...

Researchers have developed a method for mapping the orientation and organization of tissue fibers, furthering our ...

MRI signals don’t always match the brain’s true activity levels, overturning a core assumption used in tens of thousands of studies.