by Eric W. Dolan August 11, 2024in Cognitive Science, Neuroimaging Electrodes at multiple brain regions reveal brain activity in real time. Colored dots show the locations of all of the electrodes across all patients, color-coded by brain region. Red dots in the lower images show the locations of the electrodes in the DMN. (Credit: Bartoli,...
by National Institutes of Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain Results from a new clinical trial suggest that a group of brain regions known as the “salience network” is activated after a drug is taken intravenously, but not when that same drug is taken orally. When drugs enter the brain quickly, such as through injection or smoking,...
by University of North Carolina Health Care Default mode network examined by fMRI and optical fiber photometry. Credit: Shih Lab When we daydream or revisit memories, a large group of regions within our brain “lights up,” or becomes more active. It’s referred to as the Default Mode Network (DMN) because it is more active when...
by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia and depression, affect nearly one in five adults in the United States and nearly half of patients diagnosed with a psychiatric illness also meet the criteria for a second. With so much overlap, researchers have begun to suspect that there may be one...
