People who have undergone an MRI scan often explain their experience to be unsettling. You would be placed inside a claustrophobic tube and you have to lie still for as long as an hour as unseen hardware, creaks, thumps, and whirs around. However, new research suggests that AI could help with the predicament – it […]
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Real-time MRI. Are you ready for MRE?
MRI is Magnetic Resonance Imaging that is one of the primary tools that physicians use to diagnose diseases and detect injuries from broken bones to conditions like multiple sclerosis. But the drawback is that MRI is a slow process and it takes hours, sometimes even days, to accurately interpret and examine. Due to this, if […]
FMRI Scans Help Reveal ‘Fingerprints’ Of Mental Diseases
FMRI stands for functional magnetic resonance imaging. As the name reveals, it helps in taking images by detecting the deviations of blood flow. Since the activities of the neuronal activation and the cerebral blood flow are interconnected, FMRI effectively takes images of the brain to explain its functionalities more clearly. This is a much effective […]
fMRI and Fetal Gender Brains
Male and female human brains tend to go in separate directions right from the womb. In a recent study published in the April edition of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers have revealed that functional connectivity is different between sexes from the very early stages of neurodevelopment. Resting-state functional MRI or fMRI was used to image the […]
Lack of Sleep = Increase in Pain
Chronic sleeplessness has always been attributed to depression, irritability, and weight gain. However, researchers have now found yet another health implication of lack of sleep: it increases your sensitivity to pain. A team of scientists used Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to identify the association between sleeplessness and the body’s ability to cope with pain. […]
fMRI and Consciousness
In the past few years, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) of the human brain has been harnessed as an innovative tool to study consciousness. Functional MRI examinations now offer an integral source of valuable insights pertaining to the “modeling of integrative brain functions.” The human brain in its fully conscious, partially conscious, and vegetative conditions […]