Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Brain scans of 11-month-old infants reveal that activity in the dorso-medial prefrontal cortex when viewing happy faces predicts social behavior at 18 months.

A quarter of hospital patients who are unresponsive and don’t physically respond to commands may be doing so mentally, a new study found. The research relied on brain scans of the patients.

Researchers analyzed brain scans from thousands of kids to learn more about ADHD. They found consistent trends in brain volume and function across a diverse population with ADHD. ADHD is one of ...

In the study, the researchers used a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record people’s brain activity while they tried to solve visual brain teasers. The puzzles ...

The image, as it happens, comes from dozens of brain scans produced by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who gave psilocybin, the compound in “magic mushrooms ...