Researchers have found through fMRI that surmounting bias about music quality requires a great amount of cognitive effort.

Not getting enough sleep in a single night may be correlated with developing Alzheimer's disease later on in life, suggests an April 13 press release from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Taking time to stop and think may be done best if you're not sitting, according to an April 13 article by the Los Angeles Times.

Benjamin Shapero, PhD, and Gaëlle Desbordes, PhD, from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, are studying the cognitive benefits of mindfulness mediation in patients with clinical depression, according to an April 9 article in the Harvard Gazette.

More than 3,800 volunteers around the world participated in the largest international survey on epilepsy using neuroimaging techniques, according to an April 5 press release from the São Paulo Research Foundation in Brazil.

Researchers from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom have found that detecting diminished dopamine firing cells inside the brain with MRI technology may identify Alzheimer's earlier than traditional methods.

A noninvasive 7 Tesla MRI scanner at University of Southern California is the first 7T scanner to be used on a patient with Cushing's disease in the U.S., according to a USC news release.  

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are trying to develop a treatment for those who have lost their ability to smell by studying how the brain changes when that sense is lost.