But you could have something called dysthymia or persistent depressive ... Stress may cause changes to your brain. Changes to natural brain chemicals (called neurotransmitters) and how they ...

important neurotransmitters—chemicals that brain cells use to communicate—appear to be out of balance. But these images do not reveal why the depression has occurred. Are dysthymia and ...

Researchers say most brain scan studies are too small to explain complex human traits like intelligence or mental health. Meaningful insights will require studies of thousands of brains ...

I do know where it’s coming from (“that darn dysthymia”). And I have learned to take in the good through my brain, because eventually some of it works its way into my heart, and I start to ...

Evan D. Morris, Ph.D., is a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at Yale. He uses PET and fMRI to study drug abuse and drug action in the brain. In August 2019, he was a visiting scholar ...

Brain scans offer a tantalizing glimpse into the mind’s mysteries, promising an almost X-ray-like vision into how we feel pain, interpret faces and wiggle fingers. But such buzzy findings are ...

A SPECT scan involves 3-D scans of the patient’s brain that look at blood flow and activity, followed by a custom treatment plan. Matt Fiorenza is a retired firefighter-paramedic who spent 22 ...

In a disturbing experiment, imaging and facial recognition technologies were used to match research subjects to their M.R.I. scans. By Gina Kolata Thousands of people have received brain scans ...

important neurotransmitters—chemicals that brain cells use to communicate—appear to be out of balance. But these images do not reveal why the depression has occurred. Are dysthymia and ...