Intermittent fasting has long been associated with weight loss, but new research suggests its effects go far beyond metabolism. Brain scans now show that fasting doesn't just influence how we eat, it ...

Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. Then Allison Shapiro looked at the brain scans. Within only a few months, the brain connections in the salience network, which helps target attention, had ...

In a dark MRI scanner outside Tokyo, a volunteer watches a video of someone hurling themselves off a waterfall. Nearby, a computer digests the brain activity pulsing across millions of neurons. A few ...

Nineteen young adults handed over their smartphones for three days. When researchers scanned their brains afterward, the resting-state neural activity in regions tied to craving and self-control had ...

Neuroimaging can capture brain activity in response to stimuli before a person decides how to respond. Initial affective responses—broadly good or bad feelings about a stimulus—have been associated ...

Scientists have uncovered a striking brain difference linked to psychopathy: people with psychopathic traits were found to have a striatum — a brain region tied to reward, motivation, and ...