Amateur soccer players who reported the most headers in the previous year had more disruptions in the microstructures of ...

Areas of abnormal white matter in the brains of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients appear much larger on diffusion tensor MRI than on T2-weighted MRI, a finding which could impact therapy options, ...

In both humans and rodents, upper motor neurons (UMNs) are located in the cerebral cortex, whereas lower motor neurons (LMNs) are arranged in the brainstem and spinal cord. Concurrent and/or ...

What is diffusion tensor imaging? Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a relatively new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique designed to estimate the axonal organization of the brain via ...

Standard MRI scans have so far been unable to produce satisfactory images of nerve bundles. However, this is now possible using an MRI technique called Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI). A researcher in ...

Flipping through a pile of brain scans, a neurologist or psychiatrist would be hard pressed to pick out the one that belonged to a schizophrenic. Although schizophrenics suffer from profound mental ...

A new study in mice reports that concussions sustained early in life can cause subtle brain changes that re-emerge later in ...

For neuroscientists, experimental results converge to help crack the case of how the brain functions. Many animals seem to consume alcohol but likely not for the same reason that humans do. Alcohol ...

A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal space is essential to prevent societal collapse, but Universe 25's relevance to humans remains disputed. In this ...