A team of researchers has revealed how the brain processes emotional information of sustained pain and pleasure. Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), the team recorded brain activity ...

Physicians' demonstrations of empathy toward their patients can decrease the sensation of pain. These are the results of a study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Functional MRI studies have established that subjective feelings of pain and fatigue have objective correlates in terms of neuronal activity patterns. This study sought to determine whether neural ...

Researchers have developed a computer program that can detect patterns in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans characteristic of neurological conditions. Georgia State University’s ...

Much like a weird physics experiment, our perception of pain intensity can be affected by our expectations. Information about expectations—the driver of the placebo effect—travels from the cortex to ...

In a study published in Nature Human Behaviour on Oct. 9, researchers led by Profs. TU Yiheng and HU Li from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have uncovered a neural ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, is one of the most advanced tools for understanding how we think. As a person in an fMRI scanner completes various mental tasks, the machine produces ...