Functional infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a unique brain scanning technique that allows for assessment of brain activation during an eating episode under “naturalistic” environmental conditions.

The team found the same peaked response in oxygenated hemoglobin levels in infants of different ages over their first year. Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have measured ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become an increasingly common treatment for patients with advanced Parkinson's disease, but the procedure still carries significant risks. A new probe that performs ...

Ever wondered what’s going on inside somebody’s head? Us too, and it might just be possible to see inside another person’s brain outside a laboratory setting soon. Earlier this year, US startup Kernel ...

The brain is not only the most complex organ of the human body, but also one of the most difficult to study. To understand the roles of different regions of the human brain and how they interact, it ...

What is Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption (SEIRA) Spectroscopy? Surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) spectroscopy is an advanced analytical technique that combines the principles of ...

Near-IR spectroscopy belongs to the group of vibrational spectroscopy techniques, along with mid-infrared spectroscopy (primarily FT-IR) and Raman spectroscopy. The first near-IR spectrometers were ...

2022 Reddy, P., Shewokis, P. A., Izzetoglu, K. Individual differences in skill acquisition and transfer assessed by dual task training performance and brain activity ...

Moving to Antigonish from Dartmouth opened Erin Mazerolle’s eyes to some of the challenges around getting an MRI test in Nova Scotia.