For almost three decades, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been one of the main tools in brain research. Yet a new study published in the renowned journal Nature Neuroscience fu ...

A small corner of the neuroscience world was in a frenzy. It was mid-June and a scientific paper had just been published claiming that years worth of results were riddled with errors. The study had ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a non-invasive and safe technique to measure and map the activities of brain during normal as well as diseased conditions. It measures the the changes ...

Over the last 25 years, fMRI has developed into a powerful technique to look at the brain. But a recent analysis of fMRI software found a bug that jeopardizes 40,000 studies which use the technique.

This month, fMRI brain imaging celebrates its 20th anniversary. And so it should. It has come to dominate cognitive neuroscience. Massive amounts of precious funding are poured into it and thousands ...

Julia Gottwald is the co-author of Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans published by Oxford University Press. She has received funding from the MRC, St John's College, Cambridge, and the German Academic ...