Can We Trust MRI Research? It’s Complicated.
The first human magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan was acquired almost 40 years ago. The scanner — hand-built by Dr. Raymond Damadian with the help of his two postdoctoral fellows…
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Author: Rachel Jonas
The Slippery Slope of Dishonesty
A kid stealing candy in a convenience store grows up to be a convicted criminal. A husband who flirts with a coworker ends up as a serial cheater. A politician…
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Copy Number Variants: A Window into Psychiatric Illness
The human genome consists of nearly 25,000 protein-coding genes – and a mutation in just one of these can have dramatic effects on our brains. Remarkably, one tiny change in…
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LSD: Psychedelic Thrill or Optimism Pill?
If you’re in a room with ten adults, chances are two of them are going to develop a mental illness –- and only one of them will receive proper treatment. …
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